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Forget Jesse James, this is news: Police have arrested two women at Liverpool's John Lennon airport after they reportedly tried to smuggle a corpse onto a flight. more - more on this story

The Morning Pages Take On Lady Gaga's Telephone

Brooklyn's six-piece root-rockers The Morning Pages have just recorded an alt-country take on Lady Gaga's "Telephone" along with a grainy lo-fi stock photography-esque video complete with slide guitars, cowboy hats and tin cans on strings, answering the question "How would "Telephone" play out in the 1850s?".

The ubiquitous song caught the attention of lead singer Grant Maxwell who decided to cover the song because "a great song is a great song and indie music doesn't have to be all dissonant and obscure and depressing all the time and on the other hand pop music could stand to sound a lot more organic and musical. My thought was they maybe we could combine the depth of roots music with the visceral enjoyment and popular appeal of mainstream music and get the next revolution started....also, I just couldn't get that song out of my head!" You can watch the new video here on YouTube.

With their 2007 EP The Company You Keep, The Morning Pages immediately stood out from other Brooklyn acts by tracing their roots back to country and folk influences such as Willie Nelson, Gram Parsons, Waylon Jennings, and The Band. It was this EP that caught the attention of Russell Simins of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion who went on to produce their upcoming debut full length Rising Rain. - more on this story

Adam Lambert Announces Remix EP

American Idol Season 8 runner-up Adam Lambert has announced today he will be releasing Remixes (19 Entertainment / RCA Records), a 6 track digital EP containing remix version of his first two singles off his debut album For Your Entertainment.

Remixes will be made available exclusively on AdamOfficial.com on April 9th and at all other digital service providers on April 13th.

Remixes contains mixes by some of the most respected DJ's and remixes in music today such as Jason Nevins and Brad Walsh and also features "Voodoo" a never before released Lambert track.. - more on this story

New Norah Jones Video, Tour Dates and Auction For A Cause

Norah Jones' latest music video is for the song "Young Blood" from her new album The Fall. The video was directed by Toben Seymour, a fantastical director and puppeteer who has worked with Moby, will.i.am, and Kanye West.

The Grammy Award winning singer will also be making her first-ever appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show on April 22. A performance on PBS Soundstage will air later this spring.

Jones has just recently wrapped the first leg of her sold out North American tour in support of The Fall, and has been receiving rave reviews all along the way. Leg two starts on April 18 in Seattle. She has added several major festivals to her schedule throughout the summer including the opening free performance for Celebrate Brooklyn's 2010 season, a return to Bonnaroo www.bonnaroo.com where she hasn't played since the inaugural event in 2002, MusikFest in Bethlehem, PA, select dates on the Lilith Fair tour (August 10 in West Palm Beach has also been announced. Further dates TBA) and a short run of dates with Corinne Bailey Rae (Red Rocks in Colorado already announced for Aug 19 and further dates TBA). In addition, Norah will undertake a run of European tour dates and festival appearances beginning in late June. - more on this story

John Butler Trio's April Uprising Is Upon Us

John Butler Trio returns with a new power trio and a new label for its first studio album in three years, April Uprising, out TODAY via ATO Records.

The album is a potent mixture of rock, hip hop, and reggae/dance hall dominated by Butler's incredible guitar playing and thoughtful, intelligent lyrics. The first single, "One Way Road," is already climbing the Triple A charts and the accompanying video is set to premiere on VH1.

The John Butler Trio North American tour kicks off on May 20, 2010 at the House of Blues in San Diego, culminating on the East Coast in late June, including shows at Central Park Summerstage, a headline date at Red Rocks, Bonnaroo and more. Featuring new bandmates Nicky Bomba (drums and percussion) and Byron Luiters (bass), the newly revitalized JBT will be touring the globe throughout 2010.

Butler will also be the featured musical guest on NPR Weekend Edition this Saturday, April 10. Check NPR for local times: - http://www.npr.org/

Dierks Bentley Going Up On The Ridge

Multi-platinum singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley will release his artistically daring, acoustic new album Up On The Ridge on June 8, 2010.

His fifth Capitol Nashville studio project is steeped in the bluegrass and roots music that moved Bentley to become a country musician in the first place. The lead single and title track, inspired by time spent on a plot of land in rural Tennessee, will be released to country radio on April 12.

"I fell in love with this kind of music the first time I walked into the Station Inn with a fake I.D. at 19 years old … these guys, who were my age, were playing their instruments so hard it knocked your head back. After that, I never missed a Tuesday night there in almost eight years," explains Bentley. "Without the whole bluegrass community taking me in, I would have had no place to start from. It is my foundation." - more on this story

Tracy Bonham's New Album Coming in July

Masts Of Manhatta, Tracy Bonham's first full-length album in five years, will be released on July 13th by Engine Room Recordings. Produced by Bonham, the album was mixed by Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Los Lobos, Lisa Germano) and features the Brooklyn-based Smokey's Roundup, a trio led by guitarist Smokey Hormel (Tom Waits, Beck, Norah Jones), as the backing band.

Masts Of Manhatta is deeply rooted in the places where Bonham resides and recorded the album - Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY. It reflects two circular journeys: one leading Bonham away from music only to return to it, renewed, and a second - her trek from city to country and back, creating a loop as she responds to the inexorable pull of the two disparate ways of life.

"The City versus Country theme threads through the record," says Bonham. "This is our life at the moment: the balance of nature and the big city. Longing to be surrounded by nature, to get back to a quiet and balanced life, but needing to be in the city as working people/artists." - more on this story

Hanson To Shout It Out This Summer

Hanson are excited to announce the release of their new album, Shout it Out, on June 8th, 2010! Also, you can catch a preview of "Thinking 'Bout Somethin,'" the first single for the album, right NOW on PopEater.

An infectious collection of finely crafted, R&B-flavored pop-rock, Shout it Out is an homage to the music that inspired the band when they first started out. "Thinking 'Bout Somethin'" hits iTunes on April 27th, with a music video coming soon that recreates a much-loved scene of the classic The Blues Brothers and stars a cast of over 300 extras in the band's hometown of Tulsa, OK – along with a guest appearance by none other than "Weird Al" Yankovic.

In celebration of the release of their fifth studio album, Hanson will be playing a stint of long-sold out shows at New York City's Blender Theater from April 26th through the 30th – the 5 of 5 series. They're playing each of their studio albums in entirety, capped off with the premiere performance of Shout it Out! It's gearing up for a truly huge summer for Hanson, and this is just the start of everything the band has in store. - Preview here

Sarah Harmer Sets June Album Release

Sarah Harmer's new album 'oh little fire' is set for a June 22 release (Zoë /Rounder Records). The eleven track collection of originals is Harmer's first since 2006's lauded 'I'm a Mountain;' she spent much of the last several years away from music, advocating for environmental issues.

Harmer sings with a "beautiful, precise voice" (New York Times) on upbeat tracks such as "Captive," but employed a new approach for the album. "I specifically tried to get out of the pastoral, contemplative end of the spectrum and went for a more direct, aggressive style of songwriting," she says. The result is a lyrically forthright and musically immediate album, with vibrant sounds enveloping Harmer's trademark delicate, enthralling vocals.

The album was produced by Harmer and Gavin Brown, her drummer of ten years prior and producer for Metric. Recorded in Brown's studio, built into an old building in the east end of Toronto, Harmer put the album together piece by piece through the heat of summer and the cold of the Canadian winter. Some parts were recorded with visiting friends on Lake Ontario's Wolf Island and Neko Case's vocal contribution for the song "Silverado" was captured in a Rochester, NY hotel room. Metric's Jimmy Shaw provided guitar and vocals on additional songs. - more on this story

NOMO's Erik Hall Releases Debut Full-Length

In Tall Buildings is the title of this record, the name of the band, and the title of a John Hartford song. This "band" is really Erik Hall and his songs. Erik is a natural multi-instrumentalist, equally at home playing electric guitar and percussion in NOMO, fuzzed-out bass in His Name Is Alive, or Motown-inspired drums in Saturday Looks Good To Me. But here we find him, for the first time, in his own element, alone in his home studio, layering track upon track of vocal harmonies, guitars, pianos, and heavy rhythms, to create his solo debut as a veritable one-man band.

This is rock music, informed by Erik's array of influences. Imagine a Thom Yorke remix of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, or if Gillian Welch were to sit in with Steve Reich & Musicians. Bubbling synth sequences, driving distorted drum beats, interwoven finger-picked guitars, and pulsing woodwind chorales all find their way into the mix. Erik's lyrics unveil a personal world through stark imagery: a monster's lair, a bed of soft linens, a spilled glass of wine, a shared whiskey bottle, a plummeting star, and a walking man.

The story of the album starts in Ann Arbor, where Erik got his music degree from the University of Michigan and sold cheese at Zingerman's Deli. A planned move to the east coast fell through as a long-term relationship unraveled, and new songs started to appear. Erik headed home to Chicago, and, in a high-rise overlooking Lake Michigan, he slowly crafted his first record. It's not so much a breakup album as it is a document of a man making a new beginning, and finding his own voice. - more on this story