New Dave Matthews Band song surfaces

Audio and video of a new Dave Matthews Band song hit the Internet over the weekend. Fans are calling the song "Run While You Can," and the audio and video come from a soundcheck performance of the song before DMB's shows in Las Vegas this past March.

"Run While You Can" appeared in soundchecks last year as well, but DMB has never played the song live. You can download the audio here and watch the video below.

Dave Matthews playing on Sundance Channel

Dave Matthews will perform on "Live From Abbey Road," a new show that will soon debut on the Sundance Channel. The show features musical guests playing in the famed London recording studio.

The series premiere features John Mayer, Norah Jones and Richard Ashcroft from the Verve, and it will air June 23. Dave Matthews will be part of the seventh episode, which does not yet have an air date, along with Craig David and James Morrison.

The show has an eclectic mix of guests, best evidenced in the lineup for episode four: Natasha Bedingfield, Gypsy Kings and Iron Maiden.

Report: Dave Matthews, wife welcome baby boy

Dave Matthews' wife Ashley gave birth to their third child yesterday, a boy, according to this report in music blog Line Out. The Celebrity Baby Blog is also reporting the news, but has not confirmed the baby's gender.

If the Line Out report is true, this will be the first son for Dave and Ashley, who live in Seattle. They have 5 1/2-year-old twin daughters, Grace and Stella.

There have been no official reports of the birth, but when there are, Blog-Eyed Fish will bring them to you.

Dave Matthews Band starts petition for troops

The Dave Mattthews Band official Web site has an online petition calling for "complete, timely and excellent" medical care for U.S. troops returning home from war.

DMB plans to eventually send the petition to the secretary of defense, who oversees the Veterans Administration and the troops' health benefits. If you'd like to sign it, click here.

Why Dave Matthews Band would stop touring

Dave Matthews would consider an end to touring if he thought it was doing too much environmental harm, he says in the new issue of Rolling Stone.

The magazine asked, "You do stuff like carbon offsets to minimize the damage from touring, but do you ever think, I should stop touring altogether?" Dave replied, "It may come to that. I get sort of panicked, and I think, This is one of the most guilty forms of entertainment. But I hope we can find alternatives."

The brief interview is part of Rolling Stones' preview of the Live Earth concerts July 7. Dave also gives this tip for saving the planet: "Don't flush unless it's a turd."

Paper catches Dave Matthews Band plagiarizing

Dave Matthews Band's official Web site last week posted material that was taken without permission from a Charlottesville, Va. newspaper.

The site's Charlottesville Music page featured descriptions of local bands that were written by The Hook, a weekly newspaper in DMB's hometown. The Hook caught the plagiarism, then reported that DMB's site had taken down the information in question.

Dave Matthews Band falls off Forbes list

Forbes magazine's annual list of the 100 richest and most powerful celebrities is out, and Dave Matthews Band isn't on it.

DMB came in at No. 51 on last year's list, with $30 million in pay. The Celebrity 100 rankings also consider how many Web hits the celebrities receive and how many press mentions they get. Last year's list was based on numbers from 2005, when DMB released Stand Up. DMB had no studio album last year, which likely led them to drop off this year's list.

Blog-Eyed Fish on 1-week break

Blog-Eyed Fish is going to Bonnaroo, so there won't be any updates until Tuesday, June 19. To keep up with Dave Matthews Band news in the meantime, check out the sites in the links to the right.

The week off is a great time for you to pick up Blog-Eyed Fish's new Google gadgets. The official Blog-Eyed Fish gadget delivers Dave Matthews Band headlines directly to your Google Desktop, and it's available here. The Blog-Eyed Fish Hot Rumor gadget, which shares some of the unconfirmed Dave Matthews Band news floating around the Internet, is available here.

And remember, you can always subscribe to the Blog-Eyed Fish site feed by clicking here.

Dave Matthews to play Farm Aid

Dave Matthews will once again play Farm Aid. This year's concert to raise money for American farmers is Sept. 9 on Randall's Island in New York, and tickets go on sale Saturday.

Dave Matthews is on Farm Aid's board of directors with Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp -- the only other artists confirmed to play the show so far. He has played the benefit annually since 2001, and Dave Matthews Band played in 1995, 1997 and 1999.

Dave Matthews Band site wins Webby

Verizon Surround -- Dave Matthews Band has won the 2007 Webby Award for best celebrity/fan site. The Web site is a promotional tool for DMB's greatest hits CD, The Best of What's Around Vol. 1, and it features video interviews, concert clips and wallpaper downloads.

The Webbys were given out June 3-5 in New York. The other nominees for best celebrity/fan site were the Anderson Cooper Fan Site on CNN.com, VH1's Best Week Ever, the official Pet Shop Boys site and TMZ.com.

Dave Matthews Band tour makes ABC's top 10

ABC's "Good Morning America" says Dave Matthews Band has the No. 3 "hottest" tour of the summer. The brief write-up says DMB attracts "a fiercely devoted, neo-hippie audience" and will leave "an army of tailgaters in their wake."

Other tours on the list include Beyonce, Toby Keith and 311. Justin Timberlake comes in at No. 1 because he's "as hot as a leather car seat in August," according to "GMA."

Dave Matthews Band ticket sales crack Top Ten

Dave Matthews Band is doing good business for ticket brokers. The band comes in at No. 6 on this week's TicketNews Top Ten concerts list, which tracks the amount of tickets sold through the "world's largest" network of brokers.

The Police topped this week's list, with Kenny Chesney, the American Idols Live! tour, John Mayer and the Soul2Soul tour with Faith Hill and Tim McGraw rounding out the Top Five. DMB's summer tour begins Aug. 1 in Mansfield, Mass.

Google gadgets now available

Blog-Eyed Fish is now available on your desktop thanks to two new Google gadgets. Every time there's a new Dave Matthews Band headline posted, it will automatically show up on your Google Homepage, Google Desktop or other Google gadget platform. The gadget is available here.

Blog-Eyed Fish also features a Hot Rumor at the bottom of the front page, which shares some of the unconfirmed Dave Matthews Band news floating around the Internet. Blog-Eyed Fish brings the Hot Rumor directly to your desktop with another Google gadget, which is available here.

And remember, you can always subscribe to the Blog-Eyed Fish site feed by clicking here.

Stefan Lessard turns 33

Happy birthday to Stefan Lessard, the youngest member of Dave Matthews Band. He turns 33 today.

Dave Matthews buys horses

Dave Matthews has bought some horses from Frederick Tour and Carriage Co., a Maryland horse-and-buggy ride operator that is going out of business, according to The Frederick News-Post. The article notes that Dave owns a farm in Charlottesville, Va., about three hours away from Frederick.

These purchases aren't Dave's first experience with horses. He went horseback riding with mounted police before a show in Scranton, Pa. last year, and he and Tim Reynolds played the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" during their 1999 tour.

Critic loves Dave Matthews Band's London show

The Times of London raves about Dave Matthews Band's May 30 show at Wembley Arena. Reviewer David Sinclair praises DMB's "extraordinary fund of musical talent" and cites "You Might Die Trying" and "When the World Ends" as show highlights. (Although he does say that "When the World Ends," one of DMB's shortest songs, was a "long, instrumental odyssey," so maybe he's confusing it with another song.) Anyway, this review could not be any more different than what an Irish critic gave earlier in the tour.