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 ...
| 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 ...
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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. ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| Everclear, Kiss on Rock Star
NY (RollingStone) - The soundtrack for the upcoming Mark Wahlberg/Jennifer Aniston vehicle Rock Star will hit stores August 28th and feature some all-star talent. Along with tracks from arena rockers like Kiss and Bon Jovi, there are five original songs by the movie's fictitious band, Steel Dragon. ...
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B-52's Fred Schneider To Lend Vocals To Eat Static Remix
NY (AP) - B-52's main man Fred Schneider and Merv Pepler, of the U.K. techno/trance duo Eat Static, are set to enter a New York studio next month to work on the remix for "Crash and Burn," which is the title track from Eat Static's latest album on CyberOctave Records. "The funny thing," says Pepler, ...
| Guns N' Roses Las Vegas DVD Due Sept. 21; Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan Album Updates
Las Vegas (Reuters) Guns N' Roses' New Years Eve show at the House Of Blues in Las Vegas is scheduled to be released to the Japanese market Sept. 21 on DVD and video. The recording runs 140 minutes and features the 20-track set list, including four new songs from the GNR's (supposedly) forthcoming new ...
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Kravitz to Release
NY (AP) - Lenny Kravitz will release his sixth album, simply titled Lenny, in early November on Virgin Records. The release is his first since last year's Greatest Hits, which featured the new single "Again," and his first album of new material since 1999's 5. In addition to playing most of the instruments ...
| PJ Harvey Comes Back to U.S.
NY (Rolling Stone) - Fresh off her triumphant support slot on U2's Elevation tour, PJ Harvey is set to return to the U.S. with a series of solo dates in September. The artist, who recently received a nomination for Britain's prestigious Mercury Music Prize for her Stories From the City, Stories From ...
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Staind Singer Hopes To Steer Clear Of Rock 'N' Roll Tragedy
LA (AP) - With a top five album on the Billboard 200 album chart and a monster hit ("It's Been Awhile"), the press onslaught and pressure of fame are knocking at Staind's door. AP asked singer Aaron Lewis if he was concerned about ending up a rock 'n' roll tragedy like the late Kurt Cobain or Alice ...
| New Oasis Due This Fall
Tokyo (Reuters) - Oasis will release a new single this October with an album to follow soon after, promises Noel Gallagher. Speaking from Japan, where Oasis performed at the Fuji Rock Festival last Friday, the band's main creative force said, "We're halfway through recording a new album, we have a ...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Pushes Back Tour, Names Replacement Bassist
NY (AP) - In the wake of the recent deaths of bassist Leon Wilkeson and the father-in-law of guitarist Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd has pushed back the start of its tour a bit more than originally planned. The band will now kick things off on August 11 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, ...
| Camper Take On Fleetwood Mac
Richmond (RS) - Wry roots rockers Cracker have wrapped their fourth full-length album and first since 1998's Gentleman's Blues. Forever - produced by the band at frontman David Lowery's Sound of Music studios in Richmond, Virginia - will drop in January. The album title is proving to be a popular one, ...
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John Mellencamp Not Fighting Corporate Giants Anymore
NY (Launch) - John Mellencamp summer tour--which kicked off yesterday (July 31) in San Diego and runs until this year's Farm Aid concert in Noblesville, Indiana, on September 29--is visiting the usually array of summer amphitheaters. Many of those venues are owned and/or operated by SFX, the music-industry ...
| Jagger Inks With Virgin For November Solo Set
NY (Billboard) - Mick Jagger's first solo record in eight years has found a home at Virgin Records, the label confirms. Although a title has yet to be announced for the follow-up to 1993's "Wandering Spirit," a November release date is promised. The Rolling Stones frontman has spent the bulk of the ...
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