Johnny Cash's late-Eighties/early-Nineties albums -- Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town, Boom Chicka Boom, Water From the Wells of Home and The Mystery of Life -- will be reissued with bonus material on February 11th . . . Master P and his son Lil' Romeo will star in a new television family comedy, Uncle P, which begins production later this month . . . Idlewild will begin a twenty-seven-date club tour on March 5th in Boston in support of their March 25th release, The Remote Part. On May 28th the band will begin a fifteen-date run opening for Pearl Jam . . . Songs by Spoon, Lambchop, Superchunk, the Buzzcocks and others will be included on Merge Records' Survive and Advance (Vol. 2), due February 18th. The series' third volume is scheduled for summer . . .
Former Rodriguez singer-songwriter M. Ward will release his third solo album, Transfiguration of Vincent, on March 18th . . . Tonic kicked off their first-ever acoustic tour in Wisconsin this week in support of Head on Straight . . . Bishop Allen will release their debut, Charm School, on March 25th . . . George Jones, Alan Jackson, Montgomery Gentry, Darryl Worley and others will contribute tunes to Songs of Hank Williams Jr.: A Bocephus Celebration, due February 11th . . . Calexico will begin a twenty-two-date tour on February 26th in San Diego . . . Tortoise have lined up a four-date West Coast tour to launch February 27th in Seattle . . .
Sotheby's auction house filed suit against Michael Jackson in New York, claiming the King of Pop has not paid the $1.4 million he bid for a pair of nineteenth-century paintings last fall . . . Ashanti and Amerie received three nominations for the 2003 Soul Train Awards to lead all acts; the event is set for March 1st in Pasadena, California . . . Robert Randolph and the Family Band will launch a twenty-four-date U.S. tour on February 26th in Danbury, Connecticut . . . The Dead Kennedys have lined up three dates in Tokyo starting February 7th, followed by a twenty-five-date European tour scheduled to commence on February 26th in Milan . . . DMX, Eve, Jaheim and 50 Cent will perform at the Hot 97 FM Block Part in Long Island, New York, on February 25th . . . H-Town rapper Keven A. "Dino" Conner died in a car accident on January 28th in Houston . . .
The Soundtrack of Our Lives will return to the U.S. once again to plug their album Behind the Music, with a nineteen-date tour beginning March 15th in Orlando . . . VP Records founder Vincent Chin died of natural causes on February 2nd in Fort Lauderdale . . . Jimmy Webb will receive the Johnny Mercer Award at the Songwriters' Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York on June 12th . . . The Yardbirds' Little Games, the band's last album with Jimmy Page, will be reissued with bonus tracks on April 22nd . . . Underworld will headline the Ultra Music Festival on March 22nd in Miami. Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, Sasha, Tiesto and Digweed will also perform . . . Jimmy Eat World Frontman Jim Adkins and promoter Charlie Levy have launched Western Tread, a new Arizona-based independent label . . .
8 Mile, starring Eminem, will be released on DVD on March 18th. One version of the film will feature bonus footage including five previously unseen rap battles . . . 'N Sync's JC Chasez is wrapping work on his solo debut, due in July . . . Live has nearly completed their sixth album due in May . . . Living With Michael Jackson, a documentary about the troubled pop singer, will air on ABC on February 7th . . . Keith Urban was ordered by his doctor to cancel six weeks of concerts and promotional appearances due to a vocal cord ailment . . . Sixteen Rush hits will be compiled on The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits (1974-1987), due February 11th . . .
Yo La Tengo will release their eleventh album, Summer Sun, on April 8th. The group hits the road on March 10th in Carrboro, North Carolina, for a fifteen-date tour . . . Val Emmich will release his debut album, Slow Down Kid, on March 11th. He'll begin a sixteen-date tour on February 8th in New Brunswick, New Jersey . . . Former Swans frontman Michael Gira's new band, Angels Of Light, will launch a U.S. tour on March 27th in Boston . . . Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have parted ways with rapper Bizzy Bone prior to beginning work on Thug Brothers, a collaboration with the Outlawz . . . TrustCompany will begin a fifty-one-date tour on February 5th in Atlanta . . .
(February 5, 2003)