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Hoobastank opened their spring tour with 311 Monday with all the stage presence and salesmanship of a band bursting to ditch its warm-up act status. During their 45-minute set at the Paramount Theatre, singer Douglas Robb glad-handed the crowd at the front of the stage, hyped an upcoming show on a bill with Incubus and reminded the audience of his band’s name not once, not twice, but four times. (As if you forget a handle like Hoobastank.) “That was lovely,” Robb declared after several songs. It was a surprisingly Martha Stewart-ish term for a band pounding out kick-to-the-head mosh music.… Read more »

After all the chest-beating and back-and-forth over whether he would sing for the Grammys or the rival American Music Awards, pop star Michael Jackson will end up having performed on neither. A spokesman for the Grammy-sponsoring National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences said the “Gloved One” will not be performing on Wednesday night’s live CBS telecast of the music industry’s highest honors. Asked whether Jackson declined an offer to appear or whether he was never invited to begin with, the spokesman, Ron Roecker, said he did not know. Jackson’s manager referred queries to his label, Epic Records, but his… Read more »

Incubus’s two-week vacation from the stage is officially over-the group heads back out on the road to support its latest album, Morning View, with shows through March 23 in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand beginning today (February 25) in Osaka, Japan. The Los Angeles band will play five shows in Japan, including a two-night stand in Tokyo, another half-dozen Down Under, and two more in New Zealand. The tour comes on the heels of Incubus’s European tour and several days back in the states hyping its upcoming Honda-sponsored American tour, set for April. The group’s various goings-on also coincide with… Read more »

Bob Dylan, OutKast and Joshua Bell are among the latest confirmed performances for the 44th annual Grammy Awards telecast Feb. 27 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya and Pink will perform their cover of “Lady Marmalade” from the “Moulin Rouge” soundtrack, with Missy Elliott joining them onstage. These performances join the lineup of previously announced artists including Alan Jackson, Alicia Keys, Alejandro Sanz with Destiny’s Child, the Dave Matthews Band, ‘N Sync with Nelly, Train and U2. Bonnie Raitt, Ja Rule and Michael W. Smith have been added to the list of presenters, which… Read more »

Modern rock act Incubus will kick off a North American tour April 11 in Portland, Ore., in support of its latest Immortal/Epic set “Morning View.” The 50-date tour will be sponsored by Honda Civic, which put Blink-182 and Everclear out on the road last year on separate tours. An exclusive weeklong online ticket pre-sale will launch at 10 a.m. ET Saturday (Feb. 16) at civictour.com. “The band is really excited to be involved with Honda and the Civic Tour because it gives us a chance to play much bigger venues at a ticket price [$25] that we think is very… Read more »

Viacom yesterday reported results for the full year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2001. For 2001, Viacom reported a 16 percent increase in revenues to $23.22 billion, but also reported a net loss of $224 million, or a loss of $.13 per share, for the year ended December 31, 2001, including a net loss of $43 million, or a loss of $.02 per share, for the fourth quarter. Viacom recorded full year 2001 pro forma revenues of $23.20 billion and pro forma EBITDA of $5.07 billion, compared with pro forma revenues of $23.09 billion and pro forma EBITDA of… Read more »

Familiar tunes made registers ring at the nation’s music retailers last week as a remix collection, three hits compilations, a reshaped album and a live disc were the top 40 debuts. Epic’s “J to Tha L-O!,” a potpourri of remixes of Jennifer Lopez songs from her first two albums, took the top slot on sales of 155,000 in the week ended Sunday, according to SoundScan figures. “Ultimate Manilow,” Arista’s collection of Barry Manilow hits from the 1970s and ’80s, made an impressive debut at No. 3 on sales of 113,000. Manilow’s profile has been increased recently: he released his first… Read more »

Madonna will perform a song for the next James Bond film but will not be acting in it, her publicist said on Friday. The pop superstar had been tipped by the British media to make a cameo appearance alongside Irish lead Pierce Brosnan in the latest 007 spy caper. “She is doing a song for the film but she won’t be acting,” Madonna’s spokeswoman in London said. “We don’t know if it will be the title song yet.” Madonna clinched the deal after holding talks this week with Eon Productions, the 007 film’s maker, at Pinewood Studios, the Mirror tabloid… Read more »

MCA’s revamped version of Mary J. Blige’s “No More Drama” powered the disc’s 18-place jump to No. 10 on the U.S. pop charts in a week that saw the nation’s top nine albums remain in the same spots as last week. Blige’s disc sold more than 61,000 copies between its re-release Jan. 29 and Sunday, according to SoundScan figures issued Wednesday. Alan Jackson’s “Drive” (Arista) remains the No. 1 album on sales of 189,000, followed by Creed’s “Weathered” (108,000) and Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” (90,000), which has moved over 6 million copies to date. The Blige disc features a new… Read more »

The Stone Pony, a mecca for fans of Jersey shore rock ‘n’ roll, appears to have survived a brush with destruction, officials said on Thursday. The dilapidated nightclub, a musical home to such legends as Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith, will be incorporated into a tentative plan to help revitalize the decayed beachfront of Asbury Park, New Jersey, they said. Original plans called for the Stone Pony – the best-known place to catch an impromptu Springsteen appearance – to be demolished or moved, but a rollicking campaign by devoted patrons ensued to preserve the squat, grimy building now sitting amid… Read more »