The video for Sugar Ray's "Fly" may be the band's best known clip, but it's certainly not the most momentous. The clip for "Caboose," a song the band recorded back in 1993, was responsible for getting the band its major label deal with Atlantic Records and can be seen on the newly released home video, No Cerveza, No Trabaja. Along with "Fly" and "Caboose," the video features clips for "Someday," "Every Morning," "Iron Mic," "Mean Machine" and "10 Seconds Down," all of which were directed by videographer McG, whose recent big break came in the form of the "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Gap television ad he shot. In addition to the music videos, the Sugar Ray collection also includes backstage footage and some other rare clips...

Thirty-six years after her plane fell out of the Tennessee sky, Patsy Cline is again a star. On Tuesday, Hollywood honored the late country singer with a plaque on its Walk of Fame. Cline's husband, Charlie Dick, accepted the award on behalf of the family in front of a crowd of about 150 fans. Cline is best remembered for her achy ballads like "I Fall to Pieces," "She's Got You" and the Willie Nelson-penned "Crazy" . . .

Grateful Dead music archivist Dick Latvala of "Dick's Picks" fame has slipped into a coma after suffering a heart attack last Wednesday (July 28). Band spokesman Dennis McNally says that Latvala, 56, was alone when the heart attack occurred and that his body wasn't found until some time later. "We're all freaked out and upset," McNally says. "Dick, essentially, has become a member of the band, and served as a bridge between the band's work in the vault and their audience." The Dead have posted a note on their official Web site (www.dead.net) asking fans to join together and send the keeper of the magical vault their positive energy. The message reads, in part: "Since he's in the twilight zone between here and there, why don't you include him and his family in any of your prayers"...

While many of their young fans head back to school in September, boy band 'N Sync will head back into the studio. With the deadline for their second album looming, the Florida quintet had to postpone two tour dates and cancel a third. According to a spokesperson for the band, their Sept. 15 show in Concord, Calif., has been cancelled and replaced by a show in Oakland on Nov. 29. And the Sept. 16 Reno, Nev. and Sept. 17 Sacramento, Calif. shows have been rescheduled for Nov. 28 and 30, respectively. The band's upcoming album, to be called No Strings Attached, will come out in mid-November...

In case you thought Sevendust's tour with supporting acts Skunk Anansie and Staind couldn't get any harder, consider this: metal band Powerman 5000 has just been added to most of that tour's dates. After playing two weeks headlining their own shows, the Boston five-piece -- led by Rob Zombie's brother, Spider One -- will link up with Sevendust and Co. on Aug. 19 in Denver and hang around for the remainder of the tour, which ends on Sept. 11 in Virginia Beach. PM5K recently released their second album, Tonight the Stars Revolt!, which features the single "Worlds Collide."...

The remaining Doors are keeping busy as they prepare to break on through to the year 2000. Not only is the much-anticipated tribute album taking shape (Bush is the latest band to sign on), but guitarist Robbie Krieger says that that he, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and manager Danny Sugarman are launching a record label. "It's gonna be called Bright Midnight Records," Krieger says. "We are gonna do stuff that we never used on our live albums. Most of it has been bootlegged [before], but we have better quality than the bootleggers." Kreiger says the label, which will likely boast a website with MP3 downloads, should be up and running by early next year ...

Patti Smith has just returned to New York from her whirlwind tour around Europe, doing small shows and readings from her last book, Patti Smith Complete, as well as opening up a few dates for her spiritual children R.E.M.. Now the real work begins: Naming her new album. The Gil Norton-produced opus has been finished since June, but Smith has just christened it Gung Ho. According to Arista Records, the album will be in stores after the first of the year, and the punk poetess will tour in the spring. In the meantime, you can catch the Patti Smith Group in Saratoga, N.Y., on Sept. 8, opening up again for R.E.M. at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center . . .

The Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, George Strait and Tim McGraw will square off for Entertainer of the Year honors at Country Music Association Awards, which will be telecast from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville on Sept. 22. McGraw wracked up the most CMA nominations this year with seven, followed by country awards show standby Vince Gill with five . . .

Barry White is out of the hospital and home in San Diego resting. As we reported yesterday, the soul singer had to cancel the first seven shows of his upcoming tour with Earth, Wind & Fire due to exhaustion. "Barry's a big man and he's been working his ass off," said his management. "He was in New York going from one nonstop television show and autograph session to another, in and out of air-conditioned hotels and the hot sun." The tour will pick up Sept. 10 in Boston, and promoters are trying to reschedule the missed shows. . .

Anyone who's seen one of Marilyn Manson's live shows knows what an amazing thing they are to behold - full of lights, noise and rock star posturing. So while it would be hard for any album to convey the bombastic nature of one of the androgynous rocker's stage performances, Manson's going to give it his best shot with his first non-studio recording, The Last Tour on Earth. He announced the plans for the live album last week during a chat on his official website, www.marilynmanson.net, but no additional details beyond its expected pre-holidays release date have yet been disclosed. Along with the album, Manson will also release a home video called God Is in the TV, which will include footage from several tours, all of his music videos and even a look at some of the commotion backstage. Meanwhile, according to a source close to the band, they have already written about half the material for their next studio effort...

With his recent Woodstock performance undoubtedly having won him a slew of new disciples, and a spate of Family Values tour dates ahead of him, rapper DMX is getting ready to record his third album, due out on December 21 on Def Jam. "Give me a month in the studio and I got another album," said the rapper. "I write without restriction. I write because I love it, you know."
The high watermark set by 1996's gold-selling Trainspotting soundtrack just might be surpassed by the soundtrack to Scottish author Irvine Welsh's latest film, The Acid House. The album, to be released next Tuesday by Capitol Records, will include previously unheard songs by Oasis, Beth Orton, Primal Scream and Belle & Sebastian, as well as tracks by the Verve, the Chemical Brothers, the Pastels and a duet between Nick Cave and former Bad Seeds bandmate Barry Adamson. The film, meanwhile, is an adaptation of Welsh's 1994 short story collection of the same name, and will debut in New York and Los Angeles on Friday...

We reported earlier that Alanis Morissette is playing God in the upcoming film Dogma. Well, now the film's soundtrack will feature a song from God. Morissette recorded "Still" at London's legendary Abbey Road studios...

Twenty-year-old rapper Eve, who guested on the Roots' No. 1 single "You Got Me," is releasing her debut album. Eve, the First Lady of Ruff Ryders was produced by Swizz Beatz, PK and Shek, who've previously teamed up with Busta Rhymes, Jay Z and DMX, and hits stores Sept. 14...

Barry White, whose music has gained renewed popularity since serving as romantic counsel for Ally McBeal's Peter McNichol, has cancelled the first seven dates of his U.S. tour. The soul singer is suffering from exhaustion. White plans to continue the tour, with Earth, Wind & Fire, on Sept. 10 in Boston...

One-man band The The (a.k.a Matt Johnson) has signed to Trent Reznor's Nothing Records. "Matt Johnson's music was one of the main reasons I began working on Nine Inch Nails," Reznor said in a company press release. The The's Nothing debut NakedSelf, produced by Johnson and Bruce Lampcov, is due out in January, and it will be preceded by an EP this fall...

The Chess family -- who brought the world blues legends like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Etta James, via their Chicago label Chess Records -- have opened up a new label. CZYZ Records, named for the original Chess family name (it was changed to Chess upon their arrival in the U.S.), will be run by cousins Marshall and Kevin Chess and distributed by ADA. The first release, Murali Coryell's 2120 -- a blues album, naturally -- is expected Sept. 21...

Outlaw country legend Billy Joe Shaver has cancelled several dates on the tour promoting his new album, Electric Shaver, due to the death of his wife Brenda on Friday. Brenda, who was the mother of Shaver's son (and guitarist) Eddy and the subject/muse of many of Shaver's songs, had been battling cancer. The funeral was Monday in Waco, Texas. Shaver cancelled two dates last week when Brenda's condition worsened and so far has canceled four performances this week, including one in Nashville. A spokesperson for Shaver said he should be back on the road soon though, possibly by the end of the week...

The Alaskan-born Jewel is no stranger to winter wonderlands, so it was only a matter of time before she recorded a Christmas album. The album will be produced by Arif Mardin for release on Atlantic Records November 9. Featured tracks include "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," and, naturally, "Winter Wonderland." There's no word yet whether the album will contain any angelic originals, but Jewel is sculpting a Christmas version of her hit "Hands."...

Ricky Martin certainly is living the crazy life, as his self-titled debut album - on the strength of the runaway smash "Livin' La Vida Loca" - has now sold five million copies, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. That's the all-time highest total number of records sold by a Latin artist. Dare we say "en fuego"?...

PBS's Sessions at West 54th has announced most of its third season's lineup. Sheryl Crow, Los Lobos, Marianne Faithfull, Macy Gray, Latin Playboys, Kelly Willis, Ruben Blades, Kim Richey and Rolling Stone's "Hot Country Artist" Mandy Barnett are among the musical guests who will join new host, singer/songwriter John Hiatt. The show is produced by WNET/Channel 13 in New York's Sony Music Studios and the new episodes will begin airing in October...

Former Psychedelic Furs frontman and Love Spit Love maestro Richard Butler will go it alone for "After All," a new song slated to appear on the soundtrack to the film Gossip, due in theaters next January or February. Also set to appear on the soundtrack are Poe's cover of the Go-Go's "Our Lips Are Sealed," God Lives Underwater's "From Your Mouth" (which originally appeared on 1998's Life in the So-Called Space Age), two selections from Tin Star, and one each from former Black Grape member Danny Saber, Head Noise, Psykosonik and Transistor...

Feeder, the British trio who rose to semi-stardom with the Can't Hardly Wait soundtrack hit "High," will return this October with the thirteen-track Yesterday Went Too Soon, their follow-up to 1997's Polythene. The first single, "Insomnia," will go to radio Sept. 13, five weeks before the album hits shelves.

ARI BENDERSKY, BILL CRANDALL, JENNY ELISCU, BLAIR R. FISCHER, JOE ROSENTHAL, RICHARD SKANSE, JAAN UHELSZKI
(August 5, 1999)