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Touring as one of Tina Turner’s backup singers inspired actress Gloria Reuben to make her own music. The former “ER” star wants her effort to resemble the acoustic sound of Bruce Springsteen’s album “The Ghost of Tom Joad.” Reuben doesn’t have a record deal, and said she may just put the music on her Web site. She spent two months touring the United States and Canada singing and dancing with Turner after four seasons on “ER.” “It was unbelievable. Just imagine what it was like being on a stage with her shaking your thing,” Reuben said. “In every city I… Read more »

When it comes to riding the boy-band wave in pop music, nobody has done it better than Lou Pearlman. The Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync and O-Town are just a few of the groups the Orlando-based impresario and his company, Trans Continental Entertainment, have launched on the road to hormone-fueled success. But in the past few months, Pearlman has hit some sour notes. About 15 key executives and staffers, including company vice presidents, the chief operating officer, a tour manager, accountants and publicists, have left or been laid off. O-Town, Pearlman’s latest breakout success, recently left for a management firm run… Read more »

The mother of A.J. McLean of the Backstreet Boys says she’s proud of her son for seeking treatment for depression and alcohol abuse. “I was very proud of him for realizing he had a problem and doing something about it on his own,” Denise McLean told Orlando television station WKMG on Wednesday. McLean began a 30-day treatment program earlier this week, forcing the group to postpone the rest of its U.S. and Canada tour dates. Denise McLean said she’s confident her son will return to performing. “I’m sure he’s going to want to go out there and talk about it… Read more »

Jaguar North America will share the spotlight with Janet Jackson. The new Jaguar X-Type Janet Jackson “All For You World Tour 2001” will highlight Janet’s latest album entitled, “All for You.” “We are pleased to be the first concert tour driven by Jaguar,” said Roger Davies, manager for Janet Jackson. Janet’s much anticipated tour began on Saturday, July 7 at the Rose Garden in Portland, Ore. The tour will continue to travel across the United States and Canada, ending with a final concert in Denver, Colo., on October 13. Janet will then head to Europe, where she will perform 25… Read more »

The Backstreet Boys have postponed the next month of their Black & Blue world tour to allow the group’s A.J. McLean to get treatment for alcohol abuse, depression and anxiety. The other four members of the group told MTV News on Monday (July 9) that they will postpone all dates of their tour until an August 7 show in Vancouver, British Columbia. In the meantime, McLean will seek help at an unspecified rehabilitation center, according to the group, who shared McLean’s plight with tearful fans on “TRL” Monday afternoon. “[A.J.] came to us yesterday and said, ‘Guys, I need help,’”… Read more »

Janet Jackson is calling it her “All For You” tour, but the pop diva may have trouble convincing thousands of Canadian fans that it’s all for them. The day before she was due to open her world tour in Vancouver, British Columbia, Jackson and her managers decided to postpone Thursday night’s show until Monday, July 9, blaming the late arrival of stage equipment for the abrupt schedule change. As a result, Jackson’s tour will kick off Saturday, July 7, in Portland, Ore., and a planned July 10 stop in Edmonton, Alberta, will be canceled altogether, organizers said. “This production is… Read more »

Janet Jackson is calling it her “All For You” tour, but the pop diva may have trouble convincing thousands of Canadian fans that it’s all for them. The day before she was due to open her world tour in Vancouver, British Columbia, Jackson and her managers decided to postpone Thursday night’s show until Monday, July 9, blaming the late arrival of stage equipment for the abrupt schedule change. As a result, Jackson’s tour will kick off Saturday, July 7, in Portland, Ore., and a planned July 10 stop in Edmonton, Alberta, will be canceled altogether, organizers said. “This production is… Read more »

NSYNC’s Justin Timberlake says he was just as concerned as many of his fans last week by a false report that had him in a coma and his girlfriend Britney Spears dead after a car accident.  The two deejays who perpetrated the hoax have now been fired from their jobs at a Dallas radio station.  “I know the first thing I did was call Britney because I was, like, ‘Well maybe it got twisted, maybe something did happen to her,’” said Timberlake, 20, yesterday in Toronto while conducting interviews along with his fellow NSYNC bandmates.  “‘Cause she was in L.A.… Read more »

If you’re barely out of your teens and you’re skateboarding onto the third or fourth wave of punk rock, you’d better have twice the sense of humor and half the pretension. Canada’s Sum 41 like to set things on fire and admit they sometimes wish they hadn’t chosen that name, and their debut video makes them out as vintage Orange County pranksters. In other words, they’re new-millennium punk – slick, self-aware master entertainers in baggy shorts. All Killer lays a hearty ground cover of la-la-la superpop underneath its metal-hip-hop-ska shrubs. The single “Fat Lip” veers smoothly from Beasties to Blink… Read more »

Depeche Mode, the influential British technopop band that flourished in the 1980s, kicks off a five-month tour in Canada this week with a new album and what one founding member said is a hard-earned feeling of serenity. “It is the first time for a long, long time, in about 15 years probably, that all three members of Depeche Mode are happy and stable in their private and working lives,” keyboardist Andrew Fletcher, 39, told Reuters in an interview. “It is enjoyable to be in Depeche Mode at the moment, and I would not have said that five years ago.” Fletcher,… Read more »