Sound Bites: Richard Ashcroft, Pixies, Death Row
December 14 -- Richard Ashcroft Injured in Show
Former Verve leader Richard Ashcroft has more touring pains. The singer fell from the stage Tuesday night in Birmingham, England, and though he returned to play an encore with his ribs broken, he was forced to cancel the remaining shows of the tour. Ashcroft canceled a U.S. tour last month because of an illness — but he's due to head Stateside next year to try again, beginning Jan. 19 in Chicago.
Ex-Pixies Spread Their Magic
Former Pixie Kim Deal led the Breeders in a surprise performance Tuesday night at Mr. T's Bowl in Los Angeles. Also performing was her twin sister, Kelley, as the band played "Cannonball," "No Aloha," and "Mom's Drunk," a song from Kim's more recent band, the Amps. The band announced that it plans to work next year with producer Steve Albini, who produced several Pixies albums in the late-'80s. Meanwhile, Pixies leader Frank Black is leading his band, the Catholics, on a tour of the U.S. and Europe early next year, to accompany the release of Dog in the Sand, due Jan. 30.
Death Row Pushed Down Further
Things were looking grim for Suge Knight and his record label, Death Row … and now they look worse. A Los Angeles court has added $10 million in punitive damages to the $4.34 million in compensatory damages that it awarded last week to Ken and Lamont Brumfield. The Brumfield brothers were suing the LA rap label for interfering in a contract that they had with rapper Kurupt. Knight is serving a nine-year prison term for a 1996 probation violation. Death Row says on its Web site that it plans to appeal the decision.
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