> Cypress Hill will be giving an in-store appearance and signing autographs at Tower Records (4th and Broadway) in New York City on February 16 at 4:30 pm. In addition, they will be "appearing" in an episode of the Simpsons due to air in May.
> New York City's Z100's Extreme is a high adrenaline sports & music festival that will take place Saturday March 9th at Action Park in Vernon Valley, New Jersey. Confirmed bands performing include Oasis and Garbage, with more to be announced; also included in the package are a lift ticket, free snowboard clinics, mountain bike trials, a human slingshot and much more. Tickets for the entire event, which are available through Ticketmaster, cost $36.
>The Swiss dark-wave band Mittageisen has some beautiful web pages at http://www.centralnet.ch/userpages/mital_U/welcome.html. A CD titled alles ist anders ... nichts hat sich geaendert with much of their material, including the legendary "Automaten" from '85, was finally released last year. The web pages have more information and sound files.
> The band My Little Sister has its own webpage, and links to other musical sites, at http://www.solution.nl/~dejong/mls/.
> Pentagon CD's (http:///www.pentagon.net) has teamed up with BMG and 1000 Mona Lisas; customers are able to purchase the upcoming 1000 Mona Lisas album only through Pentagon (on the net) before it is available in stores, at the end of February. In addition, there are soundbites of other releases which are for sale at the site.
> The Rake's Progress are currently working on their new album which is slated to be released this fall. In addition, the band were recently interviewed on the nationally syndicated radio show "Listen Up hosted by Jaeneane Garafalo".
> R & S Records has joined the WWW pool; To get access on any of their artists, their label divisions (such as Apollo, Generations, Satori, Global Cuts, etc.) and links around the global dance village, check out http://www.rsrecords.com
>Sonicnet has put up their Loser's Guide To Boston on the Web; check it out at: http://www.sonicnet.com/feature/lgboston/