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Briefly: Warren Zevon, Queen, Phish, Pulp, MCA Records
Singer-songwriter Warren Zevon , who is terminally ill with inoperable lung cancer, will release a studio album titled "The Wind" on Aug. 26.
Among the guest artists who contributed to the album were Bruce Springsteen ; Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit of the Eagles; Tom Petty; Jackson Browne; Emmylou Harris; Dwight Yoakam; Billy Bob Thornton; Ry Cooder; and T-Bone Burnett, according to Artemis Records.
The album release will coincide with a VH1 documentary about the recording of the record.
The DVD version of "Queen Live at Wembley" is scheduled to hit stores on June 17. The two-disc, surround-sound set captures the group's July 1986 two-night stand at London's Wembley Stadium. It features live renditions of 28 songs, new interviews with Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, backstage documentary, rehearsal footage, eight previously unreleased and unseen tracks and a 20-page booklet.
Queen will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday (6/12).
Vermont jam band Phish will perform the national anthem before Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday (6/11), and Dominic Chianese--who plays Uncle Junior on "The Sopranos"--will sing the anthem before Game 5 on Friday (6/13).
Pulp is on hiatus, but the group will fulfill its recording contract with Island Records by issuing the best-of album "Hits" on June 24. The set includes 17 tracks, ranging from 1992's "Babies" to the 2002 non-album track "Last Day of the Miners' Strike."
About a third of the staffers at MCA Records were let go on Monday (6/9), and the label is expected to be completely merged into Geffen Records by the end of the week, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The MCA Records name will reportedly be eliminated.
