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Quick Hits: Audioslave, Avenged Sevenfold, Hip-Hop Power Summit, Wilco, INXS, Seal, Damien Marley, Jamiroquai, Jimi Hendrix
September 13, 2005


Audioslave

Audioslave's historic performance in front of 50,000 fans in Havana, Cuba will be released on DVD. Dubbed Audioslave Live in Cuba, it is due on October 11. Both a special and regular edition will be released, with the special edition featuring 17 songs from the two-and-a-half-hour show, including renditions of the Soundgarden tunes "Black Hole Sun" and "Outshined." The DVD set also includes two additional discs of bonus material, with a documentary of the band's trip. Audioslave has already been working on new songs for the follow up to Out Of Exile, and they will debut some of those new tunes on their upcoming fall tour, which begins September 24.

Avenged Sevenfold will launch the Cities Of Evil tour on October 7 in San Diego, and it's billed as the band's "biggest live production yet." The tour will showcase many songs from the new album City Of Evil along with older Avenged Sevenfold fan favorites from Waking The Fallen and Sounding The Seventh Trumpet. The tour runs through December 2 in Las Vegas.

Jamie Foxx, Kanye West, Busta Rhymes, Common, Shaggy, Pussycat Dolls, Young JeezyDe La Soul, Q-Tip, Sean Paul, Black Sheep and Lil' Flip are all slated to showcase at RPM's 8th Annual Power Summit, a Hip-Hop convention that will take place from September 28 to October 1 in the Bahamas. Additionally, Russell Simmons will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented to him by Jay-Z. Kanye West is expected to host a listening session to launch his new record label, Good Music.

Wilco will release their first ever live album, Kicking Television - Live In Chicago on November 1. The double-disc set was recorded over four nights in the band's hometown back in May. Wilco has a handful of live dates scheduled for the fall, including an opening slot with The Rolling Stones on October 15 in Atlanta. Frontman Jeff Tweedy will also play a few solo shows in November.

On September 20, INXS will reveal their choice for a new lead singer during the finale of the summer TV series, Rock Star: INXS. The new vocalist will join the band in the studio to immediately begin work on Switch, their first new album in eight years. The record is already scheduled for a November 29 release via Epic Records and will be produced by Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams). A world tour will follow.

Supermodel Heidi Klum gave birth to a baby boy on Monday night in a Los Angeles-area hospital, according to Entertainment Tonight. This is the first child for Klum and her Grammy-winning husband, singer Seal.


Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley has announced a 24-city fall tour in support of his new album, Welcome To Jamrock. The tour kicks off November 3 in St. Petersburg, FL and ends on December 6 in Norfolk, VA. One dollar from every ticket sold on the tour will go to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

As they gear up for the September 20 release of the new album Dynamite, Jamiroquai have announced dates for their first U.S. tour in more than six years. The tour will blast off from the House of Blues in Atlantic City on October 21 and run through November 9 in Los Angeles. The band will also be performing on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on November 7 and Jimmy Kimmel Live on November 11. The lead single from Dynamite will be "Feels Just Like It Should."

Relient K will embark on a fall American tour with co-headliners MXPX beginning on October 8. Relient K is touring in support of the album Mmhmm, which was recently certified Gold. The tour will run through November 10.

Jimi Hendrix's childhood home has been saved from demolition. The building had been at the center of a four-year court battle in Seattle, and had already been moved to a temporary site. Now, it will be permanently moved to a new location near the cemetery where Hendrix is buried. According to BBC News, the James Marshall Hendrix Foundation, along with the City Of Seattle, are planning to renovate the building into a community center which will offer music lessons, practice rooms and a library of musical instruments.




 
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