Even though rumored the David Lee Roth/Van Halen reunion tour hasn’t been announced, you can get your Diamond Dave fix at Atlanta's ninth annual Music Midtown Festival. David Lee Roth, as well as Stone Temple Pilots, Incubus, Kid Rock, Bush, and No Doubt are scheduled to perform May 3-5. This year's festival will feature 10 stages and more than 130 international, national, regional, and local artists/performers and is being held at a 35-acre area around the Atlanta Civic Center/SciTrek Complex.

2001 was one of the toughest years for recorded music ever with sales down over 10 percent representing an industry wide loss that was the worst in 20 years. Unfortunately, the Grammy’s represented much of what was wrong with popular music. Despite boom times for feature films and DVD-video sales, music slumped with a proliferation of boy bands and prepackaged pop garbage (and I don’t mean Shirley Manson).

There will be a little something for everyone at the Closing Ceremony of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The list of musical acts scheduled to perform live includes Christina Aguilera, Bon Jovi, Charlotte Church, Harry Connick, Jr., Gloria Estefan, Josh Groban, Earth, Wind & Fire, Moby, ‘NSYNC, Dianne Reeves and tap dancer Savion Glover.

Sting, Elton John, James Taylor and Ravi Shankar have been announced as performers at the annual Rainforest Foundation Benefit Concert on April 13, 2002. The event will be held at New York’s Carnegie Hall and is produced by Rainforest Foundation and wife of Sting, Trudie Styler. Styler, Sting, and Chief Raoni of the Menkragnoti Kayapo people of the Amazon rainforest established the Rainforest Foundation in 1989.

Armed with a 2002 Grammy nomination (Best Metal Performance for "Chop Suey!") American Recordings artist System of a Down will headline a twelve city North American tour beginning on Valentine's Day in Las Vegas, NV. In mid-December, System of a Down shot the promo video for their current single "Toxicity" with band bassist Shavo Odadjian making his directorial debut. Odadjian had assisted video director Marcos Siega on the "Chop Suey!" video, and his bandmates encouraged him to try it on his own with "Toxicity."