The Dixie Chicks have added seven songs to their An Evening With the Dixie Chicks television special for a new DVD due February 4th . . . The Blue Man Group will release their first rock & roll record, The Complex, on April 22nd; Dave Matthews, Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Tracy Bonham, Josh Haden and others will guest . . . Willie Nelson will present the Veteran of the Year Award to army vet Kris Kristofferson at the eighth annual American Veteran Awards on February 9th in Beverly Hills, California . . . Adidas' Jam Master Jay Ultra Star tribute sneaker arrives in Adidas stores in New York, California and Tokyo today . . .
Bonnie Raitt will perform during the Super Bowl XXXVII pre-game show on January 26th in San Diego . . . Angie Martinez and Dru Hill's Nokio are expecting their first child this spring . . . Blink-182 will install a twenty-four-hour Webcam in the studio as they record the follow-up to 2001's Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, due this summer . . . Russell Simmons is organizing the inaugural Urban Hip-Hop Music Festival, to take place April 12th in Atlanta . . . Thievery Corporation, Milemarker, 1905, David Rovics, the Whips, 302 Acid, Jungle Jessi and Funk DC will perform at a protest rally (sponsored by the Shirts Off Coalition) outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on January 28th, while President Bush delivers his State of the Union address . . .
Madonna will appear in an episode of Will and Grace in May . . . Seventies rock survivors Aerosmith and Kiss are plotting a three-month joint tour starting in August . . . The Donnas, Tortoise, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Smog and Camper Van Beethoven will perform at the eleventh annual Noise Pop Festival, set for February 25th through March 2nd in San Francisco . . . Eve will headline a pre-Super Bowl concert on January 24th in San Diego . . . Bob Dylan received a W.C. Handy Blues Award for Song of the Year for "Stepchild," which Solomon Burke recorded on his album, Don't Give Up on Me; the Handy Awards are set for May 22nd in Memphis . . . Fabolous was arrested a second time last week after police found guns in a car carrying the rapper; he was charged with criminal possession of a weapon . . .
Chuck D, Ani Difranco, Michael Franti and Spearhead and Ozomatli will perform at the Not in Our Name anti-war concert in Berkeley, California on January 31st . . . The Dismemberment Plan announced that they will break up after a May tour . . . Songs by Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion and others will be included on Punkarama Volume 1, a new DVD due February 25th . . . The Kronos Quartet will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary with the world premiere of its multimedia concert, "Visual Music," in Los Angeles on February 15th . . . Former Helloween frontman Michael Kiske will unveil his new band, Supared, on February 25th with the release of their self-titled debut . . .
(January 22, 2003)
