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Highly successful, wholly-owned independent record label, Beyond Music, a division of the Left Bank Organization, has entered into a distribution deal with the industry’s leading distribution company, Universal Music & Video Distribution (UMVD), it was jointly announced by Alan Kovac, Chairman and CEO, Beyond Music and Jim Urie, President, UMVD. Beyond Music’s first release through UMVD will be music’s first female’s of rock – the Go-Go’s highly anticipated, all-new studio album in seventeen years, titled God Bless the Go-Go’s which will be released on May 15, 2001. “Unforgiven,” the band’s first single released to radio is seeing a tremendous amount… 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 »

The Boys’ previously announced summer tour, which begins June 8 in their hometown of Orlando, Florida, has just added venues to its itinerary. The trek is in support of the group’s latest album, the multiplatinum Black & Blue, which has sold nearly 5 million copies since its release in November, according to SoundScan. Reggae-pop star Shaggy, with the momentum of his fifth album, Hotshot, at his back, and 19-year-old singer/pianist Krystal, whose Me and My Piano is scheduled for a summer release on the Boys’ own as-yet-untitled label, will open all the dates of the tour. Over the weekend, the… Read more »

After cutting short a brief North American trek in February, Coldplay have announced plans to return to the States later this spring for a more extensive tour, set to kick off May 24 in Boston. The wistful Brit rock group has tapped Modesto, California’s Grandaddy to serve as the supporting act on the tour, which includes appearances on May 27 and 28 at the HFS Festival in Washington, D.C., and a June 23 KROQ-sponsored show in Los Angeles, according to Coldplay’s label. Coldplay pulled the plug on a New York gig on February 16 – and abandoned shows in Boston… Read more »

The Backstreet Boys have announced the dates and cities for the summer portion of their North American arena tour, which comes in support of the chart-topping smash “Black & Blue” album (Jive). The new leg will get underway June 8 in Orlando, Fla., and wrap Sept. 1 in Little Rock, Ark. Shaggy, whose “Hotshot” (MCA) topped The Billboard 200 last month, will support on all dates. While fellow boy-band ‘N Sync is visiting stadiums on its current tour, the Backstreet Boys decided to continue headlining arenas, based on direct input from their fanbase. “After speaking to our fans, they’ve told… Read more »

Sulky Depeche Mode fans finally have something to smile about – the seminal synth-pop trio are launching a North American tour beginning June 15. The band – singer Dave Gahan and keyboardists Andrew Fletcher and Martin Gore – will embark on its first road trip in more than three years to support May’s Exciter, kicking things off in Montreal and winding through the United States before wrapping up August 14 in Los Angeles. Produced by Mark Bell, best known for his work on Bj—rk’s Homogenic (1997) and Selmasongs (2000), Exciter is the band’s first studio album since 1997’s Ultra. “Dream… Read more »