Weezer Enters Studio To Work On Next Album
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Weezer's fourth album, Maladroit, isn't even out yet, but that hasn't stopped the band from looking forward to album No. 5. According to the band's official Web site, Weezer entered the studio on Sunday (March 3) to start recording its next album. The site says, "Two very ...
| Jewel, On The Road Again!
NEW YORK (Jewel official website) - Jewel has made plans for a summer tour -- her first full-fledged road trip since 1999 -- that will kick off June 14 in Tampa, Fla. Accompanying her on the trek will be fellow Atlantic pop act M2M. Confirmed dates run through a mid-July stop in Austin, Texas, with ...
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Limp Bizkit look for guitarist
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Limp Bizkit is taking its time finding a guitarist because it wants to make the follow-up to Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water count. Durst told about finding chemistry and creating music that will not be outdated. "The word 'timeless,' [means] music that you ...
| What Success Means To Alanis
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - This is Alanis Morissette's moment. On February 26th her new album "Under Rug Swept" hits the stores. To celebrate she'll do Letterman, Rosie, The View and Last Call with Carson Daily. Then she hops back over to Canada to cross the country in four days, giving press conferences ...
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Incubus Heads Overseas
NEW YORK (Yahoo) - Incubus's two-week vacation from the stage is officially over--the group heads back out on the road to support its latest album, Morning View, with shows through March 23 in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand beginning today (February 25) in Osaka, Japan. The Los Angeles band will ...
| Goo Goo Dolls Set April 9 For Gutterflower Release
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Goo Goo Dolls' long-awaited next album, Gutterflower, now has a release date. The group's sixth studio album will drop on April 9 on Warner Bros. Records. Gutterflower is the group's first new studio album since 1998's Dizzy ...
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Blink-182, Green Day Unveil Pop Disaster Summer Itinerary
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Blink-182 and Green Day have nailed down the majority of details for what is sure to be one of the more raucous summer outings this year, the Pop Disaster tour they announced last month. The 42-date tour will kick off on April 17 in Bakersfield, Calif., and continue through ...
| BNL In Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Top40 Charts) - Like half the world�s musicians, the Barenaked Ladies performed in Salt Lake City this week. The guys also found times to hang out and take in the atmosphere drummer Tyler Stewart spoke about his feelings over the figure skating controversy which had led to the ...
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Fuel Asks Toyota To Nix Fuel The Music Tour Tag
LOS ANGELES (Fuelweb.com) - Fuel has sent Toyota's headquarters in Torrance, Calif., a request to stop using the name Fuel the Music Tour and Web site address for a tour Toyota is currently sponsoring. Toyota has not yet responded to the request, which was sent on Friday (Feb. 8). If the two parties ...
| Foo Fighters, Prodigy, & Chemical Brothers Fill Out Coachella Lineup
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Foo Fighters, Prodigy, and the Chemical Brothers are just a few of the high-profile acts that have joined the lineup for the 2002 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Filling out the lineup is the usual eclectic mix of rock, hip-hop, and electronica, including Queens ...
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Foo Fighters Get Royal Treatment From Queen's Brian May
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Former Queen guitarist Brian May recorded two tracks with the Foo Fighters recently at Conway Studios in Los Angeles. "Yes, I put a few brush strokes on two tracks for the forthcoming Foos album," May revealed on the Queen website. May elaborated, "One track is very aggressively ...
| Creed's Scott Stapp Announces Deadline For Second Annual Space Camp Project
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - The deadline for Scott Stapp's With Arms Wide Open Foundation scholarship program to send 15 parent-child groups to U.S. Space Camp's Parent-Child Program this summer has been set. May 1 is the deadline for application submissions for the camp, which has been set for July 26-28 ...
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Cobain Song Surfaces
SEATTLE (Top40 Charts) - The Nirvana box set might be put on hold indefinitely, but in January a previously unreleased Kurt Cobain song, called "Divine and Bright," surfaced on an album by Seattle rock band, Earth. Cobain contributed lead vocals on the 1990 recording of the track, which is finally available ...
| Creed's Quest
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Creed have come out with an online game called Creed Quest. Part scavenger hunt, part trivia quiz and part skills test, fans get the chance to win prizes by answering questions about the band. Look for clues to the questions in Creed's songs and album art, and go to creedquest.com ...
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Creed Reschedule Tour Dates
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Creed have been forced to postpone Friday night's tour stop at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, due to the passing of guitarist Mark Tremonti's mother. The chart-topping rockers announced the move late Thursday (January 31), noting that the show ...
| Nickelback Are From Canada!
MONTREAL, Ca. (Canadian Press) - Nickelback pleased their hometown crowd at the sold out Skyreach Centre. �We can play hockey arenas everywhere in this country probably except Toronto. We�re kind of unknown in Toronto,� said Chad Kroeger. �I think a lot of people in Toronto think we�re American you ...
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System Of A Down To Headline Ozzfest 2002
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - System of a Down will be headlining the main stage at this year's Ozzfest. "We're headlining it right before Ozzy," said bassist Shavo Odadjian backstage on the Sydney leg of the Big Day Out festival on Saturday (Jan. 26), which marked the start of the L.A.-based band's world ...
| Strokes' Struggle
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - The Strokes are feeling the pressure to record the follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut album, �Is This It� and as a result, they're suffering from writers' block. The band can't come up with a name for a new track they've written, which currently has two names--"Newie" ...
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Nirvana, Meat Puppet, & Sublime Alums Go 'Space Country' In Seattle
SEATTLE (Top40 Charts) - Just over two years after his last appearance with a band (the one-off No-WTO Combo, which played Seattle in 1999), former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic is back with a brand new outfit, Eyes Adrift. The band, which features Novoselic on bass, the Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood ...
| Hole Not So Whole
NEW YORK (Hole.com) - The message boards at Hole's official web site www.hole.com, are buzzing with rumours that guitarist Eric Erlandson has left the band, which would bring the number of people in Hole down to one? Eric formed Hole in 1989 with Courtney Love, who has since gone on to do just about ...
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