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‘NSYNC just keep digging deeper into the dance music community. First they recruited BT to produce Celebrity’s first single, “Pop,” and now they’ve hired Deep Dish to remix it. The Washington, D.C., house duo, who remixed Madonna’s “Music” and were nominated for the Remixer of the Year Grammy, sought to give the song a wide range of emotions. “It sounds like Basement Jaxx on estrogen,” Deep Dish’s Sharam Tayebi said Thursday (June 14). “It has all these crazy elements, but it’s tough. It has dark elements to it, but it’s kind of a happy song.” Deep Dish’s remix, which was… Read more »

Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, k.d. lang and Diana Krall will make guest appearances on Tony Bennett’s next album, Playing With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues, which is due this fall. The album will be Bennett’s first since 1999’s Grammy-winning Duke Ellington tribute, Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot and Cool. The seemingly ageless Bennett will launch a twenty-two-date U.S. tour with lang on July 25th in Portland, Maine. While on tour, the crooner will also celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday (August 3rd). As for lang, her popular appearance on A&E Live by Request, a show developed by Bennett with his… Read more »

The high priestess of rock and roll Stevie Nicks will embark on an extensive concert tour this summer with an itinerary that will take the superstar across the United States. Nicks will perform material from her new CD, Trouble in Shangri-La, which entered the Billboard album charts at No. 5 and has remained a Top 20 hit for the last three weeks. She will also cover material from her previous solo albums as well as her hits as a member of Fleetwood Mac. Billboard Magazine hailed Nicks’ new album as “this year’s comeback equivalent to Carlos Santana and her strongest… Read more »

R. Kelly has tapped new R&B stars Sunshine Anderson and Syleena Johnson for a summer theater tour that kicks off July 1 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The singer’s “Fiesta” remix featuring Jay-Z is #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles & Tracks chart. The original version appears on Kelly’s TP-2.com, which came out in November. On June 12 the singer will release TP-2.com – The Videos, a collection of music videos, interviews and other footage. Fellow Chicagoan Johnson’s “I Am Your Woman,” from her debut Chapter 1: Love, Pain & Forgiveness, was penned and produced by Kelly. Anderson’s “Heard It… Read more »

Chart-topping musical group O-Town will set out on an impressive nationwide summer tour in support of their Platinum selling debut album O-Town. The tour launches in Los Angeles, CA on July 6th and rounds out in September in Boston, MA. Following the success of their #1 selling single “Liquid Dreams”, O-Town are enjoying the success of their second smash single “All or Nothing” which is among the top three most requested songs on Top 40 radio. Concurrently, the stunning “All or Nothing” video directed by Marcus Raboy has been a top five request on MTV’s Total Request Live for over… Read more »

Fat chance Melanie Szepvolgyi is going to forget this year’s HFStival. Out of the 30-plus bands at the two-day musical extravaganza going on at RFK Stadium, she had wanted most to see Coldplay, the up and coming Britpop band. She was as surprised as anyone yesterday when lead singer Chris Martin pulled her up on stage to sing. “I was in the front of the stage, and nobody knew them up there. [People in the crowd] were being so rude and obnoxious,” said the still-glowing 24-year-old who had flown in from Columbus, Ohio. “Then they started playing my favorite song,… 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 »

Columbia/Loud Records’ Stereomud will be headlining what promises to be one of the most aggressive, exultant and satisfying underground hard rock tours of the summer: the “Pain & Suffering” Tour featuring Columbia/Dv8 Records’ Endo. The “Pain & Suffering” Tour kicks off Monday, May 21 at the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan and will feature either Columbia/Portrait Records’ Spike 1000 or Columbia Records’ Flybanger. Inspiration behind the name of the “Pain & Suffering” Tour can be found in the music of the bands: Stereomud’s current hit, “Pain”; Endo’s first single “Suffer,”; and “Make Me Suffer,” the first single from Spike 1000. Currently… Read more »

civictour.com – Everclear hits the road in late June, headlining their own tour and taking over the second leg of the Civic Tour (v.2001.2), which features blink-182 in nine cities on its first leg. Civic Tour is Honda Motor Co.’s most recent venture in the music arena. Opening for Everclear will be American Hi-FI and Mayfield Four in all Civic Tour Shows. In addition to performing across the country, lead singer/songwriter Art Alexakis, bassist Craig Montoya and drummer Greg Eklund have customized three 2001 Civic Coupes with black and orange stars and stripes, echoing the cover design from their most… Read more »

Tickets In Select Markets To Go On Sale This Weekend. Four-time Grammy Award winner Janet Jackson today announced one of the most anticipated concerts events of the year, “All For You World Tour 2001.” Named after her just released 7th album, the tour will be her first since the critically acclaimed sold-out Velvet Rope Tour of 1998. July 5th, at Vancouver’s 16,000-seat GM Place, will mark the first of 56 performances in the United States and Canada, concluding on October 13th in Denver, Colorado’s Pepsi Center Arena. Jackson will then head to Europe, where she will perform 25 shows in… Read more »