Green has spent the last two decades focused on a more gospel platforms, preaching to the congregation rather than the clubs. Returning to his roots, Green
Those that had New Years Eve plans to see Jane’s Addiction and Mareilyn Manson at Madison Square Garden might want to make new plans. Rumors started late Wednesday, December 17, that the Jane’s Addiction Marilyn Manson co-headlining tour was going to get the ax. Band representatives at Capitol Records that the tour has indeed been canceled. No reasons were given, although there is speculation that ticket sales were less than enthusiastic. Only a handful of high-profile shows were actually planned however.
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Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice has some good news to give fans in North America: The lauded indie singer is coming back for a spring tour next year. It’ll be his biggest outing in the States to date, both in number of shows and in venue size. Rice has had mainly club runs and graduated up to include some theatre engagements.
His tour launches March 23 in Boulder, runs up the West Coast into Canada, then makes its way across the States to wrap at the end of April in St. Louis.The Irishman just finished a U.S. outing around the start of the month, having been playing a loose schedule since September. Somewhere in there, he managed to pick up the prestigious Shortlist Award for his sleepy debut, O. Around the start of 2004, Rice will be playing the U.K. and Europe.
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O was recently selected as one of Glide Magazine’s Top 20 albums of the year, for the full list, click here.
Songs by Elton John, Sting, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder and U2’s Bono are among those nominated for best original song Golden Globe Awards. Danny Elfman’s score for “Big Fish” and Howard Shore’s work on “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” received nominations for best original score.
Organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes will be handed out Jan. 25 at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Hotel, and broadcast live on NBC at 8 p.m. ET (tape delayed on the West Coast).
In the best original song category, John and Bernie Taupin’s “The Heart of Every Girl,” from “Mona Lisa Smile,” is among the contenders. Also nominated are Shore, Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox’s “Into the West” (from “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”); Pearl Jam’s “Man of the Hour” (from “Big Fish”); Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer’s “Time Enough for Tears” (from “In America”) and the Sting-penned, Alison Krauss-performed “You Will Be My Ain True Love” (from “Cold Mountain”).
Other nominees for best original score include Alexandre Desplat for “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” Gabriel Yared for “Cold Mountain” and Hans Zimmer for “The Last Samurai.”
“Cold Mountain” topped all films with eight nominations overall, including a nod in the best dramatic film category. It will vie for the top prize against “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” “Mystic River” and “Seabiscuit.”
Actor/musician Jack Black will contend for the best performance by an actor in a musical or comedy, for his role in “School of Rock.”
Members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, System Of A Down, Audioslave and Slipknot will take part in a benefit concert for striking Southern California grocery store workers. Tickets for tonight’s (Dec. 18) show at the Roxy Theater in Hollywood went on sale yesterday via Ticketmaster and are completely sold out.
The bill will feature Chili Peppers bassist Flea, System Of A Down leader Serj Tankian, Audioslave (and ex-Rage Against The Machine) members Tom Morello and Brad Wilk, Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Phantom Planet. Comedian/actor Janeane Garafalo will also take part, as well as Boots Riley (the Coup) and Lester Chambers.
Morello and Tankian have a history of activism. The duo formed the non-profit political organization Axis of Justice to energize music fans “around issues of peace, human rights and economic justice,” according to the organization’s Web site
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The Allman Brothers Band will again return to New York’s Beacon Theatre for what has become a nearly annual residency. The 2003 stand comes as the enduring Southern rock act marks its 35th year anniversary. The full list of performance dates is March 18-20, 22-23 and 25-27.
While the Allmans have frequented the uptown New York venue for some 14 years, the band has not played the Beacon every year since 1989. A few years were skipped and in 1995, the band switched to Radio City Music Hall for a six-night stand. The group returned to the Beacon the following year.
Since 1996, the Allmans have played between nine and 18 shows at the Beacon each year. Save for 1994, each gig was in March. In order to give frontman Gregg Allman’s voice a rest, the group usually does no more than three shows without a night off.
Twice the band has documented the fan/band connection that occurs at the Beacon. In 2000, Epic issued the live disc “Peakin’ at the Beacon” and in September the group delivered its “Live at the Beacon Theatre” DVD via Peach/Sanctuary. The latter was culled from two of last year’s 13 nights at the venue.
Slated for a March release in time for the 2004 Beacon stay is a two-disc live set also taken from last year’s residency. The album includes 15 songs also on the DVD, including “Trouble No More,” “Wasted Words” and “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.”
Recently nominated for the best rock instrumental Grammy for “Instrumental Illness” (from the recently released Peach/Sanctuary set “Hittin the Note,” the band’s first studio effort in almost a decade), the group will get its New York stay underway March 16 with a performance on NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.”
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