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Since the 2001 release of Slayer’s acclaimed album God Hates Us All, the band has been busy recording, receiving awards and garnering nominations. Kerry King is currently featured on “What We’re All About,” the Sum 41 track from the highly-anticipated Spider-Man soundtrack (out April 30 on Columbia). MTV aired a “Making Of The Video,” for the song, and the video is in rotation on the network. Slayer will perform “Bloodline” from God Hates Us All April 29 on the ESPN Show “Mohr Sports.” This airs 9:30pm PST and 12:30am EST on the ESPN network. Slayer was just named the “BMX… Read more »

Pop singer Jewel broke her collarbone and a rib when she was thrown from a horse at her boyfriend’s ranch Wednesday. Jewel was staying with beau Ty Murray, a major figure in the professional rodeo circuit, at his ranch near Ft. Worth, Texas, enjoying a five-day reprieve from a promotional tour, according to an Atlantic Records spokesperson. She was taken to a medical center and was undergoing treatment for the fractures and bruising at press time. Doctors have prohibited the singer from playing guitar or performing for at least a month, her spokesperson said. Travel is also not advised. The… Read more »

It’s official – Britpop is a flop in the United States, with not a single act on the U.S. industry barometer Billboard chart for the first time in nearly 40 years. Pop pundits insist that the disappearance of UK acts from Billboard’s top 100 singles chart is just a blip, but it follows a long decline in sales which critics say reflects the flood of manufactured bands on both sides of the Atlantic. Long gone are the days when bands like the Beatles dominated the U.S. singles charts. In 1964 the Fab Four held the top five singles in the… Read more »

AOL Time Warner Inc., the world’s largest media company, reported a net loss of $54.24 billion for its first quarter on Wednesday, the largest quarterly loss for a U.S. company, due to a massive balance sheet writedown mandated by new accounting rules. AOL took the write-off – the same amount as the net loss – because of a sharp decline in the company’s stock, which has fallen by more than half since the merger of America Online and Time Warner was announced in January of 2000. In the same period a year ago, AOL Time Warner had a net loss… Read more »

As first reported here last week, the Eagles will kick off their first North American tour in seven years May 31 in Reno, Nev. The 31-date trek will wrap July 20 in Biloxi, Miss., and comes as the group is working on its first studio album of all new material since 1979’s “The Long Run.” Pre-sale tickets for the Reno, El Paso, Texas, Portland, Ore.,and Moline, Ill., shows go on sale Thursday (April 18) through Yahoo!, and will be available Monday through Ticketmaster. Fans who buy tickets via Yahoo! will have the chance to win front row seats to a… Read more »

There aren’t any clever sex references in the title of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ follow-up to Californication, but that doesn’t mean the music is without a kinky quotient. “It’s going to spank your ass… in a good way,” singer Anthony Kiedis said Saturday at the ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards, where the band was given the Artist Contribution Award. The LP will be titled By the Way, and although the Chili Peppers are spending a little more time than expected on it, a spokesperson for the band said the album is still due in late June. “We could… Read more »

Island/UME will on May 14 release a box set containing Irish pop quartet the Cranberries’ first four albums, each expanded with bonus material from the recording sessions. “Treasure Box – The Complete Sessions 1991-1999” features digitally remastered versions of the original Island albums – 1993’s “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?,” 1994’s “No Need To Argue,” 1996’s “To the Faithful Departed,” and 1999’s “Bury the Hatchet” – as well as a total of 21 B-sides, remixes, and compilation tracks, plus redesigned artwork specific to each disc. The group’s 3-million-selling debut, “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why… Read more »

There aren’t any clever sex references in the title of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ follow-up to Californication, but that doesn’t mean the music is without a kinky quotient. “It’s going to spank your ass… in a good way,” singer Anthony Kiedis said Saturday at the ESPN Action Sports and Music Awards, where the band was given the Artist Contribution Award. By the Way, as the album will be called, was originally due in June, but the Chili Peppers have spent more time in the studio than expected and are now eyeing an August release date. “We could be [done],… Read more »

Two New York tribute events are in the works for May 19, which would have been late Ramones frontman Joey Ramone’s 51st birthday, Billboard.com has learned. Ramone’s mother Charlotte Lesher and brother Mickey Leigh are organizing a benefit concert at the Bowery Ballroom, which will raise funds for the not-for-profit Joey Ramone Cure for Lymphoma fund. Lineup and ticket information is still being finalized. Just up the road at the city’s legendary CBGB club, Ramones creative director Arturo Vega will stage the Bowery Electric Festival. Last month, Vega supervised the recording of “The Bowery Electric,” a tribute song penned in… Read more »

Veteran British electronic duo Pet Shop Boys has lined up a spring/summer world tour due to kick off May 14 in Miami. The trek crosses over to Europe beginning June 12 in Madrid and concludes with 12 dates in the group’s U.K. home base. It comes in support of the pair’s eighth EMI studio album, “Release,” which debuts this week at No. 5 on the European Top 100 Albums chart. The set is due April 23 in North America. As previously reported, the group’s planned Wotapalava tour was canceled last July due to poor ticket sales and the failure to… Read more »