The first date of the Vans Warped Tour, June 25 in Houston, was postponed due to excessive storms. That show will now take place on Monday, though fans can present their Houston ticket at any show on the tour and gain admission, should they be unable to attend on Monday. ...
Ashley Olsen has canceled a promotional trip to Australia to promote "New York Minute" so that she can be with her sister, Mary-Kate, who is being treated for an eating disorder at an undisclosed clinic. "Ashley Olsen has decided to be with her family at this time," Robert Thorne, CEO of the twins' Dualstar Entertainment Group, said in a statement. "While it is unfortunate that plans have been canceled, Mary-Kate and Ashley appreciate everyone's support and understanding at this time." ... The fallout from T.I.'s unauthorized video project last week at the Fulton County jail has been settled. Three guards have been put on temporary leave in connection with the incident. ...
As the majority of the dozen or so items before the court in the Michael Jackson case were about whether various documents — such as grand-jury transcripts and search warrants — should be kept under seal, the judge in the case ultimately decided on Friday that Jackson's right to a fair trial superseded the public's right to know. "I'm following the law," Judge Rodney Melville said. "I'm being very careful in following the law." The Web site maintained by the Santa Barbara County court system also shows that Melville has been holding private telephone hearings with the parties, but those, too, remain secret. Another hearing was scheduled for July 9. ... P. Diddy's annual "White Party" will be populated by models, actors, musicians, and special guests including John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Making a special appearance at Diddy's Fourth of July bash at the PlayStation 2 estate in Bridgehampton, New York, is none other than the Declaration of Independence. The document is an original copy owned by producer Norman Lear, who drives it around the country on his Declaration of Independence Road Trip. On the eve of Diddy's party, a Blue Star helicopter will take Diddy and the document to the mansion after Diddy's performance in "A Raisin in the Sun." ...
Madonna is headed to Israel after all — but not for a concert tour. The artist also now known as Esther had canceled three Israeli stops on her Re-Invention Tour because of violence in the region, but is now in talks to visit the Jewish holy places in October with a group of students studying Kabbala. "If it does happen, it will be completely private," Madonna's spokesperson, Liz Rosenberg, said. "No Whitney-and-Bobby-go-to-the-homeland sort of thing." ... Paris Hilton has two movies that have yet to come out — not those kind of movies, but legitimate roles in the horror films "House of Wax" and "The Hillz" — and she's just snatched up her next part. Hilton will star as the president of a sorority at South Beach University in "National Lampoon's Pledge This!," which has been described as "Animal House" meets "Revenge of the Nerds" meets "American Pie." ...
While plugging away on their next album, AFI have recorded a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like a Hole," though it's not yet known where the track will surface. A release for the follow-up to last year's breakthrough Sing the Sorrow has yet to be scheduled. ... The man who owned serial killer Ted Bundy's Volkswagen has filed a $4 million suit against Jonathan Davis, claiming he had a deal with the Korn singer to display it and other items in what Davis has been calling a "serial killer museum." The problem is Arthur Rosenblatt has never seen any of the $250,000 in funding Davis promised him. ...
"Yankee ... Hotel ... Foxtrot": Those three little words that loop for 90 seconds at the end of Wilco's fourth album of the same name are costing frontman Jeff Tweedy a few thousand dollars. The bit was an unlicensed sample from a 1998 collection of mysterious shortwave radio transmissions. Wilco and the British label that released the discs recently came to an agreement to settle the complaint in a U.K. courtroom. ... Raunchy rapper Peaches — in spite of her tough-girl image — has a soft spot for elephants, especially ones that share her name. She's written to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo to ask that they allow Peaches the elephant — along with her fellow aging pachyderms Tatima and Wankie — to retire to a sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, since the climate during Chicago's winter gets especially harsh. "At the sanctuary they could rest, recuperate and live the rest of their days in peace and dignity with other African elephants," she wrote. ...
"Rock Star," the reality show that would find a new singer for INXS seven years after the band's original frontman, Michael Hutchence, died, will be broadcast next summer on CBS. The series is being produced by "Survivor" creator Mark Burnett. ... One of Eric Clapton's favorite guitars was auctioned off for $959,500 on Wednesday at a Christie's auction in New York. It was the most money ever paid for a rock instrument at an auction. The sale broke Clapton's previous record of $497,500, which was set in 1999. The guitar sold Wednesday was one of 88 guitars and other musical artifacts that Clapton and other artists donated to raise money for the drug and alcohol treatment facility Crossroads Center Antigua. ...
Rufus Wainwright recorded so much material for his 2003 Want album that he ended up splitting it into two LPs, Want One and the forthcoming Want Two. Four tracks from the latter will be released on Tuesday via iTunes under the name Waiting for a Want. Wainwright describes the EP as "some of the more daunting tracks, the operatic, weird stuff, some heavy numbers that relate to my classical sensibilities." Downloadable artwork for the EP will be available from www.rufuswainwright.com; another installment of songs from Want Two is scheduled for the fall ... The four-CD box set by the Faces, Five Guys Walk Into a Bar, has been bumped to July 20. The set was originally slated for release May 25. ...
06.24.04
Whether or not you're ready for this jelly, Destiny's Child will be returning from their hiatus to perform on Pepsi's "Play for a Billion" game show. The trio will sing the new single from their upcoming album in front of a live audience in Los Angeles in September, the group announced on Thursday (June 24). "We are really looking forward to getting back onstage and performing together as a group," Beyoncé said. ...
Christina Aguilera is still planning to perform at least one show this summer. Despite her tour being canceled due to vocal strain, the singer has signed on to do a private concert at an event called Elements on July 10 in Pittsburgh. ... John Kerry's "A Change Is Going to Come" concert, which was postponed following former president Ronald Reagan's passing, has been rescheduled for July 8. The campaign fund-raising event will take place at New York's Radio City Music Hall and will feature performances by Mary J. Blige, Wyclef Jean, Jon Bon Jovi, Dave Matthews Band, John Mellencamp and Whoopi Goldberg, among others. But a lineup like that doesn't come cheap: tickets cost between $250 and $500. ...
On July 3, Jay-Z will host the "S. Carter Fourth of July Tennis" event at an estate taken over for the summer by PlayStation 2 in Bridgehampton, New York, to celebrate the release of his new S. Carter tennis shoe with Reebok. The party is expected to mimic those exclusive soirees held at the Wimbledon Club in England. ... Courtney Love's Web site message board, www.kittyradio.com, has been suspended due to lack of funds. The singer is asking for fans to make donations or buy "Free Courtney" shirts at www.getvexed.com, which will donate all proceeds to help pay the server bill. ...
The Pixies have added a new batch of dates to their fall tour of North America, which starts September 4 in Bend, Oregon. The first new date is November 27 in Montreal and the last scheduled show is December 5 in Camden, New Jersey. The Pixies are currently on tour in Europe. ... Slash and wife Perla Hudson became proud papa and mama to their second son, Cash Anthony Hudson, on Wednesday. Baby Cash was born to the Velvet Revolver guitarist and his ex-model wife at 1:54 p.m. in Los Angeles and weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces, according to a spokesperson for Velvet Revolver. The couple also have a 2-year-old son named London. ...
Tommy Lee's management and the Las Vegas Bellagio's Light nightclub manager have different stories about what caused the ex-Mötley Crüe drummer to end his DJ set abruptly on Sunday. The club said Lee had to be escorted out by security because he was playing inappropriate music and refused to leave. The club's manager also told The Associated Press that Lee ordered $800 bottles of Cristal without paying for them, repeatedly cursed at the crowd and shoved someone. Lee's manager denies the accusations and insists the drummer peacefully left the club with his own security in tow because he was unhappy with the music the club management wanted him to play. ... Former Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age drummer Alfredo Hernandez has joined Mondo Generator, the band fronted by former Queens bassist Nick Oliveri. The band's brief West Coast tour opening for MC5 launches Tuesday in Los Angeles and runs through July 3 in Seattle. ...
Accident Experiment, which features ex-P.O.D. guitarist Marcos Curiel, has been hit with a cease-and-desist order by the American Red Cross, which believes the band's logo is too similar to that of the health and humanitarian organization. Accident Experiment's debut album, United We Fear, comes out this fall. ... Ziggy played guitar, then got hit in the eye with a lollipop, then got a pinched nerve in his shoulder. David Bowie cut a concert in Prague, Czech Republic, short on Wednesday because of a pain in his shoulder, according to The Associated Press. About halfway through the performance he took a 10-minute break, then returned to the stage to perform two more songs. Bowie sang "The Man Who Sold the World" while sitting down, then apologized to the crowd and left the stage, ending the concert. A spokesperson for Bowie said he was suffering from a trapped nerve. On Friday, the singer was hit in the eye by a lollipop thrown by someone in the crowd at a concert in Oslo, Norway. ...
