Candlebox, Fatboy Slim, KMFDM

NEWS: > Dave Krusen, founding member of Pearl Jam and drummer for Candlebox for the past year and a half, has left the band. According to Krusen, the forthcoming arrival of his second child has found combining home life and touring to be too difficult to maintain. No replacement for Krusen has been named.

> Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" single, which has recently been added to MTV's playlist, will be released commercially on February 23 with the non-album track "Sho Nuff" and the Mulder's Urban Takeover Mix of "The Rockafeller Skank".

> According to Sascha Konietzko, founder of KMFDM, "KMFDM is dead". He also stated there would be a media blackout until March 1st - which would have been the 15th anniversary of the group - regarding the end of KMFDM.