Missing Persons frontwoman Dale Bozzio, 54, has
been convicted of animal cruelty in Ossipee, New Hampshire.
Bozzio had pleaded not guilty to several misdemeanor counts of animal
cruelty. She was convicted of one charge. She was
expected to be sentenced this week in District Court and faces up to a
year in jail and a $2,000 fine.
Poison frontman Bret Michaels was forced to cancel his Mar. 26th
performance at Elizabeth, Indiana's Horseshoe Hotel Casino due to a
severe case of laryngitis.
U2's No Line On The Horizon climbed a place to #2 on the Billboard 200
albums chart on sales of 76,000 copies. The Twilight
soundtrack was the greatest gainer ascending 11 spots to #3 on sales of
74,000 copies (bolstered by 5 new bonus tracks and a bonus
DVD.) Randy Travis' I Told You So: The Ultimate Hits Of Randy
Travis debuted at #21. Bruce Springsteen's Working On A Dream
dropped a spot to #36.
Carrie Underwood featuring Randy Travis' "I Told You So" soared 48
spots to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Eminem,
Dr. Dre & 50 Cent's "Crack A Bottle" fell 4 places to #22.
Annie Lennox's The Collection retained the #2 spot on the U.K. Albums
chart. U2's No Line On The Horizon fell 5 places to
#6. Bette Midler's The Best Bette climbed 12 spots to
#9. Lionel Richie's Just Go debuted at #10. Lionel
Richie & The Commodores' The Definitive Collection gained 22
spots to #14. The Dubliners' The Very Best Of The Dubliners
dropped 5 places to #21. Barry Manilow's The Greatest Songs
Of The Eighties debuted at #22. The Everly Brothers' 50 Years
Of Hits fell 2 spots to #25. Tina Turner's The Platinum
Collection dropped a place to #26. Roger Whittaker's The
Golden Age Of Roger Whittaker: 50 Years Of Classic Hits retained the
#35 spot. Michael Jackson's King Of Pop collection re-entered
the chart at #37. Luther Vandross' Lovesongs re-entered the
chart at #38. ABBA's Gold: Greatest Hits fell 8 spots to #39.
Jenkins/West/Jones/Gibb's Comic Relief cover of "Islands In The Stream"
dropped a spot on the U.K. Singles chart to #3. The
Saturdays' cover of "Just Can't Get Enough" fell a place to
#4. The Pet Shop Boys' "Love Etc" debuted at #14.
Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent's "Crack A Bottle" dropped 2 spots to
#23.
Sammy Hagar, Chad Smith, Michael Anthony and Joe Satriani's Chickenfoot
project will release their 11-track self-titled debut album exclusively
via Best Buy on June 7th and supported by a tour.
Elvis Costello will release his new T-Bone Burnett-produced acoustic
album, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane, on June 2nd via Hear Music.
Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Tony Hadley, Steve Norman and
John Keeble gathered on Tuesday on the HMS Belfast to officially
announced their reuniting for a comeback tour. The band had
been in talks about a reunion but the death of Gary and Martin's
parents (within 48 hours of each other) in January played a huge part
in making it happen. According to Martin, "Things happen in
life which are a lot bigger than a court case. We have all
had experiences which are bigger. We've all had kids, we've
lost parents and suddenly everything is put into perspective.
We only have one go at it so let's make the most of it." Gary
Kemp said, "This is my other family and I've missed them for the last
20 years." They have announced two dates in October at the O2
Arena for what will be a 'greatest hits' world tour.
Neil Young's long-awaited Archives collection will be released on June
2nd as a 10-disc Blu-Ray edition, a 10-DVD box and a CD version.
The Beastie Boys and David Byrne have something in common.
Both have brought rapper/singer/songwriter Santigold into the studio to
record guest appearances for their new albums. Byrne has a
new collaboration, "I'm Losing Myself," with New York dance trio
Brazilian Girls out via iTunes. Meanwhile, Byrne issued a
response to rumors of Talking Heads reforming saying that he has little
desire to reunite the band properly. "We did have a lot of
bad blood go down. That's one reason, and another is that
musically we're just miles apart."
Mandy Smith's 1988 album, Mandy, and Princess' 1986 album, Princess,
will be reissued in expanded and remastered editions on May 12th via
Cherry Pop.
Bruce Willis and model Emma Heming exchanged wedding vows at Willis'
Parrot Cay (in the Turks and Caicos Islands) home on Mar.
21st. The couple plan a smaller civil ceremony when they
return to California.
Heaven And Hell have premiered their new single, "Bible Black," off
their debut studio album, The Devil You Know, (due out Apr. 28th) at
NoiseCreep.com.
Dr. Love (yes, Kiss' Gene Simmons) will star in a new commercial that
will introduce the new Dr Pepper Cherry. He will reportedly
join Dr. J (Julius Erving) and Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) in
the TV spot. The drink reportedly "has just a 'Kiss' of
cherry flavor, making it amazingly smooth."
Great White's new 12-track studio album, Rising, will be released in
North America via Shrapnel Records on Apr. 21st.
9 To 5: The Musical begins previews on Apr. 7th with a formal premiere
set for Apr. 30th. Meanwhile, Dolly Parton has released the
title track as her 4th single off of Backwoods Barbie. A
video for the song has also been released.
Metallica's 163-track 'digital box set' will now be released via iTunes
on Apr. 14th collecting all the studio albums, soundtrack songs and
live recordings from various previously-released sources.
Due out in August, Pete Byrne has been busy in the studio working on an
all new Naked Eyes album, Piccadilly. The new video for the
title track can be found at the NakedEyesMusic.com site.
Tracii Guns has launched a new solo band called The Tracii Guns League
Of Gentlemen with a new Facebook group page at
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58576758692&ref=nf
German electronic pop act Boytronic are in the studio working on a new
album scheduled for release in September. The band was
revived in 2002 when Holger Wobker of the original line-up paired with
Hayo Panarinfo (of the second incarnation). Wobker remains in
the current line-up.
The Lemonheads will release their new covers album, Varshons, on June
23rd which will include songs by Leonard Cohen, Wire, G.G. Allin, Gram
Parsons and many others.
Ever wonder what happened to former Prince And The Revolution
keyboardist Matt "Dr. Fink"? Fink launched his own studio,
StarVu, in Minneapolis creating video game soundtracks and recording
his own album in 2003. Last year he talked about working on a
new solo album and even re-teaming with Prince on releasing the
unreleased Revolution album, Roadhouse Garden. Fink will see
his collaboration with former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland on the
song "Crackerman" appear on Wicked Garden: A Millennium Tribute To
Stone Temple Pilots due out later this year.
Chris Cornell recently told AlternativeAddiction.com that he wasn't
surprised that some fans had a negative reaction to his new album,
Scream. "Older American fans don't like it because they are
typically my core fans that really supported me in Soundgarden and
really loved that band." He went on to say, " As a song
writer and creative person, I have to do what makes me happy.
That changes, it goes into different worlds. Sometimes its
going to be in the world that those core fans of my earlier period
love, and sometimes it won't."
After being inactive since their sophomore album, 1989's Time Will
Tell, Seattle metal act Fifth Angel has entered the studio to work on a
new project. In a post on FifthAngel.com the band say,
"Hopefully, schedules permitting, we'll have some new music for
everyone in the next year."
Candlemass have made their new album, Death Magic Doom, available for
streaming exclusively at their MySpace page. The album is due
out on May 5th in North America.
Frontiers Records has secured an exclusive North American distribution
deal with Super D. Independent Distribution that will commence with
releases by Jeff Scott Soto, Jimi Jamison, Wetton/Downes Icon and White
Lion on Apr. 7th with additional titles added each month.
Madonna has reportedly applied to adopt a baby girl, Mercy James, in
Malawi. The singer is expected to arrive in the country over
the weekend and she or her associates are expected to appear in court
next Monday for the adoption proceedings. Mavuto Bamusi, a
national coordinator for their 60-member Human Rights Consultative
Committee, recently told Reuters that this adoption would also violate
the country's laws.
Gary Wright has been working in the studio on his follow-up to last
year's Light Of A Million Suns EP. During an interview with
Talking 80s Music he said fans are reacting well to the songs he's been
debuting live. He has also been joining Ringo Starr in the
studio to work a few songs on Starr's follow-up to Liverpool 8.
Pop and country artist Dan Seals, 61, died on Wednesday night at his
daughter's Nashville home from complications from cancer.
According to long-time manager Tony Gottleib, Seals was diagnosed with
mantle cell lymphoma 2 years ago when he fell ill in the studio while
recording songs with his brother Jim (of Seals & Crofts) for a
Seals & Seals album. Seals spent the 1970s as part of
the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley who scored a #2
hit in 1976 with "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight." Their
final charting single was 1980's "In It For Love" and Seals released
his solo debut later that year. Starting in 1985 with "Meet
Me In Montana" (a duet with Marie Osmond) he had 9 consecutive #1
country singles (11 total.) His final solo album would be
2002's Make It Home. Despite not finishing work on the Seals
& Seals album, 8 songs were completed and had been expected to
be released soon.
New Orleans blues vocalist/pianist Eddie Bo [born Edwin Joseph Bocage],
79, has died of a sudden, massive heart attack while out of town on
Wednesday according to close friend and booking agent, Karen
Hamilton. Bocage's career covered more than 5
decades. During the 1980s he recorded with the Dirty Dozen
Brass Band and Willy DeVille and re-launched his Bo-Sound label.