Rikki, don't lose that scalper's number. After a 20-year wait for a new studio album, Steely Dan (
steelydan.com) aren't wasting a moment taking their show on the road. After the surprising chart success of "Two Against Nature" (
Giant/
Reprise), Messrs.
Becker and
Fagen hit the road May 31 in Spokane, WA, and keep it up until July 29 in Dallas. They'll play two dates at L.A.'s Universal Amphitheatre (6/13-14) and one at Jones Beach in Wantagh, N.Y. (7/8). All attendees exhibiting male-pattern baldness get half-price tickets...
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are ready to step to the plate. The Boston-based group will world premiere their new video, "So Sad To Say," on the giant screen at venerable Fenway Park on April 11, opening day for Beantown's beloved
Red Sox. The track is the single from the band's sixth studio album, "Pay Attention" (Mercury/IDJMG), which comes out May 2. The ska-punkers will then help the season get underway by burning in effigy
Bill Buckner, the first baseman whose error helped cost the Bosox the '86 World Series to the
Mets...
Sisqo has enlisted rapper
Foxy Brown for a remix of his hit track, "Thong Song," which will be the first single from the upcoming "Nutty Professor II" soundtrack. The album, slated to hit retail July 11, will also include tracks from
Janet Jackson,
Eve,
Brian McKnight,
Jay-Z,
Ja Rule,
Montell Jordan and
Case. Sources say video director-turned-feature filmmaker
Steve Carr ("Next Friday") is lined up for the sequel, which features
Eddie Murphy as someone who thinks he can talk to the animals and is instead thrown in an institution. The red-hot
Sisqo hits the road soon with
NSYNC, who think a thong is something you wear on your feet... Our own
Ivana is now the proud owner of the 1958 Fender Jazzmaster that
Television's guitar hero
Tom Verlaine played on the '77 classic, "Marquee Moon." The axe had been listed on
eBay for $32,000 and was sold by ex-
Bongo man
James Mastro for TV himself. Ivana then traded the guitar in for a pair of soiled Fruit of the Looms once warned by Tom’s bandmate
Richard Lloyd... The shellfish responsible for
Mariah Carey's recent stay in the hospital has been traced to an "oystergram" sent by
Celine Dion. The French chanteuse had previously shipped some crab claws to
Whitney Houston, which the
Arista diva blamed for causing her to miss the Oscars... "Antic Ocean," the third album from North Carolina band
Jolene, is just out on their own label,
Isadora’s Scarf Recording, distributed by
Redeye; Germany’s
Blue Rose has licensed the record from the band for release in Europe and the U.K. The band was most recently on
Sire, for which they recorded "In The Gloaming" (1998), after debuting with "Hell’s Half Acre" on the short-lived
Ardent Records in ’96. The bulk of the tracks that make up the new album were cut for a projected Sire album before the other shoe dropped. With its three-guitar front line (shades of
Moby Grape and
Buffalo Springfield, Jolene rocks with authority, but for the most part, "Antic Ocean" is jest real purty, as the Goggle Guy might say...
Kevin Spacey is determined to avoid the post-Oscar career faceplant that has hit some previous Best Actor winners. "It's about making the right choices," said this year's winner for "American Beauty" at a recent cheese-tasting ceremony in Redondo Beach thrown by his mother. Inside sources have revealed Spacey's next project will team him with
William Shatner in a hip-hop remix of "Rocket Man" for
Clive Davis’ new label.