Currently, according to Twentyfourbit, Bright Eyes and fellow Nebraskan, Neva Dinova, are finishing up the reissue of their 2004 release One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels. The original 6-track EP released via crank! records, contained three tracks written by Jake Bellows of Neva Dinova and the remainder written by Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst.

The Omaha natives will go a step beyond a straight reissue, the bands reconvened in the fall of 2009 to write and record four new tracks at renowned ARC Studios in Omaha for the reissue. The songs entitled, “Rollerskating”, “Happy Accident”, “Someone’s Love”, and “I Know You” will make up the first four tracks from the now full-length LP.

The reissue is set to hit shelves March 23 via Saddle Creek Records, but pre-order here for a March 9th shipping/digital download date, complete with new Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova jams.

One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels Tracklist:
01. Rollerskating *
02. Happy Accident *
03. Someone’s Love *
04. I Know You *
05. Tripped
06. Black Comedy
07. Poison
08. I’ll Be Your Friend
09. Get Back
10. Spring Cleaning

* = new song featured on this reissue

Other confirmed acts include Coheed and Cambria, Deftones, Mastodon, Papa Roach, Three Days Grace, Seether, Killswitch Engage, Drowning Pool, and Sevendust.

This will be festival-headliner Godsmack’s first announced show of 2010 and they are pumped. “Fasten your seatbelts baby, here comes Godsmack! I can’t WAIT to get to Columbus for what will be the best Rock On The Range yet! Godsmack is gonna kick some major *@%*!” said frontman Sully Erna.

Two-day passes, starting at $99.50, will go on sale beginning Saturday February 20th at 10:00 AM (ET) via Ticketmaster.com.

The festival will be spread across three stages fittingly sponsored by Monster energy drink, Kicker Audio and Jägermeister. In case that sounds like a bad recipe for a testosterone overload and oddly-colored vomit, the event is being hosted by the “Mistress of Ceremonies”, aka Mistress Juliya of Fuse TV. Grrrr indeed.

Two new improvements this year will be an increased viewing area for the Jägermeister Stage and variable ticket pricing plans including layaway. At $99.50 though, tickets are already on the low side for most two day festivals.

Head on over to our Festival Outlook page for the complete lineup.

Check out the song here, and see the newly announced track list below.

Have One on Me Track list:
01. Easy
02. Have One on Me
03. ’81
04. Good Intentions Paving Company
05. No Provenance
06. Baby Birch
07. On a Good Day
08. You and Me, Bess
09. In California
10. Jackrabbits
11. Go Long
12. Occident
13. Soft as Chalk
14. Esme
15. Autumn
16. Ribbon Bows
17. Kingfisher
18. Does Not Suffice

Joanna Newsom 2010 Tour Dates:
03/12 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Calvin College Chapel
03/13 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
03/14 - Montreal, QC @ Ukrainian Federation
03/15 - Montreal, QC @ Ukrainian Federation
03/17 - Cambridge, MA @ Sanders Theatre
03/18 - New York, NY @ Town Hall
03/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
03/20 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
03/22 - Washington, DC @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
03/23 - Washington, DC @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
03/24 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theatre
03/25 - Durham, NC @ Carolina Theatre
03/26 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
03/27 - Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
03/28 - Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
03/29 - Columbus, OH @ Southern Theatre
03/30 - Cincinnati, OH @ Memorial Hall
03/31 - Bloomington, IN @ Buskirk-Chumley Theatre
04/02 - Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater
04/03 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre

“The Away From Home Tour” officially begins on April 6th in Charleston, IL and powers through the next month with nearly a show a day until the tour wraps up on May 8th in Plymouth, NH. While Drizzy has played to plenty of packed stadiums and venues, this time there’s a few “private locations” scheduled. Is that code for some R. Kelly-like debauchery? We’re hoping so. The tour will also mostly hit college campuses, over 15 in all, as a part of the “Campus Conscious Tour”. Joining the former Degrassi star on the road is synth pop act Francis & The Lights and K-os (you know, the MC who won’t make any more albums).

And if you think rocking out at college campuses and private shindigs is the only thing on Drake’s mind, think again; he cares for the greatest woman of all– Mother Earth. That’s why, in a partnership with the non-profit Reverb, the tour will use biodiesel fuel and recyclable products, and offer education and information on all things green at the Eco-Village. Now that’s a good time we can endorse.

Drake’s debut album, Thank Me Later, is scheduled for a March 2010 release date.

Drake 2010 Tour Dates:
04/06 - Charleston, IL @ Eastern Illinois University
04/07 - Columbus, OH @ private location
04/09 - State College, PA @ Penn State University
04/10 - Boston, MA @ private location
04/11 - Lock Haven, PA @ private location
04/14 - East Lansing, MI @ Michigan State University
04/15 - Rochester Hills, MI @ Oakland University
04/16 - Morgantown, WV @ West Virginia University
04/21 - Orlando, FL @ University Central Florida
04/22 - Greenville, SC @ Furman University
04/23 - TBA
04/24 - New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
04/26 - New Orleans, LA @ University of Missouri - Kansas City
04/27 - Lexington, KY @ University of Kentucky
04/29 - Lowell, MA @ University Mass Lowell
04/30 - Syracuse, NY @ private location
05/01 - Boston, MA @ private location
05/04 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Bamboozle Festival
05/05 - Towson, MD @ Holy Cross
05/06 - Cheney, PA @ Towson University
05/07 - Ithaca, NY @ private location
05/08 - Plymouth, NH @ private location

If you remember, prior his death, Nowell had trademarked the Sublime name. Nowell’s family, including his father and  Nowell’s wife and son, were in favor of Wilson and Gaugh continuing to play in Nowell’s memory, just not under said name. With legal action avoided, it seems the Nowell family can stop worrying about Nowell’s wishes being honored, and the new band can use some of the notoriety and avoid any further legal smackdown. And speaking of using the name, the band has already scheduled some 150 dates. We’ll be sure to pass those along once they’re announced.

And if you’re just not sure how you feel about Sublime 2.0, take a gander at the band’s recent performance at the SmokeOut Festival 2009.

After rounding out some dates in Europe, Sumner and friends will select North American markets, which include San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. However, all the dates will fit around the group’s appearance at Coachella on April 17th.

“As promised,” said Bad Lieutenant’s Bernard Sumner, “we are coming to the U.S. to play our re-scheduled dates in Chicago and New York with the addition of the Coachella Festival and a concert in San Francisco.  We are really looking forward to playing our songs live for our fans in the U.S.  It’s been some quite time since I have played in America, and we are all very excited about the prospect.”

Tickets for the New York date go on sale February 12th, Chicago tickets go on sale the 13th, and San Francisco tickets go on sale the 14th.

Bad Lieutenant 2010 Tour Dates:
03/15 - Sheffield, UK @ Leadmill
03/16 - Glasgow, UK @ Garage
03/18 - London, UK @ Electric Ballroom
03/20 - Preston, UK @ 53 Degrees
03/21 - Liverpool, UK @ Masque
04/16 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
04/17 - Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
04/19 - Chicago, IL @ Park West
04/21 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall

According to TwentyFourBit, it’s not so much arts and crafts as it is decorating and designing items for Artists For Peace and Justice, a non-profit that is getting ready to begin significant relief efforts in the country. So far, as a part of the “Crafts For A Cause” project, Conor Oberst has decorated a Fender Strat, while Vampire Weekend is designing a gym bag, and The Strokes even made time for making a tote. And if you’ve ever wondered what a Cedric Bixler-Zavala designed skateboard looks like, here’s your chance. The project, organized by Little Joy’s Binki Shapiro, also promises items from M. Ward, Le Tigre, Spike Jonze, Sia, The Black Keys, and more.

For more details on the project and a list of more artists doing their part, follow the project on Tumblr and Twitter. Here’s hoping someone does a gnarly hand turkey.

The previously described “ornate and orchestral”-sounding album, now titled So Runs the World Away, marks Ritter’s sixth LP overal and first since first in almost three years. And despite taking quite a bit of time, undoubtedly some of which could have been spent working on that novel, to complete, Ritter is pleased with the entirety of the album.

“So Runs the World Away took me over a year to make. I’m proud of the fact that I’ve never recorded a song for a record that I didn’t believe in absolutely and that didn’t feel, in its writing, recording, and performance, like a moment of real inspiration,” the musician wrote on his website.

The album is scheduled to be released on May 4th. Until then, grab the first single, “Change of Time”, for the price of an email address below. You hear the new material at any one of Ritter’s upcoming tour dates.

Josh Ritter 2010 Tour Dates:
04/24 - Galway, IE @ The Live Lounge
04/25 - Limerick, IE @ Dolans Warehouse
04/29 - Belfast, IT @ Festival Marquee at CQAF
04/30 - Kilkenny, IE @ Kilkenny Rythym & Roots
05/07 - Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of Living Arts
05/08 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
05/10 - Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head Live
05/11 - Durham, NC @ Carolina Theater
05/15 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
05/19 - New York, NY @ Town Hall
05/20 - New York, NY @ Town Hall

On April 16th, Mastodon hits the road again, this time with Between The Buried And Me, Baroness, and Valient Thorr. To throw a curve ball into the mix, they will have a special “tour-only” vinyl version of Crack the Skye available in each city. And in doing their part for April 17th’s National Record Store Day, Mastodon will release special vinyl editions of their previous and still awesome LP, Blood Mountain, complete with new artwork from Paul Romano.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 12th via Ticketmaster.com. In other news, we’re still waiting for that movie.

Mastodon 2010 Tour Dates
02/09 - Berlin, DE @ Columbia Club
02/10 - Frankfurt, DE @ Batschapp
02/12 - Vienna, AT @ Arena
02/13 - Munich, DE @ Backstage
02/14 - Cologne, DE @ Essigfabrik15
02/16 - Wolverhampton, UK @ Wulfrun
02/17 - Bristol, UK @ Academy
02/19 - Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
02/20 - Manchester, UK @ Academy
02/21 - Newcastle, UK @ Academy
02/23 - Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
02/24 - London, UK @ Roundhouse
03/01 - Guadalajara, MX @ Estadio Tres de Marzo
03/03 - Monterrey, MX @ Estadio Universitario
03/05 - Guatemala City, GT @ Estadio Mateo Flores *
03/07 - San Jose, CR @ Saprissa Stadium *
03/08 - Panama City, PA @ Plaza Figal *
03/12 - Caracas, VE @ La Rinconada *
04/16 - Charleston, SC @ Music Farm #
04/17 - Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theater #
04/18 - Richmond, VA @ The National #
04/20 - Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head ^
04/21 - Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom ^
04/22 - Hartford, CT @ Webster ^
04/23 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium ^
04/24 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground ^
04/26 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Palace Theater ^
04/27 - Rochester, NY @ Water Street ^
04/29 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room ^
04/30 - Indianapolis, IN @ Vogue ^
05/01 - Columbia, MO @ Blue Note ^
05/03 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater ^
05/04 - Tucson, AZ @ Rialto ^
05/05 - San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues ^
05/07 - Pomona, CA @ Fox ^
05/08 - Oakland, CA @ TBA ^
05/09 - Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory ^
05/10 - Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theater ^
05/11 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory ^
05/13 - Billings, MT @ The Shrine ^
05/14 - Fargo, ND @ The Venue ^
05/15 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Hall ^
05/16 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall ^
05/18 - Madison, WI @ Orpheum ^
05/19 - Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club ^
05/20 - Memphis, TN @ Minglewood ^
05/21 - Knoxville, TN @ Valarium ^
05/22 - Lexington, KY @ Busters ^
06/16 - Warsaw, PL @ Sonisphere Festival
06/18 - Zurich, CH @ Sonisphere Festival
06/19 - Prague, CZ @ Sonisphere Festival

* = w/ Metallica
# = w/  Between the Buried and Me, Valient Thorr
^ = w/  Between the Buried and Me, Baroness, Valient Thorr

For one thing, there will be lots of guests. Over the years, Ronson has been continually tapped to produce high-profile albums, including recent work with Duran Duran, Wale, Adele, Daniel Merriweather, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, and the Kaiser Chiefs. That trend will continue on his next full-length effort, as Ronson is currently working on new material with Dave McCabe of The Zutons and Nick Hodgson of Kaiser Chief. Other collaborators will include Santigold, the Scissor Sisters, Cathy Dennis, Pill, and Miike Snow.

However, this time around, the album will consist entirely of new material. Unlike his 2007’s album Version, The Business will abide by a strict ”no covers and no horns” policy.

In summary, expect a bit of both new and old. The album due for a late-spring/summer release.