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NEW RELEASES

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TOUR UPDATES

Eric Clapton Sets Summer Tour Plans Eric Clapton has confirmed a two-month North American tour of arenas and outdoor amphitheaters, starting June 9 in Oklahoma City and ending Aug. 2 in Los Angeles. Here are Clapton's North American tour dates: June 4-6: Dallas (Crossroads Guitar Festival) June 9: Oklahoma City (Ford Center) June 11: Little Rock, Ark. (Alltel Arena) June 12: New Orleans (New Orleans Arena) June 14: St. Petersburg, Fla. (St. Pete Times Forum) June 15: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Office Depot Center) June 16: Jacksonville, Fla. (Veterans Memorial Arena) June 18: Atlanta (Phillips Arena) June 19: Greenville, S.C. (Bi-Lo Center) June 21: Washington, D.C. (MCI Center) June 23: Albany, N.Y. (Pepsi Arena) June 26: Philadelphia (Wachovia Center) June 28-30: New York (Madison Square Garden) July 3-4: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center) July 7: Toronto (Air Canada Centre) July 9: Buffalo, N.Y. (HSBC Arena) July 10: Cleveland (Gund Arena) July 12: Columbus, Ohio (Nationwide Arena) July 13: Auburn Hills, Mich. (Palace of Auburn Hills) July 15: Indianapolis (Conseco Fieldhouse) July 17: Chicago (United Center) July 18: St. Paul, Minn. (Xcel Energy Center) July 20: Milwaukee (Bradley Center) July 22: Omaha, Neb. (Qwest Center) July 24: Denver (Pepsi Center) July 27: Seattle (Key Arena) July 28: Portland, Ore. (Rose Garden Arena) July 30-31: San Jose, Calif. (HP Pavilion) Aug. 2: Los Angeles (Hollywood Bowl) Pixies The Pixies have begun booking dates for a fall North American tour, beginning Sept. 4 in Bend, Ore. Only six additional shows are so far confirmed through a Nov. 24 stop in Toronto, with more expected. Sept. 4: Bend, Ore. (Les Schwab Amphitheatre) Sept. 6: Seattle (Bumbershoot Festival) Sept. 18: Austin, Texas (Austin City Limits) Oct. 14: Atlanta (Fox Theatre) Nov. 11: Minneapolis (Wilkins Auditorium) Nov. 13: Chicago (Aragon Ballroom) Nov. 24: Toronto (Arrow Hall) Premium seating is available for these and many other Concert & Sporting events - SEARCH FOR TICKETS NOW!

 

NEWS

Possible boycott of name-clearing book: Michael Jackson fans demand answers   Unknown forces continue to hush the voice that could clear Michael Jackson of the 1993 child molestation allegations made against him. RADFORD, VA (PRWEB) April 9, 2004--Unknown forces continue to hush the voice that could clear Michael Jackson of the 1993 child molestation allegations made against him. Redemption: The Truth Behind the Michael Jackson Child Molestation Allegations divulges facts about the case not previously made available to the public. To read the entire store: http://musichoncho.com/news.html Bon Jovi Act in the next National Lampoon Movie Jon Bon Jovi has signed up to star in the latest movie in the hit National Lampoon series. Jon plays a shady former lawyer who decides to fund his latest cash-making scheme with credit cards - and ends up in court. The movie will start shooting this spring.

 

ITEM OF THE WEEK

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BIRTHDAYS

April 13 Lou Bega (1975) Aaron Lewis (Staind) (1972) Marc Ford (Black Crowes) (1966) Wayne Lewis (Atlantic Starr) (1957) Louis Johnson (Brothers Johnson) (1955) Jimmy Destri (Blondie) (1954) Max Weinberg (E Street Band) (1951) Peabo Bryson (1951) Al Green (1946) Jack Cassady (Jefferson Airplane) (1944) April 14 DaBrat (1974) Martyn Le Noble (Porno For Pyros) (1969) Joey Pesce ('til tuesday) (1962) Loretta Lynn (1935) April 15 Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) (1968) Samantha Fox (1966) Dave Edmunds (1944) Roy Clark (1932) April 16 David Pirner (Soul Asylum) (1964) Jimmy Osmond (1963) Gerry Rafferty (1947) Bobby Vinton (1935) April 17 Victoria Adams (Posh Spice of Spice Girls) (1974) Liz Phair (1967) James Keenan (Tool) (1964) Michael Sembello (1954) Jan Hammer (1948) April 18 Greg Eklund (Everclear) (1970) Les Pattinson (Echo & The Bunnymen) (1958) Lennie Baker (Sha Na Na) (1946) Mike Vickers (Manfred Mann) (1941) April 19 Rod Morgenstein (Winger) (1956) Mark Volman (The Turtles) (1944)

 

BIO OF THE WEEK

JANET JACKSON Singer, songwriter, actress. Born May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. The youngest of nine children born to Joseph Walter Jackson and his wife, Katherine, Jackson grew up in the affluence of a show business family. Her five brothers—Jackie, Tito, Marlon, Jermaine, and Michael—signed a contract with Motown Records in 1968 and would go on to rule the charts as The Jackson Five, with such hits as "I Want You Back," "Stop, the Love You Save," "ABC," and "Dancing Machine." In late 1969, Jackson took her daughters Rebbie, LaToya, and Janet, and her youngest son, Randy, to join her husband in Los Angeles, where they had moved to further the band’s career. (Tito’s twin brother, Brandon, had died within 24 hours of the twins’ premature birth in 1957.) The Jackson children were raised in the Jehovah’s Witness faith, as Katherine Jackson had been baptized as a Jehovah’s Witness in 1963. LaToya Jackson famously chronicled their tumultuous childhood—including charges of physical and sexual abuse by Joseph Jackson—in her tell-all autobiography, but Janet and others of her siblings disputed LaToya’s account. The tensions within the family certainly increased on account of Michael Jackson’s emergence as a solo artist and a superstar beginning in the early 1970s. Janet Jackson first appeared on stage in April 1974, singing and doing impressions alongside her brother Randy in the Jackson family’s Las Vegas act. In 1976, she appeared on The Jacksons, a summer replacement television show. Her performance earned her the attention of a producer who hired her to play Penny, a regular on the TV comedy series Good Times, from 1977-79. She continued her television work in the short-lived A New Kind of Family (1979-80), the sitcom Different Strokes (1981-2), and the teen drama Fame (1984-5), based at a New York City performing arts high school. Unlike many of her siblings, Jackson attended public school in Encino, California, for some time before switching to Valley Professional School, from which she graduated in 1984. During her time on Fame, she was able to break away from her family’s supervision while on location in New York. In September 1984, she eloped with James DeBarge, a musician in the group DeBarge, also on the Motown label. Jackson’s family disapproved of DeBarge, and the marriage was brief, as she applied for an annulment in January 1985, which was granted the following November. With the guidance of her brother Michael, with whom she is closer than are most of her siblings, Janet Jackson released her debut album Janet Jackson, in 1982. The album reached No. 84 on the pop charts and had three hit singles, including “Young Love” and “Give Your Love to Me.” The self-titled album sold about 250,000 copies, as did her follow-up, Dream Street, which featured contributions from her brothers Michael, Tito, Jackie, and Marlon. Jackson scored her first major success in 1986 with Control, released on the A&M label. Control, produced with the writing-producing team of Jimmy Jam (James Harris III) and Terry Lewis, sold eight million copies worldwide and featured two No. 1 singles, “What Have You Done For Me Lately” and the title track. Nominated for three Grammy Awards and nine American Music Awards, it won two of the latter. Jackson’s new, sexier style, stage presence, and dancing ability were all showcased in her videos, and combined to make her a star. Her next album, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, was a more socially conscious album, also produced by Jam and Lewis, who wrote nearly half the songs. The album spawned a number of hit singles, including “Black Cat” (written by Jackson herself), “Miss You Much,” and “Escapade,” and again sold around eight million copies. Rhythm Nation, which won three American Music Awards, made Jackson the first artist to have seven Top 5 hits from a single album. Jackson embarked on her first tour, in support of the album, in the spring of 1990. Jackson’s contract with Virgin Records, signed in March 1991, was at the time the largest recording contract in history, at $32 million. (Michael Jackson reportedly held off signing his so-called “billion-dollar” contract until after Janet signed so as not to steal her publicity.) In the summer of 1993, Jackson unveiled her fifth album, titled Janet as well as her first starring film role, in the drama Poetic Justice, directed by John Singleton, who had received two Oscar nominations for writing and directing his debut feature, Boyz N the Hood. The film received disappointing reviews, but Jackson received an Oscar nomination for “Again,” which she performed on the soundtrack. Janet (another Jam and Lewis collaboration), sold more than six million copies, and featured “Any Time, Any Place,” which became Jackson’s 14th gold single, tying her with Aretha Franklin as the female solo singers with the most gold singles. In addition, “That’s the Way Love Goes” earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Song. Jackson’s sixth album, The Velvet Rope (1997), brought her sexually suggestive style to a whole new level, generating some impressive buzz from critics but failing to reach the sales records of her three previous blockbusters. On a more personal level, Jackson made headlines in when it was revealed that she had been secretly married to her manager and longtime boyfriend, Rene Elizondo, for eight years. Jackson announced their separation in 1999, but the fact of their marriage (which Jackson’s sisters LaToya and Rebbie had earlier alleged to the press) became public when Elizondo filed for divorce in May of 2000. Jackson continued her acting career with a costarring role opposite Eddie Murphy in the blockbuster comedy The Nutty Professor II (summer 2000). A year later, she released another smash hit album, All For You, which like The Velvet Rope was more sexually explicit than her early albums. The success of All For You and her subsequent world tour, along with a reported $80 million recording deal with Virgin, put Jackson squarely back on top of the pop world. As if to confirm her success, Jackson won an American Music Award for favorite female pop/rock artist in January 2002. Jackson's star continued to rise until an incident at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004 caused her to a falter. During a live performance with Justin Timberlake, Jackson's right breast was exposed during a "costume reveal." The stunt caused an uproar among both fans and the Federal Communications Commission, and Jackson subsequently failed to appear at the Grammy Awards and dropped out of a television project in which she was to play Lena Horne at the elder actress's request. Quick Facts Birthdate: May 16, 1966 Birthplace: Gary, Indiana Occupations: Actor, Musician Claim to Fame: The album Control, which sold over eight million copies and produced five hit singles Nickname: Dunk Raised: in Los Angeles. Height: 5' 4" Significant Other(s): Husband: Rene Elizondo, choreographer; born 1963; started dating 1985; secretley married in 1991; divorced 2000 Husband: James DeBarge, singer; eloped 1984 when Jackson was 18; lived at the Jacksons's Encino ranch for several months before she had the marriage annulled Awards: 1993: Grammy: Best Rhythm and Blues Song, "That's the Way Love Goes"; award shared with Terry Lewis and James Harris III 1993: MTV Movie Award: Best Female Performance, Poetic Justice 1993: MTV Movie: Most Desirable Female, Poetic Justice 1995: MTV Video Music: Dance Video, "Scream"; award shared with brother Michael 1996: Grammy: Music Video, Short Form, "Scream"; award shared with Michael Jackson 1998: Grammy: Music Video, Short Form, "Got 'Till It's Gone"; award shared with director Mark Romanek Jackson signed an $80 million deal with Virgin Records, making her the music industry's highest paid performer. Janet’s latest release, Damita Jo, has held it’s own currently topping the charts. Check out these Janet Jackson products: Janet Jackson - Damita Jo (Explicit Version) - $12.95 Janet Jackson - Velvet Rope Tour (1998) - DVD - $12.62 Janet Jackson - Live in Hawaii (2002) - $21.12

 

MUSIC HISTORY

50 years ago Bill Haley and the Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" for Decca Records. The song is released the following year when it's included in the film "Blackboard Jungle." (1954)   Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle and Roll" is released. (1954)   49 years ago "Your Hit Parade," a nationally broadcast radio program featuring the hit records of the day, celebrates its 20th anniversary. (1955)   43 years ago The winners of the third annual Grammy Awards are announced. For the first time, rock & roll is noticeably absent. The big winner is Ray Charles, who wins Best Vocal Performance, Male, Best Performance by a Pop Single Artist for "Georgia on My Mind," Best Vocal Performane (Album) for "The Genius of Ray Charles" and Best R&B Performance for "Let the Good Times Roll." (1961)   42 years ago Columbia Records tapes Bob Dylan's concert at Town Hall, New York City, eventually releasing the recording of "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" made this evening. (1962)   41 years ago Bob Dylan performs at his first major solo concert at Town Hall in New York City. Billboard's review is typical of public reaction: "Dylan...is the stuff of which legends are made...His talent will be around for a long, long time." (1963)   38 years ago Jan Berry, half of the hitmaking surf-rock vocal duo Jan and Dean, runs his Corvette into an parked truck on L.A.'s Whittier Boulevard. Berry suffers total physical paralysis for over a year as well as extensive brain damage which makes it nearly impossible to return to performing. They do give it a try in 1973 but it turns out to be a fiasco. (1966)   36 years ago Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention perform at the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Dinner in New York City. Zappa looks down at the audience and declares the event "a load of pompous hokum...All year long you people have manufactured this carp, now for one night you're gonna have to listen to it!" Zappa later remarks, "We played the ugliest stuff we could...That's what they expected us to play." (1968) Life magazine does a piece on the Doors called "Wicked Go the Doors." Jim Morrison, reports writer Fred Powledge, "is 24 years old, out of U.C.L.A. and he appears in public and on his records to be moody, tempermental, enchanted in the mind and extremely stoned on something." (1968)   35 years ago Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer" is released. (1969)   33 years ago Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's live Four Way Street is certified gold even before it hits the LP chart. The double record set makes it to Number One giving the quartet the distinction of two Number One albums in two tries. It's the last LP the four will record together until 1988's American Dream. (1971)   31 years ago Rolling Stone reports a Buffalo Springfield reunion may be in the works. Says original member Richie Furay now with Poco, "It's all up to Neil right now." Stephen Stills have given his consent as has the original bassist Bruce Palmer and drummer Dewey Martin. The reunion doesn't happen. (1973)   29 years ago The movie version of "Tommy" opens. (1975)   Linda Ronstadt's "When Will I Be Loved" is released. (1975) Elton John started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Philadelphia Freedom', his fourth US No.1, it made No.12 in the UK. (1975)   27 years ago The Marshall Tucker Band's "Heard It In A Love Song" is released. (1977)   25 years ago The former vocalist with Elvin Bishop, Mickey Thomas, replaces Marty Balin as lead singer with Jefferson Starship. (1979) Poco receives a gold record for "Legend," their 12th LP. (1979)   18 years ago Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle marries actor Morgan Mason. (1986)   15 years ago Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers dies of viral meningitis. He was 77 years old. (1989) 14 years ago James Brown is released from a South Carolina jail on work furlough after serving 15 months of a six-year sentence for various drug charges. (1990)   11 years ago Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz. (1993) 7 years ago The Fugees play the first of two homecoming concerts in Haiti to raise money for Haitian refugees. The concerts end up costing more than they raised. (1997)   4 years ago Metallica files suit against Napster, Inc, Yale University, University of Southern California and Indiana University for copyright infringement. Napster's computer software allows users to trade MP3 music formats for free. Yale and Indiana are dropped from the suit after they block access to Napster on campus servers. (2000)   2 years ago Ozzy Osbourne received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (2002)

 

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