Friday, July 31, 1998

Seal and long-time producer Trevor Horn (Buggles/Yes) have apparently mended fences after an altercation last year that appeared to have ended their hit-making relationship. The singer is currently working with Horn on his 3rd album leaving behind a still-unspecified incident that saw Horn leave the studio the two were working in last August. Horn produced both of the singer's previous self-titled albums - which were released in 1991 and 1994.
The original members of Kiss have agreed to play themselves in a new movie, Detroit Rock City, a coming-of-age story set in the '70s. The film tells the story of 4 teenagers and their adventures while attempting to get in to a sold-out Kiss show. Kiss will release it's next album, Psycho Circus, on Sept. 15th and plan to kick off a subsequent world tour with a Halloween night concert at Dodger Stadium.
The Brian Setzer Orchestra's latest album, Dirty Boogie, has spent the last month climbing the charts to the Top 25. On the album, Setzer and the band revisit part of the frontman's Stray Cats past with a new swing version of the classic "Rock This Town" which has remained a perennial favorite at Setzer's live performances.
The first concert performances in more than a decade from Australia's Men At Work (led by original members Colin Hay and Greg Ham) are chronicled on Brazil, the first live album of their career. A newly-recorded studio track, "The Longest Night," rounds out the 12 song collection. Brazil has been set for an Aug. 25th release date.
Former Pixies frontman Frank Black took over the web Thursday to premiere to new songs, "All My Ghosts" and "King And Queen Of Siam," from his forthcoming album Frank Black And The Catholics. Internet users can download complete MP3 versions of the song for $.99 each at www.goodnoise.com and in August the whole album will be available for download there for $8.99 - a full month before the actual Sept. 8th release date.
With the current leg of Aerosmith's U.S. tour currently on hold until September, guitarist Joe Perry will spend some of his newly freed time playing a role in an upcoming episode of Homicide: Life On The Streets. A spokesperson for NBC confirmed that Perry will play an undercover narcotics agent in an episode that starts production in Washington, D.C., this week and will be aired in October.
After Bauhaus completed it's 4-night stand in Los Angeles, Peter Murphy headed into a Seattle studio and recorded a five song E.P., Recall, with KMFDM's Sascha Konietzko co-producing. The sessions indicate where Murphy's post-Bauhaus pre-occupations have led him - which was apparently to the sights and sounds of Turkey (where he has been living for the last 8 years.) Recall features remixes of two old Murphy tracks ("Indigo Eyes" and "Roll Call") as well as a pair of new songs.
Santa Barbara, California-based Toad The Wet Sprocket have called it a day. The band's official Web site cited "emerging differences" as the reason for the break-up and a publicist for the Toad's label confirmed that the band was indeed no more.