Locked in Teams announced

On 06Mar09, Tony and Mark met at Scores Sports Bar to determine if the same groups appeared on each other's lists. Whomever seeded the group higher up, wins the group's rights, but has to lock in the team at that ranking position.

So here are the groups that have locked in: The Led Zeppelin: Mark outranked Tony 20-31, so Mark gets them.

Tony won all the other ones: Tony got Nick Lowe, 14-17; Tony got The Black Keyes, 15-2, Tony got Neko Case 10-1, Tony got She and Him, 8-4. The excitement stepped up when both coaches had the very hot Rilo Kiley at 3-3...Tony got them on the tie-breaker advantage, since he lost last year. "I should have ranked them up at number two," lamented a visibly shaken Mark Ewing.

So...these groups are the only groups that have to be locked in at the current seedings: Led Zepp 20, Nick Lowe 14, The Black Keyes 2, Neko Case 1, and Rilo Kiley 3.

This year's groups include some Star Wars veterans (Devo, Zeppelin, Beatles, Pink Floyd), some crazy newcomers (The Crayolas, Duffy, Vampire Weekend, Golden Smog, Kings of Leon), some old surprises(Ray Wiley Hubbard, Men Without Hats, Foreigner, Mott the Hoople, The Zombies).

Returning from last year is 2008 Star Wars Champion Regina Spektor, who does not look to be as strong as last year. Ziggy Marley returns while hoping to stave off another first round elimination. Johnny Cash gets another invite from Tony after his amazing upset run from last year. "This is a very strong group of singing groups", clucked an elated Signore. "I have seen so many groups now, and I like groups that sing and this is what I do. I got the Britney Spears in, I am a rocker, you know."

One more week and the parings will come out. The non-locked in groups can be cut and replaced by any group until Saturday, 14March09.