| 7-6-00 |
Ulrich Talks Next Metallica Album -Wall of Sound
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — As Metallica takes
another break from its year-long sabbatical to
play 14 shows across the United States, the band
is already thinking about its new record next
year. |
| 7-5-00 |
Fan Falls to Death at Metallica Show -Wall of Sound
Tragedy struck in Baltimore Tuesday when a fan
plummeted 80 feet to his death from the fifth
story of PSINet Stadium's concourse level during
a show on the Summer Sanitarium tour. |
| 6-28-00 |
Chart Watch: Eminem, Britney,
Deftones, Busta -Wall of
Sound
Who Knew? This week's No. 1 album, Eminem's The
Marshall Mathers LP , has been outsold in the
year 2000 by two different records. The first
one's a no-brainer — 'N Sync's No Strings
Attached . |
| 6-27-00 |
Experience Music Project Celebration
Survives The MTV Factor
-Rolling Stone
In theory, the weekend celebration marking the
opening of the $250 million Experience Music
Project in Seattle was all about honoring rock
& roll's history -- and the Pacific
Northwest's rich contribution to that legacy.
|
| 6-27-00 |
Kid Rock Boosts Uncle Kracker At
Hometown Show -LAUNCH
(6/27/00, 10 a.m. ET) -- Kid Rock was on hand --
and on stage -- Sunday (June 25) in Pontiac,
Michigan, for the first proper concert
performance by Uncle Kracker , the DJ in Rock's
Twisted Brown Trucker band who recently released
his solo debut, Double Wide . |
| 6-22-00 |
Kid
Rock Among Rockers on Rap Tribute -Rolling Stone
Take a Bite Outta Rhyme: A Rock Tribute to Rap
will put today's rockers to task as they adapt a
number of classic hip-hop tracks. The brainchild
of Republic Records exec Brett Alperowitz, the
album's crux is that a number of today's rock
& roll acts grew up on vintage rap. |
| 6-22-00 |
Kid
Rock Defends Eminem's Actions at Interactive
Special -Rolling Stone
Kid Rock made a few provocative and a few
hilarious comments on Canadian video channel
MuchMusic's Intimate & Interactive special
June 20 in Toronto. |
| 6-21-00 |
Chart
Watch: Eminem, Britney, Clapton
-Wall of Sound
Top 10: Eminem and Britney Spears, this week's
respective SoundScan Nos. 1 and 2, aren't
particularly surprising. After all, Eminem's
sophomore album, The Marshall Mathers LP , which
sells another 519,000 copies, has held the top
spot for the last month, while Spears' Oops!
|
| 6-20-00 |
Limp
Bizkit's Durst, Kid Rock & Others To Bring
The Rap Noise -LAUNCH
(6/20/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Limp Bizkit 's frontman
Fred Durst and Kid Rock top a list of rock acts
that are contributing their own versions of
classic hip-hop songs to a project due in October
from Republic Records titled Take A Bite Outta
Rhyme: A Rock Tribute To Rap . |
| 6-19-00 |
Kid
Rock Talks Joe Dirt
-Wall of Sound
He's conquered the world of music; now Kid Rock
is taking his "American Bad Ass" to the
silver screen. Rock recently finished filming his
parts for The Adventures of Joe Dirt , a comedy
starring and co-written by David Spade and
co-produced by Adam Sandler. |
| 6-16-00 |
EMP:
Hendrix Goes High-Tech
-Wall of Sound
SEATTLE — Once you've ventured beyond its
foreboding exterior and paid the exhibit fee, the
Experience Music Project (EMP) experience, as it
were, begins with the Sky Church, complete with a
three-story screen, strobe lights, and, of
course, rock and roll. |
| 6-16-00 |
Kid
Rock Gives Solo Tour a Go
-Rolling Stone
Kid Rock's so tight with Metallica, he has a
framed pair of Lars Ulrich's Speedos in his home.
But after making the rounds on Metallica's Summer
Sanitarium tour, the Detroit rapper will sever
ties with the metal monsters for his own
eighteen-date headlining tour and a little
"personal self healing." |
| 6-16-00 |
Uncle
Kracker: A Chip Off the Old Rock -Wall of Sound
Uncle Kracker (real name Matt Shafer), the DJ in
Kid Rock's Twisted Brown Trucker band, has been
best friends with his boss since they met 12
years ago. |
| 6-14-00 |
Chart
Watch: Eminem, Britney, Kid Rock -Wall of Sound
Top 10: The last several weeks have been
fascinating for your average chart watcher, with
a sales record set by Britney Spears' Oops!
… I Did It Again and then promptly broken a
week later by Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP .
|
| 6-9-00 |
Kid
Rock, Sugar Ray Honor Lava President At UJA's
Visionary Of The Year Award
-LAUNCH
(6/9/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Lava Records president
Jason Flom was presented with the Visionary Of
The Year Award by The Music Group of the
Entertainment, Media & Communications
Division of the United Jewish Appeal Federation
(UJA) of New York on Wednesday (June 7). |
| 6-8-00 |
Kid
Rock Backs Up Troubled Eminem
-LAUNCH
(6/8/00, 4 p.m. ET) - Kid Rock 's History Of Rock
is right behind a target="_top"
href="http://www.launch.com/music/artistpage/1,,1037847,00.html?vo=yahn&">Eminem
's The Marshall Mathers LP at Number One and
Number Two, respectively, on the Billboard album
charts. |
| 6-7-00 |
Chart
Watch: Eminem, Kid Rock, Britney -Wall of Sound
Top 10: The Marshall Mathers LP , Eminem's
sophomore album, has sold another 793,000 copies
to retain its stranglehold on the top position.
While the violent and homophobic nature of his
lyrics has yet to turn away buyers, we'll have to
wait until next week to see if his recent arrest
will slow down his CD sales, which have already
topped 2.55 million in a mere two weeks. |
| 6-7-00 |
Charts:
Eminem Still No. 1, Kid Rock No. 2 -Spin
Eminem continues to defy all things this week, as
The Marshall Mathers LP enjoys its second week at
No. 1, selling close to 800,000 copies in its
second appearance on the charts. |
| 6-7-00 |
Kid
Rock Makes Strong Debut But Can't Topple Eminem -LAUNCH
(6/7/00, 3 p.m. ET) - A pair of Detroit-based
musicians top this week's album sales chart. For
the second straight week, Eminem 's The Marshall
Mathers LP leads the way in album sales,
according to industry sources. |
| 6-6-00 |
Hank
Williams Jr. Surprised By Kid Rock At Concert -LAUNCH
(6/6/00, 5 p.m. ET) - The audience at Hank
Williams, Jr. 's recent Detroit concert was
surprised by a guest appearance by "Motor
City" native Kid Rock . |
| 6-5-00 |
Kid
Rock Hooks Up With Pantera Axeman For New Songs -LAUNCH
(6/5/00, 4 p.m. ET) - A month ago Pantera
guitarist Dimebag Darrell had a productive
writing session with Kid Rock , during which they
came up with four songs and recorded them in two
days. |
| 6-4-00 |
Kid
Rock To Make Sales 'History'?
-LAUNCH
(6/4/00, 10 a.m. ET) - From early reports it
looks like Kid Rock 's new album, History Of Rock
, will be more successful than the Detroit artist
first thought. |
| 6-1-00 |
Kid
Rock Discusses New Movie Role
-LAUNCH
(6/1/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Kid Rock is currently
wrapping up filming scenes for an upcoming movie
called The Adventures Of Joe Dirt . The Detroit
rap/metal king told LAUNCH about his role in the
film. |
| 5-31-00 |
Kid's
History Lesson Leads New Releases -Rolling Stone
Kid Rock The History of Rock (Top
Dog/Lava/Atlantic) Call him a fool, call him a
savage, call him a pagan sex god, a tattooed love
boy, a Murder City madman with Pabst Blue Ribbon
in his veins. |
| 5-30-00 |
Kid
Rock, Billy Bragg/Wilco Top Week's Releases -SonicNet
A Kid Rock retrospective and the second
collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco on
the lyrics of Woody Guthrie highlight this week's
list of new releases. |
| 5-10-00 |
Blockbuster
Award Winners Announced
-Wall of Sound
Who needs critical acclaim when you have the
adoration of the masses? Cher may not be heavily
laden with Grammy Awards (she's won exactly one,
Best Dance Recording, in 1999 for
"Believe"), but she waltzed off Tuesday
night with the Best Female Pop Artist Award at
the Sixth Annual Blockbuster Entertainment
Awards. |
| 5-9-00 |
Tommy
Lee Could Return to Prison
-Wall of Sound
Tommy Lee could be heading back to the slammer,
but this time for hitting the sauce, not his
spouse. The ex-Mötley Crüe drummer, who spent
four months in jail in 1998 for beating his
ex-wife, V.I.P. star Pamela Anderson Lee, has
allegedly violated his parole by drinking.
|
| 5-5-00 |
Experience
Music Project Opens -Spin
Let's hear it for museums. Really. Museums are
cool. They are. At least they used to be. When I
was in elementary school, anyway, and museum =
field trip! |
| 5-5-00 |
Kid
Rock Makes Feature Film Debut
-Vibe
Rap-metal musician Kid Rock will make his feature
film debut in the The Adventures of Joe Dirt. The
film will star comedian David Spade and will also
feature Roseanne and Joe Don Baker. |
| 5-4-00 |
Kid
Rock Set for Film Debut
-Wall of Sound
Hick-hop rapper Kid Rock is set to make his
feature-film debut, appearing in the forthcoming
David Spade comedy The Adventures of Joe Dirt .
According to the Hollywood Reporter , the film,
directed by Dennie Gordon, begins shooting next
week in Los Angeles. |
| 5-4-00 |
Metallica,
Dr. Dre, Chili Peppers to Open EMP -Wall of Sound
SEATTLE — With its public unveiling less
than two months away, Experience Music Project
— Seattle's interactive music museum —
announced the lineup of performers scheduled for
its opening weekend, June 23-25. |
| 5-2-00 |
Beck
Suffers for His Art -Wall
of Sound
"People come to see blood at our shows, and
you've got to give it to them," says Beck,
iconoclastic musician, sound-and-art collagist,
and tweaker of popular culture. |
| 4-20-00 |
'The
History Of (Kid) Rock' Continues With Two New
Songs -LAUNCH
(4/20/00, 3 p.m. ET) - Kid Rock 's The History Of
Rock will be out May 30, and he's penned two new
songs for the retrospective: "American
Badass" and "Abortion." The rest
of the album comprises one-off songs and tracks
from Rock's independent albums Polyfuze Method
(1993) and Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp (1996).
|
| 4-19-00 |
Metallica,
Korn, Kid Rock, Powerman 5000 Tour Is Official -LAUNCH
(4/19/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Metallica , Kid Rock ,
Powerman 5000 , Korn , and System Of A Down will
embark on a tour starting June 30 in Foxboro,
Mass. The outing will compete with Ozzfest 2000
for hard-rock fans in the month of July. |
| 4-18-00 |
Top
Dog Dominates Detroit Awards:
-Vibe
Kid Rock and his label mates cleaned up last
Friday at the Detroit Music Awards. The awards
are sponsored by The Motor City Music Foundation
and The Detriot Metro Times in order to honor
musicians in or around the Detroit area. |
| 4-17-00 |
Detroit
Music Awards Winners
-LAUNCH
(4/17/00, 2 p.m. ET) - It was a big night for Kid
Rock at the annual Detroit Music Awards, held
Friday at the city's State Theatre.The
multi-platinum rock impresario not only hosted
the ceremony along with his band, Twisted Brown
Trucker , but he also took home two trophies -
Outstanding National Single for
"Cowboy" and Outstanding Hip Hop
Writer/Producer. |
| 4-10-00 |
Metallica,
Korn, Kid Rock Tour In The Works -LAUNCH
(4/10/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Metallica 's Kirk Hammett
has confirmed that his band might be going on the
road with Korn and Kid Rock this summer. |
| 3-31-00 |
The
Method to Tommy Lee's Mayhem
-Wall of Sound
Bad boy drummer Tommy Lee as a frontman?
"It's new to me in a little way, but then
again it's not," the former Mötley Crüe
madman tells Wall of Sound . |
| 3-15-00 |
Charts:
Santana At No. 1 Again, Black Rob, George Strait
Debut High: -Spin
New releases from country superstar George Strait
and Bad Boy Entertainment's latest rap star Black
Rob both debuted this week with extremely strong
sales, however, neither were bigger than Carlos
Santana's Supernatural . |
| 3-10-00 |
Really
Randoms: Kid Rock, Perry Farrell -Rolling Stone
Before he became America's favorite redneck MC,
Kid Rock was one of Detroit's hometown heroes.
Never one to forget from whence he came, Kid and
his Twisted Brown Trucker band will be hosting
the 2000 Detroit Music Awards on April 14.
|
| 3-9-00 |
Kid
Rock to Host Detroit Music Awards: -Vibe
Kid Rock and his band, Twisted Brown Trucker,
have agreed to host the 2000 Detroit Music Awards
on April 14th at Detroit's State Theater. The
Motor City Music Foundation and The Metro Times
will present the 2000 Detroit Music Awards.
|
| 3-7-00 |
Kid
Rock Looks Back With "History" -Rolling Stone
"It's pretty fucking awesome," says
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, talking about Kid
Rock's upcoming single, an as-yet-untitled song
that features Rock rhyming over a scratched-up
sample of Metallica's "Sad but True."
|
| 2-25-00 |
Grand
Funker Gives Kid Rock Props
-Wall of Sound
Don Brewer, the drummer for Grand Funk Railroad
and author of the group's 1973 hit "We're an
American Band," missed seeing Kid Rock
perform the song during Wednesday's Grammy Awards
telecast, thinking that the Detroit rocker
wouldn't include it during his Grammy spot.
|
| 2-24-00 |
Santana
Wins 8 Grammys, Ties Jackson's Record: -Spin
Carlos Santana's comeback disc Supernatural
earned a record-tying 8 Grammy awards last night
(the disc was up for 11 in total), including
Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song
of the Year (for "Smooth," the chart
topping duet with Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas).
|
| 2-22-00 |
Will
Smith, Sisquo, Badu Among Grammy Additions : -Spin
Will Smith (with DJ Jazzy Jeff), Dru Hill's
breakout solo star Sisquo, nominee Diana Krall
(with Erykah Badu), Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer, and
the Backstreet Boys with Elton John have just
been added to tomorrow night's Grammy performers
line-up, according to sources (Sting, Marc
Anthony, Poncho Sanchez, Chucho Valdes, Cheb
Mami, Ibrahim Ferrer, Santana, Backstreet Boys,
TLC, Ricky Martin, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill,
Whitney Houston, Kid Rock and Britney Spears have
already been tapped to perform). |
| 2-18-00 |
Susan
Tedeschi's State of Grammy Un-Dress -Wall of Sound
Come on! Britney 's got one, Christi na surely
has one, and apparently Macy Gray's got too many.
Who knows, Kid Rock might even don a designer
gown at next Wednesday's Grammy Awards ceremony.
|
| 2-16-00 |
Charts:
Santana on Top Again, Ghostface Killa Debuts
High: -Spin
Santana's Supernatural has returned to the No. 1
spot on the SoundScan charts for the third time
in the 35 weeks since its release. Last week's
No. 1, D'Angelo's Voodoo slips down to No.
|
| 2-14-00 |
Sting,
Marc Anthony, Ibrahim Ferrer Added to Grammy
Performers: -Spin
The 42nd Annual Grammy Awards, set to take place
on February 23, live from the Staples Center in
Los Angeles (televised on CBS) will feature, in
addition to previously announced performances
from Santana, Backstreet Boys, TLC, and Kid Rock,
Britney Spears, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Ricky
Martin, and Whitney Houston, newly confirmed
musical numbers from Sting, Marc Anthony, Pancho
Sanchez, Chucho Valdez, Cheb Mami, and Ibrahim
Ferrer (of Buena Vista Social Club fame). |
| 2-9-00 |
Charts:
D'Angelo Holds Down No. 1, Snoop, Tina Debut
High: -Spin
D'Angelo's latest Voodoo retains the No. 1 spot
atop the album charts for the week ending
February 8. According to SoundScan, the
critically acclaimed R&B star moved another
190,000 plus units, just a few thousand more than
Santana's Supernatural , which holds in the No.
|
| 2-9-00 |
Whitney,
Britney, Kid Rock Added to Grammy Performers
Roster: -Spin
The RIAA has just announced the latest additions
to the ever-increasing list of superstar artists
slated to perform at this year's Grammy Awards,
live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles (the
show, hosted by Rosie O'Donnell, will be
broadcast on CBS television on February 23 at 8PM
EST). |
| 2-8-00 |
Kid
Rock's Case Solid As A Rock?
-LAUNCH
(2/8/00, 3 p.m. ET) - Monday (Feb. 7) at the
Macomb County Circuit Court in Michigan, Judge
Donald G. Miller heard a statement from Kid Rock
's lawyer, Lori Finazzo , as well as from Kathy
Vogt -- counsel for Kid Rock's former lover,
Kelley South -- regarding the custody of Rock and
South's son. |
| 2-7-00 |
Kid
Rock Kid-Custody Battle Starts Today -LAUNCH
(2/7/00, 7 a.m. ET) - Judge Donald G. Miller of
the Macomb County (Michigan) Circuit Court will
hold a motion hearing today (Feb. 7) to determine
if there needs to be an investigation regarding
the custody of Kid Rock 's son (LAUNCH, 2/3).
|
| 2-3-00 |
Kid
Rock in Custody Fight:
-Spin
Rap/rock superstar Kid Rock (whose real name is
Robert Ritchie) has entered into a custody battle
with Kelley South, the mother of his six year old
son Robert Ritchie Jr. |
| 2-3-00 |
Mother
Of Kid Rock's Child Files Suit, Rock Stands
Ground -LAUNCH
(2/3/00, 5 p.m. ET) - The mother of Kid Rock 's
son, Kelley South , has filed a motion in the
Macomb County Circuit Court to get custody of the
six-year-old boy while Rock ( Bob Ritchie ) is on
tour. |
| 1-31-00 |
Kid
Rock Hones Two Projects, Grammy Makeover? -LAUNCH
(1/31/00, 12 p.m. ET) - Kid Rock is currently in
the studio working on his version of the
Metallica song "Sad But True" for his
next release, a partial career retrospective
called The History Of Rock . |
| 1-27-00 |
Kid
Rock Gives History Lesson:
-Spin
The History of Rock, a compilation of both early
and new Kid Rock material, will hit stores in
March, according to reps at the Detroit
superstar's label. |
| 1-26-00 |
Kid
Rock Rocks The 6 Million Plateau -LAUNCH
(1/26/00, 10 a.m. ET) - It looks like Kid Rock
will pick up in the year 2000 right where he left
off in 1999 -- selling albums, and lots of them.
Devil Without A Cause , the Detroit rap-rocker's
major-label debut, has been certified 6-times
platinum by the Recording Industry Association Of
America (RIAA) for sales of more than 6 million
units. |
| 1-26-00 |
Kid
Rock's 'Sad But True' Pre-Atlantic Days -LAUNCH
(1/26/00, 3 p.m. ET) - The next album by Kid Rock
will be something of a retrospective, as Atlantic
Records plans to release tracks from two of the
rock-rapper's early albums, plus some other
goodies as well. |
