Archive: 2003

The lineup for the 12th annual B.B. King Music Festival has been announced, with Jeff Beck will be joining BB King in the headlining spot of the B.B. King Music Festival. The two will also be joined by Galactic and Mofro. The nationwide trek will be the first time the two legendary guitarists have toured together. Although dates are still being finalized, the tour is currently scheduled to kick off on the West Coast July 25, then make its way across the country through September.
Source Pollstar.com.

After two recorded songs, Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland confirmed he will be the singer for the band featuring former Guns N

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Noel Redding, the bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience died Sunday of unknown causes, he was fifty-seven. Redding was recruited by Hendrix

Phish’s live downloads site is expanding its offerings and planning to make available all 10 shows from singer/guitarist Trey Anastasio’s upcoming tour in support of his recently released live album “Plasma” (Elektra). The site is offering pre-orders of each show for $9.95 as MP3 files or $12.95 as Shorten files, with the option to purchase the entire tour for discounted prices of $79.95 and $109.95, respectively.
Phish is also offering a similar package-discount for downloadable shows from its 12-date winter tour. The entire run is available for the price of 10 individual shows.
As previously reported, the group’s next batch of retail releases in its Live Phish series is due May 20. The four shows — 7/15/98 Portland, Ore.; 5/7/94 Dallas; 7/12/91 Keene, N.H.; and 12/29/94 Providence, R.I. — were chosen by bassist Mike Gordon, who employed an exhaustive process of reviewing his notes from more than a thousand possible candidates.
Source billboard.com.

Members of the Wailers will be accompanying Lauryn Hill on a few tracks on her follow-up to the 1998 breakthrough album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Hill has been producing the new record herself and the album is described to be more rock and soul than hip-hop. As or now, there are no official release dates for the record. Source Rollingstone.com.

The script for the long-awaited Tenacious D feature film, “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny,” is about halfway complete. Shooting will hopefully begin by the end of the year for the film, which Lynch says “follows the stages the D had to go through, as well as one of their first character-building quests, to help prepare them to be the greatest band in the world.” Lynch says initial script ideas pitched from writers outside the D camp were “funny,” but failed to capture the comedy rock duo’s hard-luck essence. “Part of what is funny about the D is them being the underdogs and thinking they’re awesome, but you’re in the reality of what they actually are,” he says.
Music will naturally be a major part of the film, the soundtrack for which may double as the follow-up to Tenacious D’s 2001 self-titled Epic debut. “As we’re writing, we’re recording all these little crumbs of song ideas,” Lynch says. “There are obviously several musical scenes and some that are almost like a musical or a video. There are other scenes of them in their apartment working on a tune.”
Source Billboard.com.

Radiohead, the Flaming Lips, Jamiroquai, Diane Schuur, George Benson, Craig Van Morrison and Jethro Tull are among the many acts on display at Switzerland’s 37th annual Montreux Jazz Festival. Set for July 4-19, the event will feature most artists performing in three venues: Auditorium Stravinski, Miles Davis Hall, and Casino Barriere.
For the majority of the performances, each venue will host a musical genre for the evening, such as a rock’n’roll night with the Pretenders and Van Morrison at Auditorium Stravinski on July 19. Other themes include hip-hop with Gang Starr, RJD2, El-P & Murs, and the Streets July 5 at Miles Davis Hall and “Bireli Lagrene: Tribute to Django Reinhardt” with Philip Catherine, Christian Escoude, Didier Lockwood, and Martin Weiss on July 12 at Casino Barriere.
Source Billboard.com.

In the footsteps of Pearl Jam, Ben Harper plans on making a large number of his live performances available to the public. Harper has gone as far to say that practically every live performance may be available. Harper has access to the tapes and they are all categorized and organized in a library so all a fan has to do is write in and request the specific show of their choice. There is no specific date as to when this project will launch, but in the meantime Harper will soon be embarking on a summer tour with Jack Johnson.
Source Rollingstone.com.

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Cave In, the Music, Kings Of Leon, the Distillers, and “Jackass” principal Steve-O have signed on to perform as part of the Lollapalooza tour’s second stage. Other acts include Rooney, the Mooney Suzuki, Burning Brides, Pharoahe Monch, 30 Seconds To Mars, and Bellydance Superstars, as well as a different local opening act in each market. As previously reported, Lollapalooza will be headlined by Jane’s Addiction and kicks off July 3 in Grand Rapids, Mich. Other acts include Audioslave, Jurassic 5, the Donnas, Queens of the Stone Age, and Incubus.
Source Billboard.com.

Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Elvis Costello will be playing a number of North American dates this summer. On most of the dates he has scheduled, which kick off July 2 in Toronto, he’ll backed by his band, the Imposters, although a trio of Canadian dates will find him paired only with keyboardist Steve Nieve, his longtime bandmate. Visit this for a list of venues and dates.

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That new Who album of original material that’s supposedly been in the works might finally see the light of day after all. Pete Townshend was cleared Wednesday of possessing pornographic images of children. But the co-founder of The Who was given a formal police caution and placed on a register of sex offenders for accessing a Web site containing images of child abuse. Townshend was arrested in January on suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children. The arrest was part of Operation Ore, an FBI-led crackdown on Internet child pornography. After a four-month investigation, London’s Metropolitan Police said Wednesday that the 57-year-old rocker “was not in possession of any downloaded child abuse images,” but had accessed a site containing such images in 1999. Source Pollstar.com.

Pearl Jam has wrapped the first leg of its Riot Act tour on Saturday in State College, Pa., with a 36-song, three-hour-and-22-minute show that ranked as the longest concert of its career.
Pearl Jam has also recently begun selling a DVD of its Dec. 6 concert at Seattle’s Showbox club at shows on its current North American tour. for now, the DVD will only be available at shows and, beginning tomorrow (May 7), via the group’s official Web site. Since every show is filmed, additional DVDs are possible, including a comprehensive 2003 tour retrospective.
The Seattle DVD was shot by Liz Burns, Steve Gordon, and Kevin Shuss, the same team of crew members that supplied the bulk of the footage for Pearl Jam’s initial foray into DVD, “Touring Band 2000.” It does not include any bonus features but does offer a rare glimpse of Pearl Jam in a small club setting, performing 10 songs from its 2002 Epic album, “Riot Act.”
As it did on its 2000 tour, Pearl Jam is selling soundboard-sourced CD bootlegs of each 2003 show via its official Web site. Originally, the band had no plans to make any of the CDs available at retail. However, Pearl Jam has selected a Feb. 23 show in Perth, Australia, and a March 3 show in Tokyo to be issued commercially June 10 via Epic, to be followed by two as-yet-undetermined North American shows, one in July and another in August.
Source Billboard.com.

50 Cent, the Doors 21st Century, Korn, P.O.D., and the Roots are among the acts that will perform at the inaugural Coors Light Mountain Jam. Slated for Aug. 30 at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, the event will also feature sets by Evanescence, DMC, American Hi-Fi, Gov’t Mule, Toots and the Maytals, and a DJ set by Groove Armada that will boast live percussion from Patrick Bongo Jesus.
Along with the live music, the event will also include a separate DJ stage, a ski and snowboard demonstration tent, and a chill-out lounge. Coors Brewing Company and Clear Channel Entertainment are presenting the concert.
Source Billboard.com.

Without releasing an album, Particle has managed to earn a huge following throughout the country, providing a powerful source of inspiration and satiation for fans who crave experimental, high energy dance music. It