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Korn Get Behind Family Values
This year's Family Values Tour main-stage acts -- KORN, the DEFTONES, STONE SOUR and FLYLEAF -- will preview the tour's summer sweat this Thursday when each metal act plays four separate U.S. cities. Korn will rock Chicago, the Deftones will kick it in their hometown of Sacramento, Stone Sour will play Kansas City and Flyleaf in Spokane, Washington. Specific venue info has yet to be announced. The thirty-city late summer North American trek is beginning to take shape, set to kick off July 27th in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and wrapping September 20th in West Palm Beach, Florida. Second-stage acts will be revealed in coming weeks. Tickets for the announced tour dates -- with lawn seats going for a measly ten bucks -- go on sale this weekend.
How Much Would You Pay to See INXS?
INXS have added an "all auction" show to their current tour, giving fans a chance to determine how much they're willing to shell out to see them play Santa Barbara, California's Lobero Theatre on June 14th through online ticket marketplace StubHub.com. The first round of auctions for the show, featuring opener SCOTT STAPP, begins Friday morning at stubhub.com/inxs.
The Raconteurs Rack Up Tour Dates
After making their stateside debut with a couple of New York shows last month, the RACONTEURS, who released their album Broken Boy Soldiers this week, will finally make their way across the country. The twelve-date tour, including an August 4th stop at Chicago's Lollapalooza festival, launches on July 16th from Denver, just days after the pop-rock outfit returns from their European tour. Before the summer trek, the Raconteurs will perform in-store at a New York Tower Records on Thursday.
Pop Queens Make -- and Allegedly Endanger -- Babies
Recovering SPICE GIRL GERI HALLIWELL (a.k.a. GINGER SPICE), 33, gave birth to her own Lil' Spice at London's Portland Hospital over the weekend. The actual name of the child, Halliwell's first, has not been announced . . . In other pop progeny news, paparazzi photographed BRITNEY SPEARS driving -- yet again -- with her son, Sean Preston, improperly fastened. The eight-month-old was strapped in the backseat of Spears' car facing forward rather than backward.
Young Jeezy Free and Breezy
Rapper YOUNG JEEZY was acquitted of charges -- two counts of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit -- that linked him to a March Miami Beach shootout. At a brief hearing on Tuesday, Florida prosecutors said they would not pursue the case against the twenty-eight-year-old, whose real name is Jay Jenkins, due to a lack of evidence. Lawyers for Jeezy, who had a gun under his passenger seat when police pulled over a car he was riding in, said the rapper was "simply in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Ryan Adams Joins Arthur Lee Tribute
Singer-songwriter RYAN ADAMS and NILS LOFGREN (guitarist for the E STREET BAND) have been added to the June 23rd benefit concert for ailing LOVE frontman ARTHUR LEE, at New York's Beacon Theater. DAVID JOHANSEN backed out after citing a new European tour (which we hear kicks off the day after the benefit on June 24th) with his reformed Seventies punk-glam outfit the NEW YORK DOLLS. The evening's main act, ROBERT PLANT, will perform an hour-long set, joined by IAN HUNTER and his band. Other artists on the bill include YO LA TENGO and the debut appearance of FLASHY PYTHON AND THE BODYSNATCHERS (a.k.a. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH frontman ALEC OUNSWORTH's new side project). Tickets are currently on sale through Ticketmaster, while donations are being accepted for Lee's medical expenses at thelovesociety.com. Benefits in Los Angeles and London remain tentative.
Cohen Appears for Rare Self-Promotion
Legendary and reclusive singer-songwriter LEONARD COHEN appeared in Toronto May 13th to promote his new book, Book of Longing, the musician and author's first in twenty-two years and the twelfth of his decades-spanning career. The book contains poetry, as well as sketches and drawings, by Cohen. At the appearance, the seventy-one-year-old musician performed two of his more famous numbers, "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," with fellow Canadians the BARENAKED LADIES and RON SEXSMITH. Cohen recently won a $9 million lawsuit against his former manager, who stole $5 million from him, leaving the legend with approximately $150,000 to retire on.