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Reba gets tons of exposure Nov. 3 on Live With Regis and Kelly as well as Jimmy Fallon

Reba McIntire has a busy day planned in the Big Apple next Tuesday.

The multiple CMA Award Nominee will drop by Live with Regis & Kelly for a chat as well as a live full band performance of the fan favorite, “Pink Guitar,” from her #1 album KEEP ON LOVING YOU.

Later that evening, she will perform the club favorite “I Want A Cowboy” for her debut appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

In the meantime, her hit single, “Consider Me Gone,” jumped to #13 on the Billboard Country Singles chart and to #12 on the USA Today/ Country Aircheck chart (powered by Mediabase) this week.

She is nominated for two 2009 Country Music Association Awards for Female Vocalist and Musical Event of the Year (the latter for “Cowgirls Don’t Cry” with Brooks & Dunn). Reba will perform live on the ABC broadcast on Nov. 11.

The superstar also recently picked up her 23rd American Music Award Nomination for “Favorite Female Country Artist” as well as a People’s Choice Awards Nomination for “Favorite Country Artist.”

Live with Regis & Kelly airs on ABC at 8 am ET/ 9 am CT.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon airs on NBC at 12:30 pm ET/ 11:30 pm CT.

John Lennon's Early Years Coming Soon to a Theater Near You


The first official trailer for the John Lennon film "Nowhere Boy" has been released. The movie is being released at Christmas time in the UK. Here in the United States, the film has not been given a release date by The Weinstein Company who is covering the business end of the production.

The movie itself is about the famed Beatles formative years. Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon by Lennon's half sister Julia Baird, It will show the Lennon's teenage years until the Beatlemania days. Here is the first official trailer:


Concert Review: Intimate Travis Show a Memorable Night of Great Songmanship

The Beachland Ballroom hosted Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop of the Scottish band Travis last night. The tour has the pair playing small shows minus their drummer and bass players while trying to craft a new album while trekking across America.

If you have ever seen a Travis gig, you know that Healy is a talker on stage and this type of show armed with only an acoustic guitar in his hands made it a part storyteller show (they played songs in chronological order of when they were written) and stand up comedy, as Healy has a sense of humor that could have landed him on The Tonight Show if he hadn't been such a gifted songwriter.

And a gifted songwriter he is. Healy explained the origins of songs with non-pretentious banter throughout the show and had the audience intrigued with his wit and genius throughout the night. Dunlop showcased Plastic Ono Style guitar solos throughout the night, and provided some backing vocals and was the "silent one" on stage. Behind the two men, who looked road weary with Healy wearing a Travis tee shirt from their own merchandise rack, was a screen projector in which Fran would display images off his Apple laptop and explain how his songs came to life.

Concert Review — Third Eye Blind

Third Eye Blind performed at the House of Blues in Cleveland Tuesday night. It was also the first CAVS home game so I wasn't really expecting a lot of people to be at the 3eb show. To my surprise I think it was the largest crowd I've ever seen at the House of Blues.

Personally, 3eb will always remind me of high school. They were very popular during my last couple years of HS. The crowd on Tuesday night seemed to be a mixture of fans. Some that were probably big fans in the 90's, like myself and some that seemed younger so possibly fans of the more recent songs.

This was my fourth time seeing 3eb live. One of those times was this past summer at Tower City Amphitheater. The show this past summer and the show on Tuesday night were both to promote the new album titled "Ursa Major" which was released on August 17, 2009. The first single from Ursa Major was "Don't Believe a Word" and was released on June 5, 2009.

Free Wedding Mp3 Download From Amazon


If you or someone you know is getting married in the near future here is some good news. Amazon is offering a free Mp3 download of O'Neill Brothers Wedding Music: Amazon Sampler.

The O'Neil Brothers are renowned piano artists. The pair have sold more than one million cds and have performed at over 200 wedding. After their great success, which won them an audience with President George H Bush, they decided to release a cd which you can download for free for a limited time on Amazon.

Here is the tracklisting and a link where will take you to Amazon.

Live Nation offering Ultimate Access passes today

Starting today, Live Nation gives fans ultimate access to some of their favorite bands when for one day only each fan who buys a ticket to a Live Nation club show is automatically entered to win an Ultimate Access Pass to the venue for which they bought their ticket. The Ultimate Access Pass is Live Nation’s golden ticket, good for admission to all concerts in 2010 to an individual Live Nation venue. Every Live Nation club venue will have an Ultimate Access winner, with the names of winners posted on LiveNation.com the morning of Oct. 29 at Noon Eastern time. On Ultimate Access Wednesday every single ticket will be available at reduced cost as Live Nation drops the service fee on hundreds of thousands of tickets in its club venues across the U.S. for one day only.

Michael Jackson: This Is It. Isn't It?


The pale flesh of prodigious pop icon bearing boxed chin acicular nose whispy mane flowing over tinted-windshield eyes and pencil smile drawn lobe to lobe. Sportcoat grey and blue metallic sprawled over top crimson clustered button-down and vintage tommy-gun trousers. Spirit risen of Samhain lore, figure stares into blinding light like morning sunshine pouring over a mountainside; silhouette enveloped in white heat perspiration phlebotomize one last time. This, so they say, is It.

Throwdown treats fans with pre-orders of Deathless

THROWDOWn understands that we've hit tough economic times as of late. That being said, they want to do everything in their power to make their music and shows affordable and accessible for their fans.

They plans to give back to their fans in many ways with the release of their new album DEATHLESS. Fans will be able to pre-order the new album from I-Tunes for only $7.99.

The link to the I-Tunes pre-order is:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=335182138&s=143441

DEATHLESS will be available at FYE stores nationwide and online for only $9.99 on Nov. 10 when it is released.

DEATHLESS is also available for pre-order in a limited edition bundle featuring the disc, a t-shirt and autographed poster for only $29.99. Pre-order the bundle here:

http://www.theomegaorder.com/THROWDOWN-Deathless-CD-Shirt-Signed-Poster-Bundle

The Deathless Tour I is the first U.S. tour in nearly a year for these guys. On this tour they're determined to bring an amazing and affordable live show to the devoted fans, with most advance tickets on the tour being priced at $13. Head over to http://tinyurl.com/throwdowntickets and pick yours up today.

THROWDOWN will be joined by Bury Your Dead, For Today, ABACABB and The World We Knew. This tour follows THROWDOWN’s current European tour with Chimaira and Unearth.

Music Review - Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs Of Worship, Chris Tomlin


Although, it’s nearly two months until Christmas, Chris Tomlin has put together a complement of his favorites and some new offerings on Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs Of Worship. This disc opens with “O Come All Ye Faithful” in a warming embrace of acoustics, simple guitar strumming and a full choir backing his every word rejoicing Jesus Christ’s birth on this classic hymn as Tomlin doesn’t touch a thing honoring its virginal brilliance. Chris makes “Angels We Have Heard On High” into a pop rock concerto ramping up the tempo and adding in some tight hooks, but keeps the traditional harmonies making this still a great song to sing.

“Emmanuel” is wrapped in a truly exuberant blanket of subtle beauty as this ballad is illuminated by his dulcimer tenor and pearly piano accompaniments that shouts out love toward The Lord. He continued with soft and serene lyrics with “Hark The Herald Angels Sing” through an acapella of singers and shimmering keys as it’s a pleasantly endearing anthem. Next was something original from him as he brings us “Good News And Great Joy” as it’s a nice contemporary single with tons of poppy breaks, euphoric chants and snappy melodies that shall get you feeling happy.

Despite $300 Million in Ticket Sales, U2 is Barely Breaking Even

As U2 gets ready to take the stage again this weekend at the Rose Bowl Sunday evening, they will have performed 42 shows in front of almost 3 million fans. They've broken attendance records and grossed nearly $300 million. What they haven't done, however, is make any money. The elaborate tour stage is sucking up all the profit.

The expense of hauling around their giant spider-like prong stage is so immense even after months of sold out shows, they aren't swimming in cash. The 170-ton, $40 million four-pronged stage is so enormous that it takes a full two days to dismantle.

After four months on the road, they are finally hitting the break even point. Just in time to dismantle the stage for the winter. Afterall, it is far too large for indoor venues.

When the band resumes their tour in the spring and hit the road, they'll still be burning through $750,000 a day in just overhead costs as three separate models of the biggest stage in rock history travel around the world. Each stage itself will be attended by a separate crew.

U2's extravagance comes amidst a troubled economic climate that shuns over-the-top, grandious affairs and at a time when the band's latest album, "No Line on the Horizon", is not doing as well as their past efforts.

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