Advertisement
Ice Cube's first four solo albums -- Amerikkka's Most Wanted (1990), Death Certificate (1991), The Predator (1992) and Lethal Injection (1993) -- will be reissued with bonus tracks on February 25th along with a new DVD, Ice Cube: The Video Collection . . . Filmmaker Samantha Lee and photographer Danny Clinch have put together a documentary about Ben Harper, Pleasure and Pain, which opens in Los Angeles this week and other cities later this year . . . Shaggy and Kevi will contribute the next two volumes in the Read and Rap Along children's book series, in February; LL Cool J and Doug E. Fresh wrote the first two books . . .
System of a Down will celebrate the release of Steal This Album! with an in-store performance at Tower Records in Glendale, California, on November 26th . . . Cash Money Records will host their fourth annual Cash Money Turkey Giveaway on November 25th in New Orleans . . . The Folk Implosion will release their new, self-titled album on February 18th . . . Byron Ramos and Renoir Rodriguez, two members of the popular Carlos Manuel and His Clan, defected from Cuba to the U.S. after a performance in Miami on November 16th . . . Emmylou Harris joined Bruce Springsteen on stage in Birmingham, Alabama, on November 19th for a performance of "My Hometown" . . .
Britney Spears will lend her voice to the reindeer Donner in Robbie the Reindeer, a holiday special set for December 13th on CBS . . . Spyro Gyra will release their next album, Original Cinema, on February 25th . . . Rhett Miller will open for Neil Finn on a sixteen-date tour starting January 28th in Washington, D.C. . . . The Corrs will release Live in London on DVD on January 7th . . . Queen guitarist Brian May received an honorary degree from the University of Hertfordshire, near London, this week . . . Kurupt will release his fourth album, Against the Grain, early next year . . . Adidas plans to issue a Jam Master Jay brand sneaker next year . . .
Papa Roach will begin their first-ever headlining tour on January 13th in Vancouver . . . Bertelsmann AG purchased Clive Davis' half of J Records on November 19th and combined it with RCA Records, where Davis will serve as label head . . . Iron Maiden will release Edward the Great, a new best-of compilation, on November 26th . . . Erasure will begin a nine-date U.K. tour on February 9th . . . The Frank Sinatra Hall was opened at the University of Southern California on November 18th . . . Enrique Iglesias, Celia Cruz and Alejandro Sanz are among the artists nominated for awards at the fifteenth annual Premio Lo Nuestro a la Musical Latina awards show, set for February 5th in Miami . . .
Taylor Hanson and his wife Natalie Anne Bryant had a baby boy, Jordan Ezra, on October 31st . . . Creed have lined up two holiday shows, December 29th in Chicago and December 31st in Philadelphia . . . Lifehouse, Ryan Adams, Sixpence None the Richer and Five for Fighting will contribute songs to the Smallville soundtrack, due February 25th . . . Christina Aguilera, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Bon Jovi and others will perform at the VH1 Big in 2002 Awards on December 15th . . . Ashanti, Kylie Minogue, Shaggy and others will perform at WKTU's Miracle on 34th Street holiday concert set for December 18th in New York . . .
Royce da 5'9" will release Rock City Version 2.0, featuring production by the Neptunes and a guest appearance by Eminem, on November 26th . . . The members of Drowning Pool have teamed with Rob Zombie to record "The Man Without Fear" for the Daredevil soundtrack due in February . . . John Hammond will release his new album, Ready for Love, on February 11th . . . Former Spiritualized members Sean Cook and Mike Mooney have formed Lupine Howl and will release The Bar at the End of the World in February . . . Blu Cantrell will release her second album, Bittersweet, on December 17th . . . Shania Twain will perform at the CFL's Grey Cup halftime show in Edmonton, Alberta, on November 24th . . .
Journals, a collection of diary entries written by Kurt Cobain, will debut at Number One on the November 24th New York Times non-fiction bestseller list . . . A handful of Elvis Presley's hair collected by his former hairstylist pulled in $115,000 in an online auction on November 16th . . . Paul Weller will release his next album, Illumination, on January 14th . . . A Waukesha County, Wisconsin, courthouse will be turned into a museum and exhibit honoring guitarist Les Paul . . . Marianne Faithful will begin an eight-date U.S. tour on December 1st in Los Angeles, before heading to Australia and New Zealand for a thirteen-date jaunt . . . Suzanne Vega, the Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson and Joe Jackson will appear in an episode of the television program, The Moth, tonight . . .
Each member of System of a Down has created an original piece of artwork to be featured in limited edition runs of the band's upcoming release, Steal This Album!, due November 26th . . . Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell will release Learning How to Fly on T Bone Burnett's DMZ Records this spring . . . We Five folk-rocker Michael Stewart, who also produced Billy Joel's Piano Man, died November 13th; he was fifty-seven . . . Revenant Records will release an album John Fahey recorded just prior to his death last year, on February 11th . . . Mick Jones joined his former Clash band mate Joe Strummer onstage at a benefit for the British Fire Brigades Union in London on Friday. The two performed three Clash songs together for the first time in almost twenty years . . .
(November 21, 2002)