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With a hit atop Billboard’s album chart and a lead role in last week’s MTV hip-hop “Carmen,” what’s next for Destiny’s Child diva Beyonce Knowles? The 19-year-old is soon to debut as L’Oreal’s newest hair flipping spokesmodel while the R&B trio headlines the Total Request Live concert tour. Knowles says she’s growing wary of too much exposure. “I just hope people don’t get sick of us,” Beyonce tells Newsweek in its May 21 edition. “I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child…. There has to be some mystery so people are excited when they see you.” The group’s new… Read more »

The plot was spoiled well before Eric Clapton even took the stage of Dallas’ Reunion Arena for the maiden performance of his 2001 Reptile tour. Opening act Doyle Bramhall II and his band Smokestack may have kicked off Thursday night’s show with a thunderous roar reminiscent of Clapton in his Cream days, but the three chairs brought front and center before the main event was a tell-tale sign that there would be no more of that tomfoolery. Not that Clapton didn1t receive an honest-to-god, three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, guitar hero’s welcome when he walked out on… Read more »

Guns N’ Roses have canceled their entire European tour, which was to kick off June 1 at the Rock Im Park festival in Nurnberg, Germany. Guitarist Buckethead has suffered hemorrhaging and has missed rehearsals, according to Helter Skelter, the band’s European management agency. Doctors have been unable to determine the hemorrhaging’s cause, though the guitarist is going through extensive testing in California. With the deadline looming to ship the band’s equipment overseas, and given the rehearsal time required for a band that’s only performed together twice, the situation was deemed unworkable, according to a source close to the band. The… Read more »

Multi-faceted Coke Campaign Puts the Spotlight on Christina and Her Fans, Even Giving Fans the Chance to Win a Visit to the Set of One of the Singing Sensation’s Upcoming Music Videos The singing sensation will star in a new campaign for Coca-Cola to support its huge summer promotion, which will give fans the chance to win a backstage tour and meet Christina on the set of one of her upcoming music videos. The campaign also includes: * A television commercial breaking next week that shows how one fan reacts after winning the chance to hang with Christina. * Radio… Read more »

Dido had already delivered a solid hit album with her solo debut, No Angel. The ethereal collection of songs quietly chugged toward platinum status (“Here With Me” becoming the theme to the TV show “Roswell” helped) more than a year after its June 1999 release. The album finally cracked the Billboard 200 at #144 on May 21, 2000. Meanwhile, the one-time singer for trip-hop group Faithless toured as an opening act for the Barenaked Ladies and Sting, among others. Then Eminem stepped in. The X-rated rapper sampled Dido’s “Thank You” as the hook for “Stan” on his May 2000 Marshall… Read more »

Alanis Morissette is not letting a contract dispute with her label prevent her from hitting the road to try out some new songs. The Canadian pop singer will begin a 12-country tour of European festivals, arenas and clubs in Nuremberg, Germany on June 1, which also happens to be her 27th birthday. She will warm up with two shows at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater on May 25 and 26, her publicist announced Thursday. Tickets for the El Rey shows will be available exclusively at http://www.alanismorissette.com on May 13 at 10 a.m. PDT. The El Rey holds about 700 people.… Read more »

The members of Train must have thought they were dreaming when bandmate Pat Monahan called them late last summer about a new track that had popped into his head. “We had made our record already, and we were all back home, and Pat called and said, ‘Man, you have to hear these lyrics I came up with,’” recalls drummer Scott Underwood. “I guess he woke up from a dream and had the song and the melody and a whole concept in his head. The next thing you know, we’re all listening to Pat’s demo tape of that song, and it… Read more »

‘NSYNC hit their legion of fans with a double whammy Wednesday morning. Their record company, Jive, announced that not only has the group delayed the release of its new album, Celebrity, from June 26 to July 24, but the start of the boys’ PopOdyssey tour has been pushed back again as well. The band isn’t quite done recording the album, a Jive spokesperson said. The album will display the group’s writing and production skill on some of the tracks, and it’ll also feature contributions from Rodney Jerkins, Brian McKnight, the Neptunes and Wade Robinson. This is the second time ‘NSYNC… Read more »

With production and rapping courtesy of megaplatinum hip-hopper Kid Rock, you’d think Uncle Kracker’s debut, Double Wide, would have been a sure-fire hit. Kracker, who came to prominence as Kid Rock’s DJ, released his southern-rock-hip-hop album last June to a collective shrug. The poppy first single “Yeah Yeah Yeah” failed to hit the charts and a follow-up single, “Follow Me,” seemed headed for the same dead end. Then, earlier this year, “Follow Me,” with a video featuring a cameo from pal Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray, began to pick up steam. Suddenly the soft-spoken Kracker was camping out in the… Read more »

R&B superstar group Destiny’s Child did more than just survive in the album rankings this week – it rode an unprecedented wave of buzz and anticipation straight to No. 1, knocking fellow diva Janet Jackson down to second place. The Columbia Records trio’s third album “Survivor” shifted more than 663,000 records in its opening week, according to SoundScan data issued on Wednesday. The album got a healthy shot in the arm from relentless promotion in the weeks leading up to its debut, including copious radio airplay for the album’s title cut and a flurry of MTV specials, culminating in a… Read more »