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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
