Blinker The Star, Consumer Online Services, Jayne County, Martin Page, ROCKnROM, Supergrass Online

NEWS: > Canada's Blinker The Star has recently entered the studio to record their A&M Records debut album. A tentative release date has been scheduled for fall 1996.

> Consumer Online Services Conference Exhibition is being held in New York City from February 26-28 in New York's Sheraton Hotel and Towers at 52nd St. and 7th Avenue. The conference highlights online magazines and newspapers.

In addition, Jupiter Communications will be holding an interactive party on February 27 at the Supper Club (240 West 47th St) at 7:00 pm. The $50 ticket allows people to meet many of the online trend-setters, to play new simulation games, witness link-ups to other cyber-parties, and watch bands Associated Digital Sound Research, The Most Sordid Pies and Mach Five.

> One of the members of the New York punk scene, transsexual Jayne County, recently performed a Valentine's Day concert in Los Angeles. Seen in attendance at the concert were Angela Bowie (former wife of David), Arthur Kane (of the New York Dolls), and founding member of Andy Warhol's "house band" The Fast, Paul Zone.

> Martin Page will be appearing on ABC's Mike & Maty show on Thursday, February 29. In addition, he'll be opening the Easter Seal Telethon on Saturday, March 2 at 2:00 p.m. (EST) by singing his hit "In The House of Stone and Light".

> Detailed, complete and up-to-date information on eveyr recording, album and album tracks from the last 40 years of popular music - 500 million facts on rock'n'roll - has been compiled on the CD ROCKnROM.

With a price tag of $1500 (plus 3 updates), the disc is not targetted towards casual commercial users but towards radio stations, record companies and other industry insiders. For more information, check out their Web site at http://www.rocknrom.com or call 1-800-747-0091

> British band Supergrass are going all out on the Internet front on March 1. The band will be online chatting at 8:00 p.m. (all times are Greenwich Mean Time), and will be in London performing live at 9:00 p.m. The URL is at http://www.goodcleanfun.freud.co.uk/

There will be more information in the days leading up to the concert, so check on the WWW site for more details. The technical information? For people with CU seeMe reflector, further information will be released from the Web site on March 1. RealAudio of the gig will be available starting at 9:30 pm. They'll also be on IRC; more information will be released from the Web site. And, there is a temporary Supergrass URL up and running at at: http://netmare.southern.net/supergrass/


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