TV's favorite boy band creation, O-Town, sketch out another tour. Starting May 3 in West Palm Beach, the quintet tackle mostly East Coast towns through out the span of their tour, which looks set to wrap June 23.
Several venues are still being confirmed, including the only stops on the West Coast - San Diego, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas.
Just after their tour, O-Town's second album is due to drop. Still untitled, the record features several tracks penned by the guys as well as one written and produced by rap artist Nelly. The first single, "I Showed Her," will hit airwaves sometime in May.
The new album follows O-Town's self-titled debut record which was released at the beginning of 2001. O-Town has sold more than 1.5 million copies, according to SoundScan, thanks to several hit singles including "All Or Nothing" and "Liquid Dreams."
Last year, O-Town spent part of the year on the road with Britney Spears supporting her tour. Prior to that, the guys spent a good chunk of time headlining their own tour with groups like Lugo and Wild Orchid supporting.
This time around, Rich Cronin of fellow Florida boy band LFO fame supports on all dates.
Posted by Jen on Sunday, April 7, 2002 @ 07:19 p.m.
Friday April 05, 2002 @ 04:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Are Third Eye Blind on crack?
Maybe. Or perhaps they're just taking unorthodox measures to ensure that they're not lumped in with the hundreds of other modern rock bands that are dominating the charts. Either way, the platinum-selling rock band have employed some rather unsavory characters to boost the sound of their upcoming album.
3EB are currently in the studio, recording the follow-up to their 1999 album, Blue. First, they invited meathead metal curiosity Andrew W.K. to provide some backing vocals to a song called "Fucked Up Kid" (we're guessing that it won't be the radio single). Apparently, Andrew W.K.'s party anthem chanting wasn't enough to sufficiently up the weird quotient of the album, because Third Eye Blind also called in Kimya Dawson of Chart favourites The Moldy Peaches to sing. Dawson, who's known for her tuneless warbling and penchant for bunny suits sang on the song "Self Righteous."
This could make for the most wicked Third Eye Blind album ever. Or it could be an excruciatingly painful mess. Only time will tell.
3EB have named the forthcoming record Crystal Baller. The band are aiming to have it released this summer.
Posted by Jen on Sunday, April 7, 2002 @ 07:14 p.m.
Ani DiFranco hasn't done a solo acoustic tour in more than eight years by her estimate.
The Buffalo troubadour once crisscrossed the country in her battered car, hitting open mike nights with just a guitar in hand. Now, the 31-year-old singer-songwriter has hit the highest echelon of indie big time: sold out theater and arena shows, full band with horn section and a big, honkin' tour bus.
Yet if the irrepressible punk-folkie was nervous on Friday night at the Orpheum it didn't show. She was the same old Ani, by turns ferocious, goofy and heartbreaking, and there wasn't a single spot of rust or ounce of fat to be found in her near perfect 90-minute set.
As is usually the case, the prolific DiFranco interspersed a healthy amount of new and unreleased material between tracks that spanned her career and her many opinions on everything from global political oppression to individual romantic entanglements.
``Both Hands,'' the first song from her first album in 1990, kicked things off with the familiar staccato thrum of DiFranco's press-on nails attacking her guitar strings and segued easily into the pretty picking of the newer ``Garden of Simple.''
The sold-out crowd hooted every clever couplet - be it musical or poetic in poems such as ``My I.Q.'' celebrating difference and ``Hear the Train,'' a visceral rumination on Sept. 11.
She was somewhere between Billie Holiday and Rickie Lee Jones on the slow and soulful new tune ``Educated Guess,'' breathless and jubilant during the catchy remembrance of ``Two Little Girls,'' sultry and funky on ``In the Way,'' which featured enough eruptive exhalations to impress Michael Jackson.
The one musical complaint about DiFranco - the lack of consistently compelling melody lines - over the years remains an issue only occasionally. Either she isn't interested, isn't capable or is somehow bound by her individual vocal style to write more than a clutch of tunes that are truly hummable. So although images in songs such as ``So What'' and ``Subdivision'' are lacerating on the subject of love and the quagmire of culture, respectively, they seem stranded over their chord changes.
Opener Dan Bern, who also relies on finely wrought lyrics but overdoes the Dylan-esque vocalizing, joined DiFranco on the encore for the rustic ``Sick of Me.'' DiFranco closed with the rolling and tumbling, girls helping girls anthem ``If He Tries Anything.''
Posted by Jen on Sunday, April 7, 2002 @ 07:12 p.m.
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