Phish to cap summer tour with two-day ‘It’ fest
ByMar 24, 2003 11:00 PM
Phish is planning yet another concert-sleepover event. The popular jam band has dubbed its latest creation--which takes place on Aug. 2-3 at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine--"It."
Phish is planning yet another concert-sleepover event. The popular jam band has dubbed its latest creation--which takes place on Aug. 2-3 at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine--"It.”
“It" will be the last date of Phish’s just-announced summer tour, which gets underway on July 7 in Phoenix.
More details about the “It” fest and the tour are available at Phish’s official website.
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Def Jam gets jammed up in fraud-suit verdict
Island-Def Jam Music Group chairman Lyor Cohen likely had a bad weekend after a jury in New York Federal Court on Friday (3/21) found him liable for fraud, copyright infringement and breach of contract in connection with TVT Records’ planned release of a new album from producer Irv Gotti, and the “misuse of other TVT material,” Billboard.com reports.
TVT filed the $30 million lawsuit last October, in which the label claims that Cohen had green-lighted TVT’s plans to release the Gotti-produced album--which features Ja Rule, among others--and then interfered with the album’s release, which was originally set for last November. Gotti and Ja Rule were TVT artists before signing more-recent deals with Def Jam.
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More musicians decry Iraq war
Add R.E.M., Lenny Kravitz and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong to the growing list of major artists who have recorded songs expressing, shall we say, displeasure with the current war in Iraq.
Here’s a rundown of links to downloads of some new anti-war songs we’ve heard about:
Billie Joe Armstrong’s “Life During War (Lyrics by Aaron Elliot and PHGP)
Beastie Boys’ “In a World Gone Mad”
Zach de la Rocha / DJ Shadow’s “March of Death”
Lenny Kravitz’ “We Want Peace”
John Mellencamp’s “To Washington”
R.E.M.’s “The Final Straw
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Not in Our Name? Not in our house.
Venue management at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark forbade the peace organization Not in Our Name from setting up an information table at a March 19 Ani DiFranco concert, according to a posting DiFranco’s official website.
According to DiFranco’s site, the venue also refused to allow NION’s literature and posters to be available at the Righteous Babe label’s merchandising table. DiFranco’s camp said it was the first time in her 12-year touring career that such information wasn’t allowed at one of her shows.
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Duran Duran box set hits stores this summer
“Duran Duran: The Singles Box 81-85” is scheduled for a June 10 release. The set features 13 CD-singles, each housed in “pouchettes, faithfully replicating the original single sleeve artwork designed by the renowned Malcolm Garrett and Pete Farrow,” according to Capitol Records.
Some of the hits represented in the set include “Girls on Film,” “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Rio,” “The Reflex,” “The Wild Boys” and “A View to a Kill.” Each CD single includes multiple versions of its respective track and/or B-sides.