2003

Lucinda Williams has added a number of shows following her tour with Neil Young for this fall. The Grammy winner will be touring in support of her latest release, ” A World Without Tears.” the tour beings September 9th in San Diego and wraps up October 19th in Minneapolis and includes two nights at the Beacon Theater in New York and two nights at the 9:30 club in Washington D.C.
For a list of tour dates, check Pollstar.com.

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a big ticket give-away to its annual One World One Heart Festival. The music fest is taking over the historic site of the original Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., for two days, August 23-24. Artists on the bill include Tracy Chapman and LeAnn Rimes, who are headlining, as well as Third Eye Blind, Soulive, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, Darius Rucker of Hootie & The Blowfish fame, Terrance Simien, and Recycled Percussion.
Source Pollstar.com.

Phil Spector’s million-dollar bail has been extended through the end of next month, as investigators work to build a case against the legendary record producer. In February, B-movie actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his L.A.-area mansion from a gunshot wound.
Spector, famous for his “Wall Of Sound” production in the ’60s for acts like the Ronettes and the Crystals, was arrested on suspicion of murder on February 3, though formal charges have yet to be filed. The Los Angeles sheriff’s department is still waiting for reports from its crime lab.
Since his arrest, Spector has claimed he is innocent and told Esquire magazine he believed Clarkson shot herself in an act of suicide, though investigators ruled that out in March, declaring that a criminal act had been committed.
Source launch.com.

James Brown, Carol Burnett, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols and Itzhak Perlman have been chosen for the 26th annual Kennedy Center Honors.
James A. Johnson, chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, said Tuesday that all five are being honored “for the unique and extremely valuable contributions they have made to the cultural life of our nation.”
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush will hold a White House reception for the honorees on December 7, followed by a gala performance at the Kennedy Center Opera House. Stars from around the world take part in the performance, but the five winners traditionally remain in the audience.
The show will reopen the Opera House, which has been closed for refurbishing since last fall.
Source cnn.com.

Louisville outfit My Morning Jacket have announced tour plans taking them through late October. They’ll follow a couple Japanese festival dates with some late-August U.K. and Ireland shows before kicking off their North American tour in earnest.
The Stateside itinerary sees them on the road from September 5 to October 24, beginning and ending in Philadelphia. Several double dates are scheduled, in New York, Louisville, Los Angeles and Austin.This is actually the second Stateside tour for the Jacket this year – the tireless band did a five-week spring jaunt in April and May, in addition to some summer festival dates.
The increasingly high-profile group signed with Dave Matthews’ ATO Records last fall, and will release their new full-length, It Still Moves, September 9.
For full list of dates, visit Pollstar.com.

Stand-up comedians and Comedy Central stars Lewis Black and Dave Attell are co-headlining a big tour set to launch September 10 in Dallas. “Comedy Central Live Starring Lewis Black and Dave Attell” finds the two funnymen taking their special brand of comedy to theatres across the States for the rest of the year.
Black and Attell will alternate the order of their performances and a special guest will perform as the opening act. Along with hosting Pollstar’s Concert Industry Awards earlier this year, Black is featured every Wednesday on Comedy Central’s hugely popular mock newscast “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.”
Attell is the star of the network’s “Insomniac With Dave Attell,” which features weird late-night goings-on and the people who partake of them. Meanwhile, both guys have a few shows of their own. Black has a two-night run in Atlantic City and four shows at The Improv in Southern California, while Attell’s schedule includes three-night runs in Tampa and Raleigh, N.C.

An upholstery shop turned rock ‘n’ roll recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, became a National Historic Landmark Thursday, one day after the death of the studio’s founder, Sam Phillips.
The building was the birthplace of Sun Records, one of the most famous recording labels in music history, linked to names such as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
It is the first recording studio to be granted National Historic Landmark status.
Source cnn.com.

Former Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has been charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly attacking a prostitute at a brothel last month, a prosecutor said. Neil, 42, allegedly grabbed prostitute Andrea Terry by the throat on July 10 and threw her against a wall at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch just east of Carson City, according to the criminal complaint. If convicted, the rocker could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. No date has been set yet for Neil’s initial appearance in Dayton Justice Court.
Neil’s lawyer, Robert Shapiro of Los Angeles, did not immediately return a phone call to his office Saturday.
Brothel owner Dennis Hof was out of town and also did not return a call.
But Hof had told the New York Daily News that Neil and Terry got into an argument because he didn’t want to have sex with her.
Neil stopped by the legal brothel after a July 9 concert in Reno with the fellow 1980s metal bands Poison and Skid Row.
In April, Neil entered a no contest plea to misdemeanor battery in an assault involving record producer Michael Shuman outside a West Hollywood, California, nightclub last year.
In that case, a Superior Court judge ordered Neil to complete 100 hours of community service and pay restitution.
Sourcecnn.com.

After substantial number crunching and considerable deliberation, it is with tremendous disappointment that Terrapin is forced to announce the cancellation of this summer

Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was given 10 months in prison Thursday after a parole board found that he struck a Hollywood nightclub valet.
Knight, who has been jailed since June 27, faced a maximum sentence of a year in prison for the parole violation. He has been credited for time spent behind bars, said Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the Board of Prison Terms.
The parole board heard compelling testimony during a closed hearing from the arresting officer and a witness before making its decision, Sessa said.
Mehdi Lazrak, 25, the alleged victim, said outside the hearing that Knight never struck him.
“I never said I was hit by him,” Lazrak said. “I don’t know how police got that idea.”
Lazrak said he was hit from behind on the back of the head. Authorities believe Lazrak didn’t see who hit him, Sessa said.
Knight, 37, was instrumental in driving gangsta rap into the mainstream in the 1990s while heading Death Row Records. He fielded a stable of rappers that included Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and the late Tupac Shakur.
Knight was paroled from prison in 2001, but served 61 days behind bars earlier this year for associating with a known gang member in violation of his parole.
Source cnn.com.