Calexico, 2013 Best of Tucson Best Local Performing Artists, announced on their Facebook page that they will performing The Pogues' Fairytale of New York tonight on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The band will share the stage with Iron & Wine, Kathleen Edwards Page and Glen Hansard.

The band posted this Instagram photo from the set:

Tonight: Joaquin Phoenix, Candice Bergen plus @IronAndWine, Calexico & special guests cover The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York". #LateNight
— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) December 11, 2013

Hip-Hop DX reported that Tucson's very own Marley B and Cash Lansky have an album debuting on Jan. 7 with Murs' new label.

“I wanted to create a platform for hard-working musicians with good hearts,” Murs says during an exclusive interview with HipHopDX. “All the artists I have lined up are good people who want to see their dream manifest and I’m trying to help them do that. I feel like I do have a lot of knowledge and wisdom to impart to other emcees. It’s a platform where I can do all of those things, do features for artists, help them out, give them advice, put them on some shows with me and help out people I felt had a similar work ethic.”

Okay, One Direction, we get it: you're coming to University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale next year (Sept. 16, to be exact). But did you really need to drag our professional football franchise down into the muck with you?

I'm just glad no member of the Arizona Cardinals currently wears jersey No. 1, or else they'd never be able to live this down.

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• Exene Cervenca with fellow X members Billy Zoom, left, and John Doe, right

Exene Cervenka left her apron at home on this visit, but the band X arrived at the Rialto Theatre last Saturday with plenty of the uniquely punked up genre soup that's attracted fans worldwide for more than three decades.

This year, it seems like music festivals are popping up in Arizona to try to separate music fans from their money, but the king of events where you stand in a field and listen to music outdoors will likely remain Country Thunder, the four-day fest held near Florence on April 10-13 next year.

This year, the lineup has some big names, including attractive people The Band Perry, Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert, along with Sawyer Brown, Mark Chestnutt, Joe Diffie, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and rising stars Charlie Worsham, Will Hoge and Chad Brownlee. More acts will be announced soonish, the promoters promise.

Tickets are currently priced at $130 for the four days, although that price goes up the closer it gets to the event. More info can be found at arizona.countrythunder.com.

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• The Sand Rubies: Bruce Halper, Winston Watson, Ken Andree, David Slutes, Rich Hopkins

... and Howe Gelb and Calexico and all the other Tucson musicians, and venue managers, which is just about all of them, who seem to come together out of thin air on their own dime to prop up our community spirit whenever a crisis finds it slagging, and to raise money for endless causes throughout the year, including each other's medical bills and the loss of anyone dear to us.

Built to Spill, not really promoting anything but featuring a new lineup, will hit the new, larger stage at Club Congress tonight, but if you don't have tickets already...tough break, the show sold out earlier today.

However, if you're looking to cram a bit before the show (or wistfully listen to what you're going to miss), here's a Spotify playlist of ten of their best songs, as arbitrarily chosen by me, a guy who used to make music playlists for a living.

Enjoy.

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• Eddie Money at the Fox Theatre

The well endowed bachelor pad of the 70s might have been defined by the water bed, the lava lamps, shag carpeting and, intriguingly, some of Eddie Money's symphonic blues on the stereo. Two tickets to paradise.