Overnight Sensation …

Let’s see … How can we put this so it’s both simple and to the point? How’s this? Read the following items when they post some time between now and tomorrow morning, and we won’t have to visit you at your home. Is that simple enough?

Take A Dive With Morcheeba – The eclectic U.K. outfit heads for North America.

Sasha And John Digweed Go Clubbing – Two of clubland’s biggest names embark on a spring tour of the U.S. and Canada.

Link-O-Rama …

Station Family Fund, the fund established to help survivors of the Station Nightclub fire, does what it can. Unfortunately, it can’t always do enough – The Providence Journal

Britney still can’t see her kids – Reuters

Forrester Research says music download sales will surpass sales of physical CDs by 2012. That means we have four years before we know if they’re right – The Business Review

Huh? The CMA Fest might have to leave Nashville? That’s soooo not country – WKRN

Spice Girls’ tour bus driver helps nab car jacking suspect – Detroit Free Press / Associated Press

Cat Power talks about her demons – The Australian

Dates, Dates & More Dates …

Let’s start with Gary Allan. We processed a gajillion or so dates for the country artist today. We entered March dates, we entered April dates, we entered dates for May, June, July, August and September, and the delivery guys kept bring more in off of the loading dock. Like we said, we processed a gajillion Gary Allan dates. Cities include Milwaukee, Kansas City, Louisville, Houston, Boise, Sacramento, Albuquerque, Tulsa and Tampa.

We also processed a zillion or so dates for Hootie & The Blowfish. The new dates are for June through August and include stops in New York, Norfolk, Des Moines, Atlanta, Atlantic City and Hyannis.

We posted a bunch of Peter Case dates for both U.S. and the United Kingdom. New U.S. dates include shows in Memphis, Los Angeles and Santa Monica. On the U.K. side look for Peter in London, Newcastle, Kilbarchan, Greenock and Irvine.

And we also posted several pounds of dates for Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong for April and May in the United Kingdom. Liverpool, Conventry, Newcastle, Glasgow, Oxford and Leeds are just some of the cities on the new itinerary.

During the day we also updated the schedules for Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band, Jimmy Eat World, Paramore, Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine, New Found Glory, Backstreet Boys, Cafe Tacuba, Iron & Wine, The Robert Cray Band, Loudon Wainwright III, Vince Neil, UFO, Mark Knopfler, Meshell Ndegeocello, Charlie Sexton, Sasha & John Digweed, Blake Shelton, Jethro Tull, Kenny G, Charlatans UK, Lizz Wright, Man Man, Mavis Staples, Reba McEntire, Sheryl Crow, Todd Snider, ZZ Top, They Might Be Giants, plus more artists and bands than we ever before updated in a single day. At least, that’s what we tell our boss.

And that wraps up Tuesday, February 19, 2008. Here’s lookin’ at you, kids!