Big Punisher, Mya, and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies will find themselves hobnobbing with the wrestling world's finest when they perform at a party to launch Wrestlemania XV later this month.

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Cherry Poppin' Daddies frontman Steve Perry spent his birthday in style Thursday night as the band played a sold out homecoming show at the Hollywood Palladium, and picked up a platinum record for their trouble.

Perry was on hand with the rest of the Daddies before the show when the group picked up a platinum copy of their "Zoot Suit Riot" album, signifying sales of over one million in the U.S.

In a ceremony staged in the club's VIP balcony after the opening act's set, Perry was presented with a small birthday cake, and the band received their platinum record. The birthday gifts kept coming though for Perry, as he received the old girl-in-a-cake treatment near the end of the Daddies set. The woman, who was clad in a feather boa (among other things), then danced with Perry and the band.

The Daddies resume their tour on Friday in San Diego, and will stay on the road until well into the holiday season. Here's where to catch them:

• 10/9 - San Diego, CA @ Cox Arena
• 10/10 - Las Vegas, NV @ Joint
• 10/11 - Tempe, AZ @ Hayden Square Amph.
• 10/16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Wasatch Event Center
• 10/17 - Denver, CO @ Mammoth Events Center
• 10/18 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
• 10/19 - Wichita, KS @ Cotillion
• 10/20 - St. Louis, MO @ American Theatre
• 10/22 - Minneapolis, MN @ Quest Club
• 10/23 - Milwaukee, WI @ Rave
• 10/24 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
• 10/26 - Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Centre
• 10/27 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
• 10/28 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
• 10/29 - Detroit, MI @ State Theatre
• 10/30 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
• 10/31 - Toronto, ON @ Warehouse
• 11/1 - Buffalo, NY @ Buffalo State College
• 11/3 - Burlington, VT @ University Of Vermont
• 11/4 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
• 11/5 - New York, NY @ Roseland
• 11/6 - Boston, MA @ Roxy
• 11/7 - Portland, ME @ State Theatre
• 11/8 - Providence, RI @ Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
• 11/11 - Syracuse, NY @ Goldstein Auditorium
• 11/12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
• 11/13 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
• 11/14 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
• 11/15 - Norfolk, VA @ Boathouse
• 11/17 - Raleigh, NC @ Ritz
• 11/18 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
• 11/19 - Knoxville, TN @ University Of Tennessee
• 11/20 - Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House Of Blues
• 11/21 - Pompano Beach, FL @ Broward County Fair
• 11/22 - St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Landing
• 11/24 - New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blues
• 11/25 - Houston, TX @ Bayou Place Theatre
• 11/27 - Dallas, TX @ Bronco Bowl
• 11/28 - Austin, TX @ Austin Music Hall
• 11/29 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom

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What's next? Swingapalooza?

As records from Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Bid Bad Voodoo Daddy continue to lay siege on the upper realms of the Album charts, a new compilation out next week attempts to capitalize on the booming, if slightly misnomered, revival in swing music.

"Swing This Baby!" collects 15 tracks from a variety of bands that have become prominent players in the genre-fickle music world, including previously released tracks from the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Royal Crown Revue and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Other new pop swing artists coming out for the "Swing" album include Crescent City Maulers, the New Morty Show, Swingerhead and Blue Plate Special. Boasting itself as "the first modern compilation of modern swing bands," the "Swing This Baby!" album is due out on August 11.

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As odd as it may sound, the current neo-swing revival may soon introduce a new notion into the collective pop consciousness: the swing video cliche.

In an effort to skirt the suddenly familiar images of cigars, cocktails, and jitterbuggers, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies tapped video visionary Jamie Caliri (the man behind surreal clips like Marcy Playground's "Sex And Candy" and Morphine's "Early To Bed") for their latest clip, "Brown Derby Jump."

"We got a lot of treatments for the video but we really didn't want to have something that was like: Hey get swing!," Daddies frontman Steve Perry told MTV News of the band's preparation for the new clip. "You know there's going to be like 2 million videos of the same thing, and we wanted to be more about the song [500k Quicktime] than about 'Hey, this is something that all you cats should be digging!' That's pathetic, you know, so we decided not to have martinis or swing dancers... we had actually swing dancers, the shadow silhouette sort of like on our album cover, but we didn't have anything that would really hit people over the head with, 'Hey we're a swing band, get it?'"

The product of this bold new union between the Daddies and Caliri recently hit the MTV airwaves, and has already found a few fans within the band itself.

"The best part of the video though is a classic car that's covered with pastries and a really beautiful woman standing next to it," guitarist Jason Moss said. "I don't know what it means, but it's a pastry covered car and it's great." [450k Quicktime]

"It really is," Perry added. "It's more surreal and it's beautifully shot. It looks really good."

Of course, the band didn't do too bad the first time around with its breakthrough video for "Zoot Suit Riot." That clip earned the band an MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best New Artist in a Video.

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With their "Zoot Suit Riot" album a bona fide top 20 hit and a frenetic slot on this summer's Warped tour, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies are doing something right, but is it swing?

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Following the lead of the H.O.R.D.E. tour, this year's Vans Warped tour has also vowed to kick in money to help relief effort in areas of Florida ravaged by forest fires.

Warped (which this year features Rancid, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Bad Religion, the Deftones, and a host of others) has announced plans to donate a percentage of the money raised at its August 8 stop in Orlando to the American Red Cross Florida State Relief Funds. The tour will kick in a portion of the money raised through ticket and merchandise sales on that date as well as funds raised at a silent auction set for the tour's August 1 stop in New York.

According to CNN, the fires that have been raging since May have now burned more than 480,000 acres of land and caused more than $276 million worth of damage.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after Blues Traveler frontman John Popper pledged that money raised at the August 19 date of his H.O.R.D.E. tour would go towards the Florida Fire Emergency Relief Fund (see "John Popper Talks About H.O.R.D.E.'s Vow To Aid Fire-Ravaged Florida").

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To mark the passing and legendary career of Frank Sinatra, two of the labels he recorded for during the golden age of his career have joined forces to remaster and reissue his landmark recordings.

Next week, Capitol and Reprise Records will begin releasing 20-bit digitally remastered versions of Sinatra's classic recordings from the 50s and 60s, an era in which his theme-driven albums paved the way for the idea of the concept album.

The reissues will each bear the words "Entertainer of the Century" on the packaging, a title that was to be bestowed upon him by President Clinton this week.

Not only that, he was direct. There was no screwing around with him. He just, 'boom,' put it right on the table, and there's not much of that in culture or music right now. There's a lot of irony and playing around and winking and stuff, and that's not how it was back then. That's not how Sinatra was either... or heart, as opposed to soul, you know. There's heart, you know. Where's the heart (today)?"

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies will continue to make the rounds on the radio station-sponsored festival circuit before joining this summer's Vans Warped tour.

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One of the final pieces of the summer concert puzzle is beginning to fall into place, as organizers for the Vans Warped Tour have announced a tentative itinerary for the rock & roll meets skateboarding fest.

This year's Warped Tour will launch June 30 in Phoenix, Arizona, and will feature a line-up that includes Rancid, the Deftones, the Specials, Reverend Horton Heat, NOFX, Bad Religion, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Die Toten Hosen, Def Con Dos and Frenzal Rhomb. The tour will play 30-plus dates over the course of six weeks.

As we previously reported, the Warped Tour also plans to merge with the Ozzfest for a combined mega-concert on July 18 in Minneapolis.

The dates for this year's Warped Tour:

• 6/30 - Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theater
• 7/1 - San Diego, CA @ Del Mar Rodeo Arena
• 7/2 - Anaheim, CA @ Arrowhead Pond Lot
• 7/4 - Lake Tahoe, CA @ Boreal Ridge
• 7/5 - San Francisco, CA @ Pier 30/32
• 7/7 - Seattle, WA @ KingDome Lot
• 7/8 - Vancouver, BC @ TBA
• 7/9 - Portland, OR @ Portland Meadows
• 7/10 - Boise, ID @ TBA
• 7/11 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Fairgrounds
• 7/12 - Boulder, CO @ Colorado University Field
• 7/14 - Oklahoma City, OK @ All Sports Stadium
• 7/15 - St. Louis, MO @ Riverport Lot
• 7/16 - Chicago, IL @ TBA
• 7/17 - Milwaukee, WI @ TBA
• 7/18 - Minneapolis, MN @ Somerset Park
• 7/19 - Kansas City or Lawrence, KS @ TBA
• 7/21 - Pittsburgh, PA @ IC Light Amphitheater
• 7/22 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Street
• 7/23 - Cleveland, OH @ TBA
• 7/24 - Toronto, ONT @ TBA
• 7/25 - Montreal, QUE @ Hippodrome
• 7/26 - Quebec City, QUE @ Place La Bourge Neuf
• 7/28 - Buffalo, NY @ TBA
• 7/29 - Northampton, MA @ Fairgrounds
• 7/30 - Philadelphia, PA @ Corestates Center
• 7/31 - Washington, DC @ Equestrian Center
• 8/1 - New York, NY @ Randall's Island
• 8/2 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Lot
• 8/4 - Jacksonville, FL @ TBA
• 8/5 - Orlando, FL @ Central Florida Fairgrounds
• 8/6 - Miami, FL @ Pompano Amphitheater
• 8/8 - Houston or Austin, TX @ TBA
• 8/9 - Dallas, TX @ TBA

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Minneapolis may never be the same. On July 18, that city will face the joint force of this summer's Ozzfest and Vans Warped tour as those annual outings merge for what promises to be one fierce date.

Both tours will hit Minneapolis' Somerset park on July 18 and will present their usual daily schedules which this year include the likes of Tool, Rancid, Limp Bizkit, the Deftones, Megadeth, NOFX, the Melvins, Bad Religion, and many more.

The date will also feature the usual midway offerings of each tour, and tickets for the double-stuffed show are $27.

This year's Warped tour, which kicks off on June 30 in Phoenix, will haul the Deftones, Rancid, the Specials, the Reverend Horton Heat, NOFX, Bad Religion, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Die Toten Hosen, Def Con Dos, and Frenzal Rhomb around the country for the summer (see "UPDATE: Deftones, Rancid, Specials, More Join Warped Tour").

Ozzfest, which begins its run on July 3 in Holmdel, New Jersey, will be packing a line-up that features Tool, Megadeth, Limp Bizkit, Sevendust, Coal Chamber, Two, the Melvins, Snot, Incubus, Ultra Spank, Kilgor, System Of A Down, and Ozzy himself (see "Halford And Two Join Ozzfest '98 Line-Up").

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October 21 [14:00 EDT] -- The Cherry Poppin' Daddies have been swingin' since 1989, when they were spawned in Eugene, Oregon by writer/singer/producer/guitarist Steve Perry (not to be confused with the Journey-man of the same name).

The Daddies' seven other members are guitarist Jason Moss, bassist Daniel Schmid, drummer Tim Donahue, keyboardist Dustin Lanker, trumpeter Dana Heitman, and saxophonists Sean Flannery and Ian Early.

The Daddies have been touring incessantly for eight years earning their swing stripes.

They would prefer not being lumped in with the current neo-retro fad; the Daddies were playing swing in the Pacific Northwest when grunge was all the rage and flannel-clad audiences didn't know what to make of them. Nevertheless, swing is currently in vogue due to movies like "Swingers" and bands like The Squirrel Nut Zippers; both have helped lay the popular ground on which the Cherry Poppin' Daddies are now grooving.

Their new LP, "Zoot Suit Riot," is a compendium of ten "hits" from their three former records plus four new tracks for their debut release on Mojo Records. The Daddies have formed a sympatico touring relationship with ska acts like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, and Less Than Jake.

Perry's favorite influences include big band greats Louis Prima, Fletcher Henderson, and Count Basie, otherwise known as the musical papas of the Daddies-O.

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