Jenny O. will begin her West Coast tour on August 25 at the Warfield in San Francisco. For her August and September tour dates she will be supporting Grammy Award winner Ben Harper. In October she will support Leon Russell, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Jenny O.’s debut album “Home” features folk songs, country guitar and elements of 60s pop.

Please see below for tour dates:

* Supporting Ben Harper
# Supporting Leon Russell
 
8/25 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield*
8/26 – Bend, OR – Les Schwab Amphitheatre*
8/27 – Redmond, WA – Marymoor Amphitheatre*
8/28 – Vancouver, BC – Malkin Bowl* – sold out
9/2  – George, WA – The Gorge (DMB, Dispatch, The Roots, Devotchka, more…)
9/3  – Las Vegas, NV – Boulevard Pool*
10/18 – Scottsdale, AZ – The Canyon #
10/19 – San Juan Capistrano, CA – The Coach House #
10/20 – Los Angeles, CA – The Canyon Club #
10/21 – Solano Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern #

Sony announced today that the latest update to the PlayStation 3 hangout, Sony’s Home, hits tomorrow, October 1 and brings “universal game launching” to the social space.

Version 1.3, as it’s being called, allows you to launch whatever game you have queued up either in the disc-tray or on your hard-drive for instant access, without having to back out to the main screen and load the game.

But there’s more. Sony also revealed that new clothing categories, emotes, and items will show up in Home Version 1.3, as well as the ability to try on and see your mini-me in desired clothing in real-time.

Maybe now Home can be the space we all imagined it once could be. Tomorrow’s update will at least be a step in the right direction if nothing else.

Full story at PlayStation Blog

EA Sports continues its forward global online movement with the launch of EA Sports Complex, a virtual space in the expansive social community of PlayStation’s Home.

Inside the EA Sports Complex gamers can watch exclusive game trailers and videos tailored to the EA Sports series of titles.

Available today inside the Complex is an 8 person tournament style Texas Hold ‘Em poker game and EA Sports Racing, a mini-game of sorts featuring formula-style cars challenging players to beat their best time or race against friends.

Not available today at launch, but promised by EA Sports, is EA Sports Golf, another mini excursion that allows gamers to hit booming drives on the range.‚  Also coming soon are leaderboards, poker bracelets and a rewards system

PS3 owners can fire up Home today and hop on in to the Complex.

Sony, in conjunction with Activision today announced “Backstage with Guitar Hero,” a social environment intended to bring community members of Home together on the PlayStation 3.

Backstage offers up a Guitar Hero themed depiction of backstage at a rock show where gamers can meet up, hang out, check out videos for upcoming titles on the franchise, and maybe partake in some recreational beverages.

If chilling in the smoke filled, instrument laden back room isn’t edgy enough for you, a “match-the-chord” type mini-game; RockGod is available for you and your metal-head brethren to compete in testing your Guitar Hero brain on a lighter level.

Fire up your PS3 and stop on by, as “Backstage with Guitar Hero” is up and running as we speak.

They say there’s no place like home, but what happens when you can’t find it? 

Sony Computer Entertainment announced Tuesday that it will extend their Playstation Home Network closed beta until at elast the fall. Sends the public release date back to sometime in 2009 by all estimates.

“We understand that we are asking PS3 and prospective PS3 users to wait a bit longer, but we have come to the conclusion that we need more time to refine the service to ensure a more focused gaming entertainment experience than what it is today,” said Kaz Hirai, president and CEO of SCE. “Our overarching objective is to provide users with new gaming experiences that are available only on PlayStation Home, spending more time on the development and on the closed beta testing reaffirms our commitment to bringing a quality service, maintaining the PlayStation tradition.”

The Home network, being called a mix between Xbox Live and Second Life, lets players customize avatars and interact with other gamers while downloading and exploring a virtual world, is no stranger to delays. After its initial announcement in March 2007, it was supposed to be released late that same year but was pushed back to spring of 2008.

This is a setback for PlayStation 3, which has been on a surge since the Toshiba conceeded the HD-DVD versus Blu-ray format war.

Sony has sold about 10.5 million PlayStation 3 units, fewer than the 20 million Nintendo Wii consoles and 17.7 million Xbox 360s sold worldwide.