. . . but will he bring Daft Punk? Y'know, this just might be enough to make up for Bon Jovi at Fenway. From the inbox:

Kanye West: Glow in the Dark Tour

With Rihanna, Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D.

At the Tweeter Center

Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Tickets are $26.

Ohhhhhh, snap! Someday you'll be telling your grandkids about this one like it was Frank and Liza or some shit.

Heart of the City Tour" JAY-Z and Mary J. Blige
At the TD Banknorth Garden
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $49.75, $69.75, $89.75, $125.75 and $300
Tickets go on-sale Friday, February 15, 2008 at 10:00 am

Eli Reed: Soul Brother Number One

DOWNLOAD: Eli "Paperboy" Reed, "The Satisfier" [mp3]

Even after tough woodshedding at Delta Blues Ground Zero -- Clarksdale, Mississippi, playing juke joints and the like -- and then further work in Chicago, running a weekly radio show and playing in a Southside holiness church, Eli "Paperboy" Reed suffered his detractors (including some at this very newspaper).