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Wed. July 19.2000 12:00 AM EDT |
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WIRE: FATBOY PROVOKES; ALICE COOPER TOURS; APHEX TWIN SCORES |
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Here's what a slow news day looks like if you hit the accelerator ... • We call a lot of albums here "eagerly anticipated." And why not? The record industry loves us for it. But you know an album is under some close
Janet Betts, whose 18-year-old daughter Leah died after taking ecstasy in 1995, responded to a report on www.qonline.co.uk that "Demons" lyrically linked God to the drug. "I get sick of fading pop stars trying to sell records by making outrageous comments about drugs in their songs," she said. "I think the government should put some legislation in place to stop these sorts of songs being sold in the market." Fatboy Slim himself told Q Online, "To be honest, any kind of religious reaction I can stir up to highlight the record and piss off reactionary religious people then all the better, as far as I'm concerned." Later in a statement he corrected himself. "The song is about chasing your demons away and being happy when they're gone. It has nothing to do with ecstasy." Anybody know if Sly Stone has a new album out this year? • It may be a brutal planet, but that doesn't mean Alice Cooper isn't going to pack up his guillotine and tour across it. The madcap mother of Marilyn Manson has got the rock, the makeup, and all the props you could wish for in his new set, and he's bringing it to at least four places this autumn: Cleveland (September 2), Detroit (September 3), Greenville, S.C. (October 13), and Chicago (October 15), according to Allstar. Stay tuned for more info. • Brian Wilson's wife has settled a suit against the producer who worked on his 1998 album, Imagination. Melinda Wilson sued producer/co-writer Joe Thomas, alleging that he was "using" the former Beach Boy to raise his profile in the music industry. Thomas countersued, accusing Mrs. Wilson of manipulating him and Brian. Neither side will disclose who got what in the settlement. But we suspect you won't hear anybody using the word "puppet" in the future. • Considering the tremendous thank you's we received after tipping off our users that Aphex Twin was DJ'ing in Northern Ireland, we thought we'd pass on the latest milestone in noise terrorist Richard James' career. He's providing the music to a film directed by video auteur Chris Cunningham. The 17-minute short appears at the "Apocalypse" exhibition at London's Royal Academy, which runs from September 23 to December 15. Don't forget to email us your review! • According to Billboard, Eric Clapton is getting ready to participate in his first Internet chat. That's not entirely correct: Clapton once did a chat with VH1.com back in the days when the Web site was held together with Post-it notes. We're still held together with Post-it notes, but Clapton's riding high on the charts with Riding With the King. He'll talk about that and more on AOL at 7 p.m. ET on Monday, July 24. • If you were Eminem you'd want to build an 8-foot fence around your house, too. It might keep you out of trouble. The only catch is his neighbors won't let him. Admittedly, this particular fence would forgo the white-picket look for security cameras, electronic gates, and some unfriendly prongs on top. But Sterling Heights, Mich., banned front-yard fences a few years ago, and the city isn't changing the ordinance to accommodate poor Em unless he makes the structure considerably shorter. • Does Eminem have any friends? Well, we don't know if Mel C of the Spice Girls could be called a friend. But she is a young pop star on the make. Hence her desire to work with the bird-flipping rapper. "I don't think you can put boundaries on people's creativity," said the high C. "I know what his music's about and I like it, we'd have to do something that suited both of us." • Remember the days when even the hint that Prince was digging into his bag of unreleased material was enough to send you into paroxysms of delight? You don't? Well, if you're a fan, then hustle on over to www.NPGonlineLTD.com. There Prince is letting any user nose around his vault, where unreleased cuts, samples, live performances, and outtakes are yours for the streaming. • Add Metallica to the list of bands who may think Napster is offensive, but have no problem with you slowly drinking your liver goodbye. On Tuesday, July 18, the thrash metallers rocked the House of Blues as part of Miller Genuine Draft's Blind Date promotion. Punters turn up and an unannounced band play. As one fan remarked, thank God it wasn't Sarah McLachlan. • Wyclef Jean on his big-screen plans: "I'm working on finishing the script right now for a movie called Passport. Passport is [about] two immigrants coming from Haiti: One of them is Wyclef Jean and the other one is Haitian Jack. Two kids in the scenario. One turns out to be a musician, the other turns out to be a gangster." We prefer stuff like Who's the Man? • Reunited and it feels so good, Bangle Susanna Hoffs: "We got together in a very casual, low-key way and it just spun from there ... We didn't put a lot of pressure on ourselves to have big expectations about it, and it really exceeded our expectations because we went in a very lighthearted way. What came out of it was, like, two albums' worth of material - we have songs coming out of our ears." • Yep, Tina Turner's back out on tour. She also says it's her last. We've posted the dates many times before, but we just thought we'd mention it again. And that Joe Cocker is going to be the support act. The mad dog (and Englishman) also has a new album out soon. No Ordinary World features songs by Bryan Adams, Michael McDonald, 10cc's Graham Gouldman, and Tony Joe White. Nice. • Tiffany is indeed back. Or rather, Tiffany is now considered sufficiently "ironic" that Web sites like spin.com will report on the release of her new album, The Color of Silence. And we thought you would like to know about it, too. There's even an appearance on Silence from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony man Krayzie Bone. The first single, "Open My Eyes," is out at the end of August. • The Rev. Al Green, whose sultry "Let's Stay Together" never fails to get VH1.com's companion in a state, is about to get his own street named after him. So if you live on Hale Road in Memphis, please be aware that your address will be changing to the Rev. Al Green Road on Sunday, July 23. Green's Full Gospel Tabernacle is located along the street. • Congratulations to TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. She's started her own record label, Wish Records. Don't worry, executive people. If dealing with "Left Eye," who once burned down her boyfriend's house, sounds a little too nuts for you, the label is co-run by TLC Svengali Ian Burke. Lopes said, "It gives me a great opportunity to help other artists and to expand on my creativity." It also keeps her away from matches. • Dammit, Madonna, repay us for all these news items we write about you with a world tour. But she told The Face, "I feel like I want to, but I know it will be such an enormous undertaking [and] be really intricate ... theatre. Lots of work. So I'm having a back-and-forth game in my mind about that, because I'll have two kids." Hell, if ZZ Top can take a buffalo on the road with them... |
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