Archive: 2003

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To bookend the summer, we usually take two camping trips, one around Memorial Day for a weekend on Cape Cod, the other near Labor Day where we canoe down the Saco River up in Maine. This year, due to everyone

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If you love the game of pool, this film provides some great table footage and dialogue. Poolhall Junkies is full of action, on the table and in the streets.

The Del McCoury Band won top honors at the 14th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards. The group took home the entertainer of the year award for the eighth time. Band members Mike Bub and Jason Carter won in the instrumental categories for bassist and fiddler of the year.
Source Billboard.com.

“Sixty Six to Timbuktu” a two-CD solo collection from former Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant is due out on November 4th. The 35 set traces Plant’s career, starting with his first solo single in 1966 through a live performance this year in Timbuktu. The first disc features material from his first solo albums, while the second disc contains more osbscure material. It’s full of rarities, bonus tracks, his work with pre- Zeppelin groups Listen and the Band of Joy and side projects like “Philadelphia Baby,” recorded under the Crawling Kingsnakes, a one-off that included Dave Edmunds and Phil Collins.
Source Billboard.com.

Ice Cube has landed the starring role in the “XXX” sequel with Van Diesel stepping aside. Director Rob Cohen has also opted out of the sequel to the 2002 action film about an extreme-turned-secret agent, and will be replaced by “Die Another Day” director Lee Tamahori. The film will begin production in the summer and hit theaters in 2005.
Source Billboard.com.

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Courtney Love, 39, was found early Thursday outside a Los Angeles home where she had allegedly broken the windows in an attempt to enter, police spokesman Don Cox said. She was arrested and booked for investigation of using illegal drugs, posted $2,500 bail and was released.
Hours later, police and paramedics in Beverly Hills responded to an emergency call and took a woman to a hospital for treatment, according to a story in Friday’s editions of the Los Angeles Times. Law enforcement sources told the newspaper that the woman was Love and that she had overdosed. It was not immediately known what her condition was.
Love was arrested earlier this year in London for allegedly verbally abusing cabin staff on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Los Angeles. She was later released.
Source CNN.com.

Music mogul and Grammy-winning songwriter Kenneth Gamble has assembled a team to develop a proposal for a museum devoted to rhythm & blues music in Philadelphia. The proposed development would serve both residential and retail needs. A closed African American museum purchased by Gamble several years ago would also likely be part of the facility.
Source Billboard.com.

The Barenaked Laides will be release a new album on October 21st entitled “Everything For Everyone.”

Already establishing a storied career in front of the camera, now Nicholas Cage has decided to step behind the scenes, making his directorial debut with Sonny.

A new brand of wine will honor the late Jerry Garcia. Winemaker Erik Olsen is overseeing the production of the J.Garcia Wines, which will be bottled at the Clos du Bois winery in Geyserville, California.
Three wines are included in the initial release

Coldplay, will be release a two-disc live DVD/CD, called Coldplay Live 2003 on November 4th.
Filmed at Sydney

San Francisco will once again be the site of the funkiest place in October when the third annual Funk Festival takes over from October 8-25. Celebrating all things funk, the event will feature music, art and film.
This year’s lineup boasts DJ Greyboy, The Headhunters, Grandmaster Flash, and Robert Walter’s 20th Congress. Various venues in and around San Francisco – including Bimbo’s 365 Club, the Elbo Room and the Great American Music Hall – host the concerts.
The San Francisco Funk Fest first descended on the bay city in 2001. Even though the event was held a couple months after September 11, it managed to attract upward of 3,000 people, laying the ground for the successive festivals.
Source Pollstar.com.

Chris Rock is bringing his whip-smart brand of comedy to theatres across North America this winter. Under the Black Ambition Tour, the comedian will laugh it up from mid-October well into the new year.There are a couple two-night engagements scheduled – one in New York City and another in Los Angeles. Additional dates are expected to be announced.
Aside from hosting various award shows, including this year’s MTV Video Awards, and doing a few one-off gigs, it’s been four long years since Rock last toured stages. In the in-between time, he’s been anything but lazy. He hosted the critically acclaimed “The Chris Rock Show” on HBO, has put out a couple comedy albums, won three Emmys and two Grammys, and has starred in several films.
For a full list of performance dates visit Pollstar.com.

Singer Robert Palmer has died in Paris of a heart attack at the age of 54, his manager said. The British star, whose chart hits in the 1980s included “Addicted to Love,” suffered the attack in the early hours of Friday morning, Mick Cater said.
The Yorkshireman, who had lived in Switzerland for 16 years, was staying in the French capital with his partner, Mary Ambrose, after traveling from the United Kingdom where he had been recording a TV show.
Palmer was in several British rock bands before he hit the big time as a solo artist with singles that also included “Simply Irresistible” and “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On.”
Source cnn.com.

Pearl Jam is tossing plans to release a comprehensive DVD of its 2003 Riot Act tour in favor of spotlighting the band

Metallica will bring in the New Year with a performance at the Joint In Las Vegas

Three Days,” a Jane’s Addiction documentary that played at various 1999 film festivals but was never officialy released, will be issued on DVD on Oct. 7.
The film, directed by Carter Smith and Kevin Ford, follows the band on and off stage during its 1997 tour in support of it’s album Kettle Whistle.