Nothing more irresistible than a limited edition if yer collector scum!

By Fred Mills

Mexican Summer is the name of a new vinyl and digital label  that quietly launched last month. The concept? Revive the notion of the "record club" - think the great Sub Pop Singles Club, but not limited to just 7" releases, and include links to DRM-free downloads of the material with each platter for consumers who like their music on the go, too. Thus far the label has made available sharp records from Dungen, Nachtmystium and Headdress, with releases en route from Marisa Nadler, Black Moth Super Rainbow and others.

According to the label, the records will all be "pressed in very limited quantities and will also be available for download, bringing a musical and visual experience to music lovers and collectors that want more than just a tune to consume."

The vinyl will be available on a subscription basis and at a select group of exclusive indie retailers across the country.  Two or three records will be released every other month in various formats - 12", 7", Picture Disc, etc., and all will be "beautifully packaged, hand numbered, pressed on high quality virgin vinyl and include a download card." There will also be bonus gifts available only to members, such as slip mats and tote bags.

Subscriptions are available via the website: www.mexicansummer.com

Mexican Summer Release Schedule:

9.2: Dungen - "Sat Att Se" 12" (1,000 PRESSED, 300 Orange/Gold Haze, 700 Gold)

9.2: Nachtmystium - "Worldfall" (500 Red w/ black splatter, 500 gray w/ red splatter)

9.2: Headdress - "Turquoise" (LP - 500 press)

11.1: Marissa Nadler - "Ballads Of Living and Dying" (reissue w/ bonus unreleased 7") (1,000 press)

11.1: The Tallest Man On Earth - "Shallow Grave" (LP w/ bonus 7" EP) (1,000 press)

TBD: Bobby BeauSoleil & The Orkustra (2XLP - w/ unreleased material) (1,000 press)

TBD: Black Moth Super Rainbow - (picture disc) (1,000 press)

TBD: Valet

Compiled by Blurt Staff

206 digital, satellite and hi-def channels and nothin' on? Not likely. Here are BLURT's top music television picks of the day. The time is followed by the network/cable/satellite channel, then the name of the program and/or featured artist(s). All times are EST. For a comprehensive hour-by-hour listing, go to the VH1 Rock On TV site. Note that for certain channels, shows frequently repeat during the day on or subsequent days.

TIME (EST) / CHANNEL / PROGRAM / ARTIST(S)

7:30 AM Showtime: Liza with a 'Z'

8:35 AM Starz Cinema: Metric: Live at Metropolis

10:00 AM TVONE: TV One on One: Robin Thicke

11:00 AM Rave HD Concerts: Oasis Live at Manchester City Stadium

11:30 AM NICK: Yo Gabba Gabba!: The Shins , Mark Mothersbaugh

1:30 PM VH1C: Rock Fest:  Heart

2:00 & 5:00  PM Ovation: Definitely Dusty w/Dusty Springfield , Elton John , Burt Bacharach , Lulu , Martha Reeves , Madeline Bell

2:30 PM FUEL: The Daily Habit:  Aesop Rock

4:00 PM Ovation: Bonefish Grill's Notes From The Road: Matisyahu

5:30 PM PLD HD: Isle of Wight Festival 2008

6:00 PM Ovation: Stand By Your Dream - Tammy Wynette

8:00 PM Ovation: Bonefish Grill's Notes From The Road: 3 Doors Down

9:00 PM FUEL: The Daily Habit: Man Man

9:00 PM PLD HD: Tupac: Resurrection

10:00 PM Sundance: Live from Abbey Road: Stereophonics, Colbie Caillat & Joan Armatrading

11:00 PM Sundance: Iconoclasts: Quentin Tarantino and Fiona Apple

11:35 PM CBS: The Late Show With David Letterman: Lucinda Williams

12:35 AM NBC: Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Ben Folds

12:37 AM CBS: The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Michael Franti , Spearhead

1:00 AM MTV2: Subterranean:  The Jesus and Mary Chain

1:35 AM NBC: Last Call with Carson Daly:  Garbage

3:00 AM BBCA: The Graham Norton Show: Joss Stone

"Light of X" hits stores Feb. 10, 2009

by Blurt Staff

MIranda Lee Richards latest album, "Light of X" will be her Nettwerk debut and is set to be released on February 10, 2009.  "Courtney Taylor from the Dandy Warhols calls my genre 'Pixie Fairy Dust Chick Music,'" says singer/songwriter Miranda Lee Richards. "But I think another fitting description for Light of X might be 'Psychedelic Chamber Folk Rock'."

Prior to that Richards will be releasing her appropriately titled Early November EP digitally onto iTunes November 4, also through Nettwerk.

 For her new album, Richards composed all the material, string arrangements, acoustic guitar, piano and Hammond B3 on the disc. A label press release said, "LIGHT OF X is an album full of love and loss, desolation and salvation, both moody and comforting."

Richards teamed with producer/engineer/mixer Rick Parker (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies) who also contributed the electric and twelve-string guitar arrangements.  Eva Gardner (Mars Volta, Tim Burgess) plays bass, the main drummer is Keith Mitchell (Mazzy Star), Ben Peeler (Wallflowers, Shelby Lynne) is on pedal steel; and Josh Schwartz (Beachwood Sparks) plays guitar.

Richards grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of Ted and Teresa Richards, stars of the underground comics scene. Her bohemian background led her to play in school bands, but she never considered music as a profession until her senior year of high school when an older best friend of Richards started dating Kirk Hammett of Metallica. Hammett soon taught Richards her first few guitar chords and Richards recorded her first demo in the basement of Hammett's studio.  She soon landed a spot in the Brian Jonestown Massacre, a record deal of her own, and a spot singing "Just Like Honey" next to the Jesus and Mary Chain on their 2007 reunion tour.

"Light of X" track listing:

1)      Breathless

2)      Life Boat

3)      Savorin' Your Smile

4)      Hideaway

5)      Early November

6)      Mirror At The End

7)      Hidden Treasure

8)      Pictures Of You

9)      Here By The Window

10)  Olive Tree

11)  That Baby

12)  Last Days Of Summer

13)  Oddity

All greased up and nowhere to go.... foreign policy expert Sarah Palin reportedly negotiating with Glitter's handlers for a relocation procedure.

By Fred Mills

Now THAT's rock ‘n' roll: the UK press is reporting that erstwhile glam rocker Gary Glitter, 64, a convicted pedophile who returned to Britain last month following his release from prison in Vietnam, has been evicted from his house in London. He'd been renting a flat at the Mayfair (weekly ticket: £2,000 - wish WE could afford that next time we get out of jail) but apparently his neighbors took offense at his presence.

London's The Sun quoted one of its ever-reliable "sources" about the matter: "It turned out certain neighbours objected to him being there. I mean, would you pay over a million quid for a flat to find out Gary Glitter has moved in next door? Talk about driving down your property price. Paul [Gadd, his real name] has run out of friends to turn to. The only places left are Scottish islands miles from anywhere. Nobody wants him as a neighbour.

"Paul really reveled in his new address. He said he had always wanted to live in Mayfair and deserved to finally get back to the high life. He even joked about living near ‘Queenie'. He was pretty stunned to find he wasn't welcome. He said, ‘Why me? Not this again'."

Yeah, duh.

Glitter had spent nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for having sex with 10- and 11-year old girls. Released in August, he initially went to Thailand where he sought to obtain residency in Hong Kong, not wanting to return to England where he'd also spent time in jail for downloading child porn and would have his activities closely monitored by authorities.

A drama unfolded on August 20 at the Bangkok airport when he apparently "feigned ear and heart problems" (according to an earlier report by The Sun) and "twice refused to take planes to London" and eventually took off for Hong Kong. (A British official sent to persuade Glitter to return to England was quoted at the time as saying, "Glitter knows he has snookered us. All the way through he was a belligerent bastard. We reached a stalemate where the Thai authorities eventually said he had to leave. As we couldn't legally force him to return to Britain he finally agreed to Hong Kong. As he left us he grinned and sang the old Rolling Stones line ‘I'm free to do what I want, any old time'.") But upon arriving in Hong Kong he was refused entry and turned back.

At any rate, The Sun's report today, titled "Where Will the Rat Run?", indicated that Glitter is "still wealthy thanks to overseas royalties" and the "part sale of his back catalogue" so can pretty much afford to go wherever he wants - if the neighborhood will take him. He moved out of his flat with the help of what's described as "a team of Russian ex-military minders" he employed.

The newspaper has helpfully provided a world map highlighting possible spots on the globe Glitter could move to next. Among them: Siberia ("with any luck his bollocks would freeze off"), Chernobyl ("nobody can live there for fear of illness. Glitter could give it a go, though"), the Aussie outback ("it's very popular with reptiles") and our own Alaska ("hunters like wannabe Vice-President Sarah Palin are keen to take potshots at all kinds of beasts here").

We vote for Alaska.

Performing classic album in its entirety - completely sober.

By Fred Mills

Billboard.com is reporting that on Nov. 7 and 8 Van Morrison intends to perform his classic '68 album Astral Weeks in its entirety. The legendary musician is apparently taking his cue from the commercial and critical success other artists' similar endeavors (not the least of which would be Brian Wilson, who revived both Pet Sounds and SMILE for the stage, as have numerous alternative acts ranging from Sonic Youth to Mogwai to Public Enemy).

The shows "will feature some of the original musicians" who appeared on Astral Weeks, says Billboard.com. Tickets will be a whopping $75 to $255.50 via Ticketbastard starting Oct. 5.

However, after you get your tix it might be a good idea to stock up on airplane bottles of booze or invest in a pair of those cool sandals that double as flasks; earlier this year Morrison, a recovering alcoholic, imposed a ban on alcohol sales at his concerts both in the U.S. and the U.K. Not to worry, though, if you choose to simply bend the ol' elbow in the parking lot prior to the gig: Astral Weeks only runs about 45 minutes!

On Oct. 21 Rhino will be reissuing the album on 180-gram vinyl

Mike Skinner don't get no respect. With good reason.

By Fred Mills

Damn. It's hard out here in the streets for a pimp. Or, more accurately, it's hard for The Streets - a/k/a/ Birmingham, England, beatmaster/rapper Mike Skinner - to get pimped. His new album Everything Is Borrowed is due out next week, Oct. 7, on Vice (conflicting reports at Amazon.com say Oct. 14), and already the critics are sharpening their knives.

To wit, your friendly neighborhood BLURT, in a scathing 5-out-of-10-stars review published online today, claims that the album "toes the line between clever and cheesy, mediocre and superb, but comes out boring more often than not [and] sinks under its own weight... With hip-hop, it's quite simple: You either got it or you don't. In the case of The Streets' latest album, Everything is Borrowed, it's a lot of the latter."

Yow. Harsh.

Meanwhile, over at the Streets MySpace page, Skinner's blogging has been taking on Courtney-Love-drunk-and-agitated overtones of late. Reads one choice entry:

I had a dream that my friend invented a new, much more efficient method of lift, enabling helicopters to elevate in altitude. I know good invention is supposed to be simple but this involved 200 Scalextric motors, a circular PCB and many, many right-angled gearbox-style cogs. It was a very small device but we needed to make a prototype ourselves in order that we could patent it. I told my friend that it was important that we didn't use expensive components as the bog standard Maplin ones are good enough. It was quite fiddly work but the feeling it gave us when the thing switched on and sucked more air in the top than it did the bottom was euphoria. I have been watching too much Dragons' Den.

Fans, of course, love to read about their heroes' dreams, natch. Also about their random thoughts transcribed while out jogging:

I was running through the park this morning and I swallowed a fly. A pretty big fly. My first thought was that it could have been a wasp actually, as it wriggled down my neck. It seemed to quickly die or play dead though. I wanted to put my fingers down my throat to bring it back up but why should I be so fussy about what I eat? It is a creature of this earth and whatever taboos or disgustion I felt about its breed, I shouldn't make decisions about whether it's right or wrank to eat based on subjective thought

Hey, we've all felt disgustion at one point or another, Mike, don't feel bad.... His confessional mode befits him, as evidenced in this one in which he admits to shoplifting:

I'm lying by a canal in a massive haze. I got into bed last night and as I nodded I started thinking about all the hard work I put into this album and how meaningful the day of its release should be. I called up my people and fought for my right to paartay. Got them up from deep slumbers. We fought till the sherry end. 6am pizza express sloppy guiseppe and some fucked up jokes. Today we are shooting a video for 'never give in'. Not really sure what the video is about to be honest but Mayhem is well focused and his video idea for 'love you more' was hench. We are way more hungover than when we did that video though. I got really thirsty all of a sudden and all Mayhem had was these fucked up sour sweets. Made me slightly gag. Especially combined with the sound of the new Usher CD I stole yesterday.

‘Nuf said. Don't you love it when celebrities do all the legwork for us?

Fight for your right to paartay with Skinner on his tour, which kicks off this week in England:

Oct 5 2008      8:00P

            Academy (www.gigsandtours.com)   Manchester

Oct 6 2008      8:00P

            Plug (www.artistticket.com)   Sheffield

Oct 9 2008      8:00P

            Academy (www.gigsandtours.com)   Birmingham

Oct 10 2008    8:00P

            Academy (www.gigsandtours.com)   Newcastle

Oct 11 2008    8:00P

            Academy (www.gigsandtours.com)   Oxford

Oct 13 2008    8:00P

            Guildhall (www.gigsandtours.com)   Southampton

Oct 14 2008    8:00P

            53 Degrees (www.gigsandtours.com)            Preston

Oct 16 2008    8:00P

            UEA (www.gigsandtours.com)          Norwich

Oct 17 2008    8:00P

            Academy (www.gigsandtours.com)   Bristol

Oct 18 2008    8:00P

            Rock City (www.gigsandtours.com) Nottingham

Oct 19 2008    8:00P

            Academy (www.gigsandtours.com)   Leeds

Oct 23 2008    8:00P

            BBC Electric Proms (on sale Sept 17th)         London

Oct 25 2008    8:00P

            Rockefeller      Oslo

Oct 27 2008    8:00P

            KB Hall           Copenhagen

Oct 28 2008    8:00P

            Gross Freiheit Hamburg

Oct 29 2008    8:00P

            Ringlokschuppen        Bielfeld

Oct 30 2008    8:00P

            Strasse E         Dresden

Nov 1 2008     8:00P

            Kraftzentrale, Ruhrnacht radio show             Duisburg

Nov 2 2008     8:00P

            Hugenottenhalle          Frankfurt

Nov 3 2008     8:00P

            Huxleys           Berlin

Nov 4 2008     8:00P

            Stodola            Warsaw

Nov 6 2008     8:00P

            Paradiso          Amsterdam

Nov 7 2008     8:00P

            Den Atler        Luxembourg

Nov 9 2008     8:00P

            Muffthalle       Munich

Nov 10 2008   8:00P

            Longhorn        Stuttgart

Nov 11 2008   8:00P

            Live Music Hall          Cologne

Nov 12 2008   8:00P

            Rota Fabric     Zurich

Nov 13 2008   8:00P

            Fri-son             Fribourg

Nov 15 2008   8:00P

            Joy Eslava       Madrid

Nov 16 2008   8:00P

            Razzmataz 2    Barcelona

Nov 18 2008   8:00P

            Laiterie            Strasbourg

Jan 29 2009     8:00P

            Brixton Academy       London

Knocking the critics dead with the Carried To Dust album.

By Fred Mills

BLURT's cover stars of our July digital magazine Calexico head off to Europe next week for a three week tour, then they'll be back in the States for a three-week American trek that starts Nov. 7 in Austin. Their new album Carried To Dust has been making some strong showings, chart-wise, debuting at #98 on Billboard's Top 200 album chart as well as nothing #12 on Amazong digital and #29 at iTunes.

In our September digital magazine, we reviewed the album thusly:

On 2006's Garden Ruin, Calexico shifted gears: they downplayed their widescreen Southwestern sound in favor of more traditional alt-country arrangements and song structures. Carried To Dust suggests that that move was a diversion rather than a development, and that's just fine. Over the course of their career Joey Burns and John Convertino have created a readily identifiable blend of mariachi, spaghetti western, ambling country and desert blues, and Dust is another version of its perfection. And because the songwriting is so tight and focused, it may even be its apotheosis. Dust doesn't play as a concept record, but hints of a narrative about a writer on a journey link the songs. Burns and Convertino relish collaboration, and in addition to their regular bandmates, they bring in friends to supplement and enlarge the songs, among them Iron & Wine's Sam Beam and Spanish singer Amparo Sanchez. Dust is a return but it's no regression.

Start marking your calendars now....

Calexico Tour Dates:

October 9 - Columbiahalle - Berlin, Germany (w/ Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar)
October 10 - E-Werk - Koln, Germany
October 11 - Forum - London, UK
October 13 - AB - Brussels, Belgium
October 14 - La Cigale - Paris, France
October 15 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands
October 16 - Muffathalle - Munich, Germany
October 17 - Volkshaus - Zurich, Switzerland
October 18 - Rolling Stone - Milan, Italy
October 19 - Mousonturm - Frankfurt, Germany
October 21 - Gasometer - Vienna, Ausria (w/ Lambchop)
October 22 - Alter Schlachthof - Dresden, Germany
October 24 - Vega - Copenhagen, Denmark
October 25 - Nalen - Stockholm, Sweden
October 26 - Rockefeller - Oslo, Norway

Friday, November 7 - Antone's - Austin, TX
Saturday November 8 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
Sunday November 9 - Duck Room - St. Louis, MO
Monday, November 10 - Mercy Lounge - Nashville, TN
Wednesday November 12 - Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
Thursday November 13 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
Friday November 14 - Theatre of Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
Saturday November 15 - The Tarrytown Music Hall - Tarrytown, NY
Sunday November 16 - Somerville Theater - Somerville, MA
Monday, November 17 - Le National - Montreal, QC
Tuesday, November 18 - Phoenix Concert Theatre - Toronto, ON
Thursday, November 20 - The Crofoot Ballroom - Pontiac, MI
Friday, November 21 - Metro - Chicago, IL
Saturday, November 22 - Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, MN
Sunday, November 23 - Slowdown - Omaha, NE
Monday, November 24 - Gothic Theatre - Denver, CO
Tuesday, November 25 - Sunshine Theater - Albuquerque, NM

Miss Pussycat is in tow, natch...

By Blurt Staff

Mad organist Quintron, along with his partner-in-crime/puppeteer Miss Pussycat, is hitting the road today on the Too Thirsty 4 Love tour, to promote the album of the same name, due Oct. 14 from Memphis label Goner, his 10^th album to date. They'll be out for well over a month, bringing their "barely controlled electronic chaos, Swamp-Tech beats, small explosions, incredible clothes, and entertaining puppet stories" to their adoring public.

Here's the scoop on the record, direct from the label:

Too Thirsty 4 Love finds New Orleans' favorite son and finest organist all over the map in the best possible sense of the word- from the sultry bedroom funk of "The Boss Wants to Party with You" to the boozy skiffle of "Sunday Night" to the experimental minimalism of "Reborn." Whether he's reimagining The Police's "Roxanne" on the title track or inspiring the crowd with the catchy party anthem "Model Ex Citizen," the mood is raucous fun, the place is Cajun Atlantis and the sound is undeniably pure Quintron.

This album was recorded entirely live in a bizarre 2-track studio set deep in the heart of New Orleans' now famous 9th Ward. The live tracks were then played back and sung over. Let's call this the "6th grade bedroom style" of multi-tracking. For any interested equipment nerds, the Spellcaster Lodge studio consists of 4 microphones, one custom Neotek Series 1 board, and a 2 track tape deck. And a corkscrew.

Quintron's musical partner Miss Pussycat plays maracas and sings backup as well as entertaining all age groups with her highly amusing technicolor puppet shows. She has just recently finished filming a 10 episode puppet drama called TRIXIE AND THE TREE TRUNKS for VBS (Vice) TV.

Tour dates:

10/2 - - Lafayette, LA - - Blue Moon Saloon

10/3 - - Houston, TX - - Walter's on Washington

10/4 - - Austin, TX - - Emo's

10/7 - - Phoenix, AZ - - Modified

10/8 - - Tucson, AZ - - Club Congress

10/9 - - San Diego, CA - - The Casbah

10/10 - - Los Angeles, CA - - The Echoplex

10/11 - - San Francisco, CA - - The Independent

10/14 - - Arcata, CA - -

10/16 - - Portland, OR - - Berbati's Pan

10/17 - - Seattle, WA - - Chop Suey

10/18 - - Vancouver, BC - - The Biltmore 10/20 - - Boise, ID - - Neurolux

10/21 - - Salt Lake City, UT - - Urban Lounge

10/22 - - Denver, CO - - Larimer Lounge

10/24 - - Oklahoma City, OK - - The Conservatory

10/26 - - New Orleans, LA - - Bingo! Parlour @ Voodoo Festival

10/28 - - Nashville, TN - - The End

10/29 - - Memphis, TN - - Hi-Tone

10/30 - - Hot Springs, TX - - Low Key Arts Building 11/10 - - New York, NY - - Santo's Party House

10/31 - - New Orleans, LA - - One Eyed Jacks

11/21 - - Birmingham, AL - - Bottle Tree

11/22 - - Atlanta, GA - - Eyedrum

11/24 - - Athens, GA - - 40 Watt

11/25 - - Jacksonville, FL - - Jack Rabbits

11/29 - - Miami, FL - - Churchhill's Pub

Yeah, you know... that little thing called the Presidential election...

By Blurt Staff

Here's some hype, but it's damn important, so listen up, and spread the word.

***

After a successful stint in Ohio last week, Rock the Vote The Road Trip 2008 is extending its stay through October 6th in order to participate in Ohios early voting period.  Rock the Vote vehicles are shuttling voters to and from early vote locations, allowing new registrants the opportunity to cast their ballot on the same day they register.  In the first day of operation, the service allowed over 10% of the student body at Wilberforce University to cast their vote early. So far in 2008, more than 1.8 million new voters have registered to vote through Rock the Vote - 30,000 of whom were tallied on September 29th alone.

"In both the 2004 and 2006 elections, long lines at the polls stifled Ohioans and made it difficult to vote.  Rock the Vote is providing the information and transportation necessary to allow young Ohioan voters to cast their ballots this week." said Heather Smith, executive director, Rock the Vote. 

Over the last two weeks, The Road Trip 2008 has registered new voters at 25 Road Trip events by reaching out to students at over 20 high schools and colleges throughout Tennessee, Washington D.C., Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio.  Those already registered can sign a pledge to vote in the upcoming election.  By signing the pledge, Rock the Vote promises to keep voters up-to-date on the latest poll numbers, polling locations and candidate platforms and other election information via phone, email and text message.

The Road Trip 2008 is a state-of-the-art mobile road show designed to fit into Rock the Vote's mission to maximize voter registration, education, and engagement efforts in key youth-dense markets.  The Road Trip 2008 has already mounted concerts with popular acts such as Hawthorne Heights, Santogold, Solange, Melinda Doolittle, Talib Kweli, Bang Camaro, Low vs. Diamond, Ben Taylor and Rhymefest.  The Road Trip 2008 tour bus has been outfitted with computer kiosks that will assist in voter registration and educate users about the election process.  The artistic design of the bus itself was conceived by Shepard Fairey, the celebrated contemporary artist/graphic designer who emerged from the skateboard scene with his famous "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" campaign.

The Road Trip 2008:

Wednesday, October 1 Dayton, Middleton and Lebanon, OH

Thursday, October 2 Columbus, OH

Friday, October 3 Cleveland, OH

Saturday, October 4 Toledo, OH

Sunday, October 5 Youngstown, OH

Monday, October 6 Columbus, OH

The road trip will continue after early voting in Ohio to states including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

For more information on The Road Trip 2008 and Rock the Vote go to www.Rockthevote.com/roadtrip .

For more information about voter registration in Ohio visit: http://www.rockthevote.com/electioncenter/voter-information/ohio/

ABOUT ROCK THE VOTE
Rock the Vote's mission is to engage and build the political power of young people in order to achieve progressive change in our country. Rock the Vote uses music, popular culture and new technologies to engage and incite young people to register and vote in every election; giving young people the tools to identify, learn about, and take action on the issues that affect their lives, and leverage their power in the political process. Rock the Vote is creative, effective, and controlled by nobody's agenda but their own - they tell it like it is and pride themselves on being a trusted source for information on politics. www.RockTheVote.com

Compiled by Blurt Staff

206 digital, satellite and hi-def channels and nothin' on? Not likely. Here are BLURT's top music television picks of the day. The time is followed by the network/cable/satellite channel, then the name of the program and/or featured artist(s). All times are EST. For a comprehensive hour-by-hour listing, go to the VH1 Rock On TV site. Note that for certain channels, shows frequently repeat during the day on or subsequent days.

TIME (EST) / CHANNEL / PROGRAM / ARTIST(S)

7:00 AM ABC: Good Morning America: Robin Thicke

9:00 AM Syndicated: Live with Regis and Kelly: Kellie Pickler

9:00 AM Syndicated: The Bonnie Hunt Show: Gavin Rossdale

10:00 AM Sundance: Gimme Shelter

11:30 AM NICK: Yo Gabba Gabba!: Sugarland , Biz Markie

2:30 PM Comedy Central: The Colbert Report: James Taylor

5:00 PM VH1C: Duran Duran Live

6:00 PM RAVE HD: George Jones, 50 Years of Hits

7:00 PM Great American Country: Opry Live: Keith Urban , Marty Stuart , Carolina Chocolate Drops

7:00 PM PLD HD: AC/DC - No Bull

8:00 PM RAVE HD: Later With Jools Holland: Beck , Doves , Kubb , David Sanborn , M. Ward , Jools Holland

10:00 PM VH1C: Beat Street (1984)

11:30 PM PBS: Tavis Smiley: Tom Morello/The Nightwatchman

11:35 PM CBS: The Late Show With David Letterman: Darius Rucker

11:35 PM NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Nikka Costa

12:00 AM FUEL: The Daily Habit: Aesop Rock

12:05 AM ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Gavin Rossdale

12:35 AM NBC: Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Department Of Eagles