In the wake of the unique “design your own album cover” artwork concept for his latest album The Information, Beck has launched an exciting creative collaboration with the team at Sketchel. The result is a custom designed, limited edition BECK SKETCHEL shoulder bag with original artwork by celebrated French artist Genevieve Gauckler.

Created by the Jeremyville crew, Sketchel is an international collaborative art bag project featuring original artwork by some of the freshest, most talented artists in the world. Each bag houses a heavy canvas panel that displays the artwork. Genevieve’s design incorporates graphics from The Information, graphics which themselves are also available as iron-ons for making custom Beck t-shirts.

The BECK SKETCHELS are a limited edition series and are available in the US only at Beck.com. For more information and images please contact Steve Martin or Eliot Wadsworth at nasty little man, or visit www.beck.com/sketchel.

For more information about Jeremyville and Sketchel visit www.jeremyville.com.

“I was mesmerized… It was transcendent, and I think the comment I made was ‘well, I can go home now, this is just the most beautiful thing i’m going to hear here'”–David Dye, Host of WXPN’s World Cafe on Bird’s SXSW performance

Armchair Apocrypha, the new album by ANDREW BIRD, debuted this week at #76 in the BILLBOARD 200.

Find out why Armchair Apocrypha is “What Everyone Should Be Talking About” (GQ), “a vast, optimistic album” (THE NEW YORKER) and “just the right parts darkness and light” (NEWSWEEK) and what’s made him INTERVIEW’s Cult Musician of the Month.

ANDREW BIRD heads out on tour next month–preceded by his network TV debut April 10 on THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN. The tour begins April 11 in Grand Rapids will include stops at the Coachella festival, Chicago’s Riviera Theater, San Francisco’s Fillmore, and New York’s Webster Hall before concluding at Washington DC’s 9:30 Club for a set that will be webcast live as part of NPR’s All Songs Considered live concert series.

04/11/07 – Grand Rapids, MI – Ladies Literary Club @ Calvin College*
04/12/07 – Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theater*
04/13/07 – Columbus, OH – The Southern Theater*
04/14/07 – Newport, KY – The Southgate House*
04/16/07 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge*
04/17/07 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant*
04/18/07 – Urbana, IL – The Canopy Club*
04/20/07 – Chicago, IL – The Riviera Theater
04/21/07 – Milwaukee, WI – The Pitman Theater at Alverno College
04/22/07 – Columbia, MO – The Blue Note
04/23/07 – Omaha, NE – Sokol Underground
04/25/07 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theater
04/27/07 – Tucson, AZ – The Rialto Theater
04/28/07 – Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
05/01/07 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
05/02/07 – Sacramento, CA – Harlows
05/04/07 – Portland, OR – The Crystal Ballroom
05/05/07 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox Theater
05/06/07 – Bellingham, WA – Western Washington University
05/07/07 – Calgary, AB – Liberty Lounge at Mount Royal College
05/11/07 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
05/12/07 – Grinnell, IA – Herrick Chapel @ Grinnell College (SOLO SHOW)
05/16/07 – Boston, MA – Berklee Performance Center @ the Berklee College of Music
05/17/07 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
05/18/07 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater of the Living Arts
05/20/07 – Washington, DC – 930 Club

* Cortney Tidwell Supporting
For further information, contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man 212 343 0740 laura@nastylittleman.com

Spoon has confirmed the release date and track listing of its as yet untitled sixth full-length studio album. The record will be released July 10 on Merge and will consist of the following tracks:

1. Don’t Make Me A Target
2. The Ghost Of You Lingers
3. You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
4. Don’t You Evah
5. Rhthm And Soul
6. Eddie’s Ragga
7. The Underdog
8. My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
9. Finer Feelings
10. Black Like Me

The new record will be preceded by a series of east coast shows in April and appearances at the Sasquatch and Bonnaroo festivals. A full U.S. tour will follow in the fall.

Spoon is comprised of four gentlemen: Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, Eric Harvey and Rob Pope. The band’s debut album Telephono was released in 1996 and was combined with the 1997 EP Soft Effects for a recent re-release. Other Spoon full-lengths have included A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and the most recent Gimme Fiction (2005), which received raves from THE NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, NEWSWEEK, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and VANITY FAIR, and wound up on BLENDER and SPIN’s Best of 2005 lists. More recently, Britt co-authored the score to the feature film STRANGER THAN FICTION, to which Spoon contributed the exclusive track “The Book I Write” as well as several other songs.

For further information, please contact Steve Martin or Laura Eldeiry at nasty little man t 212 343 0740 e laura@nastylittleman.com

Due to overwhelming popular demand, Ryan Adams June 5 Stonehenge concert has been… canceled?

Event organizers English Heritage withdrew permission for the show after its announcement led to requests far beyond capacity and projections for registration to the Salisbury Festival of which it was a featured attraction. The organizers cited additional concerns, such as Adams’ fans causing unprecedented traffic congestion in and around the festival site and attendant “driver distraction on A344/A303,” concern over “gatecrashers” storming the long since sold out event, and technical issues with amplified music at the site.

While Ryan respects English Heritage’s decision and concern for the hallowed ground of Stonehenge, he is nevertheless saddened and disappointed that both he and fans who had purchased tickets will not experience this once in a career performance.

Ryan Adams’ Easy Tiger will now be released June 26 on Lost Highway.
While the final sequence is still TBD, Easy Tiger will be comprised of the following tracks: “Goodnight Rose”, “Everybody Knows”, “The Sun Also Sets”, “Halloween Head”, “Off Broadway”, “Two Hearts”, “Tears Of Gold”, “These Girls”, “Two”, “I Taught Myself How To Grow Old”, “Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.”, “Rip Off”, and “Pearls On A String”.

Easy Tiger will be Ryan Adams’ ninth full length collection of new studio recordings, following Heartbreaker (2000), Gold (2001), Demolition (2002), Rock N Roll (2003), Love Is Hell (2004), Cold Roses (2005), Jacksonville City Nights (2005), and 29 (2005).