In addition to their appearance at this year’s Coachella Festival on April 25, the Verve will also be playing two other U.S. dates – one in Sin City, and the other in the Big Apple. The band plays Las Vegas’ Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms on April 26, and New York’s WaMu Theater at MSG on April 28 and April 29.
Faith No More’s Mike Patton has teamed up with Dan the Automator to form a new project called Crudo. While little is known about the band or its sound, Crudo will be making their live debut during the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Seattle in late May.
After the jump, more news on Radiohead, All Points West, Rocket From the Crypt, Kittie and Michael Jackson. For serious.
The full lineup for the inaugural All Points West festival in Jersey City, New Jersey’s Liberty State Park has been announced, and in addition to previously announced headliners Radiohead and Jack Johnson, the festival will feature sets from Underworld, Kings of Leon, Cat Power, the Roots, New Pornographers, Animal Collective, Girl Talk, Chromeo, Go! Team, Sia, Black Kids and Mates of State, among others.
American Youth Symphony (or AYS), the producers behind “America’s Hot Musician,” have filed a $5 million lawsuit against Canadian female metallers Kittie, claiming tortious interference, fraud and libel. The complaint stems from claims in an ongoing lawsuit involving AYS and Oprah Winfrey’s former Oxygen network; Oxygen received notice of a cease-and-desist letter on May 14, 2007, from Kittie’s lawyers, threatening immediate legal action if the program aired on the network. The suit followed the show’s usage of a Kittie video in the opening credits. This new suit, though, alleged Kittie threatened Oxygen, which did not air the series, and that the band has continued to make libelous statements in the press about AYS.
Rocket From the Crypt’s John “Speedo” Reis has formed a new band called the Night Marchers. They’ll release their debut LP, See You in Magic, on April 22; the disc will contain 13 tracks, including “I Wanna Deadbeat You,” “Who’s Lady R U?” and “Panther in Crime.” A couple of recent West Coast shows will be followed up with appearances at the SXSW festival.
Pam Anderson is pulling a Britney Spears. Court documents show that the buxom actress is seeking to have her October 6 marriage to third husband Rich Salomon annulled, according to the Associated Press. Rather than divorce Salomon, who she was married to for two months, Anderson wants the union annulled based on fraud and asked a court not to award Salomon spousal support and to keep her and Salomon's income and property separate. We’ve heard this tune before, but this time it seems for real.
Michael Jackson is facing an imminent foreclosure on his 2,800-acre Neverland Valley Ranch in less than a month unless he pays $24.6 million in the next three weeks. The pop singer’s hometown newspaper, the Santa Maria Times, reported that a tentative public auction date for the ranch has been set for March 19 at 1 p.m., with the property going to the highest bidder. Since his acquittal on charges that he sexually molested a young boy at the ranch in 2005, Jackson has spent little time at his amusement-park-themed getaway. A spokesperson for Jackson could not be reached for comment at press time.
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