| 7-31-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty To Launch U.S. Arena Tour -SonicNet
Pop-rockers Matchbox Twenty have announced the
dates for the first leg of their North American
headlining tour. The Mad Season tour, which will
hit mostly college arenas, kicks off Sept. 12 in
New Orleans. |
| 7-29-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty Announce Tour
-Rolling Stone
Just one week after Matchbox Twenty celebrated
their first No. 1 single, "Bent" (from
Mad Season ), the band announced tour dates for
the first part of a North American tour. |
| 7-24-00 |
'N
Sync Knocks Matchbox Twenty Down A Notch On
Singles Chart -Launch
(7/24/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Matchbox Twenty 's
"Bent" has been knocked from the Number
One position on the current Billboard Hot 100
singles by "It's Gonna Be Me," the
latest hit from teen-pop sensation 'N Sync .
|
| 7-15-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty's 'Bent' Becomes Hottest Song In The Land -Launch
(7/15/00, 7 a.m. ET) - Matchbox Twenty 's
"Bent" has taken over the top spot on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart, knocking Vertical
Horizon out of the position. |
| 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 . |
| 6-28-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty Gets 'Bent'; Considers Tour Plans -LAUNCH
(6/28/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Matchbox Twenty 's
"Bent" will be featured as the band's
first-ever commercial single release. The track,
from the quintet's latest album, Mad Season By
Matchbox Twenty , will be coupled with the
release of a live, unplugged version of
"Push," the smash hit from the group's
1996 debut album, Yourself Or Someone Like You .
|
| 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!
|
| 6-18-00 |
Bomb
Scares Matchbox Twenty In London -LAUNCH
(6/18/00, 10 a.m. ET) - A bomb scare delayed
Matchbox Twenty 's gig at the Hammersmith Apollo
in London on Thursday night (June 15). The band
was temporarily evacuated from the backstage area
of the venue after a man claimed to have left a
suspicious package in the area, according to NME
. |
| 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. |
| 6-14-00 |
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 .
|
| 6-7-00 |
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. |
| 5-31-00 |
Chart
Watch: Eminem Melts Britney
-Wall of Sound
Nothing's Shocking: No one expected Britney
Spears to sell more than 1.31 copies million of
her sophomore album, Oops! … I Did It Again
, in its first week on the shelves. |
| 5-26-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty Play It Smooth and Safe
-Rolling Stone
It takes a certain amount of moxy to open your
one-hour-and-forty-five-minute set with your
current Top 20 single. That is, unless you're Rob
Thomas -- er, Matchbox Twenty -- and you've got
so many damn hits at your disposal that it
doesn't matter, in which case a hot-off-the
airwaves song like "Bent" is as good a
place to start as any. |
| 5-26-00 |
Producer
Discusses New Matchbox Twenty
-Wall of Sound
Matt Serletic is not on the current club tour
undertaken by Matchbox Twenty and Angie Aparo,
but he might as well be. The Atlanta-based
producer, songwriter, and musician, who won a
1999 Record of the Year Grammy award for his
production on the Santana hit "Smooth,"
is the force behind both bands on the bill.
|
| 5-24-00 |
Chart
Watch: Britney, Pearl Jam, Whitney -Wall of Sound
One More Time: Britney Spears has done it again.
Her sophomore album, Oops! … I Did It Again
, sold 1,319,193 copies in its first week on the
shelves. |
| 5-24-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty Takes Manhattan For 'Letterman'
Performance -LAUNCH
(5/24/00, 1 p.m. ET) - Matchbox Twenty closed
down 53rd Street in Manhattan, which is adjacent
to the Late Show With David Letterman studios,
for its musical performance on the show Tuesday
night (May 23). |
| 5-22-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty, Don Henley Top Week's Rock Releases -SonicNet
Matchbox Twenty 's sophomore LP and Don Henley 's
first solo album in 11 years highlight this
week's new rock releases. Also hitting stores
this week is the debut from A Perfect Circle
— featuring Tool singer Maynard James Keenan
— as well as Detroit rapper Eminem 's The
Marshall Mathers LP, featuring rock elements on
several songs. |
| 5-19-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty Kicks Off Tour; 'Letterman' Performance On
Tuesday -LAUNCH
(5/19/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Matchbox Twenty is set to
kick off its club tour on tonight (May 19) at
Atlanta's Roxy; followed by dates in Washington
D.C. on Saturday (May 20), and Philadelphia on
Sunday (May 21). |
| 5-10-00 |
New
Matchbox Twenty Album To Offer AOL Software -SonicNet
In another example of the convergence of music
and media giant Time Warner with Internet company
America Online, Matchbox Twenty 's second album,
Mad Season by Matchbox Twenty, will feature AOL
software. |
| 5-9-00 |
Judge
Issues Statement on MP3.com Ruling -Rolling Stone
It was a busy weekend for MP3.com, the online
music service provider. On Thursday, U.S.
District Judge Jed Rakoff offered an explanation
for his ruling against the San Diego-based
company a week earlier, in which he found the
company's Beam-It service guilty of copyright
infringement, as contended by the Recording
Industry Association of America. |
| 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! |
| 4-26-00 |
Matchbox
Twenty Return With "Mad Season" -Rolling Stone
What do you do after you've sold 10 million
records, played better than 600 shows in three
years and, in your spare time, written a
Grammy-winning Number One single with Carlos
Santana? |
