Sugar Ray's new album, In The Pursuit Of Leisure, will come out June 3 in North America. The first single from the set, "Mr. Bartender (It's So Easy)," will ship to radio...
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Matchbox Twenty and Sugar Ray will kick off a tour starting April 25 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The tour will end July 6 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Maroon5 will open...
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A Bob Marley tribute is part of MTV2's Reggae Weekend, which kicks off Saturday (February 1) in honor of Black History Month. The channel will feature videos from Marley and...
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Sugar Ray is back in the studio working on what will become the band's fifth album for Atlantic Records. Frontman Mark McGrath is pleased with the progress and the prospects...
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Sugar Ray, Michelle Branch, Sixpence None The Richer, and Ashanti performed at the annual Bogart Tour For A Cure charity concert at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles...
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Eric Clapton, Sugar Ray, Matthew Sweet, Van Dyke Parks, and In Bloom have been added to the bill for the upcoming Carl Wilson Benefit Concert. The show, set for October 6 at...
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Modern rock outfits Sugar Ray, Uncle Kracker, and pop artist Willa Ford have lent their fame to help promote the Six Flags theme parks. The artists will appear in a series...
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Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath is one artist who thinks the American Music Awards and the Grammy Awards should be able to peacefully coexist.
Speaking backstage at the AMAs in...
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Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath, country music powerhouse Garth Brooks, hip-hop group the Black Eyed Peas, and Latin-pop artist Thalia will all use their star-power to help...
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Sugar Ray releases its fourth Atlantic Records album, Sugar Ray, today (June 12). One of the album's notable tracks is "Stay On," which features guest vocals from 311...
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U2, Sugar Ray, and Destiny's Child are among the talent lined up for halftime of the NBA Finals between the Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers, which kicks off...
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Sugar Ray will kick off its tour with Uncle Kracker on July 10 in Dallas. Singer Mark McGrath and company will tour through August 18 in Pompano Beach, Florida. Additional...
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Sugar Ray has released two different videos for its new single "When It's Over." The first version will premiere on the Cartoon Network website on June 4. It features...
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Sugar Ray bassist Murphy Karges is being drawn in by his hometown team, the Los Angeles Lakers, as the NBA playoffs heat up. With the semi-final match in the East still up...
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Sugar Ray is hard at work in the studio attempting to complete its still-untitled new album, due in May. The band has tapped producer Don Gilmore, who has worked with Eve...
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The new Loud Rocks collection, featuring rockers reworking classic rap songs with the help of the artists who created them, might have spawned a tour idea. Sugar Ray's Mark...
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Sugar Ray, George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic, Common, Ben Harper, Motorhead, and Savage Garden were among the 2000 artists appearing at the Bumbershoot Festival in...
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Ex-members of Snot and current members of Sevendust, Sugar Ray, Incubus, System Of A Down, Disturbed, and Ozzy Osbourne's band converged on a Malibu, California,...
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Tha Alkaholiks have been performing on rock tours for years, and now the Los Angeles-based rap trio takes its cross-pollination a step further. They team with Sugar Ray on...
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Sugar Ray is currently in a Los Angeles studio working on the follow-up to its 1999 album 14:59. Lead singer Mark McGrath tells LAUNCH that the group has only "skeletals of...
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Alanis Morissette, Sugar Ray, and the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde are among the artists to be featured on Music In High Places, an upcoming television documentary series...
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Sugar Ray guitarist Rodney Sheppard and his wife Gretchen are spending quality time alone with their new baby boy, Campbell Lee Sheppard. Born July 17, the baby weighed 8.2...
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Sugar Ray, Ozzy Osbourne, Everlast, and members of Rage Against The Machine and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the artists who have teamed up with various hip-hoppers...
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Sugar Ray lead singer Mark McGrath's cameo on NBC's hospital drama ER wound up on the cutting-room floor. The singer-turned-actor filmed a guest spot for the episode of ER...
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Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath will join the NBC television drama ER for one episode -- the hour-long show which features McGrath will air May 11. The singer will portray...
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Buckcherry has written a new set of tunes and will head into the studio on May 8 to record a follow-up to its brisk-selling self-titled debut. The album will be produced...
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Sugar Ray,
Bryan Adams, the
Indigo Girls,
Our Lady Peace,
Jimmy Cliff, the
Temptations, and the
Four Tops will perform at SunFest 2000, which takes place along the...
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The girls love him, but
Sugar Ray
singer Mark McGrath is a self-professed creep. Although he's gotten several marriage proposals, he's declined all of them and says...
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The girls love him, but Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath is a self-professed creep. Although he's gotten several marriage proposals, he's declined all of them and says it's a...
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Sugar Ray
may have been tempting fate with the title of their third album, 14:59, which pokes fun at the fleeting nature of fame. However, the band is continuing to enjoy...
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No one thought Sugar Ray's album with the self-deprecating title, 14:59, would do as well as Floored did. Now the band is moving on and already looking to 2000 to start its...
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Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath has reportedly lost a six-figure sponsorship deal with Marlboro. The singer of the hit group showed up drunk at a sponsored concert in New York...
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(12/14/99, 7 a.m. ET) -Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath and Chris Brown, touring keyboardist for the Barenaked Ladies, participated in the Superskate 2000 celebrity hockey game...
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Thanksgiving means different things for different people, even musicians. Sugar Ray's DJ Homicide loves the family aspect of Thanksgiving, but he notes that people should...
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Spurred by two hit singles and with a third possibly on the way, Sugar Ray's album 14:59 has reached double-platinum status, selling more than two million copies since its...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Lit is the musical guest. (To read a Lit feature, click here.)
MTV:
Making The Video--Sugar...
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At a party tailored to launch the Hugo line at the Hugo Boss flagship clothing store in Los Angeles on Thursday (Oct. 14), the celebrated set donned their finest duds and...
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Sugar Ray, Edwin McCain, and Kid Rock are set to join forces for a concert at New York's Roseland Ballroom on Oct. 26 to benefit the Families Against Mandatory Minimums...
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Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath has added another meeting with a music icon to his collection. McGrath tells LAUNCH that he recently got the opportunity to sing a duet with...
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Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath has added another meeting with a music icon to his collection. McGrath tells LAUNCH that he recently got the opportunity to sing a duet with...
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The night before the MTV Video Music Awards, Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath got to hang out at a party at New York's Roseland Ballroom for the Buddy Holly Rock 'n' Roller Dance...
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While there was plenty of action onstage at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards (LAUNCH, 9/9), the stars also spoke to LAUNCH backstage.
Latin pop sensation Ricky Martin said...
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A rumor that Sugar Ray guitarist Rodney Sheppard played the apeman character Chaka on the '70s Saturday morning TV show Land Of The Lost apparently has gone too far....
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More names are circulating as possibilities for the NetAid show at Giants Stadium. Celine Dion, Sugar Ray, Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows, Bon Jovi, Bono, the Black Crowes,...
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Last year, Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath talked about how strange it was for baseball's premier catcher Mike Piazza to go from the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Florida...
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Tour partners Sugar Ray and Fastball have become a mutual admiration society. In fact, Sugar Ray bassist Murphy Karges has nothing but positive things to say about the tour...
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Sugar Ray has been forced to bow out of its scheduled performance today at Woodstock '99 because frontman Mark McGrath is suffering from an unspecified virus, a...
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Last month, Sugar Ray got the opportunity to record a track with some of the forefathers of rap and hip-hop at the Hit Factory in New York City.
"We just did a song with...
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Another one of the summer's high-profile tours has made a pact with a corporate sponsor. The Goo Goo Dolls' summer trek, which also features Sugar Ray and Fastball, is...
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Reverb, HBO's weekly television show featuring some of music's biggest artists, begins its second season Sunday, April 26th on HBO2, the cable network's second channel....
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Road Rash 3D, the popular video game, is set to extend itself into other media. Atlantic Records plans a May release for Road Rash 3D: The Album, which will precede a new...
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The fourth annual Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, held in Hollywood on Tuesday night, saw Jewel honored for Favorite CD (Pieces Of You), while Matchbox 20 earned the...
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The soundtrack to the hotly anticipated Scream sequel, which is imaginatively titled Scream 2, will feature a few unexpected cover tunes in its otherwise predictable...
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Since Sugar Ray's "Fly" and Smash
Mouth's "Walking On The Sun," both massive alterna-radio hits, have never been officially released as singles (so that fans would have...
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Royalty Records is gearing up to release a long-overdue tribute to the real king of Pop, i.e. Iggy Pop. The whopping 20-track CD, entitled We Will Fall: The Iggy Pop...
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As yesterday's pre-teens weaned on vintage MTV become today's MTV buzz-bin darlings, it's inevitable that the songs that defined MTV's infancy have come back to haunt the...
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