Seven Days of Rock
May 4 -- Welcome back to the column where video didn't actually kill the radio star, just wounded it really, really badly.
On Tuesday, Stevie Nicks released her first solo album of new material in eight years. Trouble in Shangri-La features high-profile cameos from Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan, Macy Gray, and one of the Dixie Chicks. In spite of all that, it's still a good record. Meanwhile, Destiny's Child's new disc, Survivor, features a cut, "Bootylicious," built around a sample of Stevie's classic "Edge of Seventeen." Seven Days eagerly awaits Beyoncé and Co.'s "Gold Dust Woman" — maybe it'll finally erase the memory of Hole's cover from our mind.
Radiohead announced it will follow the June 5 release of its new album, Amnesiac, with a North American tour. Meanwhile, the group has already serviced a two-song CD sampler of new material to radio programmers, journalists, and other music industry types. Careful boys, or somebody might mistake you for a pop band.
The makers of Law & Order are working on an episode inspired by the 1999 nightclub shooting involving Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. (Does anybody else feel silly writing "P. Diddy"? Isn't that what little boys do when they go to the restroom?) Reportedly, in the TV tale a character with a strong resemblance to Combs' real-life ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez pulls the trigger … after another patron makes a disparaging crack about her fashion sense.
Madonna has scrapped the June 5 and 6 opening dates of her Drowned World Tour in Cologne, Germany. The cancellations are being blamed on vague "technical reasons," but we think the Material Girl is just having second thoughts about kicking off her first tour since 1993 in a country where Right Said Fred is still able to crack the Top 20.
If the sound of taking in "Drowned World" sounds like a miserable night out, you can probably skip the even less inviting triple-header of Staind, Cold, and Puddle of Mud, which hits the road starting Tuesday, May 8 in Toronto. Staind with Mud — who's sponsoring this tour, Tide?
