>The latest album from Southern California pop-punk outfit Blink-182 sold
>nearly 350,000 copies during its first week in stores, enough to oust Staind
>from its three-week reign atop the Billboard 200 chart.
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>Blink-182's "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" (MCA), the group's first
>collection of all-new material since 1999's "Enema of the State," already has
>netted the band a hit radio single with "The Rock Show.
>"Staind's "Break the Cycle" (Flip)--at No. 2 on the chart, according to
>industry sources--actually showed a slight increase in sales compared to the
>previous week, but it wasn't enough to fend off Blink-182's release. Staind
>is riding the success of its current single, "It's Been a While.
>""Survivor" (Columbia), the latest album from Destiny's Child, jumps two
>slots to No. 3, and the "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack holds steady at No. 4,
>according to Industry sources.
>"Free City" (Universal) by St. Lunatics--a five-member St. Louis rap crew
>featuring Nelly--slips to slots to No. 5 in its second week of release.
>Sugar Ray's new, self-titled album (Atlantic) sold more than 100,000 copies
>during its first week out to debut at No. 6.
>Spending its second consecutive week at No. 7 is "NOW That's What I Call
>Music! Vol. 6" (Epic), a collection of previously released hits by current
>artists. The album has sold more than 2.3 million copies to date, according
>to industry sources.
>Tool's "Lateralus" (Volcano)--is down one place at No. 9, and Weezer's new,
>self-titled album (Geffen), jumps two slots to No. 10.
>Other notable debuts include "9 Lives" (Motown), the latest from Brooklyn
>rapper Az (No. 23) and U.K. pop-rock act Travis' "The Invisible Band" (No.
>39).
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>Pantera's July 8 show in Des Moines has been canceled, the band announced via
>its website.
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>Napster has signed a deal with Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label in which the
>music file-trading company will promote bands from the label on its Featured
>Music program.Currently featured on Napster's home page are the non-Grand
>Royal bands Tinstar, Lemon Jelly and Convoy.
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>The final five stops on the Limp Bizkit's European tour have been canceled
>because frontman Fred Durst "has suffered an increasingly painful and
>distressing back injury," according to a statement from the band.
>Doctors have ordered Durst to refrain from all physical activities for at
>least two weeks, according to the statement posted to the band's website
>.Durst is expected to make a "gradual" recovery from the injury--said to be a
>stress fracture to a vertebrae--and he will undergo physical
>rehabilitation.The canceled dates are Berlin (6/19); Erfurt, Germany (6/20);
>Zurich, Switzerland (6/22); Milton Keynes, U.K. (6/24) and Dublin (6/26).Limp
>Bizkit's European tour opened in mid-May.Late last year, five dates on the
>Limp Bizkit-led Anger Management tour were canceled within less than a month.
>Durst was said to have been suffering recurring throat problems.
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>Stone Temple Pilots' highly anticipated follow-up to 1999's "No. 4" is this
>week's "Shangri-La Dee Da," which features the new single "Days of the Week."
>The band has lined up a blitzkrieg of promotional activity to mark the
>release of the new album.STP's newly re-launched website is currently
>offering a streaming-audio version of "Shangri-La Dee Da" (Atlantic) in its
>entirety. That stream went online last Friday (6/15), and will be available
>through Monday (6/18), according to Atlantic Records.The website also
>features video excerpts from a forthcoming documentary on the group. The
>excerpts capture the band performing several songs from its new album.On
>Monday (6/18) at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, STP is scheduled to participate in an
>hour-long online video-chat at GetMusic.com. An in-store appearance is then
>set for Tuesday (6/19) at 5 p.m. Eastern Time at the Tower Records at 692
>Broadway in New York City, where the band will spend two hours signing
>autographs.That event will be followed on Wednesday morning (6/20) by the
>group's appearance on "The Howard Stern Show," and later that afternoon by an
>appearance on MTV's "Total Request Live," during which the group will
>premiere the video companion for its current hit, "Days of the Week."An
>additional in-store autograph session is scheduled for Thursday (6/21) from 3
>p.m.-5 p.m. at the MTV Store in New York City's Times Square.
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>"Devil's Night," the debut from Eminem's side project D12, lands in stores
>this week. The album--which is being released on Eminem's new Shady label, an
>Interscope imprint--features the single "Purple Hills," which is currently
>the No. 14 track on Billboard's Rhythmic Top 40 singles chart.In addition to
>his role as a member of the rap quintet--which also features rappers Proof,
>Bizarre, Mr Denaun Porter, Swift and Kuniva--Eminem is the album's executive
>producer.The video for "Purple Hills"--as well as detailed information about
>"Devil's Night" and D12--can be found at the group's official website.D12 has
>a number of concert dates lined up for later this summer, including a string
>of August dates on this year's Warped Tour, as well as a handful of festival
>performances abroad. Details are available in the tour section at D12's
>website.
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>311 is releasing "From Chaos" (Volcano) just three days before this Friday's
>(6/22) kick-off of the annual Warped Tour, which the group is headlining. The
>group's new single, "You Wouldn't Believe," made a one-week jump from No. 45
>to No. 24 on Radio & Records' latest alternative airplay chart.In related
>news, "Warped Tour Compilation 2001" features previously unreleased or rare
>studio tracks from 26 of the acts on this summer's Warped Tour roster,
>including Rancid, Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Sum 41, according to Side One
>Dummy Records.
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>Best known as a guitarist in both Jane's Addiction and--briefly--Red Hot
>Chili Peppers, Dave Navarro offers up "Trust No One" (Capitol) this week, his
>first solo effort. Streaming-audio versions of all of the album's tracks can
>be found at Navarro's official website.Click here to read LiveDaily's recent
>interview with Navarro.
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