The enthusiastic singer and songwriter Mason Jennings has announced that he will be running a series of headlining shows in about 16 cities across North America supporting his new album “In the Ever”. The cities at which Mason Jennings will be performing include Austin, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Montreal, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Washington, Milwaukee and Bloomington. He will conclude his fall tour with a performance at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis on the 18^th of October. Jennings will be performing consecutively for two nights at the Bowery Ballroom in New York on the 2^nd and the 3^rd of October. The sale of tickets to the Mason Jennings fall tour has already started. 

Wild Sweet Orange, the quartet from Birmingham, released their debut album on July 29^th and is currently on tour to promote their debut album. By mid-September, the band will perform at more than 30 venues across the country to promote the debut album named “We have Cause To be Uneasy”. This album is a result of two years of hard work by the band members. Wild Sweet Orange will have combination concerts along with other bands like “what made Milwaukee Famous” and “Noise in the Basement” during their present tour. The general admission tickets for their concerts are presently on sale.

In conjunction with their freshly launched album titled “Anthems for the Damned”, renowned rock outfit Filter initiated new tour dates to boost album and concert ticket sales. This album is their first in six years. Filter has been relatively quiet before this but they are now back with a vengeance to insert new concert dates in the month of July. Filter consists of band leader Richard Patrick, guitarist Mitchell Marlow, bassist John Spiker as well as drummer Mika Fineo. They are evidently proud of their new album as it features vocals from stars such as Wes Borland who was former guitarist for Limp Bizkit and drummer Josh Freese who is with Nine Inch Nails.

The sound track of Your Summer tour starting from Chicago on July 8th will be co- headlined by Boys like Girls and Good Charlotte. Boys like Girls are going to give some more promotion to their self-titled debut album, which has already sold 532,000 copies. Good Charlotte is touring to support their album called “Good Morning Revival” which was released last year. The concert venues include Denver, Seattle, California, Los Angeles, Florida, Detroit and many other important cities. The concert lovers can watch them perform at the nearest venue. The tour is expected to end on August 21st at New Jersey.

The members of My Morning Jacket have planned a widespread North American tour to support their forthcoming fifth studio album “Evil Urges” that will commence in the month of August right after the group completes its European tour. The first stop in their North American tour will be Louisville on August 16th and will be covering cities like Dallas, Austin, Atlanta, Miami, Kansas City, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, Detroit etc during the 2 month long trek that ends on October 10th at the Chicago Theater. The tickets to most of these concerts are currently on sale and fans will be flocking in large numbers to watch this band perform in their cities.

World famous band Nine Inch Nails has wowed fans with their free giveaway of their latest album titled “The Slip”. Previously they held a concert that consisted of a four-album instrumental set and now they are hoping to continue their show of support by giving loyal fans a free download of “The Slip”, available exclusively on their official website. Their latest album features over 45 minutes of songs. Other than the usual MP3 format, the songs are also available in FLAC, M4A and WAVE formats. And that’s not all. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has also encouraged fans to remix the songs however they desire and share it amongst friends and post them the Internet blogs. Fans can buy the full physical album in CD and vinyl come July 2008.

Fans of Ne-Yo is anticipating the release of his third album and even as he slogs over the recording process, the R&B crooner/songwriter has recently revealed that he might be a tad tired of making urban music all the time.This is not to say that the genre has not benefited him in the past. To date, his first two albums, laced with urban music elements, have both enjoyed being in the platinum certified category. Let’s not forget that Ne-Yo also co-penned Beyonce’s catchy hit “Irreplaceable”.

So will fans love or loathe his new album “Year of the Gentleman”, expected to hit record stores starting June 24? In his own words, Ne-Yo says that this album was made with a more “worldly” concept in mind. He quotes that he is taking a different path now just because he wanted to explore something that is exciting at this point of time. His record label, Def Jam, also agrees that it is time Ne-Yo explores new territory and they might just hit their goal of expanding their main target audience to encompass 16 to 24 year old girls.

Sheryl Crow will be thrilling her fans with her lively music as she has planned an extensive concert tour all over the world to promote her new album “Detours”. The nine time Grammy winner, Sheryl Crow, has now added about six new venues to her North American tour schedule and will perform at the Memphis Beale Street Music festival. She will kick start her North American concert tour with shows in theaters during the fag end of April and will perform in the amphitheaters in the month of May.

Sheryl Crow will be touring all over Europe for two weeks once her North American tour is wrapped up and this singer and songwriter is sure to enthrall the fans and audiences with riveting performances during her concerts. “Detours” is the sixth album to come from the house of Sheryl Crow last month and is one album that has been inspired from her own personal experiences with life.

Usher is finally ready with his new album titled “Here I Stand”. The representative of the singer has informed that the album will be released most probably in June this year. This is the apt time for him to release the new album as his first single, Love in this Club, is ruling the charts currently. It made a 50 spot jump from the last weeks #51 position to reach No 1 in Billboard’s hot 100. This was the third largest leap in Billboards 50 year history of hot charts. Usher is going to release video of this single and the video shoot for the song will take place next week in Atlanta.

Yong Jeezy is featured in the song “Love in this Club” and it achieved a quick momentum by the intervention of the producer Polo Da Don. The song was leaked by Polow several weeks before the release and it helped in the publicity of the album. This has created more attention for the album from the fans. Polow says, Usher heard the song for the first time at Jeramine Dupris’s club and Usher liked it very much. Here I Stand has had recording sessions in collaboration with Dupri, Vidal, Dre, Timbaland, Nelly and Ludacris.

The Decembrist Colin Meloy is working to release his first live album. The album named “Colin Meloy Sings Live” is scheduled for release on 8th of April. The album is planned to release through the Kill Rock Stars. The album will have glimpses from Meloy’s 2006 tour and has many Decembrists tunes mixed to it. The new album has many cut in songs from Smiths, R.E.M, Fleetwood Mac and others. Music lovers have shown preference towards the Decembrists’ style of music as there is quality in song writing and music created by them.

Meloy is following his idols in music, Grant Lee Phillips and Robyn Hitchcock for creating this album. He wants to create more intimate feeling in his live album. Colin is planning a solo tour in April through U.S and will be performing in theaters as well as medium sized – clubs. The groundwork for the next record of Decembrists will start next month. During the April show the fans can expect some numbers from his live album. Meloy feels that performing in smaller Venues can create the feeling of closeness between the artist or the performer and viewers. His summer tour will start from Texas on 7th April and will end in Portland on May 3rd.