The first episode of season 4 of Live from The Artists Den premieres tonight (Fri, Feb 3) on public television (WNET 13 in NYC), featuring multi-platinum selling recording artist Adele live from the Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club. In honor of the season 4 premiere, I’m giving away two Live From The Artists Den prize packs featuring a DVD of The Swell Season Live from The Artists Den, a CD of Artists Den Volume I and a Death Cab for Cutie Artists Den T-Shirt! Contest ends Wednesday, Feb 8 at midnight, 1 entry per person, US entrants only.

Artists Den Prize Pack (2 of 3 items)
 

Preview of Adele Live from The Artists Den, Season 4 schedule and contest entry form after the jump.

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Bruce Springsteen at The Apollo (03/09/12)

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND ANNOUNCE FIRST US LEG OF 2012 ‘WRECKING BALL’ WORLD TOUR
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band launch the first US leg of the 2012 ‘Wrecking Ball’ World Tour on March 18 in Atlanta. Bruce Springsteen’s 17th studio album ‘Wrecking Ball’ will be released on Columbia Records on March 6.

“We Take Care Of Our Own,” the album’s first single,’ is “classic Springsteen” with “anguish and challenge [that] run thick and fast” (Rolling Stone); a “richly orchestrated Wall of Sound… that nods to the ‘Born to Run’ era” (Billboard).

The E Street Band’s members are: Roy Bittan – piano, synthesizer; Nils Lofgren – guitar, vocals; Patti Scialfa – guitar, vocals; Garry Tallent – bass guitar; Stevie Van Zandt – guitar, vocals; and Max Weinberg – drums; with Soozie Tyrell – violin, guitar, vocals and Charlie Giordano – keyboards. [BruceSpringsteen.net]

In addition to those officially announced tour dates in support of his new album, Wrecking Ball, The Boss will be playing a special SiriusXM Satellite Radio contest winner only show at The Apollo Theatre on March 9, 2012. Wrecking Ball will be released on March 6 via Columbia Records.

To enter the Sirius contest, go to www.siriusxm.com/bruce.

YouTube stream of “We Take of Our Own,” the first single from Wrecking Ball and more Bruce Springsteen 2012 tour dates after the jump.

PS If you didn’t get tickets to Bruce’s shows at MSG, Izod Center, or The Prudential Center, (and many people didn’t) you’re out of luck, at least until more shows are announced.

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Tosh Tour 2012

Timed conveniently with the premiere of the fourth season of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central, Daniel Tosh announced a bunch of new dates for his Tosh Tour Twenty Twelve today. The tremendously popular Tosh will be playing Radio City Music Hall on Apr 13, 2012. Tickets are on Internet presale now and the password is ANAL, regular on sale begins Friday, Feb 3 at 10AM EST.

Starting its fourth season tonight [Jan 31 -ed.], the show’s gleeful embrace of bad taste and its plethora of inside jokes have helped harness a devoted young audience. “Tosh.0″ averaged 4.3 million viewers age 18-49, up 63% from the previous season, according to Comedy Central. (“The Daily Show” averaged 2.3 million, though it produced more than 100 episodes last year.) “Tosh.0″ was the No. 1 cable comedy series in 2011 among viewers age 18-34, the network said. It’s a double win for Comedy Central: Advertisers salivate over the audience and the network can turn the series out on the cheap. “The show is incredibly inexpensive given its relative success. It’s a high value proposition,” Siskel said. (Tosh declined an interview request.)
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“Tosh.0″ is scheduled for 30 episodes this season. To stay on top of pop culture news and the latest Internet memes, the show is taped on Thursdays to air on the following Tuesdays. Three researchers scour the Web for fodder for the show’s writers. That’s lead them to some obscure corners of the Web. “Without revealing any of our trade secrets, let’s just say that a lot of it points to Asia. There never seems to be a limit to the weirdness there,” said Siskel, who is developing another show for “Comedy Central” about a critic who reviews life experiences. [WSJ.com]

Daniel Tosh’s last comedy tour, Tosh Tour Twenty Ten, sold 250,000 tickets and made $10 million. More Tosh Tour Twenty Twelve dates after the jump.

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A surprisingly quiet month at our local B&N’s, especially the USQ mothership. Here are some February 2012 bookstore events that looked interesting to me for one reason or another.

Barnes & Noble New York
02/02 Mike Doughty: The Book of Drugs A Memoir (Tri)
02/06 Tom Santopietro: The Godfather Effect (86th & Lex)
02/07 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What Color Is My World? (Tri)
02/07 Elaine Hall: Seven Keys to Unlock Autism (86th & Lex)
02/14 Dave Isay: All There Is Love Stories from StoryCorps (82nd & Bway)
02/15 Edward St. Aubyn: At Last w/ Joseph Arthur (USQ)
02/16 Anne Rice: The Wolf Gift (5th Ave)
02/21 Russ Feingold: While America Sleeps (82nd & Bway)
02/22 Eleni Gage: Other Waters (86th & Lex)
02/22 Ali Wentworth: Ali in Wonderland and Other Tall Tales (82nd & Bway)
02/23 Katherine Boo: Behind the Beautiful Forevers (82nd & Bway)
02/25 Laurie Berkner: Party Day (Tri 11:00 AM)
02/28 Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Sexually Speaking (82nd & Bway)

BookCourt
02/02 Carter Sickels: The Evening Hour
02/06 Dan Chaon: Stay Awake
02/07 Granta Nyc Launch
02/09 Elizabeth Holtzman: Cheating Justice
02/10 Robert Kanigel: On An Irish Island
02/21 Adam Wilson: Flatscreen
02/24 The Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series
02/27 Lizzie Hutton: She’D Waited Millennia
02/28 Sarah Manguso: The Guardians
02/29 Michelle Haimoff: These Days Are Ours

PowerHouse Arena
02/01 Adam Johnson
02/02 Marylyn Dintenfass
02/06 The I ♥ BOMB Reading featuring Alexander Chee, Robin Beth Schaer, Tina Chang with a performance by Alina Simone
02/07 Edmund White
02/09 Book Launch: Show Dog: The Charmed Life and Trying Times of a Near-Perfect Purebred by Josh Dean
02/11 Festival Neue Literatur: Reinventing the Past (Chris Adrian, Catalin Dorian Florescu, Inka Parei, Linda Stift in conversation with Daniel Kehlmann)
02/16 Milton Glaser

Guns ‘N Roses at Izod Center (11/17/11)

Photo: Jon Klemm (more)

Young The Giant at CMJ 2010 (10/20/10)

Photo: Jon Klemm (more)

Hey folks, another official CPS Summerstage benefit show has been announced for the 2012 season. California’s Young the Giant will play the Rumsey Playfield at Central Park Summerstage on July 16, 2012. For more of this year’s lineup, please check out the 2012 Summerstage Unofficial Lineup page over here. Ticket details below:

American Express Presale
Start: Wed, 02/01/12 12:00 PM EST
End: Fri, 02/03/12 11:00 AM EST

SummerStage Presale
Start: Wed, 02/01/12 12:00 PM EST
End: Fri, 02/03/12 11:00 AM EST

Onsale to General Public
Start: Fri, 02/03/12 12:00 PM EST

$27.50 advance / $30 day of show

Poster and more YTG tour after the jump.

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James McCartney

James McCartney, the only son of Paul and Linda McCartney, made his US television debut on Monday night on The Late Show with David Letterman. While not really touring this time out, James is sticking around the city for a couple of low key gigs including one at the Rockwood Music Hall on Feb 1 and another at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, NJ on Feb 3.

The British musician/songwriter is crossing the pond in support of the recent release of The Complete EP Collection, which features McCartney’s two previous EPs – Close At Hand and Available Light – along with five never-heard bonus tracks. The two-disc set was produced by his father, Paul McCartney, and David Kahne. [Pollstar.com]

PS I’ll post the video from Letterman after the jump if it becomes available.

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John Mulaney – New In Town
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Do I keep posting about John Mulaney because I hope one day he will invite me on a personal tour of the Saturday Night Live set? In a word, yes. Do I also keep posting about John Mulaney because he’s one of the funniest stand-ups around today? Without a doubt, yes. If you don’t skip through the ads on The Daily Show or The Colbert Report, you might have noticed that John’s new stand-up special, New In Town, premiered this past Saturday (January 28) on Comedy Central. In case you missed the television premiere, New In Town will hit the stores on CD and DVD on January 31. The CD and DVD will both contain uncensored and extended material. The DVD will contain bonus material including commentary by comedians Anthony Jeselnik and Dan Mintz as they watch the special! The special also features a special intro/outro featuring Amy Schumer and an original song by Reggie Watts. If that wasn’t enough to make you run out and buy your very own copy on Tuesday, you can also enter to win one of two DVD copies of New In Town that I am giving away right here on this site. Contest ends Feb 2 at midnight, 1 entry per household, US entrants only.

Press release for New In Town and contest entry form after the jump.

PS John, if you Google yourself regularly and you end up reading this, know that my offer for you to give me a personal tour of the SNL set is open ended.

PPS Was that you I saw at the AKC Meet The Breeds show at the Javits Center? I’m not stalking you, I think we just happened to both be in the same place at the same time.

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I’m From Barcelona at Southpaw (08/06/07)

Photo: D. Caplan (more)

According to the Brooklyn Paper, the pioneering Park Slope club will shutter its doors on February 20 to make way for a kids tutoring center.

A long-standing Park Slope concert hall will close and become a tutoring school now that the hood caters more to kiddies than roadies, owners say.

Southpaw — the legendary music venue that hosted the likes of Patti Smith and Joan Jett — will close on Fifth Avenue and Sterling Place by the end of February, according to co-owner and music guru Mikey Palms. [BrooklynPaper.com]

This is a disappointment to be sure, but in all honesty, the booking at Southpaw has gone off the rails over the last few years, and the club is rarely even open during the week. I’ve seen some great shows at Southpaw over the years (Neko Case, I’m From Barcelona, and M. Ward, just to name a few), but the void created by the passing of Southpaw has more than been filled by newer Park Slope clubs like The Bell House, Littlefield and even Union Hall.

120dB Concert Photography Group Show (01/27/12)

Hey folks, occasional Bumpershine photographers, Jessica Amaya and Abbey Braden, are just two of the good people taking part in 120db group photography show that opens this Friday (Jan 27) at Fort Useless in Brooklyn. The details below, if you can’t make it to the opening, the show runs until March 24, 2012 during events and by appointment.

120dB
A Fort Useless Event
Curated by Maryanne Ventrice
Opening: Friday, January 27, 2012

Fort Useless is proud to announce 120db, a group exhibit showcasing the work of thirteen female concert photographers prominently featured in Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Prefix, Impose, Village Voice, NPR, House List and many other sites and publications. [I guess Bumpershine falls into the "many other sites" category. -ed.]

Participating photographers include: Jessica Amaya • Abbey Braden• Amanda Hatfield • Leia Jospe • Devyn Manibo • Samantha Marble • Gabi Porter • Emily Tan • Tear-n Tan • Maryanne Ventrice • Diana Wong • Dana Yavin • Laura Young

You are invited to join us for our Exhibit Opening and Artist Reception on Friday, January 27 from 6pm-10pm

Following the reception the exhibit will be open through March 24th, available for viewing during all other events and by appointment.