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Recipients of the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award and Trustees Awards were announced today by Michael Greene, President/CEO of the Recording Academy. Pianist and band leader Count Basie and recording artists Perry Como, Rosemary Clooney, Al Green, and Joni Mitchell will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards. Engineer/producer Tom Dowd and original rock disc jockey Alan Freed will be honored with Trustees Awards. Formal acknowledgment of the awards will be made in conjunction with the 44th Annual GRAMMY ® Awards ceremony, which willbe held at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on Wednesday, Feb. 27. The show will be a prime-time television special on… Read more »

A one-of-a-kind Gibson electric guitar, made especially for Lava/Atlantic recording artist Kid Rock, is missing and presumed stolen. The guitar, a new Gibson SG model custom-painted in a “stars and stripes” motif, was discovered missing by customs inspectors overseas, where Kid Rock arrived this week on his way to an undisclosed location to perform for U.S. servicemen and women as part of an MTV/USO holiday television special.            The guitar was last seen at Kid Rock’s Michigan studio, where it was packed in a large case with a number of other guitars and then transported to… Read more »

For P.O.D. this week, Youth of the Nation (the tour) had to take a backseat to “Youth of the Nation” (the song). The spiritual rap-rockers canceled a gig in Madison, Wisconsin, Wednesday and flew to Los Angeles to shoot a video for the tune, the second single from Satellite. “Youth of the Nation,” a powerful number written the day of the Santana High School shootings in the band’s hometown of San Diego earlier this year, is scheduled to hit radio and video outlets next month, according to Atlantic Records. The track includes the verse, “Maybe this kid was reaching out… Read more »

Clarkston Chophouse/Lava/Atlantic Records has announced the upcoming release of “COCKY,” the long-awaited new album from Kid Rock. The much-anticipated follow-up to 1998’s ten million-selling “DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE” is due in stores on November 20th. “COCKY” finds Kid Rock doing what he does best, stirring up a multitude of musical styles into his own unique brand of rock n’ roll – the very same sonic assault that blew up radio and MTV with such hits as “Bawitdaba,” “Cowboy,” “Only God Knows Why,” and “American Bad Ass.” “Forever,” the bombastic first single from “COCKY,” is set to impact at multi-format radio… Read more »

Kid Rock has been spending some quality time with a certain “Double G” – and we’re not talking about girlfriend Pamela Anderson and her infamous assets. Cocky, the Bullgod’s next LP, features a duet with Snoop Dogg, according to an Atlantic Records spokesperson, while Kid Rock returns the favor with a guest shot on Snoop’s upcoming record, the laid-back West Coast rapper said. Snoop appears on the Cocky track “WCSR” (short for “World Class Sex Rhymes”), the Atlantic spokesperson said. The album is due in stores November 20. “Forever,” the first single off the proper follow-up to 1998’s Devil Without… Read more »

On the heels of their hit single “Alive,” which has served as an inspirational anthem in recent weeks, San Diego’s rap-rockers P.O.D. are hitting the road to support their second major-label album, Satellite. The headlining trek, titled the Youth of the Nation Tour after a song off the quartet’s new album, kicks off October 18 in Phoenix, Arizona, according to P.O.D.’s publicist. Although 22 dates are confirmed at press time, additional shows are expected to be scheduled, extending the jaunt into mid-December. Satellite debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200 albums chart after its release September 11 and now sits… Read more »

Altering the title of Bush’s new single-“Speed Kills” to “The People That We Love”-might not be the only change Bush has to make on its forthcoming album Golden State. Another track on the October 16 release, “Head Full Of Ghosts,” contains the lyrics, “I’m at my best when I’m terrorist inside,” a line that Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale noted “is the worst line on the album in this time.” Bush’s Rossdale enacted his own preemptive strike for the song and its controversial line. He told LAUNCH what was behind the lyrics. “The fact that a lot of the time we’re… Read more »

Atlantic Records has announced that the eagerly awaited fourth album from Jewel, entitled This Way, will be released by the label on November 13th. This Way is Jewel’s first album since the 1999 release of Joy: A Holiday Collection, and marks her first album of all-new, self-penned material since 1998’s Spirit. The album’s first single, Standing Still, with lyrics by Jewel and music by Jewel and Rick Nowles, is set to ship to radio outlets nationwide this week. The companion video clip, directed by Darren Grant (Destiny’s Child), is slated to make its premiere later this month. Recorded in Nashville,… Read more »

Tabitha’s Secret will become a matter of public record with the October 9th release of Don’t Play With Matches. Broken up since the summer of 1995, the band contained three current Matchbox Twenty members: singer/guitarist Rob Thomas, bassist Brian Yale and drummer Paul Doucette. Tabitha’s Secret formed in Orlando in 1993 with Thomas, Yale, Doucette and guitarists Jay Stanley and John Goff. Stanley said the group had been offered record deals by Atlantic and Hollywood Records when the band fractured due to “third-party interference.” “Deals were struck with the [producer Matt] Serletic Production Company and not directly with the band,”… Read more »

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger will release his fourth solo album in November via Virgin Records, the label announced on its Web site. Jagger, who turned 58 last week, has been recording the unnamed album in various studios around the world with help from such musicians as Pete Townshend, Missy Elliott, Lenny Kravitz and Rob Thomas. “We could not be more thrilled that Mick has chosen Virgin as the home for his solo career,” Virgin Music Group vice chairman Nancy Berry said in a statement. “He is a legend whose timelessness is only furthered by his creativity, focus and drive.… Read more »