NEW I MOTHER EARTH SINGER LEAKED
Although none of the guys in I Mother Earth are talking, word on who the new singer for the Toronto-based band is has actually been leaked to the world by none other than David Usher of Moist. During Moist's Toronto show at Massey Hall last weekend, Usher told the audience that Brian Byrne is the newly-anointed lead singer of I Mother Earth. (Thanks to the two ChartAttack readers who emailed us to give us the scoop!) Byrne is apparently "a kid from Eastern Canada," who has sung in bands that noone would immediately recognize or have heard of outside of his native area. Rumours are rampant that I Mother Earth will be changing its name now that the new singer has been chosen to replace original (and sexy!) singer Edwin, and the band has opted not to renew its record contract with EMI Music Canada. The band is currently negotiating a new record deal, details of which will be made available in the next three or four months, once I Mother Earth has had a chance to break in the new guy, write some new songs and are ready to re-launch themselves to the universe.
TEA PARTY / ECONOLINE CRUSH CONTEST ONLINE
Head to the EMI Music Canada Web site if you've been to any of the Tea Party and Econoline Crush concerts in the last month across Canada and the U.S. The EMI Web site is holding a contest for fans who have attended a show on this leg of the tour to write up a review of the show and submit it to the Web site. One reviewer will be randomly chosen as a winner of a full autographed CD set from both bands.
FEAR FACTORY LANDS COOL OPENING SLOT
Fear Factory will be the only opening band on December 4 and 5 in Birmingham, England, at a reunion concert of the original line-up of Black Sabbath. Fear Factory returns to Vancouver, BC to mix and master its new album in January '98 with producer and sometime member of the band, Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly, Delerium).
TYPE O NEGATIVE WORKS ON HOME VIDEO
That goth-metal sexpot, Pete Steele and his nochos in Type O Negative are putting together behind-the-scenes footage of the band and a collection of song videos for a near-future home video release. The band is currently also writing material for its next album, due out in the latter half of 1998.
JAYMZ BEE TAKES ON LAS VEGAS
Toronto croon-loving, martini-toting Jaymz Bee is moving to Las Vegas. The New Year will bring a new bachelor pad to the king of the cocktail party, who has been traveling back and forth between T.O. and the desert gambling mecca for six months before deciding to relocate there. Bee's Royal Jelly Orchestra has been touring select American dates, and will be playing at The Top of The World bar in the World Trade Center in New York on December 12 and 13. He will also be hosting a party for the premiere of the new James Bond film in The Big Apple all the while promoting his new book, Cocktail Parties For Dummies, released last month. He'll also be featured in an interview on CBC's RadioSonic tomorrow between 7:00 p.m. and midnight, which you can catch online in RealAudio.
LISA LOEB; CHUMBAWAMBA; WILLIAM GIBSON ONLINE
Jam TV tonight features a live set from Lisa Loeb from her performance at Tinley Park, IL, at Lilith Fair in August, at 8:00 p.m. EST Chumbawamba can be heard in a set from October 27 at the Metro in Chicago on Jam TV at 9:40 p.m. EST. And on Sunday night on CBC's RadioSonic you can hear an interview with author William Gibson both on the Web site from anywhere in the world, or on CBC radio anywhere in Canada.
LILITH FAIR; BRYAN ADAMS; JANN ARDEN ON TV
Today on your local Pay Per View channel, you can watch one of the Lilith Fair shows with Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, Indigo Girls and Meredith Brooks (check listings for times). At 10:00 p.m. EST on your local PBS station, David Frost will be interviewing Sir Paul McCartney, while at 10:30 p.m. in America only, you can watch Bryan Adams' MTV Unplugged special taped at the Manhattan Center in New York in September, on MTV of course. Tonight at 12:30 a.m. on some American PBS stations (it's on Saturday night for other stations, and in Canada), the On Tour series of shows is a best-of that features live performances from Cowboy Junkies, Meat Loaf, Joan Osborne and the Further Festival. ABC's In Concert show tonight at 12:35 a.m. EST features Oasis, um, in concert.Conan O'Brien welcomes Ric Ocasek as his musical guest tonight at 12:35 a.m. on NBC. Jann Arden's Intimate and Interactive special is replayed on MuchMusic in Canada tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. EST, and MTV will replay the Bryan Adams Unplugged concert again on Sunday at 11:00 p.m. EST. For the ultimate guide to music on television head toRock On TV
TODAY'S TEE-HEE
Coffee humour, part eight:
You know you're drinking too much coffee when...
--You lick your coffeepot clean.
--The only time you're standing still is during an earthquake.
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Karen Pace is a retired teacher (fer real!) who started working in this crazy music industry on-air at ICRT Radio in Taipei, Taiwan. From freelance writing to voice-overs to music reviewer on E Now! on BBS, she runs at a break-neck clip, investigating all the news you should know. In between breaths, she finds time to be the world's best aunt to her niece and nephew.