New York City Bush fans, who have waited three years to see the boys play, likely let out a collective groan at the news that the band was forced to cancel Wednesday night's Digital Club Festival show at Irving Plaza due to drummer Robin Goodridge's ear infection.| According to the band's spokesperson, Goodridge's doctor advised him to take the night off. But, to make up for the cancellation, the band has relocated Thursday night's show to the much larger Roseland Ballroom, which will honor tickets to both Wednesday and Thursday's Irving Plaza shows...

Female MC Eve, a member of the Ruff Ryders posse, was robbed at gunpoint during a video shoot in Long Island City, N.Y., on Monday night. According to a spokesman for the New York Police Department, Eve was approached by two assailants who demanded that she hand over her diamond necklace, diamond bracelet and a white gold bracelet -- items whose total estimated value is $137,000 -- and absconded with the jewelry in a dark-colored Chevrolet Tahoe. At press time, no arrests had been made and Eve's manager was unavailable for comment...

British band Gomez has just completed its new album, Liquid Skin, which will be released by its U.S. label, Virgin, on Sept. 21. The band's debut album, Bring It On last year beat out the Verve and Pulp for England's prestigious Mercury Music Prize, an honor previously bestowed upon the likes of Massive Attack and Roni Size. Prior to the Liquid Skin's release, Gomez will play a couple of U.K. festival dates, and a fall tour is currently under discussion...

One of hip-hop's most illustrious couples, Naughty by Nature's Treach and Salt 'N Pepa's Pepa, will finally tie the knot on July 24 at Pepa's estate in Morristown, N.J., in front of pals like Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Foxy Brown and Star Jones. The ceremony is merely a formality, since the couple have considered themselves wed since last April, when they stopped into a Lawrence, Ks., tattoo parlor where they both had their ring finger tattooed . . .

How hot is MP3.com? Try $1.86 billion hot, thanks to the 12.3 million shares of public stock (at $28 a pop) the company sold Tuesday for a whopping $344.4 million. The sale represented an 18 percent stake in the popular digital music Internet site . . .

ANN ABEL, JENNY ELISCU, BLAIR R. FISCHER, JOE ROSENTHAL, JAAN UHELSZKI, RICHARD SKANSE
(July 21, 1999)