Fu Manchu Album Is a Go
LA (Top40 Charts) - Southern California rockers Fu Manchu will drop their sixth full-length album, California Crossing, into stores October 23rd. The follow-up to last year's critically praised King of the Road was recorded in Los Angeles this summer with producer Matt Hyde (Porno for Pyros, Monster ...
| No Doubt's Rock Steady Slated For Dec. 18
LA (Top40 Charts) - No Doubt has put a name and date on its forthcoming fifth album. Rock Steady will be released Dec. 18 on Trauma/Interscope Records. The album, which was recorded in Los Angeles, Jamaica, and London, was produced by a bevy of noted producers, such as former Cars singer Ric Ocasek, ...
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Weezer to Redo
NY (Top40 Charts) - In a curious move, Weezer, with strong encouragement from their record company, have decided to shoot a second video for their present single, "Island in the Sun." While the first clip, directed by Marcos Siega (Blink-182, Papa Roach), was a relatively non-conceptual piece (one that ...
| Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros To Hit The Road
NY (Top40 Charts) - Ex-Clash singer-songwriter Joe Strummer has booked a 17-date U.S. tour, starting October 4 in Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club in support of his new album, Global A Go-Go. The jaunt runs through October 25, closing with a four-night stand at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. ...
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Ex-Allman Dickey Betts Arrested For Domestic Battery
NY (Top40 Charts) - Singer-guitarist Dickey Betts was arrested on Saturday (August 11) and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery after punching his wife Donna Marie Betts in the face while she was driving on U.S. 41, the highway he made famous in the Allman Brothers Band hit "Ramblin' Man." After ...
| Israel Too Red Hot for Chili Peppers Band
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Red Hot Chili Peppers have canceled a concert in Tel Aviv because of a spate of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel. The Los Angeles-based funk-rockers are the first big-name band known to cancel a concert in the Jewish state since a Palestinian uprising against Israeli ...
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U2 to See Further U.S. Elevation
NY (Top40 Charts) - Superstar Irish rockers U2 will bring their blockbuster "Elevation" summer tour back to North America for a further 25 dates, according to a report in London's Times newspaper - a move that is almost sure to make the live outing one of the highest grossing tours in history. The long-anticipated ...
| Charlatans' Rogers has cancer
London (Top40 Charts) - The keyboard player of indie band The Charlatans, Tony Rogers, has been diagnosed with testicular cancer, the band has confirmed. The band, about to release their seventh album Wonderland, announced the news on their website. Rogers, 35, has undergone chemotherapy and radiotherapy ...
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matchbox Donates Tix For Charities
NY (Top40 Charts) - A handful of front row tickets to second leg shows on matchbox twenty's ongoing U.S. tour have been donated by the band to VH1 Save the Music and Musicians on Call. Each organization will auction the tickets via the VH1 Web site to raise funds for their programs. Save the Music works ...
| Blues Traveler To Kick Off Second Summer Run
NY (Top40 Charts) - Following a July slate of tour dates that included the band's annual concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colo., Blues Traveler will kick off the second leg of its summer tour Aug. 18 in Oneida, Wis. The run will find the band on the bill of a variety of festivals across ...
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OzzFest 2001 With Papa Roach & Linkin Park Winds Down
NY (Top40 Charts) - OzzFest wrapped up this weekend with a two-date stint at New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center (August 11 and 12). Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Linkin Park, and Crazy Town were the main events. Also helping close the tour were Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society, ...
| U2 urges Northern Ireland
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Irish supergroup U2 has launched a European tour with a plea to Northern Ireland - "Give peace a chance." With the peace process once more in crisis in the British-ruled province, lead singer Bono told cheering crowds in the northern English city of Manchester: "Compromise ...
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Lenny Kravitz To Release Lenny In October
NY (Reuters) - Lenny Kravitz is doing the pop star thing and dropping his last name � at least for the title of his sixth studio album. Lenny, due October 23, features Kravitz on vocals, guitars, bass, drums, organ and stylophone, his Virgin Records publicist said Thursday (August 9). He also produced ...
| Lynyrd Skynyrd Tour Resumes
LA (AP) - Lynyrd Skynyrd hits the road tonight (August 11) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, its first concert since the death of bassist Leon Wilkeson at age 49 on July 29. AP asked lead singer Johnny Van Zant how he's going to feel when he steps out on that stage without his old friend. ...
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P Roach Bring Studio on Tour
LA (Top40 Charts) - Papa Roach aren't about to let touring get in the way of making a new album. So for this summer's Ozzfest, the Northern California quartet has outfitted a spare bus with enough recording equipment to lay down rough tracks. "It's a great opportunity to write music, because you're ...
| Kid Rock Impresses Sheryl Crow, Talks About Influences
NY (Top40 Charts) - Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow had gone out a few times before the rap-rocker became involved with Pamela Anderson, and Rock made several appearances at Crow's impromptu New York City club shows earlier this summer. Crow marvels at Rock's musical talent outside of rap-rock. Crow told Esquire ...
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Weezer Taps Cold For September Shows
LA (Top40 Charts) - Cold is one fortunate band. Not only is Interscope about to work the fourth single from its album (regardless of moderate - yet climbing - album sales and radio airplay), but the Florida-bred hard rockers have landed yet another key opening slot. Weezer has asked the band to open ...
| Journey Goes On A Blind Date In Los Angeles
LA (Top40 Charts) - Journey, known for some of the most memorable love songs of the '80s, is hoping to play cupid at its Aug. 15 show at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. The band's show, part of its Arrival 2001 World Tour, will serve as the backdrop to a couple's televised blind date on the syndicated ...
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R.E.M. Unearths 'Cuyahoga' To Protest Bush Environmental Policies
Athens, Georgia (Top40 Charts) - R.E.M. has unearthed "Cuyahoga," a track from the band's 1986 album, Lifes Rich Pageant, in some of its recent promotional performances as a protest of sorts to the environmental policies of President George W. Bush. The song is named for the river that flows through ...
| Simple Minds Cover Bowie, The Doors & Neil Young
NY (Top40 Charts) Coming this fall is Neon Lights, an album of cover songs recorded by Simple Minds. The set features lead singer Jim Kerr and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Burchill running through tracks from some of their heroes, including David Bowie (Simple Minds took its name from a lyric in "Jean ...
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