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Enya rules at Monte Carlo, Neil Young falls ill and more Enya won three World Music Awards in Monte Carlo on March 14th including Best Female Artist, topping Britney Spears, Alicia Keys and Dido . . . Crosby, Stills Nash and Young were forced to postpone their March 17th Portland, Oregon, performance until April 29th, after Neil Young caught the flu . . . Robert Plant has joined the lineup for the U.K.'s Isle of Wight Festival, set for June 3rd; Starsailor, the Charlatans and Ash will also perform . . . The Pet Shop Boys will release their eighth album, Release, in April; the first single, "Home and Dry" is due this week . . . Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach was charged with making terrorist threats and drug possession after an altercation in a New Jersey bar on March 13th . . .
Tommy Keene will release The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, his first new album in four years, on spinArt on June 4th; the album features guest appearances by former Wilco guitarist Jay Bennett and former Gin Blossoms singer Robin Wilson . . . Brooks and Dunn and Toby Keith earned six Academy of Country Music Award nominations to lead all acts; the ACMs are scheduled for May 22nd in Los Angeles . . . Rush will release Vapor Trails, their first new album in six years on May 14th, followed by a tour to launch in June . . . Custom will hit the road for a twenty-one date tour behind Fast, starting March 26th in New Haven, Connecticut . . .
R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Coldplay singer Chris Martin, Verve guitarist Nick McCabe and the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd will appear on Your Love Means Everything, the second album by Faultline, due later this year . . . Prodigy will play their first U.S. show in four years on April 27th at the House of Blues in Las Vegas and join the Coachella Festival in Los Angeles the next day . . . The Doves will release their next album, The Last Broadcast, on June 5th . . . John Mellencamp will launch a fourteen-date tour behind Cuttin' Heads on July 3rd in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania . . .
Tanya Donelly will kick off a fifteen-date tour behind Beautysleep starting April 2nd in Northampton, Massachusetts . . . Pennywise's Jim Lindberg has teamed with footwear company Vans Inc. to start Vans Records, which will begin releasing albums this spring . . . No Doubt, Green Day, Paul Weller and Joe Strummer are among the artists who will play at the Lancashire County Cricket Club festival which runs July 11th and 12th . . . Faint will join No Doubt for a thirty-six date tour, starting March 18th in Sacramento . . . Roni Size, the Crystal Method and BT will perform at WinterOasis: 06 on March 24th in Miami, as part of the Winter Music Conference . . .
Alicia Keys, Missy Elliott, Nelly and the O'Jays will appear on the first Soul Train Music Awards Nominees CD, due March 26th . . . Backstreet Boy AJ McLean and singer Sarah Martin are engaged to be married next year . . . Musiq Soulchild, Fat Joe and the Roots have joined the lineup for the UrbanAid 2 benefit concert on April 9th in New York City . . . The Knitting Factory's Beatfest 2002 will run from April 11-14 in New York City and April 27-30 in Los Angeles; Steve Earle, Graham Parker and DJ Spooky are among the artists who will perform tribute to the Beat Generation . . . Singer-songwriter Pat Green was attacked at South Padre Island, Texas, on March 11th and hospitalized with multiple facial fractures . . .
Billy Joel and Elton John were forced to cancel a March 11th appearance in Tampa when Joel came down with a respiratory infection . . . Pete Yorn will begin a short U.S. tour on April 2nd in Anaheim, California . . . B.R.M.C. will open for Spiritualized on a twenty-five date North American tour that will kick off on April 1st in Vancouver . . . Leftover Salmon, John Scofield and Sam Bush will lead a lineup of twenty acts for the sixth annual All Good Music Festival and Campout, which runs May 16-19 in Terra Alta, West Virginia . . . West Coast rapper Phats Bossi has signed with ARTISTdirect Records to release his debut, "Trials and Tribulations," this summer . . Adam Ant's court hearing on charges of assault and firearm possession has been adjourned until May 1st . . .
Neil Young's upcoming album, Are You Passionate? has been made available for previewing on a number of Internet radio stations, music sites and Young fan sites through April 9th; the album is due next month . . . Lauryn Hill, India.Arie and Smokey Robinson will perform at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival, which runs May 3rd through the 12th . . . Paul McCartney has added three dates -- April 11th in Chicago, April 24th in Washington and April 27th in New York City -- to his Driving USA Tour, which kicks off in Oakland on April 1st . . . Curb Records will reissue Leann Rimes' 2000 album, I Need You, with five new songs; at the time of its original release, Rimes claimed the album was issued without her authorization . . .
The Reivers' out-of-print albums, Saturday and End of the Day, will be reissued on March 19th with bonus tracks . . . Andrew WK, Apex Theory and Lost Prophets will be included on MTV2's Handpicked Tour, which will run March 29th through May 5th . . . Superchunk will begin a series of authorized bootlegs in its "Clambake Series" on May 15th through mergerecords.com; the first volume features eighteen tracks recorded during the band's 2001 in-store performance tour . . . Phantom Planet will join Incubus on the Honda Civic Tour from May 24th through the tour's end on July 3rd . . . Spiritualized will kick off a North American tour behind their latest album, Let It Come Down, on April 1st in Vancouver . . .
The Strokes will release "New York City Cops," the controversial song that was pulled from the U.S. edition of their debut album after September 11th, as the B-side of their upcoming single, "Hard to Explain," which is due in April . . . The Waterboys' first two albums, 1983's The Waterboys and 1984's A Pagan Place, will be reissued later this month with digital remastering and the inclusion of thirteen previously unreleased tracks . . . Mati Klarwein, who created a number of iconic psychedelic album covers for the likes of Santana, Miles Davis and others, died at his home in Spain last week; he was seventy . . . The Killa Beez's new album, The Sting, is out today. It features a bonus disc with six new tracks by Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA performing as his alter-ego, Bobby Digital . . .
The Red Hot Chili Peppers will receive the Artist Contribution Award at the second annual ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards on April 12th . . . M2M have teamed up with the Do Something organization to encourage American teens to improve their communities. The initiative offers $500 grants to twenty-five schools with the best improvement plans; one school will also get to host an M2M concert . . . Fear Factory announced their breakup last week after twelve years together; the band will issue Concrete, their previously unreleased 1991 demo album, later this year . . . Tony Bennett and Annie Lennox have been added to the lineup for the June 3rd Party at the Palace in London to honor Queen Elizabeth II's golden jubilee; Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson, Phil Collins and others will also perform . . .
(March 15, 2002)