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Performances by such acts as U2, Neil Young, Green Day, Big & Rich, Trent Reznor and the Red Hot Chili Peppers from last week’s “ReAct Now: Music and Relief” telethon will soon be available as downloads to benefit hurricane relief and rebuilding efforts. A total of 26 songs taken from the live MTV Networks broadcast will be sold for a limited time through various online retailers with proceeds tabbed for the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity.

The Sept. 10 commercial free broadcast was seen across all of MTV Networks’ various channels, including MTV, MTV2, VH1 and CMT in the United States, and in several global markets. Since it aired, the company says more than 1 million streams of content from the telethon have been served online via its broadband networks, MTV Overdrive and VH1 Spot, as well as CMT.com.

Among the selections are U2’s “Love & Peace or Else,” Young’s “Walking In New Orleans,” Green Day’s “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” Reznor’s “Hurt” and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge,” as well as Melissa Etheridge’s “Four Days,” a song written specifically for the “ReAct Now” broadcast.

Most tracks will be available for 60 days, although some will be pulled after 30, according to an MTV Networks spokesperson.

Retailers selling the tracks are CDIGIX, MSN Music, Real Networks, Rhapsody, Sony Connect and MusicNet-powered download stores FYE and Virgin Digital.

The spokesperson says MTV also approached Apple’s iTunes Music Store, but the popular online retailer declined participation as it already has its own Katrina-related fundraising activities in place.

Here are the individual “ReAct Now” downloads available:

“Here By Me,” 3 Doors Down
“Rainy Day in June,” Alan Jackson
“Side of the Road,” Beck
“Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes,” Beck
“I Pray for You,” Big & Rich
“Ghost of a Good Thing,” Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional)
“American Baby,” Dave Matthews Band
“Cadillacs on 22s,” David Banner
“Give a Little Bit,” Goo Goo Dolls
“Wake Me Up When September Ends,” Green Day
“Home,” Mark Broussard
“Don’t Let Me Down,” Maroon 5
“Four Days,” Melissa Etheridge
“Walking In New Orleans,” Neil Young
“Given To Fly,” Pearl Jam
“Under the Bridge,” Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Ever The Same,” Rob Thomas
“Time After Time,” Rob Thomas
“Good as Good,” Sheryl Crow
“Right Here,” Staind
“Stand Back Up,” Sugarland
“Last Getaway,” the Radiators
“Hurt,” Trent Reznor
“Non-Entity,” Trent Reznor
“Love & Peace or Else,” U2
“Home Sweet Home,” Motley Crue

Source billboard.com.

The last two years have been simultaneously glorious and tumultuous for lo-fi indie rockers dios (malos). Following a summer of recording and preparation the band is excited to announce their first ever, nationwide headlining tour. Kicking off October 14th in San Francisco, CA, the tour includes stops in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. They will be touring in support of their highly anticipated self-titled sophomore release, due out October 11th on Star Time International Records.

Moving from the comforts of their home garage-studio, where they recorded their critically acclaimed first album, dios (malos) headed up to Seattle with legendary producer Phil Ek (Shins, Modest Mouse, Built To Spill) to try their hand at making an album in a proper studio. The resulting product retains the pop songwriting and experimental qualities that dios (malos) is known for, yet adds a sense of urgency acquired from spending two stressful years on the road. Moreover, Phil Ek’s knack for the experimental pushed the boundaries even further on songs like “So Do I” and “Tokyo Sunrise”, where psychedelic loops hover over drowsy acoustic guitars and spacey keyboards.

After honing their live sound on the road with bands like Granddaddy, The Shins and The Decemberists, dios (malos) are ready to begin an odyssey of their own. Armed with a new album the upcoming tour is sure to be one of the highlights of the fall touring season.

Confirmed dios (malos) tour dates below:

OCTOBER
14 Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA
15 Dantes Portland, OR
16 Chop Suey Seattle, WA
18 Fat Tuesday’s Spokane, WA
20 Halo Salt Lake City, UT
21 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
22 O’Leavers Omaha, NE
23 Replay Lawrence, KS
24 Maintenance Shop Ames, IA
25 Blue Note St. Louis, MO
27 Varsity Minneapolis, MN
28 Subterranean Chicago, IL
29 Magic Stick Detroit, MI
30 Grog Shop Cleveland, OH

NOVEMBER
1 Club Caf

David Bowie made a surprise appearance with the indie rock sensation Arcade Fire during their concert Thursday night.The 58-year-old Bowie joined the band at the end of their concert in Central Park, and the audience roared at the sight of the rock icon.

In town for New York Fashion Week, Bowie took the stage in a white jacket and pants

“Lennon,” the musical about the life and music of John Lennon that earned dismal reviews, will close just six weeks after it opened on Broadway. Created with the help of the former Beatle’s widow, Yoko Ono, the show had a troubled road to Broadway that involved major rewrites after it was first produced in San Francisco.

Critics slammed it for what The New York Times called its “Ono-centric” view of Lennon’s life, and audiences have dwindled since its Aug. 15 opening night, falling to around 40 percent capacity in recent weeks.

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Tom Waits has filed a lawsuit against a unit of automaker General Motors Corp. and a German advertising agency for allegedly using a soundalike in a series of European ads.

The 55-year-old singer/songwriter, whose distinct, gravelly voice has won him two Grammy Awards, filed the civil lawsuit this week with a state court in Frankfurt, listing Adam Opel AG and the advertising firm McCann Erickson as the defendants.

Andreas Schumacher, Waits’ German lawyer, said the singer was approached numerous times about doing the ads last year but declined, citing a policy of not doing commercials. He said the firm then hired a sound-alike and the ads aired earlier this year in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway.

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Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey return on October 11, 2005 with their brand new studio album, The Sameness of Difference, on HYENA Records.
Helmed by acclaimed record producer, Joel Dorn, the 13-track collection is a living, breathing, pulsating testament to the 12 years the Tulsa/Cincinnati-based trio has spent touring and recording together. It is unquestionably the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey’s piece de resistance–a post modern jazz masterwork.

Exploring their influences, which stretch from cutting edge indie rock to experimental electronic music to classic pop, all the while rooted in an obsession with the modern jazz canon, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey offer interpretations of music by Bjork (“Isobel”), The Flaming Lips (“The Spark That Bled”), Charles Mingus (“Fables of Faubus”), Neil Young (“Don’t Let It Bring You Down”) Brian Wilson (“Wonderful”), Dave Brubeck (“In Your Own Sweet Way”), The Beatles (“Happiness Is A Warm Gun”) and Jimi Hendrix (“Have You Ever Been To Electric Ladyland”). Their own material is also well represented, as original compositions, “Santiago,” “The Maestro,” “Halliburton Breakdown,” “Slow Breath, Silent Mind” and “Davey’s Purple Powerline” are etched in stone for the first time ever in the studio.

As if headlining the 2005 Warped Tour 2005 wasn

Chicago instrumental rock act Tortoise tackles material by some unlikely sources on “The Brave and the Bold,” a collaborative album with indie rock icon Will Oldham. The 10-track set is due early next year via Overcoat Recordings, which recently issued a collaborative EP from Iron & Wine and Calexico.

Among the surprising selections on “The Brave and the Bold” are Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road,” Elton John’s “Daniel” and Richard and Linda Thompson’s “Cavalry Cross.” The album is rounded out by material originally recorded by Devo (“That’s Pep”), the Minutemen (“It’s Expected I’m Gone”), Milton Nascimento, Lungfish, Quixotic, Melanie and Don Williams.

Meanwhile, Tortoise is gearing up for its fall tour backing artist/producer Daniel Lanois, which begins Oct. 6 in Los Angeles. The parties have yet to rehearse together, but McCombs says the “idea is that we can be interpretive, like using his songs as a jumping-off point to do whatever seems natural. Most of the stuff he sent us is really open-ended.”

Tortoise will also test out some new material during its own sets, with an eye on returning to the studio by the end of the year and a hopeful fall 2006 release date for its next Thrill Jockey album. It will be the follow-up to 2004’s “It’s All Around You,” which debuted at No. 13 on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums tally.

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Wilco has set a Nov. 1 release for the Nonesuch concert document “Kicking Television — Live in Chicago.” The double-disc set stitches together 23 tracks from four May performances at the Vic Theatre in the group’s hometown, marking the first official release of live material from Wilco’s latest lineup.

“Kicking Television” focuses on material from the group’s acclaimed 2004 album, “A Ghost Is Born,” including “Company in My Back,” “Muzzle of Bees,” “Spiders (Kidsmoke),” “Handshake Drugs,” “Hell Is Chrome” and “At Least That’s What You Said.”

The Jeff Tweedy-led band also reaches back for such oldies as “Misunderstood” and “Via Chicago,” the “A Ghost Is Born” rarity from which the album takes its name and “One by One” and “Airline to Heaven” from its collaborative albums with Billy Bragg. The set closes with a cover of Charles Wright’s “Comment.”

Wilco has a handful of shows on tap this fall, including a Sunday (Sept. 18) appearance at Farm Aid just outside Chicago and an Oct. 15 support slot in Atlanta with the Rolling Stones.

Here is track list for “Kicking Television”:

Disc one:
“Misunderstood”
“Company in My Back”
“The Late Greats”
“Hell Is Chrome”
“Handshake Drugs”
“I Am Trying To Break Your Heart”
“Shot in the Arm”
“At Least That’s What You Said”
“Wishful Thinking”
“Jesus, Etc.”
“I’m the Man Who Loves You”
“Kicking Television”

Disc two:
“Via Chicago”
“Hummingbird”
“Muzzle of Bees”
“One by One”
“Airline to Heaven”
“Radio Cure”
“Ashes of American Flags”
“Heavy Metal Drummer”
“Poor Places”
“Spiders (Kidsmoke)”
“Comment”

Here are Wilco’s tour dates:

Sept. 18: Tinley Park, Ill. (Farm Aid)
Sept. 21: Columbia, Mo. (Outdoors on 9th St.)
Sept. 22: Tulsa, Okla. (Cain’s Ballroom)
Sept. 24: Austin, Texas (Stubb’s BBQ)
Sept. 25: Austin, Texas (Austin City Limits)
Oct. 13: Indianapolis (Murat Theatre)
Oct. 14: Asheville, N.C. (Thomas Wolfe Auditorium)
Oct. 15: Atlanta (Philips Arena; w/ Rolling Stones)
Oct. 22: Rio de Janeiro (Tim Festival)

Source billboard.com.

Pearl Jam has tacked on an additiona date to its fall North American tour that will serve as a benefit for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The group will play a rare club show Oct. 5 at Chicago’s House of Blues, tickets for which are $1,000 and go on sale Saturday (Sept. 17). All net proceeds will benefit Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross and the Jazz Foundation of America.

According to a spokesperson, it is not yet known if the show will feature additional acts or be available for download from Pearl Jam’s recently launched digital ailable for download from Pearl Jam’s recently launched digital bootleg store.

Meanwhile, the Roots have rounded up Jill Scott, TV On The Radio and Deerhoof for a Friday concert at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center. The artists will be donating their performance fees to the NAACP’s hurricane relief program on behalf of Moveon.org Civic Action’s HurricaneHousing.org.

The show will also feature the TBC Brass Band, whose members were evacuated to Dallas, Atlanta, Houston and Sacramento, Calif., in the wake of Katrina.

As first reported here, the Roots are being pursued by Def Jam president/CEO Jay-Z to be the first signing to his new Def Jam Left imprint.

Also just announced for a Katrina benefit on Sept. 22 at Los Angeles Wiltern LG are Tenacious D, the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Queens Of The Stone Age leader Josh Homme with Jesse “The Devil” Hughes, Fiona Apple and comedians David Cross and Sarah Silverman. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon local time via Ticketmaster.

Source billboard.com.