Loose Ends: Buble And Lavigne Certifications, Radiohead Soundtrack And Jeff Healey's Cancer Surgery

If winning four Juno Awards earlier this month wasn't enough for Canadian crooner Michael Buble, he can now add some plaques to his trophy collection.

The singer's It's Time album has been certified quintuple-platinum for selling 500,000 units in Canada through March, while his self-titled record received a quadruple-platinum award. Buble's Caught In The Act DVD was certified octuple-platinum for moving 80,000 units and his Come Fly With Me DVD picked up a triple-platinum certification.

Avril Lavigne wasn't far behind Buble in CRIA's honour roll for March, as Under My Skin was certified quintuple-platinum and her My World DVD reached the septuple-platinum mark.

Metric's Live It Out and City & Colour's Sometimes were both certified gold.

Radiohead will contribute music to the soundtrack for director Richard Linklater's film, A Scanner Darkly, an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's book that's slated to hit theatres on July 7.

The movie, starring Keanu Reeves, is also expected to feature a solo song by Radiohead singer Thom Yorke.

Musician/club owner Jeff Healey underwent a successful operation to have a cancerous growth removed from his left thigh on April 12.

Healey had another sarcoma removed last May, and he's expected to recover as quickly this time as he did then. He was already up and around the day after the operation. The guitarist/horn player was born with a rare gene defect that predisposes him to cancer growth, and he lost his eyesight to a form of eye cancer when he was just one.

Healey's new It's Tight Like That album was recorded with the Jazz Wizards and Chris Barber at Toronto's Hugh's Room last summer and was recently released by Stony Plain Records. He continues to host his My Kinda Jazz radio show on Toronto's Jazz FM.

Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr will rehearse for his upcoming All-Starr Band tour at Casino Rama near Orillia, Ontario in early June.

Rod Argent (The Zombies, Argent), percussionist Sheila E., Richard Marx, Billy Squier and Edgar Winter are joining the 65-year-old Starr this year. The group will play Rama on June 14 and 15.

Toronto concert announcements:

April 29 Chuck Jackson, Jerome Godboo, Howard Willett, Mark Stafford, Gary Kendall, Tyler Burgess and Pete Schmidt @ Silver Dollar
April 29 Ken Whiteley @ Miles Nadal JCC
May 2 The Books @ Lee's Palace
May 3 Kevin Breit and Folkalarm @ Hugh's Room
May 5 Kelly Lee Evans and Parachute Club @ Lula Lounge
May 7 The Bebop Cowboys @ Lula Lounge
May 8-9 Mary Gauthier, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion @ Hugh's Room
May 9 Arlo Guthrie, Abe Guthrie, Gordon Titcomb and The Massacree Band @ Massey Hall
May 9 Tracii Guns Band @ Big Bop
May 10 Tha Dogg Pound and The Smugglaz @ Reverb
May 11 Jerry Douglas @ Mod Club
May 11 Easy Action, Brutal Knights and Dirty Tricks @ Sneaky Dee's
May 12 Kurt Swinghammer and DJ ?uesquecest @ El Mocambo
May 16 Tool @ Hummingbird Centre
May 16 Wolfmother and Deadboy And The Elephantmen @ Opera House
May 23 Teddy Geiger @ El Mocambo
May 27 Imogen Heap @ Mod Club
June 1 John Gorka @ Hugh's Room
June 2 Carlos Del Junco @ Hugh's Room
June 6 The Spinto Band and The Lovely Feathers @ El Mocambo
June 7 Be Your Own Pet @ Mod Club
June 8 Boys Night Out, The Receiving End Of Sirens, Rosesdead and Machete Avenue @ Opera House
June 9 Television @ Phoenix
June 11 Wendell Ferguson, Holmes Hooke, Eve Goldberg and Nancy White @ Hugh's Room
June 13 Stiff Little Fingers and Tossers @ Horseshoe
June 17 Hylozoists @ Horseshoe
June 17 David Bazan @ The Music Gallery
June 22 Barra MacNeils @ Hugh's Room
July 12 Buffy Sainte-Marie @ Hugh's Room
July 13 Tom Jones and Angelo Tsarouchas @ Hummingbird Centre
Sept. 2 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley and Bedouin Soundclash @ Molson Amphitheatre

Vancouver concert announcements:

May 19 John Kay & Steppenwolf, Shocore, Thunderstruck and Wizard Of Oz @ Plaza Of Nations
May 30 The Boy Least Likely To and The Bicycles @ Plaza Club
June 16 O.A.R. and Jack's Mannequin @ Commodore Ballroom
July 1 She Wants Revenge and Ima Robot @ Croatian Cultural Centre
July 11 The Fray and Augustana @ Croatian Cultural Centre
Aug. 10 Sounds Of The Underground Tour @ PNE Forum