The Foo Fighters will kick off a fall tour on Oct. 20 in Phoenix, with hard-rockers Queens of the Stone Age opening most dates. The Foo Fighters are also scheduled to a appear at Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit, Oct.
28–29 in Mountain View, Calif. ...
Rock icon David Bowie told fans in his online community, BowieNet, that he is wrapping up a new, '60s-style album. "It's heads down again this month," he wrote. "By the first week in November, I should have finished the '60s album. At the moment it's called Toy." Bowie, who has accepted a small part in Ben Stiller's upcoming film "Zoolander," just released a three-disc live album, Bowie at the Beeb: 1968-1972. ... Matchbox Twenty guitarist Adam Gaynor has been reunited with his acoustic guitar, which was stolen during the band's Sept. 18 show in Gainesville, Fla., according to MTV News Online. The green Taylor acoustic, for which the guitarist had offered a reward, was returned by the thief a week later, with a note of apology, to Ocala, Fla., radio station WMOP-FM. ...
HOB Entertainment Inc. has announced plans to open nine new venues in eight U.S. cities by next year. Six will be House of Blues clubs in San Diego; San Jose, Calif.; Anaheim, Calif.; Denver; Dallas; and Kansas City, Mo. Also planned are three large venues, including an indoor theater in San Jose for 7,000 to 8,000 people, and outdoor amphitheaters in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City that will seat as many as 20,000 people each. ... The Foo Fighters' current single, "Next Year," is the theme song to "Ed," a new NBC series that premiered Sunday (Oct. 8). The series centers on a New York City lawyer who moves back to his small Midwestern hometown after losing his job and leaving his wife. ...
The Backstreet Boys scored last week's Hot Shot Debut on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart with "Shape of My Heart." The song, which is the first single from the group's forthcoming album, Black and Blue (Nov. 21), bowed at #39. ... Revamped as a five-piece, jam-rockers Blues Traveler will offer four new songs for download in the coming weeks at www.bluestraveler.com. The tunes are outtakes from sessions for their upcoming album, the group's first since founding bassist Bobby Sheehan died of an overdose last year. The band mounted a 26-date tour on Friday (Oct. 6) in Mobile, Ala., and relaunched its Web site on Monday with several new features. ...
The Squirrel Nut Zippers have been personally asked by presidential candidate Al Gore to perform at a fund-raiser Wednesday (Oct. 11) at Wake Forest University, according to a spokesperson for the group. The North Carolina band also played at 1996's inaugural ball for President Clinton. The group's latest LP, Bedlam Ballroom, will hit stores on Oct. 17. ... The world's first permanent John Lennon museum opened in Tokyo on Monday (Oct. 9), which would have been the singer's 60th birthday. Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, who attended the opening ceremony, has donated guitars, costumes, notes, photos and drawings to the exhibit. ...
Folk-rocker John Wesley Harding will join Fastball on the road Nov. 10 in Hartford, Conn., for seven dates, concluding Nov. 24 in Minneapolis. The singer will join Fastball onstage for a cover of the Stealer's Wheel song "Star," which he recorded with the group for a limited-edition single, available with the purchase of Harding's latest album, The Confessions of St. Ace. ... Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco will perform at a Friday (Oct. 13) rally in New York for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, according to a Vedder spokesperson. Vedder, who will play an acoustic set at the Madison Square Garden event, also performed at a Sept. 23 Nader rally in Seattle and has donated money to the candidate's campaign. ...
Wednesday's (Oct. 11) birthdays: Gary Mallaber (Steve Miller Band), 54; Daryl Hall, 51; Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind & Fire), 50; Blair Cunningham (Haircut 100), 43; Scott Johnson (Gin Blossoms), 38; and MC Lyte, 29.
— sonicnet.com staff report
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