The Flaming Lips (file)
Photo: Warner Bros

Not since Elvis Costello crossed preppy with punk in the early '80s has it been so hip to be down with someone so square.

A range of artists from music's hipster elite have made contributions to the soundtrack to the upcoming "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie." The Flaming Lips lead the pack with the first single, "SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy," which will appear alongside tunes from Wilco, the Shins, Ween, Prince Paul and one half of the Dust Brothers.

Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne was even a bit surprised to discover the company he keeps on the album, set for release November 9.

"I actually suggested that maybe I could try to get Justin Timberlake to do a duet with us, as an off-the-cuff idea," Coyne said. "But [Nickelodeon series creator Stephen Hillenburg] said, 'I don't want any of those sort of commercial weirdos on there. I don't like those commercial people. I like you guys, and Wilco and Ween.' "

Using Hillenburg's criteria, the biggest "commercial weirdo" on the soundtrack must be Avril Lavigne, though her version of the "SpongeBob SquarePants" theme song ("Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? ... SpongeBob SquarePants!") is fathoms away from anything on her two hugely successful albums. Non-commercial-weirdos Wilco perform "I'm Just a Kid," backed by singer Jeff Tweedy's 8-year-old son Spencer's band, the Blisters. Mike Simpson, one half of production duo the Dust Brothers (Beck, Beastie Boys), lends "The Goofy Goober Song" and Motörhead re-recorded their 1992 song "You Better Run" as "You'd Better Swim."

"It's what we call 'reasonably weird adult music,' " Coyne explained of the flavor of the soundtrack. "I don't think a lot of people consider Wilco weird — well, maybe a few of their records are weird. There's kind of that post-Radioheadishness that goes on now that people accept as being weird, or sophisticated or something, and Wilco definitely falls into that."

Unlike some of the other soundtrack participants, Coyne wasn't that familiar with the world of SpongeBob SquarePants. A few episodes later, he realized the show isn't entirely kid's stuff.

"Hillenburg wanted people who liked SpongeBob, who felt some kinship with the characters, and the absurdness and surreal-ness of it, and I truly think the show is clever and funny and sick."

Once tapped to pen the soundtrack's single, Coyne watched the film but swore most of the details to secrecy — except for the one that inspired the inspirational and extensively titled "SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy."

"There's a scene in the movie where they confront this psychic wall of energy, and I thought, 'Whoa, that sounds like a great metaphor for the idea of being trapped inside your own life and wanting to break free from the restrictions of your own identity to become something new and different," Coyne said. "I thought that sounded like a very Flaming Lips-ish metaphor."

While working on the Flaming Lips' new album, At War With the Mystics, at longtime producer Dave Fridmann's studio in upstate New York, Coyne is also devising a concept for the "SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy" video. Naturally, all the descriptors Coyne had used thus far in the conversation — weird, absurd, surreal — will apply to the song's visual companion.

"I'm trying to come up with a concept that lets us be the Flaming Lips in SpongeBob's world," Coyne explained. "So I'm trying to think of scenarios where we can be pirates, really dirty and grimy. There might be a part where we'll be in space bubbles, like the kind I walk around in in concert. And what I think is the most inspired idea is ... whenever there's a shot [in the series] that shows SpongeBob's leg or arm, it'll zoom in and you see a few big hairs or a few pimples. I want to build a set where there's a giant elbow or arm or wrist, and when you look in close, there are pimples. Even closer and you'll see that the Flaming Lips are these singing, playing pimples on SpongeBob's arm. I think we can do that."

"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" opens in theaters November 19.

Track list for "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" soundtrack, according to Warner Bros. Records (not final order):

• Avril Lavigne - "SpongeBob SquarePants Theme"
• Flaming Lips - "SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy"
• Wilco - "Just a Kid"
• Mike Simpson - "The Goofy Goober Song"
• Electrocute - "Bikini Bottom"
• SpongeBob SquarePants - "It's the Best Day Ever"
• The Shins - "They Will Soon Discover"
• Ween - "Ocean Man"
• Tom Rothrock featuring Jim Wise - "Goofy Goober Rock"
• Motörhead - "You Better Swim"
• Prince Paul featuring Wordsworth - "Prince Paul's Bubble Party"
• Patrick - "Under My Rock"
• The cast of the film - "Now That We're Men"
• Plus Tech Squeezebox - "The Jellyfish Song by the Jellyfish Band"
• The Pirates - "The Spongebob SquarePants Theme"

• The Flaming Lips
• Wilco
• Avril Lavigne
• Motörhead
• Prince Paul

Justin Timberlake, Halle Berry, Tom Cruise, Avril Lavigne, Jim Carrey, Eminem, Jennifer Lopez, Nelly and Good Charlotte are among the nominees for the first-ever "TRL" Awards, airing live on February 17 at 4 p.m. The show hopes to heap praise on notable "TRL" celebrities and commemorate the finest moments in the show's history. ...

Linkin Park are lining up their second annual Projekt Revolution tour for April, and, though an itinerary hasn't been announced, they hope to visit cities where they've not played before. Mudvayne are confirmed to tag along on the trek, and an offer has been extended to Jurassic 5. Last year's outing featured DJ Z-Trip, Adema and Cypress Hill. ...

Aside from appearing in Coca-Cola ads, animal lover and Grammy-nominated artist Common is now lending his time and energy to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The rapper will appear holding a veggie burger in the group's latest ad campaign, which encourages the audience to "Think Before You Eat. Go Veg for Life." ... Prince Paul has set a May 6 release date for his next album, The Politics of the Business. Ice-T, Chuck D, Guru, DJ Premier, the Beatnuts and Tony Touch guest on the album, along with comedians Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. ...

Underworld, Paul Oakenfold and Sasha and John Digweed will headline the fifth annual Ultra Music Festival on March 22 at Miami's Bayfront Park. The event, which has become the centerpiece of the annual Winter Music Conference electronic music convention, will also feature Paul van Dyk, Tiesto, Hybrid, Timo Maas, Roni Size, Junkie XL, Goldie, Josh Wink, Erick Morillo, Seb Fontaine, Sandra Collins and many more. ... Liz Phair's long-awaited follow-up to 1998's Whitechocolatespaceegg is tentatively due on May 20. Phair debuted some of the new material at a performance at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, last week, where she also joined Ben Lee at a separate show for a cover of Dramarama's "Anything, Anything." ...

The enigmatic Deftones have nearly completed their fourth album, the follow-up to 2000's White Pony. Neither album nor song titles have been announced, though a new track is slated to appear on the soundtrack to "The Matrix Reloaded" and a tour announcement is forthcoming. ... Longtime Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy has started writing his autobiography, "RaTales," which should rival Mötley Crüe's "The Dirt" for pure cathartic decadence and debauchery. The book will chronicle Pearcy's experiences with the band from its club days to mega-stardom and finally through its eventual collapse. No publisher has signed on yet, but Pearcy hopes to have the book out by the end of the year. ...

Shootenanny! will be the title of the Eels' next album, due June 3. The 12-song LP follows 2001's Souljacker. ... Veteran pop-rock artists Yo La Tengo will begin a U.S. tour March 10 in Carrboro, North Carolina, to support their new album, Summer Sun, slated for release on April 8 on Matador Records. The trek wraps up April 25 in New York. ... Vincent Chin, reggae music pioneer and founder of VP Records, died Sunday of natural causes at his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Chin's VP Records is the world's largest independent reggae label and includes artists Sean Paul and Grammy-nominated Bounty Killer. ...

02.03.03

John Houston, Whitney Houston's father, died Sunday of complications from diabetes and heart disease. John, who managed Whitney's career and her mother's before her, recently sued his daughter for $100 million, seeking compensation for helping to get a marijuana charge against her dismissed and for getting her a new record contract. ...

Three strikes is a charm for Avril Lavigne. When her latest single, "I'm With You," topped the Billboard Top 40 Monitor chart, the pop-rocker became the first debut artist since 1994 to clock in with three #1 singles in a row ("I'm With You" follows in the footsteps of "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi"). The last act to accomplish such a feat was Ace of Base. ...

Elliott Smith wears the benefit show cloak of mystery — the singer/songwriter is slated to appear as the surprise guest at an anti-war benefit concert for the Hollywood group Neighbors for Peace & Justice. The concert, called "Love Not War," will take place February 16 at Echo in Echo Park, California. ... The Wylde Ratttz, a supergroup featuring Mike Watt, Sean Lennon, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley, Mudhoney's Mark Arm and others, have posted their unreleased recordings on their official Web site, www.wylderatttz.com. The group made an album after forming solely to record a cover of the Stooges "T.V. Eye" for the soundtrack to the 1998 flick "Velvet Goldmine," but it was never released due to contractual issues. ...

Comedian Richard Cheese and his lounge group Lounge Against the Machine have released a new CD, Tuxicity, on their Web site www.iloverichardcheese.com. The album features lounge covers of System of a Down's "Chop Suey!," Linkin Park's "One Step Closer" and the White Stripes' "Fell in Love With a Girl," among others. ... Former Invisibl Skratch Piklz turntablists Apollo and Shortkut have teamed with fellow DJ Vinroc to form Triple Threat. The trio's debut, Many Styles, is due March 3 and features appearances from the X-ecutioners' Rob Swift and Roc Raida, Talib Kweli and Mystic. ...

Zero 7 are eyeing a spring release for the follow-up to their Short List-nominated album, Simple Things. Meanwhile, the British electronic pop collective has released a 3D video for their latest single, "In the Waiting Line," and a collection of remixes by Roni Size, Photek and others. ... In other British electronic scene news, Groove Armada cofounder Andy Cato has produced the debut album from the Weekend Players, which their spokesperson describes as "next century soul." Titled Pursuit of Happiness, the album is due March 11. ...

On May 13 the family of late Who bassist John Entwistle will auction off over 150 of the Ox's favorite basses and guitars at Sotheby's auction house. Included is a pink Fender Precision Bass Entwistle called Frankenstein because it was assembled from the parts of five smashed basses. ... Of all the successful artists to emerge from Sweden, Roxette have been ordained as pop royalty by the country's king. On Friday, Carl XVI Gustaf honored the pop group's Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson, along with 27 of the nation's top artists, scientists, entrepreneurs and academics. There's a good chance the royal advisers never gave the king a Hives album to listen to. ...

• Justin Timberlake
• *NSYNC
• Eminem
• Jennifer Lopez
• Linkin Park

Masta Ace
Photo: JCOR

Even though rap dominates sales charts, radio and video play and has infiltrated the fashion and film industries, some hip-hop artists are less than pleased with the typically myopic, materialistic message of many chart-topping songs.

"I feel like the average hip-hop fan is not well-rounded at all," said Masta Ace, whose recently released Disposable Arts album makes keen, pointed observations about the current state of hip-hop. "Their musical diet is not a balanced one. It's a problem and it's unfortunate. There's nothing wrong with having some fun on a given night — I have fun like the next man. But it needs to be about more than that at the end of the day, but unfortunately not enough of our people have figured that out yet. My job in this is to be one of the providers of balance."

Indeed, the follow-up to 1995's Sittin' on Chrome exhibits the balance that such hip-hop acts as KRS-One, Outkast, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Mystic and the Coup provide. Disposable Arts contains several interwoven storylines that include one in which Ace enrolls in IDA, the Institute of Disposable Arts, where he studies hip-hop. Through skits, Ace's journey at the school is detailed, while the songs feature Ace's signature brand of clever phrasings, punchline-heavy lyrics, gripping tales of ghetto life and insightful political commentary.

Greg Nice delivers the chorus on the festive hip-hop commentary "Don't Understand," while the somber "Dear Diary" has Ace questioning his place in hip-hop's pantheon. The latter is a rare hip-hop moment, one where an artist portrays himself as vulnerable and confused. "Eh, yo, Ace/ Don't tell me you thinking about a return," Ace raps on the cut, assuming the role of his diary. "I'm kind of concerned/ When will you old cats ever learn?/ It's time to hang it up."

"It was self-analyzation," Ace said of "Dear Diary." "The lyrics on that song are the way I feel some days when I wake up. 'Why are you even considering making records anymore? Nobody's really checking for it anymore. You're wasting your time. There's maybe 10 cats that are going to buy your record.' I wake up sometimes and I feel that way. I'm being honest about my feelings and maybe saying some stuff that people might be saying."

Looking back at his career, which includes collaborations with Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Marley Marl and others, Ace offers the thankful "No Regrets," a reflective history of sorts where he gives praise to all of those who contributed to his better musical memories.

On a less explicit narrative line, Disposable Arts explores the relationship between Ace's character and his roommate at IDA, portrayed on the album by MC Paul Barman, a white, Jewish, Prince Paul affiliate. Some of the interaction between Ace and Barman was inspired by Ace's own trip to college. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island and interacted with many Maine and Vermont natives who had never been around black people and had a cursory knowledge of hip-hop, at best.

Barman's character actively pursues hip-hop, though. In fact, he's even performing a freestyle rap when Ace first meets him in their dorm room.

The interaction between Ace and Barman is sometimes tense and always entertaining. Like the songs on Disposable Arts, these skits provide a riveting story of their own. "When people spend their $15 or $16.99 to buy a CD, I think they want to feel like they bought something that's valuable, that something was a good purchase, that somebody actually took time and put together a project," Ace said. "They didn't just put anything together, throwing some songs back to back and put a label on it. I really respect the buyer, the fan, the listener because I'm one and I know that I want to be entertained. I try to look at it from that perspective and try to make a record as if I was going out and buying it."

As a fan of hip-hop, Ace hopes to encourage fans to respect the art form and its architects. When he attended a recent Run-DMC concert, he was disappointed with the lukewarm response fans gave the legendary Queens trio.

"They deserve a certain amount of energy, a certain amount of love," Ace said. "They should be made to feel like they are some of hip-hop's pioneers. When people talk about them or when they're mentioned, people that really know give it up, but a lot of people could care less.

"I look at rock and roll and I see cats that don't do an album for 10 years and then tour and sell out stadiums," he continued. "I feel like we need to reach that point in hip-hop. Fans need to embrace their past heroes, still uphold and respect music that was from 10, five, three years ago."

Masta Ace, who has released albums in three different decades, hopes that Disposable Arts as well as other releases from like-minded artists will help hip-hop regain its balance. Coming from an era where such disparate artists as Biz Markie, Public Enemy, N.W.A, Too Short and the Geto Boys were all popular, Ace knows that it can happen.

"We have to reach a point where people want to hear more than one thing," Ace said. "From a fan's perspective, people are just feeding more into the pursuit of ice, platinum, cars and rims, and that's all that it's about.

"Sometimes I get depressed and wonder, 'What's wrong with people?' We all would like a nice car and jewelry, but you want people to be a little more well-rounded than they are."

• Masta Ace Incorporated
• Biz Markie
• N.W.A.
• Public Enemy
• Prince Paul

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington
Photo: Paul Natkin/Image Direct

DJs ranging from Orgy's Jay Gordon to Handsome Boy Modeling School's Prince Paul will put their own spin on Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory for a remix album due in January.

"We've always been into remixes," Linkin Park DJ Joseph Hahn said Wednesday (September 26). "We talked about doing something like this even before we were signed."

Hip-hop producer the Alchemist and Dilated Peoples' Evidence, along with newcomers DJ Z-Trip, the Girl Scouts and the Humble Brothers have also signed on to remix tracks from the Southern California rap-rockers' 2000 debut.

"We hand-picked them ourselves," Hahn said. "Other bands have done stuff like this before, and you can just tell their label picked whoever the hot DJs were. We come from the DJ perspective, and we put a lot of thought into who we wanted. We got a good mix of hip-hop and electro."

Hahn and Linkin Park MC Mike Shinoda are handling the remixes of "With You" and "Crawling," respectively. Hahn said the Crystal Method and Beat Junkies producer Kutmasta Kurt may also participate.

Orgy's Gordon recently invited the band to his studio to hear his remix of "Points of Authority," which Hahn said had all sorts of technological twists.

Linkin Park have ventured further into turntablism in recent months with the famed X-Ecutioners, performing with the DJ collective at the MTV Video Music Awards and collaborating with them on "It's Going Down," the first single from the X-Ecutioners' second album, Built From Scratch (see "Linkin Park, Xzibit, Big Pun Turn Up On X-Ecutioners' Latest"). Hahn plans to direct a video for the single early next year, around the album's January 29 release date.

Meanwhile, Linkin Park are working on song ideas for their next album, which they hope to record in early March after a two-month tour with Korn that is currently in the planning stages.

"Honestly, we really aren't focusing too much on 'Let's see if we can get crazy and what we can do different.' We do what we've always done, and we just focus on the style of music we like to write, which is intermingling different genres of music," singer Chester Bennington said backstage at the VMAs. "It's just important for us to write good songs that we can enjoy and think other people can enjoy."

Linkin Park will finish out the year with Staind and Stone Temple Pilots on the Family Values Tour, which kicks off October 11 in Cleveland (see "Family Values Tour Dates Announced"). First they'll play KIOZ-FM's When Bands Attack festival in Chula Vista, California, on Friday with Staind, Godsmack and others. They will be donating their profits from the show to the Red Cross and have asked their record label and local businesses to match them.

• Linkin Park
• Prince Paul
• The Alchemist

Disco Biscuits' Jon Gutwillig
Photo: David Vann

Funky fixtures of the improvisational rock and DJ scenes will converge in Wilmington, Delaware, for the two-day opening of the Disco Biscuits fall tour.

On hand August 25 and 26 to help the Biscuits to kick off the jams, as it were, will be DJ Josh Wink, live house trio The New Deal, Baltimore ambient architects Lake Trout, Philadelphia improv-rockers Brothers Past, rising pedal steel star Robert Randolph and the Handsome Boy Modeling Club member Prince Paul, according to the Disco Biscuits' publicist.

Following the weekend get-together at the Kahuna Club, the Disco Biscuits will take off on their own beginning September 4 in New Haven, Connecticut. The trek crosses the country to wind down in Santa Ana, California, on September 30.

Although confirmed dates are sporadic after that — additional bookings are expected to round out the itinerary, however — the Disco Biscuits will stay on the road throughout the rest of the year in support of their most recent album, They Missed the Perfume, released in April. Recorded entirely on a Macintosh G4, the six-song album contains more than 50 minutes of free-form music rife with techno, rock, jazz, dub and classical influences.

Disco Biscuits tour dates, according to Megaforce Records/Hydrophonics:

12/8 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

Related Artists

• The Disco Biscuits
• The New Deal
• Lake Trout
• Prince Paul

]]> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1446734/20010817/disco_biscuits_the.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1446734/20010817/disco_biscuits_the.jhtml 17 Aug 2001 12:34:00 EDT Producers featured on hip-hop collective's Call It What You Want, due in July.
By Corey Moss

Prince Paul
Photo: Wendy Hope

Black Eyed Peas' Will I Am, Handsome Boy Modeling School's Prince Paul and Beastie Boys collaborator Mario Caldato Jr. are among the all-star producers featured on the new album from Los Angeles hip-hop collective L.A. Symphony.

Call It What You Want, due in July, includes the group's hot single, "Broken Tape Decks," which is #1 on Hits magazine's Rap Attack chart and #2 on CMJ New Music Report's hip-hop chart.

Will produced four tracks on the album: "Champion Birdwatchers," "Very Expensive," "Axion" and "Anything." Prince Paul, who is revered for his early production work with De la Soul, produced "Broken Now," and Caldato produced "L.A." Former Pharcyde rapper Fatlip guests on a track called "What You Say?," while the Black Eyed Peas also make sporadic appearances.

L.A. Symphony formed in 1997 out of the Los Angeles underground hip-hop scene that spawned the Black Eyed Peas and Jurassic 5. The collective — turntablist J Boogie and rappers/producers CookBook, Flynn, bTwice, Joey the Jerk, Sharlok Poems, UNO Mas, J-Beits and Pigeon John — released their independent debut, Composition No.1, two years later.

Big. Broke. L.A., a three-song EP from L.A. Symphony released earlier this year, is currently available online only at www.microrockers.com. The group is promoting "Broken Tape Decks" and the EP with five April shows in California.

L.A. Symphony tour dates, according to their label, Squint Entertainment:

• 4/4 - Santa Barbara, CA @ The Edge
• 4/14 - Los Angeles, CA @ Fais Do Do
• 4/19 - Anaheim, CA @ The Shack
• 4/28 - Mission Viejo, CA @ Mission Hills Church
• 4/29 - Long Beach, CA @ Nagas

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• Prince Paul

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Handsome Boy Modeling School

Prince Paul may be the godfather of the "skit" that is now a hip-hop album staple, and he's previously worked with the likes of De La Soul and Chris Rock. He released the star-studded album "Prince Among Thieves" earlier this year, and now Paul is at it again.

Using the alias "Chest Rockwell" and wearing a fake mustache, Prince Paul has teamed up with "Nathaniel Merriwether," a.k.a. Dr. Octagon producer Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, to create Handsome Boy Modeling School.

According to the superduo, their debut album "So... How's Your Girl?" was inspired by the opening scene in the classic movie "Saturday Night Fever" starring a young John Travolta. Fully in character as Mr. Merriwether, "The Automator" explained the connection to MTV News.

"So [John Travolta is] strutting down the street," Dan/Nathaniel began began,

"So... How's Your Girl?" by Handsome Boy Modeling School (a name which makes obscure reference to the short-lived, long-remembered sitcom starring Chris Elliott) is in stores now, and it features appearances by Beastie Boy Mike D, Money Mark, Sean Lennon, DJ Shadow, and Brand Nubian's Sadat X (see "Prince Paul And Dan 'The Automator' Tap Mike D, Money Mark, DJ Shadow For 'Modeling School'").

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• Prince Paul

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Prince Paul

After performing in June at the 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concert held in Chicago, hip-hop producers Prince Paul and Dan "The Automator" Nakamura are preparing to release a new album from its (concept) supergroup/side project, the Handsome Boy Modeling School.

Trugoy of De La Soul hooks up with Del Tha Funkee Homosapien for one track, Cibo Matto's Miho Hatori teams with Mike D of the Beastie Boys, Brand Nubian's Grand Puba joins Sadat X, while DJ Shadow shares the mix table with DJ Quest.

Another cut from the record, "Sunshine," features what's sure to be a rather bizarre collaboration between Sean Lennon, Money Mark, Father Guido Sarducci, Mark Hayden of the band Spain, and Tarnation's Paula Frazier.

The Handsome Boy Modeling School's "… So How's Your Girl?" is due out later this year.

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• Beastie Boys
• DJ Shadow
• Money Mark
• Prince Paul

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Prince Paul

De La Soul, Prince Paul, Rakim, Das EFX, and Craig Mack have all agreed to perform at a special benefit concert being held on August 24 at Tramp's in New York City to raise funds for one of their hip-hop colleagues, Poetic.

Poetic, who has written and produced tracks for the Rza-side project, the Gravediggaz, was diagnosed with colon cancer earlier this year, and his representatives tell MTV that Poetic's condition has reached an extremely critical stage.

The money raised by next month's show will be used to pay for Poetic's continuing chemotherapy treatments, and spokespeople from the rapper's label indicate that a second benefit show for Poetic is currently being planned for September.

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• De La Soul
• Prince Paul
• Rakim

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Bush's Gavin Rossdale

What started out as a one-off club date is turning into quite the little tour for Bush.

In addition to a club date in Pomona, California on Thursday and a private showcase gig in Los Angeles (see "Bush Confirms Club Gig; Settlement Looming In Label Dispute"), the band plans to hit small venues in San Diego and New York in the coming weeks.

Before playing Pomona's Glass House next Thursday and L.A.'s Roxy next Friday, the band will head to Montezuma Hall in San Diego for a show on Tuesday.

The band has also lined up three dates at New York's Irving Plaza on July 21, 22, and 23 as part of the annual Digital Club Festival (formerly the Intel Music Fest). The band joins a roster that includes Chuck D's Confrontation Camp, The Donnas, Frank Black, Prince Paul, Looper, Spain, the Delta 72, and many others.

The festival will sprawl over four nights in New York from July 20-23, and many other acts are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. Badges for the festival (which will be hosted in numerous NYC venues like Knitting Factory, Tramps, CBGB's, Mercury Lounge, Bottom Line, and more) will go on sale on June 14 and will give fans access to more than 350 shows.

Users can find more information on this year's Digital Club Festival by visiting www.digitalclubfest.com.

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• Bush
• The Donnas
• Prince Paul

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