Badly Drawn Boy, a.k.a. British singer-songwriter Damon Gough, will tour the eastern U.S. in November. The three-week run begins with two sets at the Iron Horse in Northampton, Mass., on Nov. 1, and continues through Nov. 18 at Dallas’ Gypsy Tea Room. Along the way, Gough and his stripped-down trio will perform in markets including Washington DC, New York, Cleveland, Chicago and Nashville.
Bady Drawn Boy is working on his fourth album in Manchester, England, with co-producer Andy Votel. His most recent disc was 2002’s “Have You Fed The Fish?” which earned a four-star review from Rolling Stone and a feature in Newsweek. His previous albums are 2000’s Mercury Music Prize-winning “The Hour of Bewilderbeast” and 2002’s soundtrack to the Hugh Grant film “About A Boy.”
BADLY DRAWN BOY 2003 U.S. TOUR DATES
November
1 – Northampton MA – Iron Horse Music Hall
2 – Winooski VT – Higher Ground
3 – Rochester NY – Water Street Music Hall
4 – Albany NY – The Egg
6 – Towson MD – Recher Theatre
7 – Washington DC – 9:30 Club
8 – Brooklyn NY – Northsix
9 – New York NY – Bowery Ballroom
11 – Cleveland Heights OH – The Grog Shop
12 – Chicago IL – Park West
13 – Nashville TN – The Belcourt Theatre
14 – Asheville NC – The Orange Peel*
15 – Athens GA – 40 Watt Club*
17 – Austin TX – The Mercury*
18 – Dallas TX – Gypsy Tea Room*
* with Mathew Ryan

When the music annals of 2003 are compiled, topping many lists will be the wildly successful reunion of original founding Stooges members Iggy Pop, and brothers Ron Asheton (guitar and bass) and Scott Asheton (drums). The reunion is celebrated with four newly recorded tracks on SKULL RING, Iggy

A Princeton graduate student said on Monday that he has figured out a way to defeat new software intended to keep music CDs from being copied on a computer — simply by pressing the Shift-key.
In a paper posted on his Web site late Monday, John Halderman said the MediaMax CD3 software developed by SunnComm Technologies Inc. (OTC BB:STEH.OB – news) could be defeated on computers running the Windows operating system by holding down the Shift key, disabling a Windows feature that automatically launches the encryption software on the disc.
Halderman said the protection could also be disabled by stopping the driver the CD installs when it is first inserted into a computer’s drive.
Computers running Linux (news – web sites) and older versions of the Mac operating system are unable to run the software and are able to copy the disc freely, he said.
The CD in question, Anthony Hamilton’s “Comin’ From Where I’m From,” was released by BMG’s Arista label in late September. Music retailers praised the release, which BMG touted as a breakthrough in the industry’s efforts to prevent music piracy.
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Dave Matthews will be touring with Trey Anastasio, Brady Blade, Tony Hall, Ray Paczkowski and Tim Reynolds, with “special guest” Emmylou Harris and her band, Spyboy. It’s not clear if Harris will be opening for Matthews, or playing with him. The twelve-stop tour will take Matthews and company around the country, with dates in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington and California. The date that the tickets go on sale to the general public has not been announced, but the DMB fan association, Warehouse, will have a lottery period running from October 9-October 20.
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A year after the death of founding member Jam Master Jay, rap act Run-D.M.C. will be release on October 28th

The Del McCoury Band won top honors at the 14th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards. The group took home the entertainer of the year award for the eighth time. Band members Mike Bub and Jason Carter won in the instrumental categories for bassist and fiddler of the year.
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“Sixty Six to Timbuktu” a two-CD solo collection from former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant is due out on November 4th. The 35 set traces Plant’s career, starting with his first solo single in 1966 through a live performance this year in Timbuktu. The first disc features material from his first solo albums, while the second disc contains more osbscure material. It’s full of rarities, bonus tracks, his work with pre- Zeppelin groups Listen and the Band of Joy and side projects like “Philadelphia Baby,” recorded under the Crawling Kingsnakes, a one-off that included Dave Edmunds and Phil Collins.
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Ice Cube has landed the starring role in the “XXX” sequel with Van Diesel stepping aside. Director Rob Cohen has also opted out of the sequel to the 2002 action film about an extreme-turned-secret agent, and will be replaced by “Die Another Day” director Lee Tamahori. The film will begin production in the summer and hit theaters in 2005.
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Courtney Love, 39, was found early Thursday outside a Los Angeles home where she had allegedly broken the windows in an attempt to enter, police spokesman Don Cox said. She was arrested and booked for investigation of using illegal drugs, posted $2,500 bail and was released.
Hours later, police and paramedics in Beverly Hills responded to an emergency call and took a woman to a hospital for treatment, according to a story in Friday’s editions of the Los Angeles Times. Law enforcement sources told the newspaper that the woman was Love and that she had overdosed. It was not immediately known what her condition was.
Love was arrested earlier this year in London for allegedly verbally abusing cabin staff on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Los Angeles. She was later released.
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Music mogul and Grammy-winning songwriter Kenneth Gamble has assembled a team to develop a proposal for a museum devoted to rhythm & blues music in Philadelphia. The proposed development would serve both residential and retail needs. A closed African American museum purchased by Gamble several years ago would also likely be part of the facility.
Source Billboard.com.