Monday, March 28, 2005

Monday News

Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst's Bright Eyes will launch a North American tour supporting their Digital Ash in a Digital Urn album with Saddle Creek labelmates the Faint on April 28th in Kansas City, Missouri . . .

The WHITE STRIPES will headline this year's Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta, along with TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS and KID ROCK. The festival will take place June 10-12, with performances by LORETTA LYNN, the KILLERS, BLOC PARTY, JOAN JETT and COHEED AND CAMBRIA. The White Stripes are currently in the studio recording a new album . . .

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN have compiled all their EPS and singles for their upcoming release Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, due May 24th . . .

The SMASHING PUMPKINS will finally make their music available for download on April 5th. The Nineties rockers' will offer 227 songs, including several rarities, through online music stores. Former Pumpkins frontman BILLY CORGAN is working on his solo debut, "TheFutureEmbrace" . . .

The DECEMBERISTS' gear trailer, containing all their instruments and other important items, was stolen on March 17th in Portland, Oregon. The trailer has been found but the instruments are still missing. The band has set up a fund at decemberists.com/fund.html for fans to make donations to help the band replace the lost instruments . . .

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