2003

Phish To Donate Proceeds From Live Phish

Phish has announced that effective Jan. 1, the group will donate net proceeds from its personal digital download service, LivePhish.com, to the Mockingbird Foundation. The organization was founded by Phish fans to promote music education for children. According to the band, LivePhish.com has generated more than $2 million in sales of live concert material.
“Playing live music has always been a source of indescribable joy for me, and everyday I count my blessings that I’m able to make my living doing something that I so deeply love,” says Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio. “It’s exciting then to think that a person can come to a Phish concert, and know that all the profits from the subsequent downloads of our music will go directly into children’s music programs. The fact that the Mockingbird Foundation was created by Phish fans makes it all the more inspirational to us.”
Source Billboard.com.

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Dave Matthews and Friends 11/19/2003: Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT

Dave Matthews and some of his friends came to Hartford and gave
everyone an early present for the Holidays – a joyous, energetic sho. Moving from one end of the musical spectrum to the other, Dave and his friends mixed originals effortlessly with covers ranging from Peter Gabriel, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Sly and the Family Stone, Bob Marley and The Band.

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The Who+Bowie Land On Isle of Wight Fest

The Who, David Bowie and Stereophonics are confirmed to headline the 2004 edition of the U.K.’s Isle of Wight Festival. Stereophonics will play June 11, followed by the Who on June 12 and Bowie on June 13. Ticket information can be found on the event’s official Web site.
The Who are no strangers to the Isle, having played a legendary 1970 concert there that was immortalized on the live CD/home video “Live at the Isle of Wight.” It is not known if the group — which now features sole surviving members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey — has further summer gigs on the horizon, but the act will play a previously announced March 29 concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
This will be the third Isle of Wight festival since the event returned in 2002, with a lineup that featured Robert Plant, the Charlatans and Starsailor. This year’s festival was graced by Iggy Pop, Paul Weller and the Darkness, among others.
Source billboard.com.

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Method Man + Redman To Star in Sitcom

Fox is rapping the holidays with an early pickup of a comedy starring Method Man and Redman. Based on an idea by Method Man, the untitled project will star the two rapper/actors as themselves as they move into a big house in a predominantly white New Jersey suburb. The good times are rolling for the twosome, who wreak havoc upon the neighborhood until Method Man’s mom moves in with them and straightens things out.
“It is a very traditional fish-out-of-water story, but Meth and Red really bring a lot of charm and their particular brand of charisma to it and make it very appealing,” Regency TV senior VP if comedy development Erin Simon Berenson said.
Frequent collaborators Method Man and Redman have appeared together in such movies as “How High” and “Scary Movie 3.” The two also are attached to topline an untitled comedy at New Line Cinema described as an urban version of “The Producers” and Miramax’s remake of the South Korean comedy “Jail Breakers.”
Method Man, of Wu-Tang Clan fame, next appears in MGM’s comedy “Soul Plane” and Miramax’s “My Baby’s Mama.”
Source billboard.com.

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10,000 Maniacs To Release New Best Of

Rhino/Elektra is celebrating the career of 10,000 Maniacs with a two-disc set compiling the band’s best songs and a slew of rarities. Slated for Jan. 27 release, “Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings of 10,000 Maniacs,” spends one disc collecting 17 of the band’s best-loved songs, including “These Are Days,” “Trouble Me,” “What’s the Matter Here?” and its cover of “Because the Night.”
The second disc includes previously unreleased demos (“Noah’s Dove,” “Circle Dream,” “Eden”), alternate versions of some songs (“Circle Dream”) and several covers, including the band’s takes on Cat Stevens’ “Peace Train,” Jackson Browne’s “These Days,” Morrissey’s “Everyday is Like Sunday,” David Bowie’s “Starman” and the Carter Family’s “Wildwood Flower.”
The latter disc also features vocalist Natalie Merchant’s duets with ex-Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on Iris DeMent’s “Let the Mystery Be” and R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe on “To Sir With Love.”
“Peace Train” was included on the original pressing of 1987’s “In My Tribe,” but was removed from later pressings after the media reported that Stevens, now known as Yusef Islam, supported Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s February 1989 proclamation that author Salman Rushdie should be put to death for writing his controversial “The Satanic Versus.” Islam later said that he was misquoted, paving the way for the cover’s return.
Merchant supervised the project and designed its packaging. She includes liner notes, as does guitarist John Lombardo, keyboardist Dennis Drew, bassist Steven Gustafson, drummer Jerome Augustyniak and music critic Anthony DeCurtis.
Source billboard.com.

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Al Green: I Can’t Stop

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

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Janes Addiction/Marilyn Manson Tour Axed

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.
Source Pollstar.com.

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Damien Rice – US Tour Announced

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.
Source and dates visti Pollstar.com.
O was recently selected as one of Glide Magazine’s Top 20 albums of the year, for the full list, click here.

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Vedder/Jack Black Earn Golden Globe Noms

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.”

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Morello+Flea Lead Cali Grocery Benefit

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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