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 ...
| 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, ...
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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, ...
| 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 ...
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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 ...
| Following Wilkeson's Death, Lynyrd Skynyrd To Continue Tour
LA (AP) - It appears Lynyrd Skynyrd will go on without Leon Wilkeson, the 49-year-old bassist who was found dead at a Florida hotel on Friday. The Southern rockers have postponed more than a week of their summer tour, but will continue without Wilkeson on August 9, the spokesperson for their management ...
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Harrison Joins Capaldi On New Single!
London (AP) - While accounts vary in the U.K. media about the health of George Harrison, the ex-Beatle continues to turn up as a treasured guest on various recordings. Next up is an apperance on guitar on "Anna Julia", the forthcoming single by ex-Traffic member Jim Capaldi. The cut, to be released ...
| U2 enjoying European 'Elevation'
LONDON (Billboard) - U2's single "Elevation" is living up to its name across Europe, vaulting 22-5 in its third week on Music and Media's Eurochart Hot 100 Singles. "Elevation" holds at No.1 in Portugal; moves 3-2 in Spain and 4-3 in Italy; and debuts at No. 1 in Ireland, No. 3 in the U.K. and No. 6 ...
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WATCH BRAND NEW REM VIDEO !!!
New York (Top40-charts.com) - After unveiling the new REM album 'Reveal' and previewing the 'Imitation Of Life' video, Top40-charts brings fans of the Athens trio another succulent exclusive. Check out the full-length video to their new single 'All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)'. Following ...
| Living Colour reunites, kicks off tour
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Seminal guitar rock outfit Living Colour has reunited and begun lining up a handful of U.S. tour dates, kicking off Aug. 1 in Old Bridge, N.J., according to the Black Rock Coalition, a non-profit agency founded by Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid. Living Colour reunited ...
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Gabriel to play acoustic set at WOMAD Fest
(Launch) - Peter Gabriel has announced a special one-off acoustic performance for the WOMAD Festival, which takes place this weekend in Redmond, Wash. Gabriel, already set to play with the Afro-Celt Sound System on Sunday, will do his own set, tentatively scheduled for that evening at 8 p.m. PT and ...
| Bon Jovi ready for 2 wild nights in N.J.
(Launch) - Bon Jovi's One Wild Night 2001 U.S. tour rolls into the band's home state of New Jersey for two sold-out shows at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford this Friday and Saturday. The concerts mark the band's first performances at Giants Stadium since June 1989, when it performed there during its ...
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Neil Diamond has jitters over live TV
SAN FRANCISCO - Neil Diamond's got the jitters. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter is stepping into new territory with his performance Saturday at 9 p.m. ET on "A&E's Live By Request." "That's all I've been thinking about," he said last week from his Los Angeles recording studio. "It's kind of a scary ...
| Bon Jovi keyboardist readies solo album
BOSTON (Boston Globe) - David Bryan has known Jon Bon Jovi since theywere teen-agers. The keyboardist for Bon Jovi's band has released a mostly instrumental solo album, "Lunar Eclipse." It shows his love of "everything from Brahms to the Beatles - I wanted to encompass classical and rock and roll and ...
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Black Crowes set more tour dates
(Launch) - The Black Crowes have announced more than a month's worth of dates in Europe and Japan this summer. The group, which recently finished its North American Tour of Brotherly Love with Oasis and Spacehog, is continuing to play in support of its latest album, "Lions," which was released last ...
| Springsteen's 'American Skin' video online
(Launch) - If you haven't seen the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live In New York concert special in a while, a piece of it is now online. Springsteen has posted the 5:19-long clip for "American Skin (41 Shots)" on his Web site, BruceSpringsteen.net. The performance is taken from the HBO special ...
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The Edge reveals plans for U2
NEW YORK (Billboard) - U2 is planning to tape a show from its Elevation world tour for future broadcast, guitarist The Edge said during a chat on the group's official Web site. The artist said the show will probably be broadcast around Thanksgiving, after which point an accompanying DVD will be released. ...
| Page wins popular vote in Brit guitar poll
(Launch) - Former Led Zeppelin axeman Jimmy Page has been voted the "Prime Minister of Guitarists" by readers of England's Total Guitar magazine. The publication asked music fans around the U.K. to vote for the best guitarist from their region to form a 12-seat assembly. Page won the Greater London ...
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U2 films Boston show; fans miffed by treatment
(Launch) - U2 has gone before the cameras, but some fans are none too happy about it. The band's June 6 show at Boston's FleetCenter - part of which was featured at halftime of the first game of the NBA championship series between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers - was filmed, presumably ...
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