Creed Reschedules 'Weathered Tour' To Begin On July 11
TORONTO, Canada (Creed Official & Fans Websites) - Creed has rescheduled the tour dates it was forced to cancel in April due to injuries sustained by singer Scott Stapp in an automobile accident. The first leg of the tour, which includes make-up dates as well as new dates, begins July 11 in Virginia ...
| Sonic Youth Take
NEW YORK (Sonic Youth Fans Websites & Official) - Sonic Youth will take their sixteenth album, Murray Street, out on a twenty-two-date tour, starting August 1st in Dallas. The tour will be the group's second as a five-piece, as the group brought producer Jim O'Rourke onboard while promoting their last ...
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Jeff Martin On The White Ribbon Campaign
TORONTO, Canada (Tea Party Fans Website) - The Tea Party�s Jeff Martin has been involved with the White Ribbon Campaign Benefit Concert for a number of years. What The White Ribbon Campaign is? �It�s an awareness campaign that�s been in existence for ten or eleven years. What it tries to do is bring ...
| Korn's Davis Tired Of Being A Victim With 'Here To Stay'
NEW YORK (Korn Fans Website) - (5/29/02, 4 p.m. ET) -- Korn's album Untouchables is due out June 11, but the album's first single, "Here To Stay" is already No4 on the US Modern Rock chart. Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis told what inspired the tune. "I wrote it up there, it was about being fed up with ...
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Morissette Plans Fan-Chosen Concert
NEW YORK (Alanis Morissette Fans Website) - Alanis Morissette will perform a concert of songs chosen entirely by her fans. The show will be taped in New York City on June 11 for airing on the Oxygen cable television network on June 23. It will also be streamed simultaneously at oxygen.com. Fans can ...
| Hives Kick Off U.S. Tour Amid Industry Buzz, Third NY Show Added
NEW YORK (HIVES Fans Website) - The Hives kick off a North American club tour Sunday (May 26) in San Diego as many music industry insiders hype the Swedish rockers as a potential next big thing. The group plays 17 shows through mid-June, including two-night stands at the Roxy in Los Angeles (May 27-28) ...
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Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Checks In On Album No. 5, Summer Tour
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Since Weezer's fourth studio album, Maladroit, debuted at No. 3 on this week's The US Albums, it's just about time to start talking about its follow-up, right? At least, that's the case with the new, prolific Weezer, who let loose Maladroit just one day under a year from the ...
| Lifehouse Ready for a New Moment
LOS ANGELES (Lifehouse Official) - Lifehouse will release Stanley Climbfall, the follow-up to 2000's No Name Face, on September 17th. The band enlisted No Name producer Ron Aniello once again and recorded the album at Royal Tone studios in Hollywood. Lifehouse will have a lot to prove with their sophomore ...
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Weezer Taps The Strokes & Dashboard Confessional For Summer Shed Tour
NEW YORK (Weezer Official) - Weezer is well aware of the emo fan base that helped revitalize its career leading up to the success of 2001's Weezer (a.k.a., The Green Album), and it has tapped into that scene for a summer shed tour kicking off in early July in support of its latest release, Maladroit. ...
| Bush Pressing Forward Without Founding Guitarist
LOS ANGELES (Bush Fans websites) - Bush guitarist Nigel Pulsford, who had been on leave from the U.K. rock outfit he co-founded with frontman Gavin Rossdale in 1992, appears to be leaving the band for good. Former Helmet guitarist Chris Traynor, who had been subbing for Pulsford since last year as ...
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R.E.M. Remix 'Reveal'
NEW YORK (Remhq Official Website) - REM have placed ten remixes of songs from Reveal on their Web site, www.remhq.com, for fans to download. Frontman Michael Stipe said that he heard elements of the electronic music that he listens to within some of the tracks, which became the inspiration behind what ...
| Coldplay Sets Release Date, UK Tour
LONDON, UK (Daily Mirror) - Coldplay has set an Aug. 26 U.K. release date for its highly anticipated sophomore Parlophone/Capitol set, "A Rush of Blood to the Head." The set, due a day later in North America, is led by first single "In My Place." Other confirmed tracks include "Politik," "Clocks," and ...
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Lit Party Sends Three Firefighters Down In Flames
NEW YORK (Central New Jersey's Home News & Tribune) - Three volunteer firefighters in Iselin, N.J., have been suspended over allegations they participated in a raucous soiree at the firehouse with rock band Lit on May 3. According to Central New Jersey's Home News and Tribune, Fire Chief Steven Mellett ...
| New Radiohead Coming Soon!
NEW YORK (Radiohead Fans) - The older-sounding newly-written Radiohead album isn�t far away. According to frontman Thom Yorke, who spoke to fans via an unofficial Radiohead fansite, the album will come �sooner than you think.� He told fans Radiohead has been working �bloody hard� on the album, while ...
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Weezer Treats L.A. Fans To Free Album Release Club Show
LOS ANGELES (Weezer fans) - "This is strange," said Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo toward the beginning of his band's show on Monday (May 13) night at the tiny Whisky-a-Go-Go in Hollywood. "We're supposed to be an arena rock band!" The audience roared with laughter, and the band responded by ripping into ...
| New Creed Video Looks Like Salvador Dali Meets 'Star Wars'
NEW YORK (Altmusic News!) - Don't blame the surreal imagery in Creed's upcoming "One Last Breath" video on the painkillers Scott Stapp is taking for his injured neck and back. The singer drafted the bizarre treatment for the clip long before his car accident last month. And when he explained his ideas ...
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Korn Adds Dates Through August
NEW YORK (Korn Official Website) - Korn has added dates in Milwaukee, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Green Bay to its tour, which kicks off June 20 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The tour will feature openers Puddle Of Mudd and Deadsy. Korn is touring in support of its June 11 release, Untouchables. ...
| Cantrell Speaks Out About Staley's Death
DETROIT (Alice In Chains Fans) - Given his druthers, Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell would be joyously preparing for next month's release of his second solo album, Degradation Trip. The tour and album are proceeding as planned, but Cantrell is now mourning the death of his band's frontman, ...
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Pearl Jam Finish Album
LOS ANGELES (Pearl Jam official Website) - Pearl Jam have completed sessions for their still-untitled seventh studio album, according to the group's official Web site. The mixing of the record is expected to begin soon, although a release date has not yet been announced. The album was co-produced by ...
| Alice In Chains' Staley Died From Mix Of Heroin & Cocaine
Whasington (Top40 Charts) - Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley died, as suspected, from an accidental heroin and cocaine overdose, James Apa, a public health spokesperson for Seattle and King County, Washington, told. The toxicology report also revealed that Staley died on April 5, the same day that ...
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