Here & There …

A collection of “Top Ten,” “Best Of” and “Year In Review” items from various online publications.

“Songs of the year” – The Times Online

“Top pop music events of 2007” – San Francisco Chronicle

“Best concerts of the year” – Edmonton Journal

Such a deal! Two “best concerts” lists from two critics. Maybe that’s why it’s called the “twin cities” – Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune

“Pop goes 2007” – The Evening Standard

“Best of 2007: Top CDs” – The Denver Post

Top 10 Latin recordings – Newsday

Readers pick “The Best In Show” at The Ottawa Citizen

Dates, Dates & More Dates …

We have new Aussie dates for Arcade Fire, including two new listings for Sydney and one for Melbourne; Delta Highway will be all over the U.S. in January, February and March in cities like Nashville, Springfield, MO, Tulsa, St. Louis and New York; Spoon goes to Australia in January and Portugal in February; Corey Harris adds Black Mountain, NC, for May, Aurora, IL, for June and Lewisburg, WV, for July and Acoustic Syndicate adds the “Suwanne Springfest” in Live Oak, FL, to the schedule as well as a May date in Hot Springs, NC.

On the last day of the year we also updated the schedules for Velvet Revolver, Celine Dion, “Bugs Bunny On Broadway,” Built To Spill, Eddie Money, Hubert Sumlin, Larry Keel And Natural Bridge, Maceo Parker, Mana, Nancy Wilson, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Okkervil River, Ra Ra Riot, The Nighthawks plus more bands and artists than even Dick Clark knows about.

And that’s going to wrap up the tour data for another year. You have yourself one great New Year’s Eve and Day, and we’ll look forward to you gracing our pages in 2008. Happy trails!