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SINNING WITH SONG

Nashville newcomer Michael Peterson's debut single, "Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie," is not really about sinning. Peterson's song, with "the four words you can't say on country radio," was written with a twist to proclaim undying love. That proclamation has become one of the highest-charting debut singles by a country artist in 1997. Critics say Peterson's debut record is as "radio-friendly" as payola and as intellectually satisfying as a good book. Check out this week's HotStar to learn more about this ex-football player who has a long road of success in front of him.

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CONCERT BANDWIDTH

What do Warner Bros., Atlantic, Reprise and Elektra have in common? The labels belong to Warner Music Group which has assembled all of its labels under one huge record company Web sites — Ear¹. The site has plenty of unique content, plus serves as a central location to jump to the labels in the group. Ear¹ offers more information than just about any other label site on the Web. Plus, Ear¹ has new Web features like radio playlists from Broadcast Data Services. In fact, there's so much stuff on Ear¹, you'll just have to read all about it in this week's Gigs & Bytes column.

NEW Tours
American Analog Set
Arto Lindsay
(Europe / Japan)
Backstreet Boys
Badfinger feat. Joey Molland
Ben Vereen
Blasters
Drugs
Fish (Europe)
Foxtrot Zulu
Gato Barbieri
Gran Torino
Grand Street Cryers
Ignitors
Imani Coppola
Incubus
James McMurtry
Jimmy Eat World
Joan Of Arc
John Hiatt
Jonathan Butler
Juggling Suns
K's Choice
Kurt Neumann and Friends
Majek Fashek
NYC Ska Mob Tour
Skinnerbox, The Slackers
and The Stubborn All-Stars
Patti Smith
Paul Burlison
Rhonda Vincent
River Road
Sundays
Urge
Withstand
Yanni
Zen Tricksters


BETWEEN THE DATES

Limp Bizkit lead singer Fred Durst recently confronted a vendor selling bogus T-shirts outside a gig in Kalamazoo, Mich., where the band opened for Primus. Durst and the band's road manager went up to thebootlegger and asked if he had any Limp Bizkit shirts. The vendor responded "yes" and then the conversation got heated, growing into a scuffle between the bootlegger and the road manager as fans looked on, according to a statement issued by the band. Find out how the brouhaha ended in POLLSTAR's Between the Dates column.



THE TOP 40 TOURS OF THE INTERNET

Pearl Jam moves into the Top 5 on the Internet's Most Requested Concert Tours chart. Still, nothing is posing any real threat to No. 1 Fleetwood Mac and No. 2 Rolling Stones. Megadeth takes a huge leap back onto the chart, as does Jamiroquai. Meanwhile, Portishead and The Cure make their Pollstars of the Web debut. See which 40 acts are tops with concert fans on the Internet's Most Requested Concert Tours chart.



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