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First wave of dates announced:

9 May Toronto Ontario Air Canada Centre
10 May Toronto Ontario Air Canada Centre
12 May Albany New York Pepsi Arena
13 May Hartford Connecticut New England Dodge Music Arena
16 May Chicago Illinois United Center
19 May Grand Rapids Michigan Van Andel Arena
20 May Cleveland Ohio Quicken Loans Arena
22 May Detroit Michigan Palace of Auburn Hills
24 May Boston Massachusetts TD Banknorth Garden
27 May Philadelphia Pennsylvania Tweeter Waterfront
30 May Washington DC Verizon Center (formerly MCI Center)
1 Jun E. Rutherford New Jersey Continental Airlines Arena
3 Jun E. Rutherford New Jersey Continental Airlines Arena

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Snow Patrol‘s new album Eyes Open will be released May 9 in the U.S. Samples of 5 songs from the CD are available for streaming here. The tracklisting for the CD is as follows:

1. You’re All I Have
2. Hands Open
3. Chasing Cars
4. Shut Your Eyes
5. Beginning To Get To Me
6. You Could Be Happy
7. Make This Go On Forever
8. Set The Fire To The Third Bar feat. Martha Wainwright
9. Headlights on Dark Roads
10. Open Your Eyes
11. The Finish Line

From our message board:

Sunday morning, Sam Nation ( Shipman ) of The Thirteens was killed in a car crash. He and Melissa Fairmount (Of Fairmount Girls and The Thirteens) were driving home from the Comet, when a car ran a red light, and crashed into him. The driver had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit and was driving without a license.

Melissa and the other driver escaped unharmed, but Sam was killed upon impact.

This is not only a huge loss for The Thirteens and Melissa, but for the arts community as well. Sam was a truly inspirational person and is going to be terribly missed.

Read more here and here.

Chip has written up his review of the Fig Dish reunion. Seems like he had a great time.

UPDATE: Our Houston writer went to Chicago for the show, too. Read David’s recap.

Pretty awesome, but I am a pushover for Natalie Portman.

• Video: Belle and Sebastian on Conan O’Brien 3.1.06
• NPR : History Museum to Chronicle Roots of Hip-Hop
  Hip-hop artists say they will turn over relics such as vinyl records, CDs and diaries to the National Museum of American History. The museum plans to open an exhibit tracing hip-hop from its origins in the South Bronx to its emergence as a global phenomen
  (tags: music hiphop museums bronx)

Tickets go onsale Monday and they’re crazy cheap. July 29-30 in Chicago.

There will be 36 bands in total. Confirmed bands so far are:

• Mission of Burma
• Ted Leo/Pharmacists
• Mountain Goats
• The National
• Jens Lekman
• Hot Machines

More details here.

Fig Dish is reuniting for a concert this weekend and two donewaiting.com writers are flying out to Chicago right this very minute for the show. Columbus writer Chip Midnight and Houston writer David A Cobb love Figdish a ton, and you can read about it here.

Hope it’s a good one, boys.

Saw this Jenny Lewis video on MTV2 the other night. Check out “Rise Up With Fists!”

We were pleased as punch to see our pals Gil Mantera’s Party Dream be the Spin Band of the Day earlier this week. It’s great to see the band getting solid national buzz.

I still remember the first time I saw the band perform live. It was at an outdoor festival (Comfest), and it was the first time I saw anyone fit an entire typewriter into a speedo.

MP3: Elmo’s Wish
MP3: Shadow Grip

3/15, Austin, TX (Emo’s — SXSW day party)
3/15, Austin, TX (The Parish — SXSW)
3/18, Tuscon, AZ (TBA)
3/19, Los Angeles, CA (Troubadour)*
3/20, San Francisco, CA (Bottom of the Hill)*
3/21, San Francisco, CA (The Independent)*
3/23, Portland, OR (Doug Fir)*
3/24, Vancouver, BC (Richards on Richards)*
3/25, Seattle, WA (Neumos)*
3/28, Minneapolis, MN (7th Street Entry)*
3/30, Chicago, IL (Metro)*
3/31, Cleveland, OH (Beachland Ballroom)*
4/3, Rochester, NY (Bug Jar)
4/5, New York, NY (Bowery Ballroom)*
4/6, Brooklyn, NY (Northsix)
4/7, Philadelphia, PA (First Unitarian Church)*
4/8, Haverford, PA (Haverford College)*
(* – supporting Art Brut)