To support the release of her upcoming album, We Are Born, Sia will be touring North America and Europe in April and May with her “We Meaning You Tour.”

NORTH AMERICA
10 Apr Commodore: Vancouver, BC
12 Apr Market: Seattle, WA
13 Apr Wonder Ballroom: Portland, OR
14 Apr The Regency Ballroom: San Francisco, CA
17 Apr Coachella Festival: CA
19 Apr House of Blues: San Diego, CA
20 Apr The Marquee: Phoenix, AZ
22 Apr Gothic Theatre: Denver, CO
24 Apr Fine Line: Minneapolis, MN
25 Apr Vic: Chicago, IL
26 Apr St. Andrews: Detroit, MI
28 Apr Phoenix: Toronto, ON
30 Apr Club Soda: Montreal, QC

1 May HOB: Boston, MA
2 May TLA: Philadelphia, PA
4 May 9:30 Club: Washington, DC
5 May Rams Head: Annapolis, MD
6 May Terminal 5: New York, NY

EUROPE
12 May Falkoner Theatre: Copenhagen, DK
15 May L’Aéronef: Lille: FR
16 May Ancienne Belgique: Brussels, BE
17 May MCV: Utrecht, NL
18 May Olympia: Paris, FR
20 May Astra: Berlin, DE
21 May Große Freiheit 36: Hamburg, DE
23 May Muffathalle: Munich, DE
24 May Theaterhaus: Stuttgart, DE
25 May Gloria: Cologne, DE
27 May Roundhouse: London, UK

VIP tickets are available for VIP tickets for her shows in Copenhagen, Berlin and London. To get more details, visit Sia’s website and Sia’s twitter account.

Looking and sounding better than ever, Sade makes her highly anticipated return with her new album, Soldier of Love.

It’s been 10 years since Sade’s last release, and she comes back strong with “Soldier of Love” as the lead-off single. Be sure to visit her new and improved site, sade.com to get all the latest news and tour date info.

No dates have been announced yet, but in the meantime, Sade will be performing on the following TV shows:

2/09 – Today Show
2/09 – 106 & Park on BET
2/09 – The Late Show with David Letterman
2/10 – The View
2/15 – The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2/16 – Jimmy Kimmel Live
2/20 – The Wanda Sykes Show

Be sure to check back in a few days for vidcaps of some of her appearances!

The Coachella 2010 lineup is set and quite a few sirens are on the bill for the three-day festival taking place April 16 – April 18.  If you plan on going, here are some sirens to check out:

Friday, April 16 – Fever Ray, La Roux

Saturday, April 17 – Gossip, Sia, Corinne Bailey Rae

Sunday, April 18 – Charlotte Gainsbourg, Florence and the Machine

For the complete info on Coachella, visit http://www.coachella.com.

the Bird and the Bee

Tickets are currently on sale for the March 5th the Bird and the Bee show at the El Rey in Los Angeles, CA.

The show will be  in support of their upcoming CD, Guiltless Pleasures Volume 1: A tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates.

It will be the last Bird and the Bee show for quite a while, as Inara George is expecting a newborn in April.

Remember when MTV was a music channel and actually played music videos and music-oriented shows?  When they abandoned music programming, there was still MTV2 to fall back on – until they went the same route.

Now there’s Palladia – an HD cable channel dedicated to music programming from MTV, VH-1 and CMT.  Their tag line is Epic.Awesome.Music.  A pretty bold statement, but it holds up.  The eclectic channel plays everything from Pink to Sara Bareilles to Faith Hill.

A closer look at their schedule shows that they are a godsend for music lovers.  Aside from music videos, programming includes Rihanna: Nokia Live from Brixton; Pink: Funhouse Tour – Live in Australia; Amy Winehouse: Live From London; Glastonbury 2009; Sara Bareilles: Live at The Fillmore; Summerfest: Sara Evens; Unplugged: Paramore; Soundstage: Alanis Morissette and much, much more.

Epic? Yes.  Awesome? Yes. Music? Yes!  Let’s hope it stays that way because they’ve got a good thing going…

Try it before you buy it!  Visit KCRW to listen to Inara George’s Accidental Experimental in full.  The album stream is available on demand until January 5, 2010.

Inara George, one half of the Bird and the Bee, recently released a new solo album, Accidental Experimental.

The 11-track, digital only release can be downloaded at iTunes, Amazon, or any other digital music store.  As of this writing, the album is $8.99 at Amazon and $10.89 on iTunes.

If you liked her solo debut, All Rise, chances are you’re going to like Accidental Experimental too.  Standout tracks include “Surprise,” “Bottlecaps” and “Can’t Say No.”

Visit her myspace page to preview some tracks in full.

Australian artist, Butterfly Boucher has become a staple in Southern California since the release of her latest CD, Scary Fragile.  Aside from playing at Spaceland, House of Blues San Diego, and Sainte Rocke in Hermosa Beach, Butterfly is currently in the middle of a weekly residence at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, CA.  I was able to catch her show on Wednesday, June 17th.

Butterfly opened the show with her catchy single “Gun For A Tongue” and it didn’t take long for her to kick it in high gear. So high that she was forced to shed her black leather jacket in the middle of the show and later took a longer than usual pause to tune her guitar (which she admitted was only a cover for her to catch her breath, to the amusement of everyone). Mixed in with other songs from Scary Fragile, she didn’t forget to play “Another White Dash” and “I Can’t Make Me”, two hits from her debut CD, Flutterby.

Butterfly Boucher ends her June residency at Hotel Cafe with a show on June 24th and then travels north for shows in Portland and Seattle before circling back to San Francisco.  Check her website for tour details.

More pics from the show follow…

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It was recently announced that Lilith Fair will be returning in 2010. For those of you not in the know, Lilith Fair was a festival started by Sarah McLachlan that featured only female artists and female-led bands. From 1997 – 1999, the festival featured artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Lisa Loeb, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, the Cardigans, Jewel, Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, Erykah Badu, Natalie Merchant, Liz Phair, and many others.

The 2010 lineup hasn’t been announced yet but I would like to suggest getting the Sundays back on stage!

Nina Persson's pretty little head

A Camp, the side project of Cardigan’s lead singer, Nina Persson, releases its sophomore album, Colonia, on April 28th.  The first single off the album is “Stronger Than Jesus,” with other stand-out tracks including “Bear On The Beach” and “Love Has Left The Room.”

This May, the group will embark on its first U.S. tour in support of the new album.  A Camp will kick things off in New York City and conclude in Los Angeles. The full list of North American tour dates follows.

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