Stone Temple Pilots Rock Out With 'Hollywood Bitch'
LA (Top 40 Charts) - The Stone Temple Pilots look to show off their harder rocking side on "Hollywood Bitch", the second single from latest album Shangri-La Dee Da. The song arrives at radio this week, following on the heels of the pop-hook-laden first single, "Days Of The Week." STP bassist Robert ...
| Papa Roach Drummer's Wrist Holding Up Well, Band Heads To Europe
NY (Top40 Charts) - A wrist injury sidelined Papa Roach drummer David Buckner on the group's Raid The Nation tour earlier this year. However, after a little bit of time away and some rehab, Buckner and Papa Roach were able to play OzzFest, which wrapped up Sunday (August 12) in New Jersey. Bass player ...
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Tori Amos Unveils 30-Date Tour Itinerary
NY (Top40 Charts) - Tori Amos will hit the road solo in support of her upcoming album of cover songs Strange Little Girls starting Sept. 28 in West Palm Beach, Fla. This tour marks the first time since 1994 that Amos has played live without a band. The 30-date jaunt will play theaters and other small ...
| Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea Plays L.A. Show With Banyan
LA (Top40 Charts) - The Los Angeles-based improv jazz-rock group Banyan had a charity gig booked for Thursday night (Aug. 9) at the small Silverlake club, Spaceland, to benefit the kids at the local Garden Co-Op Nursery School. But when guitarist Nels Cline was unable to make the show because of other ...
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Shawn Colvin Confirmed For Dixie Chicks AIDS Benefit
Austin, Texas (Top40 Charts) - Singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin has been confirmed for the Dixie Chicks' AIDS benefit show at the Austin Music Hall in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 15. As previously reported in "Top40 Charts News", this will mark the Chicks' first performance with a full orchestra - the Austin ...
| Sugar Ray Concert Heads To Big Screens
NY (Top40 Charts) - A company intending to show live broadcasts of concerts and other events on movie screens is launching its service with an Aug. 15 Sugar Ray concert. The performance will take place live at the Tabernacle in Atlanta and will be shown simultaneously on 44 movie screens in 21 states. ...
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Aimee Mann Continues Bachelor No. 2 Tour In Europe
NY (Top40 Charts) - Everyone's favorite DIY artist, Aimee Mann, is still out there supporting Bachelor No. 2, which was released in May 2000. Mann has a set of new tour dates in Europe starting Sept. 23 in Sweden and wrapping up - for now - on Oct. 14 in England. More dates could be announced, and these ...
| Pearl Jam Attack Hunger
Seattle (AP) - Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, R.E.M. and Dave Matthews are among the confirmed artists for Groundwork 2001, a weeklong hunger awareness and fundraising affair slated for October 14-22 in Seattle. The event, planned to coincide with World Food Day (October 16th), is part of the annual ...
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DMB Collect Video Hits
NY (AP) - The Dave Matthews Band will release The Videos 1994-2001 on August 21st. Compiling the band's twelve greatest video hits, the collection will be available in VHS and DVD formats. Both versions offer all of the group's MTV staples in chronological order, directors' commentary on the videos ...
| Stone Temple Pilots, Staind, Deftones Please At Rolling Rock Town Fair 2.0
At last year's inaugural Rolling Rock Town Fair the laid back atmosphere brought about by pie-eating contests, a barbershop quartet, and petting zoo was disrupted when an angry mob of beer worshippers outnumbered the actual suds available. This year's expanded Beer Garden replaced the Second Stage. ...
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Grohl, Novoselic Jam
LA (Reuters) - Former Nirvana men Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic played together recently in a Los Angeles studio. The duo - recently united in a legal battle against their late band mate Kurt Cobain's wife Courtney Love over a proposed Nirvana box set - were joined by Queens of the Stone Age frontman ...
| Gorillaz Listening To Tour Offers For Fall Run Of U.S.
NY (Reuters) - Gorillaz's debut album is having more success than anyone imagined in the U.S. The self-titled album sits at Number 24 on the Billboard 200 album chart. As a result of the success, Gorillaz is being pitched by some undisclosed big-name artists for a tour of the U.S., but they are considering ...
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Fastball's Writing New Songs; Scalzo Plays With Ryan Adams
Nashville (AP) - Fastball has begun writing songs for its next album, and anyone familiar with the dynamics within the band will be surprised to hear that singer-guitarist Miles Zuniga and singer-bassist Tony Scalzo are actually writing together this time. In the past, there would be Scalzo songs and ...
| Cranberries Wake Up to Tour
LA (Top40) - Ireland quartet the Cranberries, who are celebrating their tenth anniversary, are offering fans free tickets to see them on their upcoming, semi-acoustic U.S. promotional tour. The five-date tour, beginning August 14th in Los Angeles, comes a couple months before their new album, Wake Up ...
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New Goo Goo Dolls Album Due
NY - The Goo Goo Dolls have entered a Los Angeles studio to begin production on their seventh full-length album and first of all-new material since 1998's Dizzy Up the Girl. Tentatively titled "Gutterflowers", the album will be produced by Rob Cavallo, whose work includes Green Day and Tricky as well ...
| Radiohead To Release Three New Songs As B-Sides
NY (AP) - Three new Radiohead songs will be released next month as B-sides to the single for "Knives Out." The tracks are titled "Fog," "Worrywort" and "Cuttooth," a spokesperson for the British electro-rockers said Tuesday (July 31). An exact release date was not available. Radiohead recently filmed ...
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Robt. Johnson Gets Headstone
NY (RS) - Blues historian Gayle Dean Wardlow, who spent more than three decades searching for the location of Robert Johnson's grave, is initiating the first annual Robert Johnson Cross Road Memorial Days celebration of the blues giant's life and music. The two-day event is scheduled for August 16th ...
| Jazz all-stars salute Miles, Coltrane on tour
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker, keyboardist Herbie Hancock and trumpeter Roy Hargrove will celebrate the music and lives of late jazz legends John Coltrane and Miles Davis with a U.S. tour dubbed Directions In Music. The 28-city trek will kick off Sept. 19 in Santa Cruz, Calif., ...
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Simon and Garfunkel live album to see release
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel never released a concert album during their heyday, but the pair are now overseeing a live set, tentatively titled "Live From New York City", which is due early next year on Columbia/Legacy. The tracklist is not yet finalized, but the shows are likely ...
| Morrissey to release 2nd singles box
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Morrissey's singles from 1991-95 will be compiled into a 10-disc package, "Singles Box - Volume 2", due for a Sept. 17 U.K. release. Although the exact tracklist is not yet known, the set is likely to include singles for "Tomorrow", "My Love Life", "We Hate It When Our Friends ...
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