2003

In the form of last year

Scott Weiland, lead singer for the Stone Temple Pilots , is now the official new lead singer for the new band comprised of ex Guns N Roses members: Slash, Duff McKagen, and Matt Sorum. The band is called

Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers will embark on an acoustic tour of the West Coast. The run launches July 1 in San Diego and wraps up around July 27th in Boulder, CO. Joining the band on this tour is their on again-off again drummer Matt Chambelain. Wallflowers fan club members will have access to pre-sale ticket information. For dates and more information, visit the band’s site..

Grammy Award winning artist Norah Jones says she has recorded 11 songs for her next album and hopes to release it next year. She describes the music as more up-tempo and funky — but still very much Norah Jones.
“When we were making it we were like, `Wow, this is a way different record! This is like a funky record!’ And then we listened to it again, and we’re like, wow it’s still a snoozer,” she says, laughing. “I’m just a mellow chick. I can’t help it.”
Source Billboard.com.

A day after the town board tabled a vote on a key permit, Riverhead Town Supervisor Robert Kozakiewicz announced this morning that a two-day rock concert scheduled for this weekend in Calverton would not happen.
Christopher Kent, a lawyer for the for the Field Day Festival promoters, said they are now seeking a new location in the New York City metropolitan area for the concert, which they will announce by the end of the day. He said refunds will be given to ticket-holders who request them.
Stating that at a new venue the concert which was to feature headline acts such as the Beastie Boys, Radiohead, and Beck, would be a “different type of event,” Kent said that the Meadowlands Sports Complex in New Jersey was one site under consideration. He added that there will be no camping at the concert’s new location.
The Field Day concert was to occur at the former Grumman property, on 2,900 acres of town-owned land that has been targeted for economic development. The town had hoped the rock festival — and another scheduled for August — would put Riverhead on the map and lure future clients to the site.
Ashley Capps, one of the promoters of Bonnaroo NE, the August festival — slated to last three days and feature acts including Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and The Dead — said he was keeping an eye on the Field Day developments but wasn’t concerned about the impact it would have on his own event. “We’ve been going through our own process in our own way, and we feel like we’ve been working very hard to dot the i’s and cross the t’s,” he said. “These are two very separate events.”
Source Newsday.com.

The Field Day Music Festival has been reconfirmed as a one-day event this Saturday, June 7 at Giants Stadium.
All tickets purchased for the Calverton festival will be automatically refunded to the credit card on which they were purchased, and will not be honored at Giants Stadium.
for new ticket details, please see:http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/866575.

Pearl Jam is putting together more than fifty rare and previously unissued tracks from their vaults for a retrospective album tentatively for release this year. Pearl Jam

Led Zeppelin scored its first No. 1 album since 1979’s “In Through the Out Door” this week with the three-CD live set “How the West Was Won.” The Atlantic collection sold 154,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, and debuts on top of The Billboard 200. It was released simultaneously with the “Led Zeppelin DVD,” which set a record for highest debut-week and highest single-week sales for a music DVD. No word yet on whether Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham, son of the late John Bonham will reunite for some well-needed live shows.
Source Billboard.com.

In the footsteps of Live Phish, The Dead will be printing and selling CDs of all the live shows from its upcoming Summer Getaway Tour, both online and at the venues. Each concert will fit on 3 CDs and will cost $22 per show. The Dead will also be offering a limited edition box set that will contain every show from the tour. These shows to be released will be titled “The Official Concert Recording Series.”

On August 14th Sonic Youth will perform with a re-united version of Iggy and the Stooges in Detroit. This will be only the second performance of the Stooges with frontman Iggy Pop in 28 years, following a performance at the Coachella festival in California in April.
Source Sonicyouth.com.