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By Alyssa Rashbaum


Red Hot Chili Peppers
Photo: Julian Schnabel

Everything old is new again with this week's batch of new releases.

Both Red Hot Chili Peppers and Counting Crows return after three-year absences, with By the Way and Hard Candy, respectively.

On the harder side, Long Island melodic hardcore outfit Glassjaw release Worship and Tribute as the follow-up to their 2000 release, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence. Mighty Mighty Bosstones aim for a strong comeback with A Jackknife to a Swan.

The LOX's tough-talking lyrical enforcer Styles drops his long-awaited solo LP, A Gangster and a Gentleman. While the self-proclaimed "hardest rapper out" has been enjoying heavy radio play the past few months with "Good Times," produced by Swizz Beatz, as well as the Pharoahe Monch-featured "The Life," he still dishes out underground chunks of funk like "I'm a Ruff Ryder."

Out Tuesday, July 9:

  • Aden - Topsiders (TeenBeat)
  • Verden Allen - 20 Year Holiday (Griffin)
  • Aphrodite - Aftershock (Gee Street)
  • Babalu - Lo-Tech Hi-Fi Spaceblues (Kindercore/EWB)
  • Bobby Bare, Jr. - Young Criminals' Starvation League (Bloodshot)
  • Bis - Plastique Nouveau (spinART)
  • Bonnie Bramlett - I'm Still the Same (Audium)
  • Cass - Spundae Presents (Spundae/Mute)
  • Jen Chapin - Open Wide (Purple Chair)
  • The Cherry Valence - Riffin' (Estrus)
  • Popa Chubby - The Good, the Bad, and the Chubby (Blind Pig)
  • Counting Crows - Hard Candy (Geffen)
  • Cousteau - Sirena (Palm Pictures)
  • DJ Spooky - Optometry (Thirsty Ear)
  • Death by Chocolate - Zap the World (Jetset)
  • Joey DeFrancesco - Ballads and Blues (Concord Jazz)
  • Echocast - Where the Future Ends (XS)
  • Roger Espinoza - Cafe Fuego (New World Music)
  • Mary Gauthier - Filth & Fire (Signature Sounds)
  • Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (Warner Bros.) Read about it ... Glassjaw Pulling Double Duty On Warped Tour, Ozzfest
  • Ian Gomm - Rock 'N' Roll Heart (Gommsongs)
  • Kieran Kane - The Blue Chair (Dead Reckoning/Compendia)
  • Sharon Katz & the Peace Train - Imbizo (Appleseed Recordings)
  • Koop - Waltz for Koop (Palm Pictures/Quango/JCR)
  • Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials - Heads Up! (Alligator)
  • Jason Loewenstein - At Sixes and Sevens (Sub Pop)
  • Lycia - Tripping Back Into the Broken Days (Projekt)
  • Magic Slim & the Teardrops - Blue Magic (Blind Pig)
  • Roots Manuva - Dub Come Save Me (Big Dada)
  • Meat Katie - Presents... Beyond the Darkness (4 Foot 11)
  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Jackknife to a Swan (Side One Dummy) Read about it ... Bosstones Look Back For Their Future On Jackknife
  • Lynn Miles - Unravel (Okra-Tone)
  • Bill Miller - Spirit Rain (Paras Recordings)
  • Abra Moore - No Fear (J)
  • Orbital - Back to Mine (DMC)
  • Dolly Parton - Halos & Horns (Sugar Hill)
  • Phillips, Grier & Flinner - Looking Back (Compass)
  • The Prom - Under the Same Stars (Barsuk)
  • Quixotic - Mortal Mirror (Kill Rock Stars)
  • Hugh Ragin - Feel the Sunshine (Justin Time)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way (Warner Bros.) Read about it ... Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Secret Sauce
  • Kevin Russell's Junker - Buttermilk & Rifles (Sugar Hill)
  • Six by Seven - The Way I Feel Today (Mantra/Beggars Banquet)
  • Sixer - Beautiful Trash (BYO)
  • The Slip - Angels Come on Time (Rykodisc)
  • Smilez & Southstar - Crash the Party (ArtistDirect)
  • Gary Stroutsos - Oru: The Natural Order (Paras Recordings)
  • Styles - A Gangster and a Gentleman (Interscope)
  • Styx - At the River's Edge: Live in St. Louis (Sanctuary/CMC Int'l)
  • Sun Palace - Into Heaven (Drake)
  • Superdrag - Last Call for Vitriol (Arena Rock)
  • Swan Dive - June (Compass)
  • Tabla Beat Science - Live in San Francisco (Palm Pictures)
  • Trustcompany - The Lonely Position of Neutral (Geffen)
  • Twinemen - Twinemen (Hi-N-Dry)
  • Butch Walker - Left of Self-Centered (Arista)
  • Bennie Wallace - In Berlin (Enja)
  • Kevin Welch - Millionaire (Dead Reckoning/Compendia)
  • Dhafer Youssef - Electric Sufi (Enja/Koch)
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By Joe D'Angelo with additional reporting by Alyssa Rashbaum


Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Dickey Barrett
Photo: SideOne Dummy Records

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are veteran artists in every sense of the word.

From the Boston underground of the late '80s, they built a following on their perky rock-meets-ska rave-ups and were able to parlay the attention into a major-label deal that yielded a million-seller, 1997's Let's Face It. In addition to releasing three other modestly successful LPs, they played an integral role in the third-wave ska movement that spawned the careers of No Doubt, Sublime and Smash Mouth.

On July 9 the eight-man collective follow up 2000's Pay Attention — their most commercially disappointing major-label LP — with A Jackknife to a Swan, their first LP for an indie (SideOneDummy) since 1992's More Noise and Other Disturbances (Taang!). Having been around the proverbial block a few times, singer Dickey Barrett takes this latest lap in stride.

"We're an independent band at heart despite what the labels on our records say," he said. "We're not looking to be a success by someone else's yardstick. We measure ourselves."

That Pay Attention sold less than one-tenth of what Let's Face It sold doesn't taint Barrett's view of the group's discography.

"As far as I'm concerned, it's been all ups," he explained. "That one record (Let's Face It) was more successful at that time because it was that time. ... To me it was like one album of quote-unquote success, but all of them were worthwhile, and all of it was fun, and I enjoyed every minute of it."

Releasing A Jackknife to a Swan on an indie isn't the only return to the good old days. Musically it's Bosstones circa early '90s: blaring horns that forgo melody in favor of might; jarring, chunky riffs; and an energetic bounce that makes it all uniquely danceable, without any contrived attempts to fit into the current climate (as were made in '92 on Barrett's least favorite Bosstones song, "Bad in Plaid," on which he raps).

"It's a return to the roots of the Bosstones," said Barrett. "It's like the old-school aggression. The horns are thick and fat and sound really, really good. I think it's doing what we do best: new-school songwriting with the old-school aggression."

Nostalgic evidence is found on tracks such as "I Want My City Back," a longing for Boston's Rathskeller, an early home for the band in its club days, and "The Old School Off the Bright," in which Barrett namechecks stereotypes of the Bosstones' diverse fanbase, from "skins with the pins," punks, drunks and layabouts to "steady-working Joes" and "blue-blooded bros."

Unlike some artists, Barrett didn't mind that some fans got an early taste of Jackknife when tracks were leaked online. His credo is that he makes music for his fans, and their opinion — not a record label's profit potential — is his main concern. So far the early line on Jackknife isn't at odds with the band's view of their latest opus.

"I made the album for people to hear. The version that's out, there's some incomplete songs on it, which is a little bit annoying, but that's fine. If they're enjoying it and the songs are incomplete, they're really going to like the album. I'm not Eminem. The whole world isn't waiting for my next album. So the people who are truly interested in hearing the thing before it's released are hardcore Bosstones fans. And they'll show up at the record store on July 9, too. I don't care. I want people to hear the music. I didn't start making music or choose to do what I do because I thought I was going to get rich from it."

Barrett and his bandmates are showcasing their artistry as one of the co-headliners on this summer's Vans Warped Tour, which kicked off Friday. The band shares top billing with fellow Warped vets Bad Religion. Considering that both bands released their debuts when many concertgoers were still in diapers, and that other long-in-the-tooth artists on the trek include Lagwagon, MxPx, No Use For a Name and Reel Big Fish, the Bosstones' old-school vibe should fit in well.

"That's the way the Warped Tour works," Barrett said. "You know what you're getting. It's a reunion for us for sure. [Most bands] are friends of ours. That's why it's good. It's not like you're going out with bands that you don't know. We're anti-social. You get to be my age, you don't want to take the time to make any new friends."

He's not a total curmudgeon, however. Barrett said he's interested in watching some of the tour's younger guns take their best shot. That is, so long as it doesn't interfere with the daily pinochle or cribbage game.

"Get away from my bus, you kids, you," he said in a mocking old-man voice. "Don't wreck my shuffleboard court. I spent all morning making that."

Judging by the quickness with which he spat the example, and the fact that he's well aware shuffleboard requires a court that one could craft alongside a tour bus, there's a chance he wasn't being completely facetious.

So a word to the wise: While sopping up the sounds of Warped Tour up-and-comers like Something Corporate, Alkaline Trio and Ozma, be sure to catch the Bosstones' set for proof that a band can make music for music's sake and still have loads of fun doing it. Just don't bother Dickey before he's had his nap — he tends to get cranky.

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By Joe D'Angelo


Bad Religion
Photo: Atlantic

Bad Religion and NOFX are among the bands set to warp under the summer sun, as the Vans Warped Tour has lined up an itinerary for its annual trek.

The summer tour staple will hit 46 cities, beginning June 21 in Nampa, Idaho, according to tour organizers. Following a string of Midwest dates, the punk-rock caravan travels south to Texas and Arizona before visiting California in early July. From there, it takes a northern route across the country and dips into the Southeast. The remainder of the scheduled 48 shows — consecutive bills are slated for Los Angeles and San Francisco — wind down in the Northeast and wrap up in Detroit, Michigan, on August 18.

In addition to Bad Religion and NOFX, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, New Found Glory, Lagwagon, Reel Big Fish, Alkaline Trio and Something Corporate are also on board to perform on one of Warped's stages (see "Warped Tour '02 To Feature Bad Religion, NOFX, New Found Glory, More"). Recent additions to the roster include Boy Sets Fire, Gob, Guttermouth, Riddlin Kids, the Damned, the Start, Tiger Army and Ultimate Fakebook.

Among new features for fans on this year's outing, is the Pirate Zone, a mini-water park of sorts which lets contestants take aim at artists perched in a dunk tank. Warped Are They Now? displays memorabilia from eight years of the tour, and those who think they beat their skins the fastest can put their percussion to the test in the Extreme Drumming tent, which is looking for the fastest drummer in the world.

Last year's tour featured Blink-182, Rancid, D12, Jimmy Eat World and Thursday, among others (see "Warped Tour Opener: Rancid, Pennywise, Shabby Sound, Trashed Goodie Bags").

Vans Warped Tour '02 schedule, according to organizers:

  • 6/21 - Nampa, ID @ Idaho Center
  • 6/22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Utah State Fairpark
  • 6/23 - Brighton, CO @ Adams County Fairgrounds
  • 6/25 - Omaha, NE @ Westfare Amphitheater Lot
  • 6/26 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Riverport Amphitheater Lot
  • 6/27 - Bonner Springs, KS @ Sandstone Ampitheatre Lot
  • 6/28 - Dallas, TX @ TBD
  • 6/29 - Houston, TX @ TBD
  • 6/30 - San Antonio, TX @ TBD
  • 7/2 - Peoria, AZ @ Peoria Sports Complex
  • 7/3 - Chula Vista, CA @ Coors Amphitheatre Lot
  • 7/5 - Las Vegas, NV @ Thomas & Mack Center Lot
  • 7/6 - Soda Springs, NV @ Boreal Ski Area
  • 7/7 - Tulare, CA @ Tulare County Fairgrounds
  • 7/10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • 7/11 - Los Angeles, CA @ Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
  • 7/12 - Ventura, CA @ Seaside Park
  • 7/13 - San Francisco, CA @ Pacific Bell Park Parking Lot
  • 7/14 - San Francisco, CA @ Pacific Bell Park Parking Lot
  • 7/17 - Calgary, AB @ Race City Speedway
  • 7/19 - Vancouver, BC @ Thunderbird Stadium
  • 7/20 - George, WA @ The Gorge
  • 7/22 - Billings, MT @ Oscar Park Amphitheater
  • 7/23 - Fargo, ND @ Fargodome Field
  • 7/24 - Milwaukee, WI @ Marcus Amphitheatre Lot
  • 7/25 - Noblesville, IN @ Verizon Wireless Music Center
  • 7/26 - Cleveland, OH @ Nautica Stage
  • 7/27 - Tinley Park, IL @ Tweeter Center
  • 7/28 - Minneapolis, MN @ Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Parking Lot
  • 7/30 - Columbus, OH @ PromoWest Pavilion
  • 7/31 - Cincinnati, OH @ Firstar Center
  • 8/1 - Atlanta, GA @ HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
  • 8/2 - Orlando, FL @ Central Florida Fairgrounds
  • 8/3 - Miami, FL @ Pompano Field
  • 8/4 - Tampa, FL @ USF Soccer Field
  • 8/5 - Jacksonville, FL @ Jacksonville Raceways
  • 8/6 - Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
  • 8/7 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheatre Lot
  • 8/8 - Bristow, VA @ Nissan Pavilion Lot
  • 8/9 - Camden, NJ @ Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
  • 8/10 - New York, NY @ Randalls Island
  • 8/11 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Park Lot
  • 8/13 - Pittsburgh, PA @ TBA
  • 8/14 - Buffalo, NY @ La Salle Park
  • 8/15 - Boston, MA @ Suffolk Downs
  • 8/16 - Montreal, QC @ Parc Des Illes
  • 8/17 - Barrie, ON @ Molson Park
  • 8/18 - Detroit, MI @ Comerica Park

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By Joe D'Angelo


New Found Glory
Photo: Eufloria

While winter maintains its chilly grip on most of the country, dreaming of this summer's Warped Tour should warm the cockles of any skate punk's heart. And with Warped veterans such as Bad Religion, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and NOFX returning to the eight-year-old festival, this year's trek is shaping up to be quite a homecoming.

Those bands, along with New Found Glory, Lagwagon, MxPx, Good Charlotte, Flogging Molly, No Use for a Name, Reel Big Fish, Ozma, Hot Water Music and the two bands favored to be this year's breakout acts, Alkaline Trio and Something Corporate, will participate in the summer outing, according to a tour spokesperson. Additional artists are expected to be added to the bill.

Warped '02 is scheduled to begin June 21, most likely in Boise, Idaho, the spokesperson said. The tour's expected 47 shows will wrap up August 18 in the parking lot of the Pontiac Silverdome at Comerica Park in Detroit.

Multiple stages have become a Warped staple — most years see five — and one of this year's will be something of a private affair. Indie label Drive-Thru Records, home to New Found Glory and Something Corporate, will implement their own stage — the first time a Warped stage has ever been devoted to a single label — to showcase their pop punk roster. While NFG and Something Corporate will stick to the "official" Warped stage, such bands as Home Grown, Allister, the Movielife, Finch, the Starting Line and Rx Bandits will grace the Drive-Thru stage.

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By Jon Wiederhorn


Smash Mouth
Photo: Interscope

Everyone knows extreme sports and rock go together like Oreos and milk. That's why this year's Gravity Games, which run September 7-9 in Providence, Rhode Island, will feature performances by Smash Mouth, Lit and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

The bands will each play a 90-minute set at the Downtown Waterplace Park, and festival organizers expect between 45,000 and 50,000 people to attend each night, according to a publicist for the event. Sevendust and Oleander played at last year's Gravity Games and drew similar crowds.

The Bosstones will play on September 7, with the pop punk band Riddlin' Kids opening. The second day will be headlined by Smash Mouth, with melodic punk act Unwritten Law warming up the crowd. Lit will perform on the final day, and eclectic sonic combo Sound of Urchin will open that show.

Admission to all concerts and sporting events is free. Gravity Games 2001, which showcases aggressive inline skating, downhill skateboarding, freestyle motocross, stunt skateboarding and street luge, is expected to draw upwards of 400,000 people over the three-day event.

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By Corey Moss


Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Dicky Barrett
Photo: MTV News

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are gearing up to throw it down on the road.

Building off their annual Hometown Throwdown shows in Boston, the ska sensations are launching the Your Town Throwdown Tour on March 15 in Milwaukee.

The 10-city, 21-show outing will find the Bosstones playing intimate venues with varying regional bands, including Voodoo Glow Skulls, Fenix TX, Mustard Plug and the Blue Meanies. Some bands and dates are still being finalized.

The Bosstones' Hometown Throwdown — a series of five sold-out shows held in Boston during Christmas week — has gone on for seven years, and inspired the album Live From the Middle East. "The Throwdown has become such a great event in Boston that we wanted to take that excitement on the road," Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett said in a press release. "We love being able to connect with our fans, and there's no better way than to throw down with them." Last month, the band announced Your Town Throwdown shows on March 16 and 18 at the Cubby Bear in Chicago, but later rescheduled for March 17 and 18 at the larger Metro.

Barrett's husky voice and his seven-piece band's pop compositions are an unusual match, though the Bosstones have been developing a hardcore following since their inception in the early '90s. The Boston band appeared in 1995's "Clueless" and scored a huge hit with "The Impression That I Get," from 1997's Let's Face It. The Bosstones played on the Vans Warped Tour last summer in support of their seventh album, Pay Attention. The band plans to begin recording its next album this summer, according to an Island Records spokesperson.

Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Your Town Throwdown Tour dates, according to Island Records:

  • 3/15 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave (with Mustard Plug)
  • 3/17 - Chicago, IL @ The Metro (with Pegboy, the Tossers and Teen Idols)
  • 3/18 - Chicago, IL @ The Metro (with Mustard Plug, Lucky Boys Confusion and Slackers)
  • 3/21 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry (with Blue Meanies)
  • 3/22 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry (with Lucky Boys Confusion)
  • 3/23 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
  • 3/24 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
  • 3/27 - San Diego, CA @ Cain's (with Buck-O-Nine, Agent 51 and Madcap)
  • 3/28 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction (with Code Name Rocky and Madcap)
  • 3/30 - Los Angeles, CA - The Whiskey (with Voodoo Glow Skulls and Lucky Boys Confusion)
  • 3/31 - Los Angeles, CA - The Whiskey (with Fenix TX and Madcap)
  • 4/1 - Los Angeles, CA - The Whiskey (with Flogging Molly, Sentimentals)
  • 4/5 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (with Voodoo Glow Skulls)
  • 4/6 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (with No Use for a Name)
  • 4/7 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (with Tsunami Bomb)
  • 4/8 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (with Flogging Molly)
  • 4/10 - Dallas, TX @ TBA
  • 4/11 - Austin, TX @ TBA
  • 4/12 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's
  • 4/13 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's
  • 4/14 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's

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    Green Day's Tre Cool

    Apparently heavy doses of punk are no match for torrential rain.

    Saturday's Vans Warped Tour stop at New York City's Randall's Island was postponed after hours of steady rain flooded the ground that was to have hosted the show.

    The rain began on Friday, and the Warped camp pulled the plug on the show on Saturday before getting things started, but after many had already made the trek out to the then swamp-like grounds of Randall's Island.

    Green Day, Papa Roach, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, NOFX, and the rest of the Warped Tour will now return to New York on July 24, which was to have been an off-date between Warped stops in Detroit and Washington, D.C.

    Here's how the reshuffled Warped itinerary looks:

    • 7/17 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Raceway
    • 7/18 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Iron City Light Amphitheatre
    • 7/19 - Buffalo, NY @ La Salle Park
    • 7/20 - Boston, MA @ Suffolk Downs
    • 7/21 - Montreal, QC @ Parc Des Illes
    • 7/22 - Barrie, ON @ Molson Park
    • 7/23 - Pontiac, MI @ Phoenix Center Street
    • 7/24 - New York, NY @ Randall's Island
    • 7/25 - Bristow, VA @ Nissan Pavilion
    • 7/26 - Hampton, VA @ Langley Raceway
    • 7/27 - Knoxville, TN @ Chilhowee Park
    • 7/28 - Jacksonville, FL @ Fairgrounds
    • 7/29 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Mars Music Amphitheatre
    • 7/30 - Orlando, FL @ Cent. Florida Fairgrounds
    • 7/31 - Panama City Beach, FL @ Club LaVela
    • 8/1 - Antioch, TN @ AmSouth Amphitheatre Parking Lot
    • 8/3 - Houston, TX @ Astroarena Parking Lot
    • 8/4 - Dallas, TX @ Starplex Amphitheatre
    • 8/5 - San Antonio, TX @ Sunken Gardens Amphitheatre Parking
    • 8/6 - El Paso, TX @ El Paso County Coliseum
    • 8/7 - Las Vegas, NV @ To Be Announced

    Related Artists ]]>     http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1435173/20000717/green_day.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1435173/20000717/green_day.jhtml 17 Jul 2000 04:00:00 EDT     <![CDATA[Fans "Rave" At Boston Festival; Over 130 Arrested]]>
    Godsmack "Voodoo"

    Over 130 fans were arrested and more than 30 others were treated for injuries at the WBCN River Rave concert, an all-day festival featuring Godsmack, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Filter, Everclear, Static-X, Cypress Hill, and Stone Temple Pilots, held in Foxboro, Massachusetts on Saturday.

    According "The Boston Herald," 56 people were arrested outside Foxboro Stadium, mostly on minor drug possession and alcohol-related offenses, while an additional 75 concertgoers were taken into custody inside the venue.

    The majority of those 70-plus fans were arrested for trespassing when a group of several hundred ticket holders in the stands rushed the field-level barricades during the set from Boston-area faves Godsmack (see "Sheila Divine, Godsmack, Sweep Boston Music Awards").

    Local police officials noted that the River Rave arrests were the most made at the Foxboro Stadium since 90 were arrested during a show by legendary jamsters the Grateful Dead in the late '80s.

    None of the injuries reported at the River Rave were considered life-threatening by authorities, with the most serious -- including several broken noses -- coming as a result of the mosh pit located near the front of the stage.

    Organizers estimate that a crowd of 50,000 attended the sold-out weekend River Rave, and despite the various incidents, radio station WBCN is hoping to hold next year's concert at the same facility.

    On Monday, the radio station issued an official statement apologizing for having hired an independent video production company that encouraged females to bare their breasts to cameramen who projected the resulting images on video screens next to the stage.

    Related Artists ]]>     http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1428947/20000530/filter.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1428947/20000530/filter.jhtml 30 May 2000 02:45:00 EDT     <![CDATA[Mighty Bosstones Flooded Out Of Whisky Gig]]>
    Mighty Mighty Bosstones "So Sad To Say"

    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones were forced to cancel a performance at the Whisky A Go-Go over the weekend when a water main and sewage pipe erupted in West Hollywood and flooded the legendary club with water.

    The band, which has just released its newest album, "Pay Attention," was in town to play a show for Los Angeles radio station KROQ on May 13. That gig has now been rescheduled to May 25 and moved to the Roxy Theater, as the Whisky is already booked for that make-up date.

    After the Whisky A Go-Go show was officially canceled around 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, the Bosstones stuck around the club, hanging out with the 300 fans that had already lined up outside the venue and signing autographs.

    When the Boston ska-sters return to L.A. on May 25, the group will also be performing its new single, "So Sad To Say," on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" in addition to the rescheduled Roxy gig.

    Aside from that show, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones still have a few radio festival dates left in its spring itinerary, including the Pointfest on May 21 in Maryland Heights, Missouri, before heading over to Europe in early June for two weeks' worth of pre-Warped Tour gigs.

    The 2000 Warped Tour, featuring the Bosstones, Green Day, The Donnas, and NOFX, among others, kicks off on June 23 in Fresno, California (see "Vans Warped Tour 2000 Maps Out Dates").

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    Bosstones' Dicky Barrett

    Well-tailored Boston ska-sters The Mighty Mighty Bosstones will release their newest album, titled "Pay Attention," next week, and in June the band will head out on the road as one of the featured acts on the Warped Tour 2000.

    The video for the first single, "So Sad To Say," was helmed by veteran director Marcus Nispel, and after premiering at a Boston Red Sox home game earlier this month, the clip has just been certified as "Buzzworthy."

    Mighty Mighty Bosstones frontman Dicky Barrett recently chatted with MTV News about the "So Sad To Say" video, which bears a slight resemblance to the group's breakthrough video, "The Impression That I Get."

    "When we made the video [for 'So Sad To Say'], we filmed and taped it in L.A., and it's the Bosstones being Bosstones and just delivering the song," Barrett said before attempting to describe the track.

    "I have so much trouble talking about Bosstones songs," he continued. "I think that the songs we create do a better job of speakin' for themselves than me sitting around [doing it], but I love that song. It's basically about love lost. Whatever kind of love you're involved in, whatever it may be, it's about love lost.

    "[But] you spend a day making a video for a song that you may have spent three or four years writing, and that can be [strange]."

    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones will play the radio-sponsored Edgefest in Dallas, Texas on April 29 along with 311 and Everclear, and the Bosstones will then continue playing U.S. shows throughout May before kicking off a European trek from June 2-15.

    This year's edition of the Warped Tour, which also features Green Day, Jurassic 5, and The Donnas, begins on June 23 in Fresno, California (see "Vans Warped Tour 2000 Maps Out Dates").

    The Bosstones' upcoming U.S. tour dates:

    • 5/1 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
    • 5/2 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
    • 5/5 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
    • 5/6 - St. Louis, MO @ Mississippi Nights
    • 5/8 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
    • 5/10 - Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
    • 5/11 - Portland, OR @ Paradigm
    • 5/12 - San Francisco, CA @ Slims
    • 5/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Whisky
    • 5/14 - San Diego, CA @ Cane's
    • 5/21 - Maryland Heights, MO @ Riverport Amphitheatre - Pointfest
    • 5/27 - Foxboro, MA @ Foxboro Stadium - WBCN River Rave

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