Brad To Open For Pearl Jam Seattle Benefit Shows
NEW YORK (Brad Official/Pearl Jam Fans Websites) - Guitarist Stone Gossard will pull double duty when his band Brad opens for his other band Pearl Jam on December 8 and 9 at the Seattle Key Arena. Gossard talked about what it was like to split time and songs between Pearl Jam and Brad: "I really don't ...
| Billy Corgan's Zwan Signs To Reprise Records
NEW YORK (Smashing Pumpkins Fans Website) - A new studio release from ex-Smashing Pumpkin Billy Corgan is now one step closer, as his new band Zwan - which also features ex-Pumpkin drummer Jimmy Chamberlin - has signed a deal with Reprise Records. Although no release date for the band's debut is nailed ...
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Jewel's Soul City Cafe program
LOS ANGELES (Soul City Cafe) - Jewel is offering up-and-coming musicians a chance to showcase their stuff on her tour through the Soul City Cafe Music Quest. Jewel has sent out an open call for demo submissions in two categories, Band (two or more people) and Solo Artist. One artist in each category ...
| Rob Thomas loves cats!
NEW YORK (Matchbox 20 Fans Website) - Marisol Thomas, wife of Matchbox Twenty singer Rob Thomas, is hosting the first MEOW NY, an event to raise funds for New York City's street cats on Tuesday (November 12). The benefit is being held at the Gallery at the One Club. The couple will be in attendance, ...
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Exclusive Nickelback merchandise to be auctioned off for charity!
TORONTO, Canada (Nickelback Official Website) - Lots of GREAT one-off Nickelback items including Mike Kroeger's cowboy hat (YES, the one he wore on stage), Ryan Peake's Canadian Flag Guitar (played in MANY Nickelback concerts!), Chad Kroeger's autographed guitar, an autographed drum skin and drum sticks ...
| System of a Down Tracks
NEW YORK (System of a dawn Fans Website) - System of a Down has unveiled the track listing for its forthcoming album of 16 previously unreleased songs, Steal This Album. The album, due Nov. 26 on American Recordings/Columbia Records, features tracks that date back to before the group was signed in 1995, ...
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New Found Glory Tops DVD Charts With 'The Story So Far'
SANTA MONIICA, California (New Found Glory Fans Website) - Santa Monica, California, November 4, 2002 - Stop the presses! Ok, don't stop the presses, but get this: upstart Drive-Thru/MCA band New Found Glory has the #1 best-selling music DVD in America! Their debut full-length DVD, "The Story So Far" ...
| John Rzeznik Moves Into Soundtrack Songwritting
NEW YORK (Goo Goo Dolls Fans Website) - Just because the Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik has made the move into soundtrack songwriting--a genre popularized in recent years by such artists as Randy Newman, Elton John, and Phil Collins--it doesn't mean he changed his ways. Rzeznik says that he made that clear ...
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Pete Yorn covers Elvis's 'Suspicious Minds'
NEW YORK (Pete Yorn Fans Website) - Pete Yorn is currently recording of a cover of Elvis Presley's classic "Suspicious Minds," and is trying to resurrect a piece of the original, famed recording in the process. Yorn's version-in-progress features the Sweet Inspirations, the backing group that also sang ...
| Phish's New Album, Round Room, Due Dec. 10
LOS ANGELES (Alternative Magazine) - Phish's camp has confirmed that the band will indeed release a studio album of new material before the end of the year. Dubbed Round Room, the 12-track album is due Dec. 10 on Elektra Records. The recordings came to pass while the group was rehearsing for its forthcoming ...
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Dave Grohl On Nirvana
SEATTLE, Whas. (Nirvana Fans Website) - Despite the years of legal wrangling, a war of words with Courtney Love, and a very busy music life, Dave Grohl says all of his Nirvana-related stress of late was well worth it. "To me, it's important that people hear the music. A song like 'You Know You're Right,' ...
| Pearl Jam Slated For Dec. 8 Seattle Benefit Show
SEATTLE (Pearl Jam Official Website) - Pearl Jam has just announced that it will perform at a benefit show Dec. 8 at Seattle's Key Arena. Members of the group's fan club, the Ten Club, can purchase tickets by entering a lottery drawing at [email protected]. The subject line should read "Key Arena," ...
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The Vines To Headline MTV2's Handpicked Tour
NEW YORK (Vines Official Website) - Australia's the Vines will headline the MTV2 Handpicked Tour (promoting the album of the same name), which kicks off Nov. 19 in Philadelphia. Along for the short trek -- 14 dates in just over two weeks -- will be the U.K.'s the Music, whose debut album is due in the ...
| Fuel Rehearsing For New Recording
NEW YORK (Fuel Official Website) - Fuel hasn't been in the spotlight since touring with Aerosmith almost a year and a half ago, but the band has posted a greeting to fans on its website saying they're getting back on track again. "Just wanted to let you know that we are back in rehearsals!," wrote guitarist/songwriter ...
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R.E.M.'s Next Album Due In 'A Year Or So'
NEW YORK (REM Official Website) - R.E.M. fans might have to wait a wee bit longer than they hoped for the band's next album. The latest update from the group's manager, Bertis Downs, has the disc coming out in "a matter of months (more likely a year or so)." In the post on Tuesday (Oct. 22) on www.remhq.com, ...
| Curt Cobain contemplates aging, selling out, dying in 'Journals'
LOS ANGELES (Nirvana Fans Website) - In between musings on drugs and suicide, Kurt Cobain recorded his fear that he and his groundbreaking grunge band, Nirvana, would become aging rock stars reduced to playing reunion concerts at amusement parks. "Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend," Cobain, ...
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Foos Rock Chicago!
CHICAGO, Ill. (Foo Fighters Fans Website) - The proclamation once belonged to Lou Gehrig, but now Dave Grohl considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Consider for a moment that the exhumed Nirvana track "You Know You're Right" and "All My Life," the Foo Fighters' first single off ...
| Kid Rock's Bus Bust
MIAMI, Florida (Kid Rock Fans Website) - Less than a month before his pending nuptials, Kid Rock's tour bus was pulled over and searched for drugs late Saturday, after a Florida show with Aerosmith. According to the Palm Beach Post, Kid Rock and his band were M.I.A. when the search occurred. Police ...
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Bif Naked's New Album And Tour
VANCOUVER, B.C. (Bif Naked Official Website/NY Post) - Canadian superstar Bif Naked is poised to attack the road again with a new tour in support of her recently released third album, "Purge." The rocker will embark on a headlining tour beginning Nov. 4 in Syracuse, N.Y., that will last through the ...
| System's Stolen Goods
LOS ANGELES (System Of A Dawn Fans Website) - System of a Down is digging deep into its vaults for the pre-holiday release of Steal This Album on American Recordings/Columbia Records. The street date and final track listing aren't ready yet, but fans can expect 12 to 17 tracks that date back to before ...
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