Insane Clown Posse will launched a massive, fifty-date tour tomorrow in Clive, Iowa . . . The Music will open for Coldplay on a thirteen-date string of performances starting February 24th in Ottawa . . . Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa will perform at a February 20th benefit concert in Boston to aid Double Take magazine . . . Beth Orton will make a guest appearance on the WB hit series Charmed, performing her single "Thinking About Tomorrow," on February 9th . . . Gov't Mule have lined up ten performances starting February 11th in South Bend, Indiana . . . Hootie and the Blowfish will release their new, self-titled album on March 4th. The Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers and actor Woody Harrelson make guest appearances . . .
Staind frontman Aaron Lewis has signed Lo-Pro, the first band on his new imprint on Geffen Records . . . Vanessa Carlton will portray Dusty Springfield in the February 9th episode of NBC's American Dreams. India.Arie, Art Garfunkel and Leann Rimes will also make appearances this season . . . George Thorogood, Al Green, the Gin Blossoms, Carly Simon and others will be featured on the soundtrack to How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, due February 28th . . . Nate Dogg's self-titled album is now due February 25th. Snoop Dogg, Redman, Xzibit, Fabolous and DJ Quick guest . . .
Flashlight will begin a ten-date tour on January 28th in Iowa City . . . Neo-hardcore band E. Town Concrete will release their new album, The Renaissance, on April 15th . . . TNT will air the world premieres of the video for Bob Dylan's "Cross the Green Mountain," and Mary Fahl's "Going Home," both of which are featured in the Gods and Generals soundtrack, during their Civil War Marathon on January 26th . . . Usher, Angie Stone, D'Angelo and Alicia Keys are featured on Absolute, the latest installment of the Time-Life Music compilation series "Body and Soul," due out January 28th . . .
Jennifer Lopez's divorce from her second husband, dancer Chris Judd, will be finalized this Sunday. Lopez and actor Ben Affleck announced their engagement last November . . . The Jayhawks have cancelled their January/February tour after frontman Gary Louris was hospitalized this morning for pericarditis, an infection of the heart. Louris is expected to make a full recovery and be discharged within a week . . . Tracks from Ryan Adams, Weezer, the Flaming Lips, Lifehouse, Five for Fighting, Sixpence None the Richer, Phantom Planet and others will be included on the soundtrack to the WB television hit Smallville, due February 25th . . . The Cranberries have parted ways with MCA Records after twelve years. The group is writing material for a new studio album due later this year . . .
Saliva will headline the thirty-date Jagermeister Music Tour, set to launch March 6th in Philadelphia; Stereomud, (Hed) PE, Breaking Benjamin and Systematic will also perform on the tour . . . David Bowie's legendary 1973 concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London will be released as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, a DVD and double-CD set, on April 1st . . . Bon Jovi, who opened the NFL season with a free show in New York City's Time's Square, will wrap up Super Bowl festivities with a post-game performance . . . Rancid are working on their sixth studio album and first in three years, due in June. Bad Religion founding member Brett Gurewitz is producing . . .
The Dixie Chicks have added seven songs to their An Evening With the Dixie Chicks television special for a new DVD due February 4th . . . The Blue Man Group will release their first rock & roll record, The Complex, on April 22nd; Dave Matthews, Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Tracy Bonham, Josh Haden and others will guest . . . Willie Nelson will present the Veteran of the Year Award to army vet Kris Kristofferson at the eighth annual American Veteran Awards on February 9th in Beverly Hills, California . . . Adidas' Jam Master Jay Ultra Star tribute sneaker arrives in Adidas stores in New York, California and Tokyo today . . .
Bonnie Raitt will perform during the Super Bowl XXXVII pre-game show on January 26th in San Diego . . . Angie Martinez and Dru Hill's Nokio are expecting their first child this spring . . . Blink-182 will install a twenty-four-hour Webcam in the studio as they record the follow-up to 2001's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, due this summer . . . Russell Simmons is organizing the inaugural Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival, to take place April 12th in Atlanta . . . Thievery Corporation, Milemarker, 1905, David Rovics, the Whips, 302 Acid, Jungle Jessi and Funk DC will perform at a protest rally (sponsored by the Shirts Off Coalition) outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 28th, while President Bush delivers his State of the Union address . . .
Madonna will appear in an episode of Will and Grace in May . . . Seventies rock survivors Aerosmith and Kiss are plotting a three-month joint tour starting in August . . . The Donnas, Tortoise, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Smog and Camper Van Beethoven will perform at the eleventh annual Noise Pop Festival, set for February 25th through March 2nd in San Francisco . . . Eve will headline a pre-Super Bowl concert on January 24th in San Diego . . . Bob Dylan received a W.C. Handy Blues Award for Song of the Year for "Stepchild," which Solomon Burke recorded on his album, Don't Give Up on Me; the Handy Awards are set for May 22nd in Memphis . . . Fabolous was arrested a second time last week after police found guns in a car carrying the rapper; he was charged with criminal possession of a weapon . . .
Chuck D, Ani Difranco, Michael Franti and Spearhead and Ozomatli will perform at the Not in Our Name anti-war concert in Berkeley, California on January 31st . . . The Dismemberment Plan announced that they will break up after a May tour . . . Songs by Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion and others will be included on Punkarama Volume 1, a new DVD due February 25th . . . The Kronos Quartet will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary with the world premiere of its multimedia concert, "Visual Music," in Los Angeles on February 15th . . . Former Helloween frontman Michael Kiske will unveil his new band, Supared, on February 25th with the release of their self-titled debut . . .
(January 24, 2003)
