Fatboy Slim took honors for Best International Act, Jennifer Lopez won Best Chart Artist and the Crystal Method won Best Act at the first American Dance Music Awards on March 24th in Miami . . . The International Society of Krishna Consciousness in Mayapur, India, is planning to construct a garden in memory of George Harrison . . . Bono appeared as a character witness at Peter Buck's air rage trial in London on March 25th, testifying that he has never seen Buck drunk in the seventeen years he has known him . . . Weezer will begin their nine-date Dusty West 2002 Tour on April 23rd in Edmonton, Canada. After wrapping May 5th in Lincoln, Nebraska, the band will head to Japan . . .
So Solid Crew rapper Asher D (a.k.a. Ashley Walters) was sentenced to eighteen months in a young offenders institution in London after being convicted of weapons possession . . . Two Jimi Hendrix television appearances will be released as Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show, a new DVD/VHS, due May 14th . . . A brass urn containing the cremated remains of legendary DJ Alan Freed was delivered to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland last week . . . The Damned have dropped off of Rob Zombie's Demon Speeding Tour, citing disinterest on the part of Zombie's fans to their music as the reason . . . Bounty Killer will release his new two-CD album, Ghetto Dictionary, on May 14th . . .
U2 are in the studio working on songs for their next release, which according to a statement from band manager Paul McGuinness, may see release by the end of the year . . . Jimmy Buffett gave a surprise concert in Honolulu last week, with Glen Campbell and Bruce Willis among the 500 fans in attendance. Included in the set was a duet with DON HO on "Tiny Bubbles" . . . Dan "The Automator" Nakamura, Miguel Migs, DJ Baba have been added to the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, set for April 27th and 28th in California . . . Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti will perform solo at the Lava Lounge in Hollywood tonight, taking audience requests throughout the evening . . . Kris Kristofferson and Travis Tritt appeared at Waylon Jennings' memorial service in Nashville on Saturday . . .
Randy Newman's "If I Didn't Have You," from Monsters, Inc. won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles on March 24th, breaking his streak of fifteen consecutive Oscar losses . . . Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds will kick off a seventeen date tour on April 16th in Los Angeles . . . Bands on the Run winner Flickerstick will hit the road for a fourteen-date tour behind their debut album, Welcoming Home the Astronauts, on April 11th in Winona, Minnesota . . . Mike Watt and the Secondmen have lined up the massive sixty-three-date Our Oars Became Wings Tour, which will begin on April 15th in Tempe, Arizona; Watt has also been at work on a new record due out by year's end . . .
(March 26, 2002)