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Rockers want to act, actors want to rock. What are you gonna do? For musicians who lack thespian aspirations, though, scoring a movie seems to suffice. Following in the footsteps of everyone from Bob Dylan and Jon Bon Jovi to Björk and Peter Gabriel, bandleaders Jonathan Davis, Billy Corgan and Jeff Tweedy and solo act Badly Drawn Boy are scoring some points with the Hollywood crowd this summer. Korn singer Davis teamed up with film scoring veteran and ex-Oingo Boingo keyboardist Richard Gibbs for the soundtrack to “Queen of the Damned,” released earlier this year. The pair co-wrote and performed… Read more »

Hobbits and elves rule this year’s MTV Movie Awards, with “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” receiving a leading six nominations. Elijah Wood was nominated for best male performance for his portrayal of the hobbit Frodo Baggins. Orlando Bloom, who played the archer elf Legolas, was nominated for male breakthrough performance. “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first installment of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, is up for best movie, as well as best villain (Christopher Lee), best action sequence and best fight. Other best movie nominees announced Tuesday are “Black Hawk Down,” “The Fast and the… Read more »

Cult rock duo Ween will put off the recording of its next studio album in favor of a summer North American tour. Dates begin Friday (April 19) in Asheville, N.C., and are booked through a June 23 appearance at the Bonnaroo Festival in Manchester, Tenn. Ween will also drop in May 25 at the Mountain Aire Festival in Calaveras County, Calif. “We plan on hitting many cities where we haven’t played in a few years – places like Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, etc.,” group member Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo writes on Ween’s official Web site. “Our plan is to… Read more »

For the first time in five years, the Grammy Awards will be held in New York. The Grammys’ return to the Big Apple was announced at a press conference Wednesday (April 3). The 45th annual Grammy Awards will take place at Madison Square Garden on February 23. Recording Academy President/CEO Michael Greene and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Sen. Charles Schumer were among those on hand for the media event. The awards ceremony and Grammy Fest – a monthlong series of events leading up to the Grammys that features performances, exhibits and workshops – are expected to draw $35-$40… Read more »

California pop/rock outfit Sugar Ray is hitting a host of small U.S. college campuses on its spring tour, which will kick off with a Feb. 15-17 stand at Caesars Tahoe casino in Lake Tahoe, Nev. The jaunt comes in support of the group’s self-titled Lava/Atlantic album, which debuted at No. 6 on The Billboard 200 in June 2001. The single “When It’s Over” is No. 20 on Billboard’s Adult Top 40 chart this week. As previously reported, Sugar Ray will perform at halftime of the National Football League’s Pro Bowl on Saturday (Feb. 9) at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. Jessica… Read more »

“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Michael Stipe asked the crowd soon after R.E.M. took the stage Thursday night at the venerable venue. “Practice,” the crowd blurted in unison. “Well, we didn’t,” Stipe responded. “So if you hear a bum note or something that doesn’t sound right, I urge you to sing louder in your head.” The tour-shy Athens rockers and granola-pop folkie Jewel were among those on hand for an evening of spirited entertainment at “You Gotta Have Friends: Partners in the Fight Against AIDS,” a benefit for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. ( from the event.) Judging… Read more »

Sugar Ray have put together a string of tour dates at college campuses around the country behind their fourth album, last summer’s Sugar Ray. But before hitting institutions of higher learning, the band will play three shows at Caeser’s in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, beginning February 15th. On February 9th, the band will play in Hawaii during the NFL Pro Bowl halftime show. Sugar Ray Tour Dates: 2/15-17 – Lake Tahoe, NV, Caesars Tahoe 2/19 – Tucson, AZ, Centennial Hall 2/21 – Amarillo, TX, Amarillo Civic Center 3/12 – Oshkosh, WI, University of Wisconsin 3/13 – Marquette, MI, Berry Events Center… Read more »

As eye-popping and bootylicious as the shapely models at the Girls Rule! fashion show may be, it’s likely that some onlookers and photographers won’t be staring at the runway. They’ll be looking at ‘NSYNC’s Chris Kirkpatrick, who will be debuting his FuMan Skeeto spring and summer sportswear clothing lines at the February 11 event. While Kirkpatrick has previously shown the garments on “TRL” and at Planet Hollywood in New York’s Times Square, this marks the first time the clothing will be modeled at a major fashion event. Girls Rule!, a show sponsored by Teen magazine, will take place at 6… Read more »

XM Satellite Radio, the leading satellite radio provider, capped its national launch today with celebrations in New York and Seattle in a coast-to-coast culmination of XM’s final 25-city “Power of X” “listen and ride” rollout tour. XM broadcast live today from blues legend B.B. King’s club in New York, where XM presented jazz great Wynton Marsalis with the first New York XM radio as an early holiday gift, and from the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where XM presented the museum with the first Seattle XM radio. The radios can enable any car or home stereo to receive XM’s 100… Read more »

At a news conference today in Chicago, XM President and CEO Hugh Panero today announced that XM Satellite Radio has expanded its launch of the first U.S. digital satellite radio service nationwide, bringing 100 channels of music, news, sports and entertainment across the entire continental United States. XM is marking the final phase of its national launch, across the entire Northern U.S., with a “Power of X” listen-and-ride tour – rolling city-by-city events beginning today in Chicago and scheduled over the next 25 days in 25 major cities including Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco and Washington DC, and culminating with… Read more »