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Justice coming back to L.A., as MySpace Tour headliner

01:55 PM PT, Jan 8 2008

Hard to avoid getting spring fever, what with all the Coachella rumors starting to fly and tour announcements flying into my mailbox like Steve Aoki stagedives. This morning's biggie comes from none other than your favorite social networking site (at least until I figure this mess out) -- the 18-date MySpace Music Tour, featuring a bunch of people you like to dance to.

Ingridmichaelson1 Justice, Diplo and Fancy (and more to be added) will play the tour-ending L.A. date, March 31 at the Mayan Theatre. It'll be a $32 ticket (on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday), and the press release even has MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson weighing in on Justice: "I can't wait to see them on this tour!" Geez. Figured him for a Death Cab guy.

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Speaking of MySpace, one of its singer-songwriter phenoms, Ingrid Michaelson (pictured), is among the fresh faces on the Hotel Cafe Tour. Cary Brothers, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Radin and a host of others join in on the fourth year of the tour, spawned by the vibrant scene at the Cahuenga Boulevard music venue.

Michaelson is headlining the Troubadour on Jan. 24, and that show is already sold out. Buoyed by a slew of television placements and the seemingly ubiquitous single "The Way I Am," her self-released album "Girls and Boys" has cracked the Billboard charts. The Hotel Cafe tour hits the House of Blues Anaheim on March 8, then comes back around to the Music Box @ Fonda on April 12.

Highlights for Tuesday, Jan. 8

Hard-driving locals Mighty Six Ninety kick off a Tuesday residency at the Key Club. ... KCRW-FM darling Jesca Hoop plays the Hotel Cafe. ... Orange County trio Pop Noir rocks the Dim Mak dance party at Cinespace. ... Oliver Future winds up its residency at the Viper Room. ... And genre-mashers Beatmo play the Silverlake Lounge.



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Kevin Bronson
Kevin Bronson has covered emerging and indie music since 2002 in his weekly Buzz Bands column in the Calendar Weekend section of the L.A. Times. He adores caffeine, judicious use of falsetto and the 6-4-3 double play. He abhors exclamation points, modern country and any notion that New York City is the center of the cultural universe. He's older than any music blogger he knows but has been known to pogo. He'll try not to pretend.

Bronson's Buzz Bands show can be heard Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. Pacific time on the Internet radio station LittleRadio.com.

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