Music News & Notes

Poor Britney

Britney Spears stopped performing halfway through her concert at the GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, after smoky conditions and ventilation problems forced the singer and her dancers to leave the stage for more than 30 minutes, reported the Vancouver Sun. After performing a few songs, Spears and her dancers vanished for no reason, leaving the impatient crowd to chant and do the wave in complete darkness. Apparently, the smoking of marijuana and cigarettes became so overwhelming, that the crew thought it was unsafe- so they stopped the concert.

Spears’ camp issued a statement after the concert, saying, “We want to apologize to all the fans who attended our Vancouver show tonight for the brief pause in Britney’s set. Crew members above the stage became ill due to a ventilation issue.”

You won't see that anywhere else, imagine a rock concert being stopped because of the smoke- hey, isn't that part of the show?

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Prince at #2

Prince's new album, LotusFlow3r, premiers at number two this week on the Billboard Album chart with sales of 168,000. He was beat out by Keith Urban's new album which sold just 3,000 more copies.

Total sales were 7.11 million units, down 11% from the same week last year. Year-to-date sales are down 13.3%.

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Eddie Vedder Embarks On 2009 US Solo Tour

Eddie Vedder will embark on an 11-date, 2009 US solo tour, which begins June 8th in Albany, New York and ends July 2nd in Honolulu, Hawaii (full list of tour dates below). New Zealand singer-songwriter Liam Finn will open these shows. General public tickets for all dates of the Eddie Vedder 2009 solo tour go on sale Saturday, April 18th (with the exception of the Baltimore dates which go on sale April 17th).

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New Releases This Week

Mumiy Troll - "Comrade Ambassador" - Review
Maria Taylor - "LadyLuck" (Nettwerk Music Group)
Halloween, Alaska - "Champagne Downtown" (East Side Digital)
Other Lives - "Other Lives" (tbd records)
Tom Goss - "Back To Love"
The Blue Van - "Man Up" - iTunes release
Felice Brothers - "Yonder Is The Clock" (Team Love)
Zach Williams and the Reformation - "Zach Williams and the Reformation"
Datarock - "Give It Up" - Single
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - “From Her To Eternity” (Mute) - Re-release
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - “The Firstborn Is Dead” (Mute) - Re-release
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - “Kicking Against The Pricks” (Mute) - Re-release
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - “Your Funeral… My Trial” (Mute) - Re-release
Living With Lions - "Dude Manor" (Adeline Records)
Single File - "Common Struggles"
Gliss - "Devotion Implosion" (Rydkodisc/Cordless Recordings)
Richard Swift - "The Atlantic Ocean" (Secretly Canadian)
Bat for Lashes - "Two Suns" (Astralwerks)