The wait is over, the highly anticipated Avalon from Circa Survive vocalist Anthony Green is available today. The disk sports a whopping 20 tracks, although over half are demos, re-recordings and remixes from past work. Check out the press release…

Anthony Greens new album “Avalon” is now available everywhere. Avalon can now be purchased at Itunes, Target, Hot Topic, Best Buy, the Photo Finish Records webstore and plenty of great indie retailers. Along with the 13 newly recorded unreleased tracks, Avalon also includes 4 tracks from the High & Driving EP, 5 unreleased demos/remixes and 2 bonus videos. Check out the complete tracklist below…

AVALON CD

She Loves Me So

Dear Child (I’ve Been Trying To Reach You)

Drugdealer

Stonehearted Man

Babygirl

Miracle Sun

Califone

Springtime out the van window

Slowing Down (Long Time Coming)

The First Day of Work at The Microscope Store

Devils Song (This Feels Like a Nightmare)

High & Driving EP

Babygirl

The First Day of Work at The Microscope Store

The Fisherman Will Be Bewildered

Plays Ugly for Daddy

Demos

She Loves Me So

Stonehearted Man

Slowing Down

Devils Song

Dear Child (I’ve Been Dying To Reach You) (good old war version)

Bonus enhanced video content
Making of the Video - 3 minute long behind the scenes look at making Dear Child
Avalon - Making of the Album - 10 minute long documentary

I’m pretty bummed that the ‘Making of the Album’ is only 10 minutes long, but everything else seems really cool.

Green Bay and Brett Favre are synonymous. Favre, as everyone knows, “retired” this past March and has eluded to returning ever since. But now, Favre has decided to distance himself from those Green Bay synonymic ways, opting for a full release from the franchise. It’s hard to say where Favre will wind up playing, but somebody will sign him. 49ers? Probably not, but I’d take an old Brett Favre over Alex Smith any day of the week.

Okay, Burn After Reading has two major things going for it: it was written and directed by the Cohen Brothers; and it’s being released by Focus Features.

Oh yeah, and I guess it has some name actors.

Can you dig on western/psychedelic? Do you enjoy both The Good, The Bad and The Ugly as well as the Brian Jonestown Massacre? If so, you’re going to love Spindrift. I played with this gang of five at Sacramento’s Press Club on Monday night, and they are the real deal.

Spindrift enlists members from both LA and Portland, and are currently showcasing The Legend of God’s Gun, which they perform as a soundtrack for the soon to be released film. God’s Gun is an incredible piece of work, and anybody that gets the chance to check this band out should do so immediately.

I can’t believe he hasn’t played on American Television before. UK heartthrob Ed Harcourt will be on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show this evening to promote his new album (well, that is to say his 2006 album that never got released in the States) The Beautiful Lie, which came out on Dovecote Records last Tuesday. Listening to The Beautiful Lie (and his back catalogue as well) it baffles me why he isn’t as huge in North America as he is in Europe. Last March during SXSW I ended up tagging along and filming Ed and his wife Gita as he got a sweet tattoo of one of his first songs, “Sing For My Supper” on his arm in Austin, TX. Enjoy our lil’ mini doc:

ED HARCOURT TO MAKE U.S. TELEVISION DEBUT ON THE TONIGHT SHOW JUNE 6, WEEK OF ‘THE BEAUTIFUL LIE’ RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, May 6, 2008 - Not long since wreaking havoc on Austin, Texas during SXSW, the illustrious Ed Harcourt will return to the States from his native England to perform on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” Friday, June 6. Timed perfectly with the release of his fourth full-length album, THE BEAUTIFUL LIE, due June 3 on Dovecote Records, Harcourt will celebrate the arrival of this much-awaited LP with a national television debut.

The Mercury Prize-nominated Harcourt has been keeping extraordinarily busy on tour with the Gutter Twins overseas, where he has been joining Greg Dulli, Mark Lanegan and co. on stage following his own opening set. “Ed Harcourt’s songs are as close to cabaret tunes and 1960s pop as they are to current rock,” recently noted the NEW YORK TIMES while UNDER THE RADAR hailed ‘The Beautiful Lie’ as “his best work to date.” The WALL STREET JOURNAL was on hand for one of his acclaimed Austin performances, calling Harcourt, “a gifted songwriter in the mold of Karl Wallinger and XTC’s Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding” adding, “and thus a descendant of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.”

Lead radio single, “Revolution in the Heart,” mimics Harcourt’s larger-than-life personality, brimming with his exquisite piano playing, booming delivery, thunderous rhythms and bursting backup vocals, compliments of The Magic Numbers. The track is currently going for adds at radio, already receiving early support across the country from stations like Starbucks XM Café, KBAC and others.

This visit is a precursor to additional U.S. tour dates this summer, to be announced soon.

After suffering a “mild” heart attack, American actor Kelsey Grammer is recovering in an undisclosed hospital in Hawaii. Grammer, most beloved for his recurring role as Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons television show (and, you know, that whole Cheers and Frasier thing that never really took off…), aged 53, owns property on the island of Kona with his wife Camille. According to AP, Grammer’s spokesman says the television and film star suffered a mild heart attack while paddle boarding on Saturday and will be released early this week, adding “there’s no reason to be blue.”

sorry. I have no idea what’s wrong with me.