Austin City Limits 2007 Lineup: Dylan, Bjork, White Stripes, more

The lineup for Austin City Limits has been announced. The fest will take place in Zilker Park in Austin from September 14-16.

Bob Dylan
Björk
The White Stripes
The Killers
Wilco
Arcade Fire
Muse
My Morning Jacket
Queens of the Stone Age
Bloc Party
Arctic Monkeys

Gotan Project
Joss Stone
Damien Rice
Robert Earl Keen
Lucinda Williams
Spoon
Blue October
Indigo Girls
The Decemberists
Paolo Nutini
Regina Spektor
Amy Winehouse
Crowded House
Steve Earle
Ziggy Marley
Stephen Marley
Kaiser Chiefs
LCD Soundsystem
Devotchka
Augustana
Amos Lee
M.I.A.
Ben Kweller
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Andrew Bird
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

Ghostland Observatory
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Reverend Horton Heat
Pete Yorn
Butch Walker
Peter Bjorn and John
STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9)
Yo La Tengo
Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Zap Mama
Blonde Redhead
Eli Young Band
Aterciopelados
Heartless Bastards
Raul Malo
James Hunter
Mighty Clouds of Joy
Del McCoury Band
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Andy Palacio & the Garifima Collective
Asleep at the Wheel
Ryan Shaw
Will Hoge
The National
Beau Soleil
Midlake
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Railroad Earth
Dax Riggs
Sound Team
The Legendary Soul Stirrers

Charlie Musselwhite
JJ Grey & Mofro
Young Love
The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker
Ian Ball (of Gomez)
The Little Ones
Manchester Orchestra
Patterson Hood
Billy Joe Shaver
Fionn Regan
Big Sam’s Funky Nation
John Ralston
The Broken West
Rose Hill Drive
Brandon Rhyder
Ocote Soul Sounds
Sara Hickman
Willy Mason
Jon Dee Graham
Kevin Devine
Nicole Atkins & The Sea
Ike Reilly Assassination
Greyhounds
Guy Forsyth
Adam Hood
Cary Ann Hearst & The Gun Street Girls
The Jones Family Singers
The Gospel Silvertones
The Shields of Faith
Sylvia St. James
Jeffrey Steele

Amy Cook
Trent Summar & the New Row Mob
Back Door Slam
Mario Matteoli
Kara Grainger
One Mississippi
Kevin McKinney
Jennifer Nicely
Sahara Smith
The New Soul Invaders
The Wonderful Harmonizers
Loretta Williams Gurnell
Amy LaVere
Amy Loftus

And for the kids:
The Paul Green School of Rock All-Stars
The Steps
We Go To 11
The Sippy Cups
Daddy A Go Go
Farmer Jason
Q Brothers
Jambo
The Bummkinn Band
The Jellydots

Regional Shows For April and May: Cold War Kids, Sebadoh, Kaiser Chiefs, Elvis Costello, and lots more!

Shows hitting the Baltimore/DC region through May, courtesy of Filter Magazine:

MARCH
3/28 Hella, The Dirty Projectors @ Rock and Roll Hotel
3/28 Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club, The Delta Spirit @ 9:30 Club
3/29 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Love of Diagrams @ 9:30 Club
3/29 Dean & Britta @ Black Cat
3/30 MSTRKRFT, John Digweed @ 9:30 Club
3/31 Electric Six, Test Your Reflex @ Black Cat
3/31 Menomena, Land of Talk, Field Music @ Rock and Roll Hotel
3/31 Do Make Say Think @ Ottobar

APRIL
4/1 The Presets @ Sonar
4/1 Do Make Say Think @ Black Cat
4/1 Kristoffer Ragnstam @ Iota
4/3 Sebadoh @ 9:30 Club
4/4 Antibalas @ 9:30 Club
4/4 The Blood Brothers, Celebration @ Black Cat
4/5 Albert Hammond Jr @ 9:30 Club
4/5 The Black Angels @ Rock and Roll Hotel
4/6 Lucero @ Black Cat
4/6 Girl Talk @ Ottobar
4/6 Peeping Tom @ Rams Head Live!
4/7 Kaiser Chiefs, The Walkmen, Annuals @ 9:30 Club
4/8 Lily Allen, The Bird and the Bee @ 9:30 Club
4/9 Matt Kearney, Rocco DeLuca, The Feeling @ 9:30 Club
4/13 Aqueduct, Junior Boys, Youth Group @ Black Cat
4/14 Young Love @ St. John’s United Methodist Church
4/15 Matt Kearney, Rocco DeLuca & The Burden, The Feeling @ Rams Head Live!
4/17 The Graduate, The Fold @ Ottobar
4/17 Ratatat, The Books @ 9:30 Club
4/18 TV on the Radio, The Noisettes @ 9:30 Club
4/19 The Headlights, Page France @ Black Cat
4/21 Hot Chip @ 9:30 Club
4/21 Brand New, Kevin Devine, Manchester Orchestra @ Rams Head Live!
4/21 Spoon @ Sonar
4/23 M. Ward, Norah Jones @ DAR Constitution Hall
4/29 Constantines @ 9:30 Club
4/30 Peter Bjorn and John @ 9:30 Club

MAY
5/4 The Arcade Fire @ DAR Constitution Hall
5/6 Blonde Redhead @ 9:30 Club
5/9 Kate Havnevik, Air @ 9:30 Club
5/9 Cornelius @ Sonar
5/10 Ben Gibbard @ 9:30 Club
5/11 The Greyboy Allstars @ Rams Head Live!
5/12 Silversun Pickups v@ WWDC Radio Show
5/12 Illinois, The Kooks @ 9:30 Club
5/12 Dr. Dog @ Rock and Roll Hotel
5/13 Silversun Pickups @ Recher Theatre
5/13 LCD Soundsystem @ 9:30 Club
5/16 Artic Monkeys, Be Your Own Pet @ 9:30 Club
5/17 Mando Diao, Pop Levi, The Films @ Black Cat
5/18 Elvis Costello @ 9:30 Club
5/20 Andrew Bird @ 9:30 Club
5/23 Mastodon, Cursive, Against Me! @ Sonar
5/25 Damien Rice @ DAR Constitution Hall
5/27 Mice Parade @ Rock and Roll Hotel

Arctic Monkeys To Release New Album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, April 24

The Arctic Monkeys have finished their sophomore album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, and have scheduled a US release date of April 24 (April 23 everywhere else). The first single, "Brainstorm", will drop April 16.

"It's quite a bit heavier in some places -- there's also some really nice songs on there," producer James Ford tells Billboard.com of the new album. "Some of the songs maybe [have] more depth to them. [It's] maybe not quite as instant as the first one."

Does that mean the album will clock in at longer than 28 minutes? Or will this be another shorter-than-your-lunchbreak barnstormer?

The tracklisting for Favourite Worst Nightmare:

"Brainstorm"
"Teddy Picker"
"D Is for Dangerous"
"Balaclava"
"Fluorescent Adolescent"
"Only Ones Who Know"
"Do Me a Favour"
"This House Is a Circus"
"If You Were There, Beware"
"The Bad Thing"
"Old Yellow Bricks"
"505"

Social Networking And "Priming The Pump": An Article From Stylus Magazine

Stylus Magazine posts an interesting article on what Steve Savoca of Domino Records (think Arctic Monkeys, a perfect example of this phenomenon) calls "priming the pump": a marketing technique that gets social networking sites and blogs (hi there!) to generate buzz.

By priming the pump, the goal is to get enough info out there so that the consumer becomes the one hyping the product (in this case, the band). Following the growth of things like blog tags and MySpace friend counts, both the marketing personnel and the general population can track how popular something is getting. The consumer jumps on the wagon, and the marketing personnel get more money behind the buzzing product to keep the train rolling. With music, this allows a band to become recognized before it even releases an album (hi there, Lily Allen, we're talking about you), and without the assistance of radio play.

So, to paraphrase the article, as the fan consumes, she promotes. As the fan promotes, the audience grows, and the band develops a following. May the Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen be seen as case studies for "priming the pump."

UPDATE: Coachella 2007 - Rage Against The Machine Reunion (!!!), Bjork, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more!

Hold on to your seats, because Rage Against The Machine will be reuniting to headline at Coachella this April. Along with RATM, Bjork and Red Hot Chili Peppers have been confirmed, along with Crowded House as well as Arcade Fire, Sonic Youth, Air, The Roots, Willie Nelson, Interpol, and Fountains Of Wayne.

Expected to play but not yet confirmed are Jarvis Cocker, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Hot Chip, Peeping Tom, The Decemberists, Arctic Monkeys, Tiesto, Kings Of Leon, Travis, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Lily Allen, Kaiser Chiefs, Silversun Pickups and LCD Soundsystem.

FURTHER UPDATE: Now listed as confirmed are Jarvis Cocker, Lily Allen, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Happy Mondays, Placebo, Hot Chip, Kaiser Chiefs, Travis, The Klaxons, The Fratellis, The Kooks, Amy Winehouse, and the Feeling, The New Pornographers, Ghostface Killah, Peter Bjorn & John, Junior Boys, Sparkle Horse, Tapes 'n Tapes, Rapture, DJ Shadow, Black Keys, Blond Redhead, Lupe Fiasco, !!!, Stephen Marley feat. Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley, Pharoahe Monch, MSTRKRFT, Spank Rock, Tokyo Police Club, Paul Van Dyk, Damien Rice, Amos Lee, Brazilian Girls, We Are Scientists, Circa Survive, and so so so so so much more. Source: Pitchfork

Tickets go on sale Saturday, January 27.

Arctic Monkeys To Follow Wu-Tang, Eminem, Good Charlotte, 50 Cent, And More Into Fashion

Looks like Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders desires to follow in the footsteps of other music franchises who step into the world of clothing lines by designing a line for Supremebeing, a UK clothier. The line consists of three t-shirts, a jacket, and a zip-front hoodie. Look for a "Matt Helder Thanks: Supremebeing Clothing" in the liner notes of the next 12-minute "full-length" LP from the Arctic Monkeys. Source: NME