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" ...
| 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 ...
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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, ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| Blink-182 Go Seventies
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Blink-182 has been using a three-day break in the cross-Canada Edgefest tour to send a Vancouver suburb into a Seventies time warp. The popular punks are shooting a video for the song "First Date" (from their new album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket) in Burnaby, B.C., for ...
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Bono Flies Back to Dying Father After Each U2 Gig
LONDON (Reuters) - Bono, lead singer of the Irish rock supergroup U2, is flying back to Dublin every night after the band's concerts to be with his father, who is dying of cancer.At their weekend concert in London, the singer dedicated the song "Kite" from their latest album to his father, Bob Hewson.The ...
| Bruce Springsteen Surprises NJ City!
ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) - Bruce Springsteen gave his greetings to Asbury Park, touting the downtrodden resort town's revitalization efforts during a surprise appearance. The New Jersey native got his musical start at clubs here, and showed up unannounced Saturday at the two-day Clearwater Festival with ...
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Jewel Putting Finishing Touches On New Album
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Jewel has "completed the recording process" for her upcoming fourth album, tentatively titled "This Way" and scheduled for a Nov. 13 via Atlantic. The singer/songwriter is currently in the "final mixing stages" of the project, according to newsletter circulated to fans by ...
| David Usher will be heading back to school in September
Calgary, Canada (Top40 Charts) - The frontman for Canadian rock band Moist is hitting the road to promote his latest solo CD, Morning Orbit, and he'll make a stop at the U of C's MacEwan Hall Ballroom on Friday, Sept. 7. Tickets for the concert go on sale Wednesday at all Ticketmaster locations. In ...
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U2 Manager Confirms North American Return, DVD, TV Special
LOS ANGELES (Top 40 Charts) - U2's manager has gone on the record to confirm that the band will indeed return to North America for more shows in the fall. Speaking to the group's official website, U2.com, Paul McGuinness says the band will wrap up what will be its nine-month-long Elevation tour on this ...
| Sting Invites 200 For Live Album Taping
LOS ANGELES (Top 40 Charts) - Sting has invited 200 lucky friends, family members, and contest winners to a private villa in Tuscany, Italy, for a Sept. 11 concert that will be taped for a live album and filmed for release on DVD. Among the guests will be two winners of a contest sponsored by VH1.com, ...
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David Gray's 'Ladder' Marks One Year On Billboard Chart
NY (Top 40 Charts) - David Gray's breakout album White Ladder celebrates its one-year anniversary since its debut on the Billboard 200 album sales chart with the release of this week's listing. The album, which debuted somewhat quietly at Number 190 in September, 2000 and peaked at Number 35 almost ...
| Coldplay 'snub Stallone request'
London (Top40 Charts) - Award-winning band Coldplay snubbed a request from Hollywood hardman Sylvester Stallone to use one of their tracks in his latest film, according to reports. The Rocky actor approached the British foursome during a meeting in the States. Stallone is said to have asked the band ...
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Fu Manchu Album Is a Go
LA (Top40 Charts) - Southern California rockers Fu Manchu will drop their sixth full-length album, California Crossing, into stores October 23rd. The follow-up to last year's critically praised King of the Road was recorded in Los Angeles this summer with producer Matt Hyde (Porno for Pyros, Monster ...
| No Doubt's Rock Steady Slated For Dec. 18
LA (Top40 Charts) - No Doubt has put a name and date on its forthcoming fifth album. Rock Steady will be released Dec. 18 on Trauma/Interscope Records. The album, which was recorded in Los Angeles, Jamaica, and London, was produced by a bevy of noted producers, such as former Cars singer Ric Ocasek, ...
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Weezer to Redo
NY (Top40 Charts) - In a curious move, Weezer, with strong encouragement from their record company, have decided to shoot a second video for their present single, "Island in the Sun." While the first clip, directed by Marcos Siega (Blink-182, Papa Roach), was a relatively non-conceptual piece (one that ...
| Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros To Hit The Road
NY (Top40 Charts) - Ex-Clash singer-songwriter Joe Strummer has booked a 17-date U.S. tour, starting October 4 in Washington D.C.'s 9:30 Club in support of his new album, Global A Go-Go. The jaunt runs through October 25, closing with a four-night stand at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California. ...
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Ex-Allman Dickey Betts Arrested For Domestic Battery
NY (Top40 Charts) - Singer-guitarist Dickey Betts was arrested on Saturday (August 11) and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery after punching his wife Donna Marie Betts in the face while she was driving on U.S. 41, the highway he made famous in the Allman Brothers Band hit "Ramblin' Man." After ...
| Israel Too Red Hot for Chili Peppers Band
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Red Hot Chili Peppers have canceled a concert in Tel Aviv because of a spate of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel. The Los Angeles-based funk-rockers are the first big-name band known to cancel a concert in the Jewish state since a Palestinian uprising against Israeli ...
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