DIXIE CHICKS singer NATALIE MAINES and her husband, actor ADRIAN PASDAR, are expecting their second child later this year. Chicks' fiddler MARTIE MAGUIRE is also pregnant with twins . . . Electronic act LMC has used U2's "With or Without You" as the basis for their new dance single "Take Me to the Clouds Above" . . . "The PAUL SIMON" Songbook," a rare 1965 solo album, will be reissued on March 23rd. The album features several songs that Simon would re-record for "The Sounds of Silence" with ART GARFUNKEL . . . BUILT TO SPILL, MODEST MOUSE and QUASI will perform at a five-day festival to celebrate Seattle indie label Up Records' tenth anniversary, starting February 23rd. Proceeds will go to the local chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society . . . TORTOISE will release their fifth album, "It's All Around You," in April. The group begins a five-date tour on April 0th in Boston . . . VARNALINE's first three albums and one EP will be reissued on frontman ANDERS PARKER's new label, Cloud Records, after being out of print for five years . . . Country songwriter HUGH PRESTWOOD was indicted on a felony weapons charge after he was arrested in January for carrying a loaded handgun in his carry-on luggage at an airport in Riverhead, New York . . . JAMES BROWN filed papers seeking an annulment from his wife. Last week, Brown was arrested on domestic abuse charges . . . The SUBDUDES will release "Miracle Mule," their first album in eight years, on April 20th. The WHITE STRIPES will perform at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in the U.K. in August, making up for canceling last year's appearance after frontman JACK WHITE injured his hand in a car accident . . . Though B2K recently called it quits, the R&B troupe's new feature film, You Got Served, debuted at the top of the box office for the weekend, pulling in $16 million . . . Former MEN AT WORK frontman COLIN HAY will begin a forty-nine-date tour on February 5th in Birmingham, Alabama . . . FEFE DOBSON kicks off a ten-date tour on February 18th in Cleveland . . . A California judge dismissed a suit against SNOOP DOGG that charged the rapper with using a telephone voice mail message on an album without authorization . . .
WILCO, the FLAMING LIPS, MY MORNING JACKET and TRAIL OF DEAD have been added to the lineup for the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, set for May 1st and 2nd in Indio, California . . . BOYZ II MEN have covered AL GREEN, MICHAEL JACKSON, HALL AND OATES and the ISLEY BROTHERS on their new album, Throwback, Volume One. The set will be sold in Japan in early April, with a broader international release to follow . . . Los Angeles Mayor Jim Hahn will declare RAY CHARLES one of the city's "Cultural Treasures" later this month . . . CALEXICO begin a six-date tour on March 11th in Pioneertown, California, before heading to Europe for a string of dates.
(February 3, 2004)
