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After playing their final U.S. show of the year last week, Green Day are really getting down to work. They’re rehearsing new material for their best-of collection International Superhits, which comes out in the fall. At the same time, they’re fine-tuning a new batch of songs for their next studio album. Meanwhile, when he gets a free moment, bassist Mike Dirnt is finishing up the second record by his side-project, the Frustrators. Who said these guys were just a bunch of snotty, irresponsible punks? “We have a super-serious work ethic,” Dirnt said, an hour before heading to the first of… Read more »

A day after MTV’s 20th anniversary celebration, some people were nursing hangovers, but Busta Rhymes was feeling the kind of pain a cup of coffee wasn’t going to cure. Apparently old Bussa Bus injured his right leg during the show’s hip-hop medley. Gone was his usual regal swagger as he limped badly into Manhattan’s Hit Factory to play his new album, The Genesis, for a small group of guests that included his manager, Chris Lighty, and another of Lighty’s clients, Jo Jo Peligrino. “I feel so good right now,” Busta said with his usual animation. “This is the first album… Read more »

John Mellencamp and fiction writer Stephen King expect to complete the musical they’re working on sometime in February. Mellencamp said the two plan to meet in February to finish the musical, which he termed “an American story.” “Steve has written the most beautiful story,” he said. “I’ve written about five songs for this thing and there’s not one rock song anywhere near it.” Mellencamp said he still has about 10 songs to write for the production. “If this works like we think it’s going to, it’ll be great,” he said. The 49-year-old singer and his nine-piece band embarked on their… Read more »

O-Town and Myra will perform a free concert in New York on August 11 at Roseland Ballroom as part of Limited Too’s “Passion for Fashion Grand Finale.” Joining the extravaganza are Hilary Duff, star of the Disney Channel original series “Lizzie McGuire,” and celebrity stylist Stephanie Wolf, who has dressed such stars as Christina Aguilera, NSYNC, Britney Spears and Dream. The culmination of Limited Too’s six-city “Passion for Fashion” tour, at the event, Tween girls (ages 7 – 14), who are dressed like their favorite pop stars participate in a variety of fashion-fueled games involving lip syncing, makeovers and a… Read more »

The Justice Department opened an antitrust investigation of the online music business, focusing on two new joint ventures backed by five major record labels, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Monday. The probe, which is in a preliminary stage, is looking into possible anti-competitive problems posed by the joint ventures, lawyers close to the case said Friday, according to the report. The government is also expected to examine the major record companies’ use of copyright rules and licensing practices to control online distribution of their music, according to these people, the report said. The rival joint… Read more »

The U.S. Justice Department has launched an antitrust investigation into two online music services, both scheduled to launch this fall, that are backed by the world’s largest record companies. According to two senior executives in the record industry, federal investigators notified the record labels that they intend to examine possible anti-competitive aspects of the digital music ventures created by the music industry’s big five: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music, EMI Group and BMG. The Justice Department does not comment on ongoing investigations. The two online services under investigation, MusicNet and pressplay, are the record industry’s best effort… Read more »

Surrounded by scantily clad “secret service” babes and avid supporters, Jay-Z campaigned in the streets of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday during the video shoot for “Izzo (H.O.V.A.),” the first single from his forthcoming album, The Blueprint. “I’m already mayor of the streets, and I’m up for re-election,” Jay-Z said during a break, adding that the “election” is on September 18, the day of the album’s release. “It’s cosmic,” he marveled. Though Jay-Z’s role in the video didn’t require much of a wardrobe change – he wore a blue jersey outfit emblazoned with “Sprewell” and the number 8 – it did… Read more »

Rumors of teen-pop’s death have been greatly exaggerated, as genre standard-bearers ‘N Sync showed convincingly by posting the second-best debut-week sales numbers in history. Nearly 1.9 million copies of the superstar quintet’s Jive release “Celebrity” flew from retail shelves in the week ended Sunday, according to data compiled by SoundScan. That’s about a half-million short of the group’s record-breaking sales week with its prior LP “No Strings Attached,” which bowed in March 2000 and has sold 10.6 million copies nationwide to date. It’s more than enough, however, to top 2001’s second biggest bow, the Dave Matthews Band’s “Everyday” (RCA). The… Read more »

The Goo Goo Dolls will begin recording new songs for their seventh album this week in a Los Angeles studio. Tentatively titled Gutterflowers, it is the group’s first studio album in over three years. Rob Cavallo (Dizzy Up the Girl) will handle production duties for the Warner Bros. recording, which has an estimated Fall, 2001 release date. Songwriter’s John Rzeznik (guitar,vocals) and Robby Takac (bass, vocals), and bandmate Mike Malinin (drums) have been rehearsing the new material over the past few months and are looking forward to life in the studio. “It’s been three years since we’ve recorded any new… Read more »

The first-ever live album from Simon and Garfunkel’s heyday as a duo will be released next year. The untitled collection was initially planned as a single-disc that compiled a series of 1967 concerts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, but plans for the album may now extend into 1968 with some additional shows outside Simon and Garfunkel’s hometown. The material falls between Simon and Garfunkel’s third release, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966) and Bookends (1968), which proved to be their second-to-last release, before they split in 1970. Eleven years later, they reunited for a concert… Read more »