Tours de Farce: Listmania

Lists, lists, lists. Music fans love lists almost as much as music publications love putting them out. Lists make news, boost readership and generate advertising revenues. Make no mistake, lists rule.The Who is required reading at the Pollstar.com Concert Research Academy as is the list of alleged Canadian spies in the A*Teens and the list of hair extension specialists needed to keep Poison and Cinderella on the road. Yes, people can’t get enough lists.

So along with our daily new tour list consisting of acts like Midtown, Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons and The Amazing Kreskin, we spent all of yesterday coming up with a list the music world has never seen. A list like no other list. However, things got a little hectic yesterday, what with new dates being released for Epidemic and Mason Jennings, and we never quite found enough time to finish this fantastic list that perfectly sums up what’s been happening this week in the concert industry.

You see, it’s a list of 10 television networks that Bruce Springsteen has not yet appeared on to push his new CD and upcoming tour. Hmmm… You might want to sit down. Filling out this list is going to take us longer than we expected.