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California hard rockers THRICE and their fans will enter the 2003 Orange Country Race for the Cure, a charity walk to benefit an organization that provides treatment to breast cancer patients without insurance. The band is also donating a portion of retail proceeds from their latest album to the charity . . . BRIGHT EYES and NEVA DINOVA will release a split EP in January . . . LYNYRD SKYNYRD Lyve will air on iNDemand pay-per-view starting September 19th. The performance was filmed on July 11th in Nashville . . . MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO is working on a new jazz album under the project name PAPILLON. The album, Dance of the Infidels, is due January 13th . . .
Between shoots for the remake of The Stepford Wives, FAITH HILL has begun to select songs to record for her next studio album. She plans to enter the studio in the fall . . . GODSMACK have lined up twenty tour dates, starting September 12th in Buffalo. The Boston metal men plan to release an acoustic album in November . . . DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE kick off a two-month fall tour on October 1st in Spokane, Washington . . . After opening for R.E.M. in early October, PETE YORN will set out on his own tour, starting October 12th in Live Oak, Florida . . . The POLYPHONIC SPREE begin a twenty-five-date tour on September 19th in Dallas . . .
Music from RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE's final two shows will be released on CD and DVD as Live at the Olympic Auditorium on November 18th. The set, recorded September 12-13, 2000, was scheduled for release in November 2000 but was shelved after frontman ZACK DE LA ROCHA quit the group, allowing the remaining members time to regroup as AUDIOSLAVE . . .
ELTON JOHN will release "Are You Ready for Love," a soul song he first recorded in 1977, as a new dance single on September 9th. A vinyl twelve-inch will also be available . . . MICHAEL JACKSON is planning to open his Neverland Ranch/amusement park to 500 guests on September 13th. The cost of an invitation is $5,000 with one-fifth going to charity . . . The WHO's Tommy, Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and MELISSA ETHERIDGE's self-titled debut will be released in deluxe editions with a CD of bonus material on October 28th . . .
SONIC YOUTH have composed the score to the film Demonlover, which opens on September 19th . . . Fifty of JAMES BROWN's hits will be compiled on The 50th Anniversary Collection, due September 16th . . . CHRISTINA AGUILERA has signed on to endorse Skechers footwear . . . A two-CD EAGLES compilation, The Very Best of, is due October 21st. The set will include the new single "Hole in the World" . . . Four ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN albums will be reissued this October to coincide with the band's twenty-fifth anniversary . . . THEA GILMORE will release her new album, Avalanche, on September 9th . . .
Fans who buy DAVE MATTHEWS' solo debut Some Devil (due September 23rd) during its first week in retail will receive a limited edition five-song EP from his tour with TIM REYNOLDS earlier this year. Those who pre-order the album from the Dave Matthews Band's Web site will also receive the live CD . . . R.E.M. and WILCO's August 31st performance in Missoula, Montana, will be Webcast live on remhq.com and wilcoweb.com . . . The BREEDERS version of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" theme will be included on Radio Sunnydale, due September 30th. The set will also feature songs by MICHELLE BRANCH and the DANDY WARHOLS . . . IGGY AND THE STOOGES will perform at New York City's Roseland tomorrow night at a benefit for LIFEBEAT, a musician-organized charity to fight AIDS . . .
TOM WAITS will perform at the Benefit Concert for Peace and Reconciliation in New York City on September 21st. The DALAI LAMA will also make an appearance . . . HOWIE DAY launches a twenty-four-date tour on September 7th in Shakopee, Minnesota . . . TED LEO will cover the SPLIT ENZ and the JAM on a new EP due October 7th . . . Country legend FLOYD TILLMAN died on August 22nd of leukemia; he was eighty-eight . . . MOTORHEAD will be inducted into the Hollywood Rockwalk on September 1st . . . TOBY KEITH received seven Country Music Association Award nominations to lead all acts. The CMAs are set for November 5th in Nashville . . . GREAT WHITE will begin a six-date tour to benefit the Station Family Fund starting September 5th in Springfield, Virginia . . .
Though the SEX PISTOLS promised to give a performance in Iraq on their first tour in seven years, the band hasn't been able to meet all of its commitments in the U.S. The Pistols cancelled three concerts on their North American tour, including Sunday night in Denver. No cause was given . . . STING will celebrate the release of his new album, Sacred Love, with a performance at the Paris L'Olympia on September 22nd, the day before the album's release . . . The DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS begin a thirteen-date tour on September 6th in Athens, Georgia . . . SEVENDUST kick off a fifteen-date acoustic tour on September 3rd in Chicago . . . DEEP PURPLE guitarist RITCHIE BLACKMORE has lined up September shows in Westbury, New York, and Philadelphia behind Ghost of a Rose, the new album by his band BLACKMORE'S NIGHT . . .
RUBEN STUDDARD will perform at two free concerts next month in his native Alabama. The first, September 2nd in Mobile, will be in support of Gov. Bob Riley's new tax referendum . . . BOBBY BROWN was arrested last week in Alpharetta, Georgia, for an unspecified probation violation . . . ELTON JOHN, HERBIE HANCOCK, RAVI SHANKAR are among music supervisors for a series of concerts to celebrate what would have been the fortieth birthday of slain Wall Street Journal reporter DANIEL PEARL . . . Most of Grammy-winning singer PEABO BRYSON's belongings were carried away by the IRS last week due to a lack of payment for back taxes . . .
(August 28, 2003)