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Just when you thought rap metal was dead, here comes the next Linkin Park album. The Grammy-winning sextet are set to deliver Meteora (Warner Bros.), the follow-up to the bestselling album of 2001, Hybrid Theory, on March 25. And to stoke the fires, they’re launching a small-club tour with a date at the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester this Tuesday for which half of the seats were distributed to fan-club members. The other half went on sale this past Tuesday and will likely be long gone by the time you read this. Linkin Park will be back with Metallica’s "Summer Sanitarium" tour in July, and joining them on that juggernaut will be Peoria’s alien-masked men Mudvayne, who are also in the area this week: tonight (Thursday March 6) at the State Theatre (207-780-8265) in Portland; Friday at Tsongas Arena (617-931-2000) in Lowell; and Monday at the Webster Theatre (860-246-8001) in Hartford with Swedish thrash sensations In Flames.

The first single from Linkin Park’s new "Somewhere I Belong" adheres to their formula: rapped verses, sung choruses. Which suggests they’re not trying to pull a Papa Roach. Having abandoned the rap portion of the rap-rock equation on last year’s Lovehatetragedy, the Roaches are getting back in fighting shape with a tour that hits the Webster on Wednesday; the State Theatre next Thursday, March 13; the Palladium on March 14; and Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence on March 15.

Canadian punk-metal brats Sum-41 have already sold out their gig this Friday at Avalon (617-423-NEXT) in Boston; if you’re without tickets, now might be a good time to start planning a roadtrip to the Webster Theatre on March 29. Meanwhile, the Jackass house punk band, CKY, are touring behind their Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild (Island) with gigs on Sunday at the Webster; next Thursday, March 13, at Axis (617-423-NEXT) in Boston; March 14 at Lupo’s; and March 15 at Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winooski, Vermont.

Eighties roots-punk icon John Doe recently cut a track for an album by Boston producer Wally Gagel’s pop-electronica alter ego the Production Club that also features guest vocals by Tanya Donelly and Lou Barlow. Doe’s own latest disc, Dim Stars, Bright Sky (ArtistDirect), is a bit of a star-studded affair, with cameos by Juliana Hatfield, Aimee Mann, Jakob Dylan, Rhett Miller, and Go-Go Jane Wiedlin; and he’s touring as part of a stripped-down trio (with an upright-bassist and keyboard player) for dates at T.T. the Bear’s Place (617-492-BEAR) in Cambridge on Saturday and at the Narrows Center for the Arts (508-324-1926) in Fall River on Sunday. And as ’80s heroes go, Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil hasn’t had as easy a time of it: his last high-profile gig was as a houseguest of Emmanuel Lewis, MC Hammer, and Corey Feldman on a reality-TV series. He’s at the State Theatre in Portland on Wednesday and at the Webster next Thursday, March 13.

BY CARLY CARIOLI

Issue Date: March 6 - 13, 2003
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