Early Matchbox Twenty Secret To Be Revealed
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rob Thomas' pre-Matchbox Twenty recordings are finally seeing the light of day, thanks to a former bandmate who spent a half a decade trying to put "the nail in the group's coffin." Don't Play With Matches, the only studio album by Tabitha's Secret (which featured Matchbox Twenty ...
| Petty in the Studio
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have begun work on their next album. Tracking at Los Angeles' Cello Studios, the band is again working with Rick Rubin, who produced 1999's Echo, 1996's She's the One and Petty's last solo album, 1994's Wildflowers." Many tracks on Echo, which was inspired ...
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Jerry Cantrell Added To Sammy Hagar Bash
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell has been added to the lineup for Sammy Hagar's birthday bash--dubbed the Cabo Wabo Mexican Meltdown--at Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Cantrell will accompany Hagar on stage during the Red Rocker's set on October 13, ...
| Classic rock artists find new life on 'Net
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - As an increasing number of high-profile artists head to court to fight what they see as exploitative recording contracts, a clutch of veteran rockers from the '70s and '80s have joined forces to circumvent the industry and market directly to their fans on the Net. The group, ...
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OASIS' SEPTEMBER SONGS
LONDON, UK (AP) - NOEL GALLAGHER has told NME that OASIS have set a deadline of September 10 to complete their new album. Speaking backstage at last weekend's Carling Weekend Festival in Reading, Gallagher said that the group plan to start rehearsing for their tenth anniversary live shows on that date, ...
| Blink-182 Can't Tone Down Live Show
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - With Blink-182's continued trek across North America tour in support of its latest album, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, comes the crass nightly onstage humor and language. The trio compounds its behavior by performing it front of a flaming, 12-foot-high sign boasting the ...
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Matchbox 20's
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Tabitha's Secret will become a matter of public record with the October 9th release of Don't Play With Matches. Broken up since the summer of 1995, the band contained three current Matchbox Twenty members: singer/guitarist Rob Thomas, bassist Brian Yale and drummer Paul Doucette. ...
| Jane's Addiction Relapsing Again With Live, Femi Kuti
NEW YORK (AP) - Months after getting together for a series of reunion shows, '80s art-rockers Jane's Addiction are taking their (freak) show on the road again. Billed as the Jubilee 2001 tour, the outing kicks off October 2 in Boston and features Jane's sharing the stage with rockers Live and world ...
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NIRVANA IN NIRVANA
LONDON (AP) - Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' has been voted the most popular 'alternative' track of all time, in a poll of around 15,000 people. The survey, conducted by London's XFM radio station, questioned thousands of music fans over a two-week period, and was dominated by Radiohead, who had ...
| ASH JOIN U2
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Ash have been added to the line-up for U2's massive show at Slane Castle in Ireland next weekend. The band are expected to perform after Nelly Furtado and before Moby on September 1 at the show, which will mark the end of this leg of U2's 'Elevation World Tour'. Meanwhile, Ash ...
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Crazy Town, Rob Zombie, Guns N' Roses Members Party For Charity At Rick Rubin's House
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Crazy Town, Rob Zombie, One Side Zero, Shuvel, and current Guns N' Roses members Tommy Stinson and Robbin Finck were among the capacity crowd at a massive party for charity at producer Rick Rubin's famed Hollywood Hills mansion Saturday night (August 25). Others appearing ...
| The Who Live Concert Video With Eddie Vedder, Others, Due Out Next Month
LONDON (AP) - The Who And Special Guests, Live At The Royal Albert Hall is set for VHS and DVD release on September 25. The concert recording features performances by the Who with Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, Oasis songwriter-guitarist Noel Gallagher, Bryan Adams, Kelly Jones, Kennedy, and Paul ...
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Ozzy, Staind, Godsmack To Attack San Diego
SAN DIEGO (Top40 Charts) - Ozzy Osbourne, Staind, and Godsmack will share the stage for one night in San Diego as part of a local radio show on September 28 dubbed "When Bands Attack - The Trilogy." The groups will convene upon the Coors Amphitheatre in the southern San Diego County city of Chula Vista ...
| Stevie Nicks Reschedules Tour Dates With Sheryl Crow
NY (Top40 Charts) - Two Stevie Nicks/Sheryl Crow Northern California gigs that were postponed due to Nicks's respiratory illness earlier this month have been rescheduled. The Mountain View show (originally August 14) has been rescheduled for September 30 and the Concord show (originally August 15) has ...
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Henley to Speak on Labor Law
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Don Henley and Courtney Love are scheduled to testify at a California Senate hearing on that state's contractual laws in Sacramento on September 5th. The hearing will specifically examine the "Seven Year Statute," which limits personal service contracts to a maximum of seven ...
| Tenacious D Hit the Road
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - With their self-titled debut album scheduled for release on September 26th, Tenacious D have already plotted their return to the stage, where the duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass hatched and honed their acoustic metal chops. The D will kick off a seventeen-date tour on "Zeptember" ...
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U2 members sing at funeral for Bono's father
DUBLIN, Ireland (Reuters) - Members of the Irish supergroup U2 sang at the funeral of lead singer Bono's father on Friday, a day before the band was to play for its biggest audience ever in Ireland. Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, his wife Ali, his brother Norman and other members of U2 attended ...
| New Dylan Track Available As Free Download
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - "Po' Boy," a jazzy track from Bob Dylan's upcoming album, Love and Theft, will be available online as a free download from WindowsMedia.com starting Monday (August 20). The track will be available until September 20 at www.windowsmedia.com/previewv2/bobdylan. The shuffling, ...
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Crazy Town And Sugar Ray Among Pairings At BREATHE Breast Awareness Concert
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Crazy Town with Sugar Ray, Third Eye Blind with Nikka Costa, and Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins with Seal are among the pairings announced at a press conference today (August 21) for BREATHE, the upcoming breast cancer awareness concert being co-produced by Third Eye ...
| Mick Jagger Solo Album Details Trickle In
NY (Reuters) - The rumor mill has been busy churning out stories about Mick Jagger's upcoming solo album - from erroneous album titles to lists of guests said to be appearing on the album. Although details about the upcoming Rolling Stones frontman's fourth solo project are being kept under wraps by ...
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