TOUR TRAGEDY
Britain’s New Musical Express Website reporting that Southern California rock band Alien Ant Farm was involved in a bus crash in Spain early Wednesday morning while en route to Lisbon, Portugal, for a show. The bus driver was said to have died in the crash, while frontman Dryden Mitchell and bassist Tye Zamora were taken to the hospital. Those injuries were reportedly not life-threatening.
Good Luck!
Island Records is giving away a trip for two to see Elvis Costello in Europe this summer. Fans can enter the contest via Doll Revolution, a site named after the song “Tear Off Your Own Head (It’s a Doll Revolution),” the first single from Costello’s latest album, “When I Was Cruel.”
The grand prize winner and a guest will be flown to Europe and will enjoy deluxe accommodations and tickets to see Costello perform on a yet-to-be-determined date. A quintet of second prize winners will each win an electric guitar signed by the artist. Deadline for entry via the site is June 30.
Costello is in the midst of a North American tour, which tonight (May 21) touches down at the Historic Mountain Winery in Saratoga, Calif. He’ll be on the road stateside through a June 24 show in Atlanta, which will be followed by a six-date Japanese tour, and a quick visit to Australia.
So far, a July 22 gig in Liverpool, England, is Costello’s only confirmed European date. He’s expected back in the U.S. on Aug. 30 to perform a free concert as part of NBC’s “Today” concert series in New York’s Rockefeller Center.
Are They Still Relevant?
R.E.M. has posted a free remix CD online.
Today’s New Music Releases
Wow, I just took a look at the list of today’s new CD releases. Man, there isn’t one thing that I would buy. Heck, or even download for that matter.
But that’s me. Perhaps you will want to pick up all of them. Whatever you choose to do, enjoy! And Go Leafs, Go!
Here are the new CD releases for Tuesday, May 21, 2002:
* 3RD STRIKE Lost Angel (Hollywood)
* BREEDERS Title TK (Beggars Group)
* BUFFALO TOM Besides (Beggars Group)
* CHARLATANS UK Songs From The Other Side (Beggars Group)
* DOT ALLISON We Are Science (Mantra)
* DREAM WARRIORS The Legacy Continues (ISBA)
* JIMI HENDRIX Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show (Experience Hendrix/MCA)
* MARC ANTHONY Mended (Columbia)
* PHIL LESH & FRIENDS There And Back Again (Lapis Music/Columbia)
* RAPHAEL SAADIQ Instant Vintage (Universal)
* SHEILA NICHOLLS Wake (Hollywood)
* SOUL HOOLIGAN TBA (Soul Hooligan) (Warner)
* ULTIMATE X OST Ultimate X (Hollywood)
* VAN MORRISON Down The Road (Polydor)
It’s About Time!
Bryan Adams gets back on the horse.
SHOW OPENING EARLY
Interscope Records announced late on Friday that Eminem’s new album, “The Eminem Show,” will be in stores May 28–a week earlier than expected. Label reps say the move was made after the album was leaked on the Internet.
FAMILY ALBUM
Kelly Osbourne, the 17-year-old daughter in the Osbourne clan, recording Madonna’s 1986 hit “Papa Don’t Preach” for an album collection of the family’s favorite tunes to be released June 11 by Epic Records. The album will also include former Osbourne neighbor Pat Boone’s version of Ozzy’s “Crazy Train.”
Can I Get A Confirmation For July 16th?
A new reports says that Bruce Springsteen has previewed his new CD.
Please email me any copies you have!
LETS MAKE THIS “WEEZER WEDNESDAY!!!”
After a dispute with Geffen/Interscope over the release of its next album, Weezer has returned with its awesome fourth studio set, “Maladroit.” Earlier this year, the group enraged the label when it made a number of the “Maladroit” songs available online and personally sent radio stations and publications an eight-track “preview” disc. Several tracks garnered immediate airplay, particularly “Dope Nose,” which is No. 9 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart.
That aside, “Maladroit” injects a bit more variety into the irresistibly catchy, pop/punk style of last year’s self-titled “Green” album, which has sold more than 1.3 million copies in the U.S., according to SoundScan. Cuomo says he’s fallen deep into the songwriting zone, doubting himself less and trusting the muse more often. As a result, he’s no longer afraid to wear his love for ’80s metal (heard on tracks such as “Fall Together”) on his sleeve. Guitarist Brian Bell says, “Rivers has just unleashed the shredding beast in himself.”
“It’s been there all along, and I’ve had to consciously repress it on our first three records,” Cuomo says with a laugh. “I had to force myself not to bust out with Scorpions riffs. And, at this point in my life, I really don’t want to force anything anymore. I just wanna let it all hang out. So, on [“Maladroit”], it all just came pouring out.” The band is on tour in Japan through late May but is expected to hit North America this summer.
One Word: Weezer!
Below is a list of the 13 new CD’s that are hitting stores today. And even though there is a new CD from RUSH on the list, the latest from 80’s stalwarts A- HA, and a soundtrack CD to the awesome TV show “Scrubs,” they are all made irrelevant by the last one.
So look at the whole list if you will, but take the time to pick up the one that rounds it all out. It is an incredible 35 minute collection of music.
The new CD releases for Tuesday May 14, 2002, are
* 98 DEGREES The Collection (Universal)
* A HA Lifelines (Warner International)
* BLINK-182 The Urethra Chronicles 2 (MCA)
* BROTHERS CREEGGAN Sleepyhead (Page)
* COAL CHAMBER Dark Days (Roadrunner)
* DOVES The Last Broadcast (Astralwerks/Virgin)
* EMERSON DRIVE Emerson Drive (Dreamworks Nashville)
* JOEE Joee (UMC)
* MOBY 18 (V2)
* P. DIDDY P. Diddy And Bad Boy Presents … Hot Shit, Vol. 1 (Arista)
* RUSH Vapor Trails (Anthem)
* SCRUBS OST Scrubs (Hollywood)
* WEEZER Maladroit (Geffen)
Ahhh…