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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 »

Picture this: A kind of “MTV Unplugged” on The Travel Channel. Then you have an idea of what to expect from “Music In High Places,” airing 10 p.m. EDT Friday on MTV. This week’s outing offers an unusual and entertaining acoustic performance by the Deftones, a band whose ear-shattering, in-your-face music won a best metal Grammy this year. “This is a group that really played into the philosophy of ‘Music In High Places,”‘ said the show’s executive producer, Parvene Michaels. That philosophy was to take the Deftones out of their concert venues, unplug their electrical guitars, microphones and amplifiers and… Read more »

Mariah Carey has checked herself into a hospital for “extreme exhaustion,” her spokeswoman said Thursday. Cindi Berger would not say what Carey’s symptoms were or where she was, but said Carey’s busy schedule contributed to her illness and hospitalization Wednesday night. “She’s been working around the clock,” Berger told The Associated Press. In a separate statement, Berger said: “Carey has been hospitalized for extreme exhaustion after completing two movies, ‘Glitter’ and ‘Wise Girls,’ and simultaneously writing, recording and producing her album, the soundtrack ‘Glitter.”‘ Before going to the hospital, the Grammy-winning singer posted a message on her official Web site.… Read more »

Time was, pop stars who hit it big would ride out the success of an album and then lie low for awhile, presumably restoring their creative energies and also whetting the public’s appetite for the next record. Not any more. Today’s acts – wary of fickle fans and short attention spans – are pumping out albums in quick succession so as not to lose the spotlight to someone else. “Unfortunately right now, you have to just hit while you’re hot,” said teen pop starlet Jessica Simpson, who released her self-titled second album in June, a year and a half after… Read more »

Eminem helped put Detroit’s rap scene on the map. Now, he’s putting it on the silver screen. A drama loosely based on Marshall Mathers III’s experience as a suburban Detroit hip-hop singer who became a superstar, temporarily named “Untitled Detroit Project,” will begin shooting in and around the city in September. Imagine Films, producing the movie for distribution through Universal Studios, will open a Detroit production office in early August, the Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday. The newspaper quoted unnamed sources close to the production, but said a Universal Studios spokesman confirmed it. Eminem, a Grammy-winning rapper who has been… Read more »

Napster Inc. is replacing its leader with an executive from its German backer, who will try to steer the company out of its renegade past into a legitimate service that requires fans to pay for music. Interim CEO Hank Barry, a lawyer who came to Napster from a venture capital firm, will remain with the company in a reduced role, serving on Napster’s board of directors. His replacement is Konrad Hilbers, a veteran of the German media giant Bertelsmann AG, which became the song-swapping company’s primary financial backer last October. Hilbers most recently served as executive vice president and chief… Read more »

Universal Records rap star NELLY’s award-winning debut album, “Country Grammar” has just been certified seven-times-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), signifying sales of more than seven million copies. According to SoundScan, Country Grammar continues to sell an average of more than 40-thousand copies weekly. The top-selling debut album has been on the Billboard charts for more than a year, and has garnered the St. Louis native over ten award nominations. Most recently, NELLY earned three 2001 Source Award nominations for “New Artist Of The Year,” “Album of the Year,” and “Single of the Year,” for the title… Read more »

Macy Gray picked up more than postcards and passport stamps during her world tour supporting On How Life Is – she also brought home inspiration for her second album, The Id. The charismatic songstress says her world travels supporting her 1999 breakthrough exposed her to an eclectic mix of styles and sounds that inspired her to get wild in the studio. “You go to France and African rhythms are really big over there and then you go to Germany and you’ve got like German hip-hop,” Gray said Wednesday. “And then there’s all kinds of techno clubs and drum’n’bass and jungle… Read more »

The U.S. music industry came under attack in Congress on Friday over the marketing of lewd and violent songs to children, in a testy culture clash between politicians and the entertainment industry. Music industry representative Hilary Rosen was pelted with a barrage of criticism from Republican congressmen in particular, with one labeling her testimony as “shameless” to a hearing of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The hearing was called to look at the entertainment world’s efforts to curb children’s exposure to violent content, but the film and video game industry largely escaped… Read more »

Metallica lead singer and guitarist James Hetfield has entered a rehabilitation facility to undergo treatment for alcoholism and other addictions, the hard rock band said Thursday on its official Web site. The band was forced to postpone recording sessions for its new album, as well as a party for the official launch of its Web site originally set for July 29 in San Francisco. “James has entered an undisclosed facility and he will continue to receive treatment until further notice,” the band said in a statement. One of the band’s publicists declined to elaborate on what other addictions Hetfield is… Read more »