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RUBEN STUDDARD will sing the national anthem at the April 15th New York Mets, Atlanta Braves game at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York. The American Idol winner's performance will be part of a pre-game ceremony that will celebrate Jackie Robinson Day, honoring the Brooklyn Dodgers infielder who broke baseball's color barrier forty-seven years ago . . .
ASHANTI and EVE have joined the lineup for the April 18th VH1 Divas program in Las Vegas. JESSICA SIMPSON, CYNDI LAUPER and DEBBIE HARRY will also perform . . . PEACHES kicks off a twenty-date tour on April 23rd in Austin . . . DJ DANGER MOUSE has been added to the lineup for the Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004, set for June 11-13 in Manchester, Tennessee . . . MARILYN MANSON has covered DEPECHE MODE's "Personal Jesus" for a best-of collection due this fall. The set will also include a DVD with all of Manson's videos . . . CLINIC begin a fourteen-date tour on May 8th in Brooklyn, New York . . . MATCHBOX TWENTY's June 2003 performance in Atlanta will be released as a DVD, A Night in the Life of Matchbox Twenty, on May 25th . . .
PEARL JAM will perform at the Pacific Northwest chapter of the Recording Academy's Impact Awards in Seattle on April 9th . . . CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED will hose a Caribbean cruise from June 28th through July 3rd through the Carnival Cruise Lines . . . Troubled country singer CARLENE CARTER was jailed this week, reportedly after her bond on a 2002 arrest was revoked after a failed drug test . . . BRITNEY SPEARS had to cancel her Thursday night show in Cleveland due to illness. It has been rescheduled for June 29th . . . An expanded edition of the VELVET UNDERGROUND's Live at Max's Kansas City will be released in June . . . CHRIS ROBINSON AND NEW EARTH MUD will release their second album, This Magnificent Distance, on June 29th . . .
TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS will be the musical guest on tomorrow night's episode of Saturday Night Live. The reggae legends will be joined by the ROOTS, JACK JOHNSON, BEN HARPER and PARLIAMENT bassist BOOTSY COLLINS for the show, to be hosted by DONALD TRUMP. Toots and Co. are promoting their new album, True Love, which features their classic catalog re-recorded with guests including KEITH RICHARDS, ERIC CLAPTON, RYAN ADAMS and TREY ANASTASIO . . .
The Oxygen Network will halt its regular programming for eight hours on May 18th to follow ALANIS MORISSETTE around New York City during promotional duty for her new album, So Called Chaos . . . ELVIS PRESLEY drummer D.J. FONTANA and JOHNNY CASH drummer W.S. HOLLAND are auctioning off drum sets at the Rockabilly Festival 2004 in Jackson, Tennessee, in August . . . MY MORNING JACKET kick off a thirty-date tour on May 7th in San Diego . . . 3 DOORS DOWN bassist TODD HARRELL was acquitted of assault charges after a skirmish with a newspaper carrier last March . . . Rapper TURK had first degree attempted murder charges against him reduced to second degree in the alleged shooting of a Memphis police officer . . .
AVRIL LAVIGNE and NELLY FURTADO will perform at Canada's Juno Awards on April 4th in Toronto. Alanis Morissette will host . . . The BLOOD BROTHERS are in the studio recording the follow-up to 2002's Burn, Piano Island, Burn . . . Folk singer BOB COPPER died on March 29th in a hospital in southern England; he was eighty-nine . . . TONY BENNETT begins a twenty-four-date U.S. tour tonight in Redwood City, California . . . BEDHEAD's MATT and BUBBA KADANE have recorded a new EP, Music From the Film 'Hell House' with producer STEVE ALBINI. The set is due later this spring . . . The BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA's 1982 album I Am a Soldier in the Army of the Lord will be reissued with six bonus tracks on June 29th . . .
Prolific singer-songwriter RYAN ADAMS has released a new EP on the iTunes Music Store. The Morrocan Role EP includes three songs ("Ah, Life," "I'm Coming Over" and "Don't Even Know Her Name") that can be purchased individually or as a full EP. Morrocan Role follows a trio of 2003 releases by Adams, the LP Rock N Roll and two Love Is Hell EPs. In other Adams news, he's back in New York and recovering from the broken wrist suffered during a U.K. stage fall earlier this year. He's placed post-operation photos for viewing at ryan-adams.com . . .
A limited edition signed and numbered set of BONO's prints for a new edition of the children's book Peter and the Wolf, are being sold to benefit the Irish Hospice Foundation. Information is available at peterwolf.org . . . AL GREEN, HALL AND OATES, DON McLEAN, CHARLES FOX and STRONG AND WHITFIELD are among the 2004 inductees into the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter's Hall of Fame. The induction is set for June 10th in New York . . . PAUL McCARTNEY gave an impromptu performance at Moody's, a Lake Tahoe restaurant, on Monday night, singing "Kansas City" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" . . . NIKKI SIXX side project the BRIDES OF DESTRUCTION begin a fourteen-date tour on April 30th in Clifton Park, New York . . . JACKSON BROWNE lends his voice to the title track on PC MUNOZ AND THE AMEN CORNER's new album California, due in May . . .
PATTI LABELLE will release a new solo album, Timeless Journey, on May 4th. The set features guest spots by CARLOS SANTANA and FLOETRY's MARSHA AMBROSIOUS . . . PHIL COLLINS will bring his farewell tour to North America starting August 26th in Anaheim, California. Dates currently stretch into late September . . . ANTHRAX will attend an advance screening of their DVD Music of Mass Destruction on April 7th in Los Angeles . . . The Columbia Club in Indianapolis is planning a tribute to former employee HOAGY CARMICHAEL, who penned classics like "Georgia on My Mind" and "Stardust," this weekend . . . HERBIE HANCOCK has donated a trio of keyboards to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History . . .
SHAGGY, ANDREW W.K., NICK CANNON, R. KELLY and BOWLING FOR SOUP will appear on the Girls Gone Wild compilation, due next month . . . JESSICA SIMPSON, AVRIL LAVIGNE, the BLACK EYED PEAS, LIZ PHAIR and American Idol's WILLIAM HUNG will perform at the Z100 Zootopia 2004 concert in New York City on May 21st . . . MIKE DOUGHTY, MARK RIBOT Y LOS CUBANOS POSTIZOS and DOC WATSON have joined the lineup for Bonnaroo 2004, set for June 11-13 in Manchester, Tennessee . . . BOB MARLEY's sons ZIGGY, JULIAN, DAMIEN and STEPHEN will headline the Marley Family Presents: Roots, Rock and Reggae, a U.S. tour to begin in July . . . Music by BT, TIESTO and SASHA will be included on DJ DIESELBOY's new mix CD The Dungeonmaster's Guide, due later this spring . . .
YOUNG GUNZ will join KANYE WEST's School Spirit tour, to launch April 3rd in San Francisco . . . Censors bleeped JANET JACKSON saying "Jesus," after DAVID LETTERMAN asked her about her infamous Super Bowl strip on his late night show. Jackson told Letterman that the baring of her boob was an accident . . . ZZ TOP bassist DUSTY HILL has loaned his "The Cost of Freedom" painting of Davy Crockett and other Alamo defenders by Richard Luce to the Alamo for display in its chapel . . . GILLIAN WELCH, EMMYLOU HARRIS, BUDDY MILLER and PATTY GRIFFIN will take part in the fourteen-city Sweet Harmony Travelling Revue, set to kick off August 11th in Atlanta . . . Singer ADAN SANCHEZ was killed in a car accident in Mexico on Saturday. Sanchez's father was the legendary narcocorrido singer CHALINO SANCHEZ . . .
PJ HARVEY's new record, Uh Hu Her, will be released in the U.S. on June 8th, preceded by the album's first single, "The Letter" . . . DR. DRE has halted work on his much-delayed "Detox" album. He plans to focus instead on producing other artists . . . The WHITE STRIPES, GREEN DAY and the DARKNESS will headline this year's Carling Weekend in Reading and Leeds, U.K., August 27-29. Also performing will be 50 CENT, the OFFSPRING, Morrissey, the HIVES, the LIBERTINES and the STREETS . . . To mark the tenth anniversary of the film Reality Bites, BMG Heritage will release an expanded edition of the soundtrack on June 8th. The reissue features songs by NEW ORDER, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and LISA LOEB that were not included on the original album . . .
VH1 is planning an original TV movie tentatively titled Family Values that will chronicle MICHAEL JACKSON's life from his Eighties superstardom to his current legal troubles . . . Rhino Handmade has released an expanded edition of Tales of the New West, the 1985 debut album from California roots rockers the BEAT FARMERS . . . Singer-songwriter HOWIE DAY was arrested last week after allegedly locking a woman in the bathroom of his tour bus and breaking another woman's cell phone during a tour stop in Wisconsin. He was charged with misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property.
(April 2, 2004)