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Rob Cavallo, Hollywood Records senior vice president of A&R, announced late last week that Geoffrey Weiss has been appointed to the position of vice president for the label. Based in the company’s Burbank headquarters and reporting to Rob Cavallo, Weiss will be responsible for the discovery and development of new musical talent. Commenting on the appointment, Cavallo said, “Geoffrey has a keen sense of what works in the modern music marketplace as both an A&R man and a marketing executive. We look forward to having his expertise here at Hollywood. Also, he makes a great soufflé.” “I look forward to… Read more »

German electronic music guru Paul Van Dyk is set to follow up the success of 2000’s Out There and Back with his first-ever mix CD this fall. The artist, who has reluctantly become a figurehead for trance music, is in the process of putting together a two-disc set called Politics of Dancing (due October 23rd on Ministry of Sound), an album he says will maintain the kind of progressive spacey epic known as the “Paul Van Dyk sound.” “I never did a DJ mix because I didn’t think I could quite bring across the atmosphere of a club,” Van Dyk… Read more »

Proper Management, in conjunction with GET Management and the Creative Artist Agency, announces the Songs 4 Worship – The Tour set for this fall with 10 shows in 10 days beginning on Oct. 11, featuring worship leaders Michael W. Smith, Darlene Zschech, Don Moen, Nicole C. Mullen, Caedmon’s Call and Watermark. “Worship music is a true passion of mine,” said Smith, who is releasing his first worship project on Sept. 11, “so to be on tour with this group is such an honor. We are all going to be on stage together every night with the goal of corporate worship,… Read more »

Jamiroquai will release their eagerly awaited 5th album for Epic Records on September 11th, 2001. Jamiroquai’s career album sales place them firmly among the UK’s top selling worldwide acts of the last ten years. The world wide release of ‘A Funk Odyssey’, the follow up to 1999’s 4 million selling “Synkronized” album, will be preceded by a single, ‘Little L.’ ‘A Funk Odyssey’ has been produced by Jay Kay with in-house Jamiroquai engineer Rick Pope. Kay has also co-written and arranged the ten track album- which constitutes Jamiroquai’s most varied and accomplished work to date. The album showcases different styles… Read more »

Columbia/Loud Records’ Stereomud will be headlining what promises to be one of the most aggressive, exultant and satisfying underground hard rock tours of the summer: the “Pain & Suffering” Tour featuring Columbia/Dv8 Records’ Endo. The “Pain & Suffering” Tour kicks off Monday, May 21 at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan and will feature either Columbia/Portrait Records’ Spike 1000 or Columbia Records’ Flybanger. Inspiration behind the name of the “Pain & Suffering” Tour can be found in the music of the bands: Stereomud’s current hit, “Pain”; Endo’s first single “Suffer,”; and “Make Me Suffer,” the first single from Spike 1000. Currently… Read more »