Music News You Can Use...For October 3rd

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS...
* BRAND NEW MOMMA...GWEN STEFANI...IS 37...
* THE DRIVING FORCE OF FLEETWOOD MAC'S "CLASSIC" PERIOD...LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM...IS 59...
* AND IF YOU'RE WALKING AROUND WITH A NAGGING SOCIAL DISEASE...YOU CAN PROBABLY THINK TODAY'S OTHER BIRTHDAY BOY....MISTER TOMMY LEE, WHO TURNS 44 TODAY. FUNNY, THOUGH, HE DOESN'T ACT A DAY OVER 13...

ON THIS DAY BACK IN 1945...THE KING, ELVIS PRESLEY, MADE HIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT A TALENT SHOW AT THE MISSISSIPPI/ALABAMA DAIRY SHOW. HE SANG "OLD SHEP" AND WON A RED RIBBON FOR TAKING SECOND PLACE. SEEMS LIKE HE MANAGED TO OVERCOME THE DISAPPOINTMENT.

YOUR MUSIC NEWS FOR THIS TUESDAY...
**** DON'T EXPECT NEW TUNES FROM COLDPLAY ANY TIME SOON. FRONTMAN CHRIS MARTIN WAS RECENTLY QUOTED AS SAYING..."IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG, LONG TIME BEFORE YOU HEAR A NEW ALBUM FROM US. IF IT TAKES FIVE YEARS...THEN SO BE IT."

**** ONE BAND YOU "CAN" EXPECT NEW MATERIAL FROM IS COLDPLAY'S LONG-IN-THE-TOOTH PREDECESSOR, U2. BONO AND THE BOYS ARE RELEASING A NEW "BEST OF" ON NOVEMBER 20TH. 16 TRACKS WHICH WILL INCLUDE THEIR COLLABORATION WITH GREEN DAY, AS WELL AS ONE NEW RICK-RUBIN PRODUCED TRACK...

**** LOCAL HEROES THE DECEMBERISTS, WILL CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THEIR MAJOR LABEL DEBUT, THE CRANE WIFE, BY APPEARING ON THE CONAN O'BRIEN SHOW TONIGHT...

**** AND FINALLY, WITH ALL THE CRAZY, MIXED UP THINGS GOING ON IN THE WORLD, IT'S EASY TO FEEL CONFUSED. UP IS DOWN, BLACK IS WHITE, WRONG IT RIGHT...SO IT'S NICE TO HEAR NEWS YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY COUNT ON.
LIKE THIS: BOBBY BROWN ...HAS BEEN ARRESTED. ...AGAIN.

AHHHHHH....I FEEL MORE CENTERED ALREADY...