If you couldn’t get tickets to see Billy Bragg with the Pogues on March 15th in NYC, not to worry: a show has been added for March 16th at the Roseland Ballroom.

Billy Bragg - 2008 Tour Dates
Jan 25 - Big Day Out - SOLD OUT Sydney
Jan 26 - The Metro - SOLD OUT Sydney
Jan 28 - Big Day Out - SOLD OUT Melbourne
Jan 30 - The Prince of Wales - SOLD OUT Melbourne
Jan 31 - The Prince of Wales - SOLD OUT Melbourne
Feb 1 - Big Day Out - SOLD OUT Adelaid e
Feb 3 - Big Day Out - SOLD OUT Perth
Feb 4 - Fly By Night - SOLD OUT Fremantle (more…)

Ska-friends and fellow Bostonians Dropkick Murphys and Big D and the Kids Table are headed out on tour through March. Big D recently finished their own headlining tour (they play about 200 shows a year), and are getting ready to start work on a new album for SideOneDummy. (more…)

Paul Maziar and Matt Maust (designer/bassist of Los Angeles’ Cold War Kids) have published a “graphic-novel-prose-memoir” book. Words are by Maziar and pictures are by Maust.

It will be available in February via Write Bloody Publishing, and there will be a big Brooklyn release party on February 13 at Sound Fix Lounge. The release party includes a live reading and musical guests Derrik Brown, Chase Pagan, and Matty Charles.

Check in on the book’s website for excerpts.

Write Bloody Publishing: www.writebloody.com

British funk ensemble The Heavy are set to release a new album. Counter Records is co-releasing Great Vengeance and Furious Fire with +1 Records, a branch of the management and publicity company of the same name.
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Jennifer Meastre makes sculptures out of pencils -lots and lots of pencils- using a complicated beading technique. Read her interview here. (more…)

DJ JD, which is such a lovely, concise palindrome, is taking her happy beats to your city to make you dance your pants off. (more…)

We put Brother Ali’s The Undisputed Truth in our Top Ten Albums of 2007. Now he’s putting himself in your neighborhood to entice your ears. (more…)

J. Bannon, lead singer of Converge, is going on the Lambs for Lions tour with his band through April.  He also has a solo album on the way, and is about to release an experimental recording, “The Blood of Thine Enemies,” a minimalist, emotional, six-minute dirge very different from his work in Converge. He has plans for a new website showcasing his artwork and also recently formed a band (Irons) with visual artist Stephen Kasner and Integrity vocalist Dwid Hellion. (more…)

For some reason, the Playstation 3 has been made available in ceramic, maybe so wives of gamers won’t mind the shiny ceramic box sitting on their living room floor, but more likely to prepare young boys every where for an adulthood of shopping at Crate and Barrel. The biggest pluses to the ceramic Playstation are that it resists finger prints and resembles your toilet. (more…)

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Montreal’s Stars are on tour to support their new album, Set Yourself on Fire. (more…)