A.M. Nuggets: Richie Havens Tour; Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Sixties icon Richie Havens announced almost a year's worth of tour dates yesterday, in support of his new album Nobody Left to Crown. If you were at Woodstock (or, like me, waited for the movie) you might remember his electrifying three-hour-plus set, which opened the festival and set the stage for the rest of that weekend's 'lightening in a bottle' performances. Havens' tour will literally take him from coast to coast, with stops from Freeport, Maine to Homer, Alaska and just about everywhere in between.

Lately we've been digging a new band out of Springfield, MO called Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Their newest release, Pershing (iTunes), is out now and is well worth a listen. Yesterday we stumbled across some great video of these guys, performing as a 'supergroup' with tourmates Via Audio. HTFF has the videos and some free downloads from the session - I Can't Focus is particularly good, and the acoustic Nirvana cover isn't bad either. SSLYBY (it's a mouthful even as an acronym...) is on tour now, and will appear on Last Call with Carson Daly this Thursday, 5/15.