Here’s a gig for you blues heads out there. On Sunday at the Swiss Pub, South Sound Blues Association is hosting a fundraiser to send Blues Redemption and JD Hobson to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee, on January, 2010. The lineup goes something like this …

4 p.m. Alice Stuart and Friends

5 p.m. JD Hobson

5:45 p.m. The Michal Miller Band

7 p.m. The Al Earick Band

8:15 p.m. The Stacy Jones Band

9:30 p.m. Blues Redemption

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Pink’s tour launch, originally scheduled for Sept. 15 at Seattle’s WaMu Theater, has been moved to KeyArena, the pop star’s publicist announced today.

All tickets bought for the WaMu show will be honored at KeyArena, and wristbands will be issued to all WaMu ticket holders to ensure floor and lower bowl access, according to today’s announcement.

Additional tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Saturday (Aug. 29). Learn more here.

The money making machine known as Kiss will headline Seattle’s KeyArena on Nov. 15, according to tour itinerary released by publicity firm Solters on Monday.

The band’s Kiss Alive 35 tour will kick off with a two-night stand in hometown Detroit, Sept. 25 and 26 at Cobo Arena. And the band will play 2 1/2 hour sets, “Rock and Roll All Nite,” “Detroit Rock City,” “God Gave Rock & Roll to You” and other classics. Buckcherry will provide support on most dates, according to Monday’s announcement.

There was plenty of legal mud slinging last time members of the Doors toured, with the Cult’s Ian Astbury in for the late Jim Morrison (hence that corny moniker they came up with, the Doors 21st Century.)

But this time around the Doors’ Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger are keeping it simple by putting their names on the marquee; and they’re teaming up with ex-Fuel singer Brett Scallions this time. But here’s betting you’ll hear some “Light My Fire” and “People Are Strange” when they drop in on Seattle’s Moore Theatre on Oct. 14.

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It’s been six years since British trip-hop duo Massive Attack released “100th Window,” the band’s last proper studio album. (Let’s forget about that tepid, instrumental soundtrack for “Danny the Dog” from 2004.) And increasingly it’s been looking as if the duo, Daddy G and Robert “3D” del Naja, were going the way of their Bristol, England homies Portishead, who took 11 years to release last year’s phenomenal “Third.”

The good news today is that fans won’t have to wait quite that long. Today, EMI Music announced that a four-song Massive Attack EP called “Splitting the Atom” will

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Who gets first crack at Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler, who finally talked about getting busted up during a tumble from the stage in South Dakota? Why, Rolling Stone, of course. Did you really need to ask?

“I’m just so pissed it was such a great tour,” he said in story posted on the rock mag’s web site. “I had to ruin it all by falling and I’m sorry. I’ve said that to the fans and my band and everybody else. I f***ed up. I get in the zone when I’m onstage.”

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Well, you probably already checked out “Hell Yeah,” which I posted as Grit City Bootleg No. 17. And now here’s another cut that’s sure to be on Atomic Outlaws’ set list when T-town’s hottest band plays KISW-FM’s Pain in the Grass concert Saturday at White River Amphitheatre.

Today, I come bearing not one, not two but three new F-ing Eagles songs, all in one handy, 8-minute clip. This video is from the band’s set last Friday at Hell’s Kitchen (more here.) And the CD release party for the band’s killer new album, “Midnight Sour,” is set for Friday (Aug. 21) at the New Frontier Lounge.

GWAR, that’s who. Huh huh, huh huh. They rule! Oh, and they release something called “Lust in Space” today, in case you’re interested.

I had my video camera handy Saturday night during the official after party for Music and Art in Wright Park, during which Tacoma garage-rock torchbearers the F***ing Eagles unveiled tracks from their new “Midnight Sour” album. The official CD release party is Friday (Aug. 21) at the New Frontier Lounge. And I’m guessing they might have these new cut on the set list. And they’ll also have bassist Kelly Michelson back after he was AWOL working on some day job related project. His former roomie, Seaweed’s Wade Neal, filled in nicely, though. And it was his birthday. Send him late

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