America’s normally polite neighbors to the north were as mad as hell last night. Guns N’ Roses fans at GM Place in Vancouver, British Columbia began rioting after discovering that the opening date of the band’s first North American tour in over nine years had been canceled. G n’ R’s official spokeswoman stated that the show was cancelled due to technical difficulties with frontman Axl Rose’s airplane that delayed his flight. Angered by the news, a handful of angry fans rammed steel barricades through the box office windows and doors of the venue and shot bottle rockets and threw rocks at police who were on the scene. The officers responded with blasts of pepper spray and used their riot batons to subdue the crowd and arrested twelve people.

Australian rockers, The Vines, whose debut album, Highly Evolved, has been certified Gold, will headline the MTV2 Handpicked Tour, a companion tour to the MTV2 Handpicked Vol. II enhanced CD (AudioRevolution.com review coming on November 1). Young U.K. quartet, The Music, whose debut album will be released in the U.S. in early 2003, will support on all of the dates.

Under the pseudonym “The Other Ones” The Grateful Dead reunited this weekend in Wisconsin for the first time since the death of guitarist and pop icon, Jerry Garcia, in 1995. The Other Ones, said according to printed reports, that they had contingent plans for a 15 city fall tour if all went well. All did and the tour is on but dates have yet to be announced.

With hockey season long over, baseball players on the verge of a strike and no NBA basketball, it’s time to gear up for NFL football. It was just announced that New Jersey’s OTHER famous rocker Bon Jovi will perform in Times Square in New York City on Thursday, September 5th as part of the pre-game show for the New York Giants vs San Francisco 49ers NFL season opener. The ninety-minute concert will feature Enrique Iglesias and DJ Scribble performing as openers. Using the same area that the New Year’s Eve ball drops at, a giant football will be used to count down the last moments before the 2002/2003 NFL season kicks off at the end of the concert.

Performing live for the first time in nine months, Radiohead unveiled nine new songs at their July 22nd show in Lisbon, Portugal. The band is currently on a 12 date European mini-tour, taking a short break from recording their untitled sixth studio album for Capitol records. Upcoming show dates include two more nights in Portugal, then six dates in various cities in Spain. Despite the fact that many of the new Radiohead songs are already circulating around the internet, these shows will be the first chance for many fans to hear new tunes from the band including "There There," "We Suck Young Blood," and "Myxomatosis," According to a Radiohead spokesperson, the band has no plans to tour in North America this year.