2003

Metallica will cram into New York’s 500-capacity Bowery Ballroom on Aug. 29 for a show open only to fans who will win tickets from local radio station WXRX (K-Rock). The station will begin distributing tickets Friday (Aug. 22).
As previously reported, Metallica is among the performers set for the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, to be handed out Aug. 28 at Radio City Music Hall. “We’re in town to do the MTV shindig the day before,” drummer Lars Ulrich explained via phone from Dublin. “That’s gonna be so cool. We’re gonna make that floor shake.”
The group plays the U.K.’s Reading and Leeds festivals this weekend and will return to the road beginning Oct. 25 in Buenos Aires. Metallica’s latest Elektra album, “St. Anger,” debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 1.3 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Source Billboard.com.

Galactic has announced plans a lengthy fall tour in support of its new album, Ruckus that is due out October 7. Produced by Dan the Automater, Ruckus is said to push the Galactic sound into a more song oriented approach. The tour includes stops all over the continental U.S. For list of tour dates visit Galactic.com .

Hank Azaria has earned this year’s Primetime Emmy Award for animation voice-over performance for his work on Fox’s “The Simpsons.”
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Monday winners of The 55th annual Primetime Emmy Awards in selected animation categories that are so-called juried awards. Juried awards do not have nominations, and there may be more than one winner in each category judged by members of ATAS’ animation peer group.
Azaria was recognized for his work in the “Moe Baby Blues” episode of the long-running Fox comedy. The win marks Azaria’s fourth career Emmy, following wins in the animation voice-over category for “The Simpsons” in 1998 and 2001.
In 2000, Azaria won the longform supporting actor award for his work opposite Jack Lemmon in ABC’s “Oprah Winfrey Presents: Tuesdays With Morrie.” Azaria also is up for guest actor in a comedy honors this year for his guest shot on NBC’s “Friends.”
Source CNN.com.

Kings of Leon will tour this fall to support their debut album, Youth and Young Manhood. The tour begins September 4th and runs through October 4th in Denver. The band, comprised of the Followill relatives: Nathan, Caleb, Jared, and Matthew are bringing their Southern evangelical sound that has gained critics and fans praises. The band has is wrapping up a spot on this years Lollapalooza tour.
Source and dates, visit Rollingstone.ocm.

The University of Colorado topped the list of party schools in the nation, while Brigham Young University was “stone-cold sober,” according to the Princeton Review’s latest survey.
The “Best 351 Colleges” survey, based on responses from more than 100,000 students at U.S. campuses, ranks colleges in such categories as “most religious students,” “most beautiful campus” and “best campus food.” The review, which has no affiliation with Princeton University, has been conducting the study since 1992.
Despite a six-year effort to curb binge drinking at the University of Colorado, the school ranked third in widespread use of marijuana, fourth in the prevalence of hard liquor consumption and 11th in the prevalence of beer usage, Princeton Review reported in its 2004 findings. CU also ranked first among schools where students study the least.
Other top 10 party schools included the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Indiana University, Bloomington; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia; University of Texas-Austin; The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana; Saint Bonaventure University, Olean, New York; and the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Source CNN.com.

To celebrate the icecream maker’s 25th year, Ben & Jerry’s decided to move their annual One World, One Heart Festival to Bethel Woods, the site of the original 1969 Woodstock. But due to an economic downturn coupled with an unexpected slump in the music industry, this year’s One World One Heart Festival has been cancelled. .Automatic refunds will be provided to everyone who purchased tickets.
Bands on the bill included Tracy Chapman, LeAnn Rimes, Third Eye Blind, Soulive, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, Darius Rucker of Hootie & The Blowfish fame, Terrance Simien, and Recycled Percussion.
Source Benjerry.com.

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Living Colour will release their first album in ten years, CollideOscope, on October 8th. The band consists of Corey Glover on vocals, guitarist Vernon Reid, bassist Doug Whimbash and drummer Will Clahoun.
Following a 1995-2000 hiatus, ColllideOscope ads world beats and electronica to the band

Florida’s 26-year-old Cory Lopez won the prestigious Honda Element U.S. Open of Surfing on Sunday, taking home the first place trophy and $15,000 in prize money. Chelsea Georgeson, a surfer in her second year on the World Championship Tour, won the women’s division. Lopez posted a score of 16.60 in the final round thanks to a fiery start, notching an 8.83 first wave. Australia’s Taj Burrow placed second with a score of 15.17, followed by top-ranked pro surfer and 2002 World Champ Andy Irons of Hawaii.
The nine-day annual event brings out nearly 600 surfers and over 300,000 spectators to the famed Huntington Beach pier. Sponsored by Honda Element and O’Neill, the contest doles out $125,000 in prize money to the men, $30,000 for the women. The victory marks a return to full health for Lopez. Long known for navigating some of the most treacherous breaks in the world, a nagging ankle injury resulted in sub-par performances for Lopez on the 2002 Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour (WCT). The U.S. Open is the first event Lopez has won since his 2001 victory at the WCT Billabong Pro Tahiti and his second tour victory overall.
Source outsideonline.com.

Legacy/Epic Records has set a Oct. 21 release date for a new double-disc live album by the Allman Brothers Band, called “Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival — July 3 & 5, 1970” collects two performances by the then-new group, opening and closing the second annual Atlanta International Pop Festival.
The Allman Brothers Band, hailing from nearby Macon, Ga., had only released its self-titled Capitol debut at the time, and its seminal live album “Live at Fillmore East” was not to be recorded for eight more months. The lineup at the time featured the late Duane Allman on slide guitar, keyboardist Gregg Allman, guitarist Dickey Betts, bassist Berry Oakley, drummers Butch Trucks and J. Johnny Johnson and harmonica player Thom Doucette.
The release features two discs of previously unreleased performances, including takes on “Statesboro Blues,” “One Way Out,” “Dreams,” “Whipping Post” and “Mountain Jam.” Johnny Winter joins in as a special guest on the July 5, 1970, version of the latter.
At the Atlanta shows, the band played a host of material that at the time had not been released, including a number of songs from “Idlewild South,” which would be issued later that year.
Track listing for “Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival — July 3 & 5, 1970”:
Disc one:
“Introduction””Statesboro Blues””Trouble No More””Don’t Keep Me Wonderin'””Dreams””Every Hungry Woman””Hoochie Coochie Man””In Memory of Elizabeth Reed””Whipping Post””Mountain Jam Pt. I””Rain Delay””Mountain Jam Pt. II”
Disc two:
“Introduction””Don’t Keep Me Wonderin'””Statesboro Blues””In Memory of Elizabeth Reed””Stormy Monday””Whipping Post””Mountain Jam”
Source Billboard.com.