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January 2000


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 31 Jan 2000 Brit Awards nominees announced—public can vote
 31 Jan 2000 NetAid to distribute US$1.7 million in Africa, Kosovo
 31 Jan 2000 Departure Lounge ready US debut
 31 Jan 2000 The Smashing Pumpkins mount clandestine US tour
 31 Jan 2000 Clinton video Buttoned Down Disco for free download
 31 Jan 2000 Homelands festival England gets Public Enemy
 30 Jan 2000 Peter Murphy to tour North America with new band
 30 Jan 2000 CD review: Primal Scream’s Exterminator
 28 Jan 2000 Super Furry Animals video premieres on Sunday
 28 Jan 2000 NME posts How He Wrote Elastica Man for free download
 28 Jan 2000 Chumbawamba’s hit list
 27 Jan 2000 Patti Smith set to release Gung Ho
 27 Jan 2000 Family Values on track for third run this year
 27 Jan 2000 Amoeba to release 7 hour sleep music piece on DVD
 27 Jan 2000 Denmark’s Roskilde Festival announces early bands
 27 Jan 2000 NME Webcasts all Premier Tour shows starting today
 26 Jan 2000 Johnny Marr and The Healers to debut this year
 26 Jan 2000 The Reverend Horton Heat start manic US tour
 26 Jan 2000 Punk-O-Rama spring tour taking shape
 26 Jan 2000 Apple expands indie music offerings on QTV network
 25 Jan 2000 Crooked Fingers release debut album, start US tour
 25 Jan 2000 The Go-Betweens working on reunion album
 25 Jan 2000 Cypress Hill migrate to metal, funk on new LP
 25 Jan 2000 Crosby Stills Nash & Young kick off reunion tour
 24 Jan 2000 MP3.com in hot water for alleged copyright infringement
 24 Jan 2000 Sleater-Kinney finish fifth LP, plan tour
 24 Jan 2000 Bargain Music post MP3 files, release debut LP
 24 Jan 2000 John Lydon promotes honesty on Rotten Television
 24 Jan 2000 Black Tape founder Sam Rosenthal releases enhanced CD
 24 Jan 2000 The Donnas will tour North America with The Smugglers
 24 Jan 2000 EMI plans to merge with Warner music
 22 Jan 2000 Super Furry Animals’ NME Web chat transcripts
 21 Jan 2000 Moby to cover Sir Elton John at MusiCares benefit dinner
 21 Jan 2000 NME announces nominees for 2000 Premier Awards
 21 Jan 2000 Matador posts two new MP3s from Yo La Tengo
 21 Jan 2000 Beefcake (the punk band) stage major US tour
 20 Jan 2000 Major victory for Low Power FM radio in the US
 20 Jan 2000 Daniel Johnston stages multi front comeback
 20 Jan 2000 Labour Party may throw out Oasis patron Alan McGee
 20 Jan 2000 Bob Marley DVD single due next month
 20 Jan 2000 Electronic collection to spotlight The Groovebox
 20 Jan 2000 Death In Vegas Web chat next month
 19 Jan 2000 First Woodstock 1999 sex crime conviction handed down
 19 Jan 2000 California Music Awards nominees announced
 19 Jan 2000 Dave Matthews Band build hometown studio, ready DVD
 19 Jan 2000 The ethics of selling out when you’re a musician
 19 Jan 2000 New Utah Saints LP to feature Michael Stipe, Chuck D
 19 Jan 2000 Government kills Liverpool’s plan to advertise Beatles
 18 Jan 2000 Twisted Sister deny Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker
 18 Jan 2000 Elliott Smith plans brief US acoustic winter tour
 18 Jan 2000 Streaming content recorder blocked from sale
 18 Jan 2000 All the bands for All Tomorrow’s Parties
 18 Jan 2000 Resistance Records markets racism over the Web
 18 Jan 2000 Oasis to cover The Who’s My Generation
 18 Jan 2000 Masses Against The Classes on Top Of The Pops
 17 Jan 2000 Foo Fighters play impromptu AIDS benefit in Hollywood
 17 Jan 2000 Was Mick Jaggar in line to be knighted last month?
 17 Jan 2000 Review: Grant Hart’s Good News For Modern Man
 17 Jan 2000 Texas festival to honor slain punk Brian Deneke
 17 Jan 2000 Manic Street Preachers dethrone Westlife in UK
 17 Jan 2000 Superchunk tour Spain and England, release new EP
 17 Jan 2000 Mansun reveal details of third LP
 17 Jan 2000 Travis to perform five US shows
 14 Jan 2000 Terry Riley performs in New York
 14 Jan 2000 Korn to play indie animations on tour
 14 Jan 2000 Death front man to receive life saving brain surgery
 14 Jan 2000 Neil Young’s Silver And Gold due April in the US
 14 Jan 2000 Devo double CD collection due this April
 14 Jan 2000 Wim Wenders’ Million Dollar Hotel’s eclectic soundtrack
 13 Jan 2000 8th annual San Francisco Noise Pop fest adds Chicago leg
 13 Jan 2000 Pennywise, True Sounds Of Liberty stage LA benefit
 13 Jan 2000 US indie music documentary debuts at Portland festival
 13 Jan 2000 Overbooking leads to last second Slipknot cancellation, riot
 13 Jan 2000 The Cure plan promo dates in Europe, US for February
 13 Jan 2000 Saint Etienne ready new album, add bonus track to EP
 13 Jan 2000 Beck to tour North America with Beth Orton, Hank Williams III
 13 Jan 2000 Ash head to studio with new songs by guitarist
 12 Jan 2000 The Deftones post video clip from recording sessions
 12 Jan 2000 Joe Louis Walker leads pack for Blues Foundation honors
 12 Jan 2000 Manager Sharon Osbourne smashes Billy Corgan
 12 Jan 2000 The Modernist to release first US album
 12 Jan 2000 The The ready new LP, start US tour in April
 12 Jan 2000 Rollins Band shoot Illuminator video in Calcutta and Los Angeles
 12 Jan 2000 Ween’s White Pepper due for March release
 12 Jan 2000 Vote now for song for Oasis to cover
 11 Jan 2000 February Sessions to feature Ziggy Marley, Wilco, Rollins Band
 11 Jan 2000 Smash Mouth to tour US with Luscious Jackson
 11 Jan 2000 Rave-umentary Better Living Through Circuitry spawns albums
 11 Jan 2000 Kiss to auction gear, costumes in May
 11 Jan 2000 The Morphine Orchestra to tour US starting February
 11 Jan 2000 Elliott Smith readies followup to critically acclaimed XO
 11 Jan 2000 Yo La Tengo to release limited editions in US, Europe
 10 Jan 2000 Wilco kicks off club Lounge Ax’s final week
 10 Jan 2000 Megadeth guitarist calls it quits mid tour
 10 Jan 2000 AC/DC may release new album next month
 10 Jan 2000 Alec Empire vs. the Sony Entertainment-ocracy
 10 Jan 2000 Manics to depose Westlife in UK?
 10 Jan 2000 Gomez on the road supporting Liquid Skin
 10 Jan 2000 YY28s set to release debut LP
   9 Jan 2000 Oasis post new instrumental track Fuckin’ In The Bushes
   7 Jan 2000 VH-1’s questionably conceived top 100 rock songs poll
   7 Jan 2000 Tortoise help bid adieu to Chicago’s Lounge Ax
   7 Jan 2000 U2 will not, after all, play free Dublin concert
   7 Jan 2000 Eminem to finish second album, may tour with Dr. Dre
   6 Jan 2000 The Cure’s Bloodflowers due Valentine’s Day
   6 Jan 2000 Lupine Howl post debut single and video
   6 Jan 2000 DJ Shadow scores soundtrack to indie documentary
   6 Jan 2000 Moby may compose theme for Cecil B. Demented
   6 Jan 2000 The 2000 Glastonbury Festival wants your vote
   5 Jan 2000 Morrissey starts US tour 1 February
   5 Jan 2000 Influential outsiders featured on upcoming compilation
   5 Jan 2000 Belle & Sebastian to release retrospective box set
   5 Jan 2000 Fringes of Grammy nominations hold some interest
   5 Jan 2000 Sir Paul McCartney donates US$2 million to cancer research
   4 Jan 2000 Tibet House benefit performers announced
   4 Jan 2000 The Olivia Tremor Control, Michael Stipe for mental health benefit
   4 Jan 2000 Oasis officially leave Creation, form new label
   4 Jan 2000 Goodbye Sony: Alan McGee founds new indie label
   4 Jan 2000 Reborn Spiritualized assemble new album
   4 Jan 2000 Marilyn Manson posts watercolors on the Web
   3 Jan 2000 Alec Empire plotting collaborations with Reznor, De La Rocha
   3 Jan 2000 The Violent Femmes stage European tour, ready next LP
   3 Jan 2000 David Bowie may record tracks from his archive
   3 Jan 2000 Napster banned from Northwestern University
   3 Jan 2000 Concert e-tickets on the way
   3 Jan 2000 New Oasis video available online
   2 Jan 2000 Stereophonics wake up Millennium Eve crowd in Liverpool
   1 Jan 2000 Manic Street Preachers & friends set Millennium records
   1 Jan 2000 Billboard’s year end review



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