Sunday, July 28, 2002
Sheryl Crow’s road trip stretches through September
Sheryl Crow, who is spending much of her summer on a package tour dubbed the Jeep World Outside Festival, has worked a series of headlining dates into her schedule.
Sheryl Crow, who is spending much of her summer on a package tour dubbed the Jeep World Outside Festival, has worked a series of headlining dates into her schedule.
The World Outside Festival--which also features Train, Ziggy Marley, Silvercrush, O.A.R. and others--wraps up in mid-August. Crow then opens a 20-city headlining tour that runs through September, and follows it with a short tour of Japan in October.
Crow’s fourth album, “C’mon, C’mon,” was released on April 16. Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Lenny Kravitz, Emmylou Harris and Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines are among the guests who contribute to the CD, which is Crow’s first in nearly four years. The album’s initial single, “Soak Up the Sun,” features vocals from Liz Phair.
Street Date July 30: Bruce Springsteen, Filter
Also: Dave Pirner, Def Leppard, Darius Rucker, Beth Orton and more.
Also: Dave Pirner, Def Leppard, Darius Rucker, Beth Orton and more.
_________________________
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - “The Rising” (Columbia)
The first album that Springsteen has recorded with the E Street Band since 1984’s “Born in the U.S.A.” was produced by Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots) and features 14 new songs, as well as the E Street Band’s version of “My City of Ruins.” Springsteen appears on the ”Today” show on Tuesday morning (7/30), and was interviewed by Ted Koppel for Tuesday’s editions of “Nightline” and “UpClose.” Springsteen opens a North American tour in August.
_________________________
Filter - “The Amalgamut” (Reprise)
Three years after releasing their platinum-certified sophomore effort, “Title of Record,” Richard Patrick and company return with their third album. “The Amalgamut” features the single “Where Do We Go From Here?"--one of five tracks streaming at the Reprise Records website. Patrick, once a member of Nine Inch Nails, has, in a note posted on Filter’s website, asked fans to buy the album rather than download its tracks. “Don’t go downloading the shit,” he wrote, “be an upstanding citizen and buy the new CD like the rest of us--I’m trying to make this world better for you, your loved ones and even your pets.”
_________________________
Dave Pirner - “Faces and Names” (Ultimatum Music)
The Soul Asylum frontman wrote and produced his solo debut in his adopted hometown of New Orleans. In a recent statement, Pirner explained that the album was influenced by that city’s rich music scene. “Moving to New Orleans [from Minneapolis in the mid-’90s] and listening to the local players really changed how I think about music,” he said. Pirner recently launched a club tour to support the release.
_________________________
Def Leppard - “X” (Island)
This British rock band’s 10th album--and its first since 1999’s “Euphoria"--was recorded over the last year, primarily in vocalist Joe Elliot’s home studio in Dublin, Ireland. Samples of all 15 tracks on the album are available on the band’s official website.
_________________________
Darius Rucker - “Back to Then” (Sony)
The Hootie & the Blowfish frontman strikes out on his own with this debut solo effort. The album features the track “Wild One,” which is streaming at Rucker’s official website. Rucker is in the midst of a brief promotional club tour that wraps up next week.
_________________________
Beth Orton - “Daybreaker” (Heavenly/Astralwerks)
“Daybreaker" was produced by Victor Van Vugt (who also produced Orton’s first two albums) and the Chemical Brothers. Andy Bradfield (Pet Shop Boys, Spice Girls), William Orbit and Everything but the Girl’s Ben Watt mixed the record, which features guest spots from Ryan Adams, the Chemical Brothers, Johnny Marr and Emmylou Harris.
_________________________
Other new releases:
The American Foxes - “Cotton Candy” (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
Brazil All-Stars - “Rio Strut” (Milestone)
Cattle Decapitation - “To Serve Man” (Metal Blade)
City of Sound - “Beneath the Smooth Surface” (Beyond)
Karen Clark Sheard - “2nd Chance” (Elektra)
The Enemies - “Seize the Day” (Lookout!)
Fear Factory - “Concrete” (Roadrunner)
The Flipsides - “Clever One” (Pink & Black)
Fozzy - “Happenstance” (Megaforce)
Halo Friendlies - “Get Real” (Tooth & Nail)
Johnny Horton - “Johnny Horton Makes History” (S&P)
Pina Kollars - “Quick Look” (Real World)
Linkin Park - “Reanimation” (Warner Bros.)
Michael Manson - “The Bottom Line” (A440)
Kathy Mattea - “Roses” (Narada)
Maysa - “Out of the Blue” (N-Coded)
Graham Nash - “Songs for Survivors” (Artemis)
Greg Osby - “Inner Circle” (Blue Note)
Plankeye - “Wings to Fly” (BEC)
David Poe - “The Late Album” (Epic)
Doug Powell - “The Lost Chord” (Parasol)
James Alan Shelton - “Song for Greta” (Rebel)
Shimmer Kids Underpop Association - “The Natural Riot” (Hidden Agenda)
Sinch - “Sinch” (Roadrunner)
Linda Thompson - “Fashionably Late” (Rounder)
Ralph White - “Trash Fish” (Terminus)
The Wiggles - “Wiggly Safari” (Lyons Group)
The Wildwood Valley Boys - “Back Country Road” (Rebel)
Yes - “In a Word: Yes (1969 - ) [BOX SET]” (Rhino)
Various artists - “Making God Smile: An Artists’ Tribute to the Songs of Beach Boy Brian Wilson” (Silent Planet)
Soundtracks and scores:
“Signs" (Hollywood)
In Brief: Lenny Kravitz, Britney Spears
What’s a day with Metallica worth? Radney Foster returns in September. P.O.D. to expand, re-release “Satellite.”
What’s a day with Metallica worth? Radney Foster returns in September. P.O.D. to expand, re-release “Satellite.”
_________________________
Lenny Kravitz has postponed three concerts--July 27th at Indianapolis’ Verizon Wireless Music Center, July 29th at Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y., and July 30th at Toronto’s Molson Amphitheater--due to “an aggravated vocal condition,” according to his official website. Rescheduled dates haven’t been announced.
_________________________
Britney Spears cut off her set after performing just four songs at a Mexico City concert on Sunday night (7/29), and Spears’ camp didn’t immediately explain why. According to the Mexico City newspaper Milenio, fans chanted “fraud, fraud” when they were asked to leave Foro Sol stadium.
_________________________
The winning bid in an eBay auction of a day in the studio in Metallica was $23,000. All proceeds from the auction will be given to the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research.
_________________________
Radney Foster‘s first album of new material in four years, titled “Another Way to Go,” is set for release by Dualtone Music Group on Sept. 10.
_________________________
P.O.D.‘s “Satellite” album will be re-released on Aug. 27 with three new songs and a bonus DVD.
Thursday, July 25, 2002
John Entwistle on cocaine at time of death
A coroner has determined that John Entwistle, bassist for legendary British rock band The Who, died of a heart attack caused by cocaine use, according to published reports.
A coroner has determined that John Entwistle, bassist for legendary British rock band The Who, died of a heart attack caused by cocaine use, according to published reports.
Clark County coroner Ron Flud told the Associated Press that Entwistle’s heart attack was induced by the “significant amount of cocaine” that was in his system. Flud has ruled the death accidental, and said that it was not an overdose.
Entwistle was found dead in his room at Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on June 27, the day before The Who was scheduled to kick off a U.S. tour. Surviving band-founders Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey went forward with the outing after canceling the tour’s first two dates, and are currently on the road.
Townshend and Daltrey are the band’s only surviving original members. Founding drummer Keith Moon died of a drug overdose in 1976.
Elvis Costello unveils new round of U.S. theater dates
Elvis Costello, who has spent much of the year on the road behind his April release, “When I Was Cruel,” will embark on his second round of U.S. theater dates in late September.
Elvis Costello, who has spent much of the year on the road behind his April release, “When I Was Cruel,” will embark on his second round of U.S. theater dates in late September.
The native of Liverpool, England, toured the U.S. in May and June, and followed that with an extensive series of European dates. His new round of U.S. dates run into November.
The songs on “When I Was Cruel,” Costello’s 17th studio album, were written “with a Silvertone electric guitar, a 15–watt amplifier and a kid’s beatbox with big orange buttons,” Costello said in his record company biography. It is his first solo studio album since 1996’s “All This Useless Beauty.” Since then, he released 1998’s “Painted from Memory,” a collaboration with Burt Bacharach; and 2001’s “For the Stars,” on which he teamed with singer Anne Sofie von Otter.
“I’ve been singing so many ballads with other people recently that I was in the mood again for a rowdy rhythm record,” Costello said.
Costello--along with The Police, The Clash, Iggy Pop and Cheap Trick--will be eligible for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, according to Costello’s Island Records website. To become eligible, an artist must have first recorded 25 years ago; Costello’s debut, “My Aim is True,” was released in 1977.
Ozzy breaks from festival to be with sick wife
After performing at this weekend’s Ozzfest stops, tour namesake and headliner Ozzy Osbourne plans to take a lengthy break from the outing to be with wife Sharon as she begins chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer.
After performing at this weekend’s Ozzfest stops, tour namesake and headliner Ozzy Osbourne plans to take a lengthy break from the outing to be with wife Sharon as she begins chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer.
Ozzfest touches down in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday (7/26) and Atlanta on Sunday (7/28). Ozzy is scheduled to be off the tour from Aug. 3 through Aug. 20, and hopes to return to the roster on Aug. 22, according to his publicist.
“This has been one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make and I’m hoping that my fans will understand,” Ozzy said in a press release. “Ozzfest must continue with or without me since it’s Sharon’s baby. I want to thank all the bands on Ozzfest and my crew for all their love and support, especially System of a Down.”
In Ozzy’s absence, System of a Down will move into the tour’s headlining slot. The main-stage lineup also includes Rob Zombie, P.O.D., Drowning Pool, Adema and Ozzy Osbourne-guitarist Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society.
On the dates that Ozzy is not performing, Sharon--who manages Ozzy’s career and organizes Ozzfest--has arranged for all fans attending Ozzfest 2002 to receive “a free special treat from the food concessions at each show,” according to the press release.
Earlier this month, the Osbournes announced that Sharon had been diagnosed with colon cancer, and that Ozzfest’s first two dates were being postponed so that she could undergo surgery. Last week, the Osbournes revealed that her cancer had spread, and that she would begin chemotherapy treatment on Monday (7/29).
KISS finds it hard to say farewell
KISS, a band that announced its farewell tour in early 2000 but never got around to announcing a final show, is apparently reconsidering its retirement from the stage.
KISS, a band that announced its farewell tour in early 2000 but never got around to announcing a final show, is apparently reconsidering its retirement from the stage.
“People do change their minds and in this case that goes along with being a living, thinking person,” guitarist Paul Stanley wrote this week in the “Paul Speaks” section of the band’s official website. “What one says one day with total commitment may at another time turn out not to be so.
“Am I doing this for the money or the fans? BOTH, and let’s not forget I’m doing this for me. That is the reason I originally started playing: because I wanted to, and only I can decide ultimately when to stop. As you know (assuming that you have a job) it is great to have both the appreciation of those around you and to be compensated financially. Don’t you agree?”
The band opened its farewell tour with much fanfare in March of 2000, billing it as the final opportunity for fans to see Gene Simmons, Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss together onstage. The group grossed nearly $63 million from 128 shows in North America that year, according to Pollstar.
Though the band’s lineup remained intact through early 2000, drummer Peter Criss was ousted from the group when contract negotiations broke down prior to the group’s 2001 tour of Japan and Australia. Eric Singer, the group’s pre-reunion drummer, has since been performing wearing Criss’ signature makeup and costume.
Frehley also left the fold earlier this year, and has since been replaced at some of the band’s one-off appearances by guitarist Tommy Thayer, who has donned Frehley’s signature makeup and costume.
Rumors have been circulating that KISS will tour this winter in support of the forthcoming hits set “The Very Best of KISS,” scheduled for release on Aug. 27. No dates have been confirmed.
“The Very Best of Kiss” features 21 previously released tracks, covering the period from the band’s self-titled 1974 debut to 1992’s “Revenge.
The full track listing, according to Kiss Online:
“Strutter"
“Deuce"
“Got to Choose”
“Hotter Than Hell”
“C’mon and Love Me”
“Rock and Roll All Nite” (Live)
“Detroit Rock City”
“Shout It Out Loud”
“Beth"
“I Want You”
“Calling Dr. Love”
“Hard Luck Woman”
“I Stole Your Love”
“Christine Sixteen”
“Love Gun”
“New York Groove”
“I Was Made For Loving You”
“I Love It Loud”
“Lick It Up”
“Forever"
“God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You II”
Wednesday, July 24, 2002
Enrique Iglesias sets September album release, tour launch
Enrique Iglesias, whose 2001 album “Escape” remains a top-50 seller in the U.S., launches a North American tour and releases a Spanish-language album in September.
Enrique Iglesias, whose 2001 album “Escape” remains a top-50 seller in the U.S., launches a North American tour and releases a Spanish-language album in September.
The forthcoming, as-yet-untitled album--his first all-Spanish-language album since 1998--is scheduled for release on Sept. 17. The first single is described by his publicist as “a romantic bolero” titled “Mentiroso” ("Liar"), which has already been shipped to radio.
“The power of music in Spanish is so strong that I couldn’t stay away from it any longer,” Iglesias said in a press release. “The language and imagery is less direct, the melodies and rhythms are intricate; it has been great to record an entire record in Spanish again.”
The new album was produced by Iglesias with longtime collaborators Lester Mendez and Rafael Peréz Botija. Iglesias wrote or co-wrote every track on the album but one.
Iglesias released his self-titled, English-language debut in 1999. That album was certified double platinum in the United States, and sold more than six million albums worldwide, according to his publicist. His 2001 follow-up, “Escape,” is certified triple platinum in the U.S., and has sold seven million copies worldwide--largely on the strength of the hit single “Hero.”
Elton John goes solo before reuniting with Billy Joel
Before resuming his postponed tour with Billy Joel this fall, Elton John plays a handful headlining shows in the U.S. and Canada.
Before resuming his postponed tour with Billy Joel this fall, Elton John plays a handful headlining shows in the U.S. and Canada.
John’s solo dates kick off in late August and run right up until Sept. 12, the night before he and Joel start up a round of Face to Face co-headlining shows that were postponed earlier this year when Joel fell ill.
“Songs from the West Coast,” John’s latest album, hit stores last October and spawned the hit singles “I Want Love” and “This Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore.” The latter track’s companion music video--which features ‘NSync member Justin Timberlake portraying a young John--recently received nominations in the MTV Music Video Awards categories for Best Male Video, Best Direction and Best Art Direction.
“One Night Only,” a DVD that features footage culled from John’s October 2000 two-night stand at New York’s Madison Square Garden, has just been certified platinum for shipping 100,000 copies in the U.S., according to John’s official website.
Ticket Window: Paul McCartney, Elton John
This week’s major new on-sales also include tickets for Aerosmith, Alan Jackson, Brian Wilson, Creed, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith and Tool.
This week’s major new on-sales also include tickets for Aerosmith, Alan Jackson, Brian Wilson, Creed, Elvis Costello, Toby Keith and Tool.
_________________________
Aerosmith
Read about the tour
_________________________
Alan Jackson
Read about the tour
_________________________
Brian Wilson
Read about the tour
_________________________
Creed
Read about the tour
_________________________
Elvis Costello
_________________________
Elton John
Read about the tour
_________________________
Paul McCartney
Read about the tour
_________________________
Toby Keith
Read about the tour
_________________________
Tool
Read about the tour
_________________________
All ticket on-sale times and concert dates are subject to change without notice. Confirm with your local venue and/or ticket seller.
SoundSpike’s Ticket Window feature is updated each Thursday evening.