Nicole Blackman's 7" single of "Indictment/I Believe" has been released on the Cleveland singles label Carcrashh. She also appears on the spoken word Relationships from Hell compilation.
David Bowie has been working with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor recently, in preparation for Bowie's September release, Outside. The two will headline a Lollapalooza style tour; potential other acts to be included on this tour are Bjork, Bush and Porno For Pyros.
Capitol Records has the blues, but in a good way - complete recordings on CD of some of the masters of the American Blues. Legends such as T-Bone Walker, Lil' Son Jackson, Sonny Terry, Son House and Roy Brown have their own individual CD's, while Rediscovered Blues includes legendary performers such as Lighnin' Hopkins and Big Joe Williams and Chicago Blues Masters Vol. 1 features Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim. Each of these CD's will be released on June 20.
New York City based The Cogs, who first cracked into the musical spotlight with an E.P. of Ween covers, have expanded to a five piece unit and are ready to record a full LP. The as-yet-untitled release is expected to be released in the fall of 1995, with another single to precede it. Their current 7", "(I'm Moving To) Seattle", will be reviewed in an upcoming issue of Consumable.
With the cancellation of Jon Stewart's late night show, Conan O'Brien is beginning to pick up some cool musical guests. Included in live show performances on O'Brien's show are: June 16, Low Pop Suicide: June 20, Rake's Progress; July 18, Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Nik Kershaw, whose "Wouldn't It Be Good" was one of those 1980's classic songs, now has a Internet mailing list. Wounded Knee, the title of a song off his The Works album, is also the name of this mailing list. To subscribe to the list, send a message (with the word subscribe as the message) to nik-request@fox-in.socs.uts.edu.au ; to send a message to the mailing list, send to nik@fox-in.socs.uts.edu.au
KMFDM and Giorgio Moroder have just released a wild CD single of remixes from KMFDM's dance hit, "Juke Joint Jezebel". KMFDM is also on the World Wide Web at two sites, http://www.webb.com/concrete.html and http://www.kmfdm.com
Omnium Recordings (featured in the June 8 issue of Consumable) has recently put up a complete World Wide Web site. Net surfers can find the label at http://www.omnium.com/pub/omnium/
RPM Seattle, a music organization which recently completed work for composer Michael Kamen and the Seattle Symphony Die Hard: With A Vengeance, has recently come online. Their email address is rpmseattle@aol.com and world wide web site is http://www.RPMSeattle.com/rpm/
Sepultura has just released a collector's edition home video, shot largely by the band, family and crew members during their 1993-94 world tour. Third World Chaos includes scenes from the band's opening summer of '94 slot with Pantera, as well as footage of Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) performing "Holiday in Cambodia" with Sepultura's Andreas Kisser on guitar and Igor Cavalera on drums.
