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Citing an inability to find a suitable replacement for Sinead O’Connor, the Pet Shop Boys’ gay summer outing, Wotapalava, has been postponed. The 18-market tour was originally scheduled to kick off on July 13 in Miami and feature the Pet Shop Boys, O’Connor, Soft Cell, the Magnetic Fields, Rufus Wainwright, and DJs Junior Vasquez and Danny Tenaglia. But, on the day the tour was officially announced, O’Connor surprised organizers by dropping out due to “unforeseeable family commitments”. A month later, news broke that O’Connor, who just last year announced that she was a lesbian, is set to marry British journalist… Read more »

To commemorate their 20th anniversary, Pet Shop Boys will reissue five of their original studio albums – “Please,” “Actually,” “Introspective,” “Behaviour” and “Very” – on July 3, 2001. Each has been re-mastered and will be accompanied by a bonus CD in a custom slipcase. For the five bonus CDs, each titled “Further Listening,” the British duo have compiled a compelling selection of mixes, hits, previously unheard versions and b-sides that, together with the re-mastered studio albums, documents their career from 1984 until 1994. In addition, each album comes with a bonus 36-page booklet featuring full lyrics, rare archive photographs and… Read more »

Two words of advice to struggling musicians who can’t get a record contract: Don’t bother. Or rather, take a page from the book of Uncle Kracker, the 26-year-old pop singer whose debut record hit the top 10 on U.S. album charts even though he calls himself “probably the least ambitious person you’ll meet.” Many budding rock stars dream of great power and wealth in the music business. Uncle Kracker – real name Matt Shafer – dreams of a life changing tires, fishing and gardening. For the time being, though, he is playing a bemused accidental rock star and is on… Read more »

Columbia Records’ Crazy Town, Portrait/Columbia Records’ The Union Underground and American Recordings/Columbia Records’ American Head Charge have all signed on-board on what just might be the heaviest Ozzfest ever. Following a big British blow-out at the Milton Keynes Bowl in England on May 26, Ozzfest 2001 opens full-force stateside at the World Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois. Launched by the heavy metal pioneer and visionary Ozzy Osbourne, the first Ozzfest, a multi-band festival held in 1996, hit only two markets-Los Angeles and Phoenix-but paved the way for a full-on touring extravaganza the next year. Since then, the Ozzfest has become a… Read more »

Radio Free Virgin announced a sharp growth in Player downloads by reaching the 2 million milestone. Radio Free Virgin marked the millionth download of the proprietary Player in early January and has experienced exceptional growth, exceeding the 2 millionth download only 4 months later. The Radio Free Virgin Player offers listeners many popular features, including original album artwork, artist information for the track being played, reviews, purchase capabilities through the Radio Free Virgin store, as well as the popular Record function – enabling listeners to record their favorite songs or programming blocks from Radio Free Virgin’s over 40 channels for… Read more »

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Kickworks have signed a licensing agreement that will allow the San Francisco based start-up to create a legal digital music library for use by amateur webcasters. Under the terms of the agreement, Kickworks will have rights to the recordings by all RIAA members, and Kickworks will pay royalty fees to compensate the musicians. The Kickworks Digital Network, set to launch at the end of the year, will be fully compliant with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) according to a company announcement. In turn, Kickworks DJs, who can be anyone, anywhere, will… Read more »

Jane’s Addiction are finalizing plans for a summer reunion tour, which looks to be part of a roving festival frontman Perry Farrell is organizing. “We’re going to be taking out a show. It’s probably going to have different influences coming together and creating an ensemble,” Jane’s guitarist Dave Navarro said, “more like a traveling circus – whereas in most circuses there isn’t much of a headliner, but there’s a lot of things. Some people like the trapeze. Some people like the clowns.” Management for Jane’s Addiction said the band might also tour separately from the festival, which has taken on… Read more »