As expected, M.I.A. delivered her baby just hours after her Grammy appearance. In a message on her Myspace blog, she said she got home from the Grammys ready to party, but instead went into labor at 2 a.m. What a buzz kill! She notes the baby is healthy, despite enduring some unhealthy-looking stage mannerisms on M.I.A.’s part the evening before.
Legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac will hit the road this spring for the first time since 2004. The band had considered bringing out Sheryl Crow to replace Christine McVie on the road, but (fortunately) the two sides mutually decided against it. With no new album on the horizon, the Fleetwood Mac: Unleashed tour will feature all the hits that made the band so popular in the late ’70s, including: “Dreams,” “Go Your Own Way” and “Don’t Stop.” The band’s most renowned album, Rumours, ranks among the best selling albums ever and is definitely a must-have album in any music guru’s catalog. The tour hits Arco Arena May 18.
According to a post by Trent Reznor on Nine Inch Nails‘ Web site, NIN will tour with the newly reunited Jane’s Addiction. Reznor recalls his band’s “biggest break” was when NIN supported Jane’s Addiction for a string of shows that became the ongoing festival known as Lollapalooza. He modestly acknowledges that, “These performances essentially created and defined the term ‘alternative’ rock in the U.S. “¦ [and] set the stage for Nirvana to shift to popular taste a few months later.” No dates have been announced yet, but expect them to be released in the near future.
After doing it all for the nookie, and then taking eight years off, Limp Bizkit has reunited with their original lineup and will tour and release a new album. Wes Borland decided to rejoin the very band he ripped years ago upon his departure. He also claimed as recently as February he had no plans to rejoin the band, even telling the Web site Mlive that when writing his own songs, “it all makes sense together, instead of random lyrics on top of music that sounds cool.” And in an ironic joint statement Feb. 12, Borland and Fred Durst said “We decided we were more disgusted and bored with the state of heavy popular music than we were with each other.” A world tour and new album is expected to be announced soon.
The wonderful Web site Pitchfork thankfully alerted me that today is NOT April 1; therefore, it’s likely this new super (for lack of a better word?) group that Billboard.com is telling us about could be real. Evidently, members of Smashing Pumpkins, Cheap Trick, Hanson and Fountains of Wayne have joined to create a new group, Tinted Windows. The band will shock the world at Billboard’s SXSW showcase March 20 and will release their debut album April 21.
Rapper Nas is conjuring up a unique collaboration. According to Billboard, Nas has been secretly recording in Los Angeles with Bob Marley’s youngest son, Damian Marley. Damian is, of course, a well-accomplished reggae artist himself, collecting a Grammy in 2002 and two more in 2006. Nas’s manager told Billboard that the guys were heading to Miami to finish up the record. We can likely expect a spring release, followed by a summer tour to support the album.
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