My Morning Jacket Announces New Summer/Fall Tour

My Morning Jacket’s new album Evil Urges hits stores on June 10th, 2008. To support their latest album, MMJ has announced a new Summer/Fall U.S. Tour. The '08 Evil Urges Tour has 24 dates and hits 23 U.S. cities over the course of August, September and October of this year. Unfortunately, My Morning Jacket isn’t returning to Houston after playing here the day before their SXSW show in Austin, TX. I guess another road trip will be in order to catch the Louisville, KY band this August in either Dallas or Austin.


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The 2008 Summer/Fall U.S. Evil Urges Tour Dates
Aug. 18th - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
Aug. 19th - Council Bluffs, IA - Stir Cove
Aug. 23rd - Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom
Aug. 24th - Austin, TX - Stubb's
Aug. 27th - Atlanta, GA - Fox Theater
Aug. 29th - Miami, FL - The Fillmore Miami Beach
Aug. 30th - Orlando, FL - House of Blues
Aug. 31st - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
Sept. 2nd - Charlottesville, VA - Charlottesville Pavilion
Sept. 3rd - Washington, DC - Constitution Hall
Sept. 5th - Philadelphia, PA - Festival Pier at Penn's Landing
Sept. 6th - Boston, MA - Bank of America Pavilion
Sept. 19th - San Francisco, CA - Greek Theatre
Sept. 21st - Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
Sept. 23rd - Phoenix, AZ - Marquee Theatre
Sept. 24th - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
Sept. 25th - San Diego, CA - SDSU Open Air Theatre
Sept. 27th - Portland, OR - McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater
Sept. 28th - Seattle, WA - McCaw Hall
Oct. 2nd - Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theatre
Oct. 3rd - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater
Oct. 4th - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore
Oct. 9th - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre
Oct. 10th - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre

G.I. Joe The Movie - First Look at Duke and Ripcord

Today’s G.I. Joe First Look is the last one for a while, or until Paramount decides to let more character photos leak out from the set of the live action G.I. Joe movie. First up is Channing Tatum as Conrad S. Hauser, codename: Duke. Duke is one of G.I. Joe’s most popular members and is the team’s field commander. To me Duke will always be G.I. Joe’s leader, even if Hawk is technically the elite counter-terrorist team’s commanding officer. While most remember Duke in his original costume of dark olive pants and tan button down shirt, the movie’s costume more closely resembles Duke’s uniform in the current G.I. Joe comic book series produced by Devil’s Due.


Last, but not least, comes Marlon Wayans as Wallace A. Weems, codename: Ripcoard. To be honest I don’t know much about Ripcoard other than he is “a HALO jumper, which stands for High Altitude Low Opening. In order to avoid detection, a HALO jumper jumps from very high altitudes, drops for thousands of feet, and then opens his chute at the last second, just enough to break the fall.” (link) If nothing else, Wayans’ character should provide for some cool scenes with great special effects. Hopefully we’ll be seeing photos of rumored characters like Heavy Duty, Shipwreck and Gung Ho very soon.


To see other G.I. Joe First Look photos of characters from the upcoming live action G.I. Joe movie click here.

2008 SDCC Exclusive Cobra Commander Action Figure

More details are coming out every day about figures, toys, statues and comic books that will be available exclusively at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con. Yesterday The Blot found out that Hasbro will be releasing an exclusive, limited edition G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary Cobra Commander action figure at this year’s SDCC. This never before seen Cobra Commander figure, inspired by G.I. Joe vol. 1 #38, has the COBRA leader in a suit and tie and comes with a COBRA podium and microphone so he can address his minions worldwide.



If you’d like to learn more about this 2008 SDCC exclusive figure click here to watch a special video produced by Hasbro in which Cobra Commander announces his invasion of San Diego Comic-Con. The rumor currently circulating is that Hasbro will also be releasing an even more limited edition variant Cobra Commander figure in a sports coat, similar to the two versions of the 2007 exclusive SDCC Destro figure Hasbro released last summer. Look for additional higher quality pictures to come as they are released by Hasbro.