Popular Uprisings

STOP SIGNS: California's Ventura County is often overshadowed by southern neighbor Los Angeles, but the county has spawned an act that's starting to make some noise in the mainstream: heavy rock band 8Stops7, whose Reprise Records debut album is titled "In Moderation."
The album was produced by Toby Wright (Alice In Chains, Korn).
"Satisfied," the first single from "In Moderation," has been getting early airplay on rock stations such as KRZR Fresno, Calif.; WCCC Hartford, Conn.; KUPD Phoenix; KBER Salt Lake City; KILO Colorado Springs, Colo.; KLAQ El Paso, Texas; and KZRR Albuquerque, N.M.
The four-piece band from Santa Paula, Calif.-whose members are lead singer/guitarist Evan Sula-Goff, guitarist Seth Watson, bassist Alex Viveros, and drummer Adam Powell-was originally called 8 Stops Nowhere.
Sula-Goff says of the name change to 8Stops7, "I just started thinking about a thing like seven days a week, seven years of bad luck, seven years of plague. The "7' symbolizes completion, while the "8' symbolizes new hope. In certain branches of psychology, life is divided into eight stages of development. Basically, "7' is a symbol of something you want to get away from, and "8' is the door you go through to get there."
8Stops7 is currently on a U.S. tour. Dates include Friday (10) in Hartford, Conn.; March 12 in Harrisburg, Pa.; and March 15 in New York.

JAZZ DREAM: Jazz veterans Steve Lacy and Roswell Rudd have teamed up to record "Monk's Dream," an album composed primarily of Lacy compositions and inspired by jazz legend Thelonious Monk.
The album is set for release Tuesday (7) on Verve Records. Soprano saxophonist Lacy (a favorite in jazz music polls) and trombone player Rudd collaborated on the album with double bass player Jean-Jacques Avenel, drummer John Betsch, and (on two tracks) vocalist Irene Aebi.
Lacy and Rudd launch a U.S. tour in New York with dates at Jazz Standard from Wednesday (8) to March 12. Other tour dates include March 14 at Regattabar in Cambridge, Mass.; March 17 at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, Calif.; March 18 at Noe Valley Ministry in San Francisco; March 19 and 20 at the Outpost in Albuquerque, N.M.; March 22 at the Continental in Austin, Texas; March 23 at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego; March 24 at McCabe's in Santa Monica, Calif.; March 29 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago; and March 31 and April 1 at Bird of Paradise in Ann Arbor, Mich.

BODY OF REGGAE.Reggae band John Brown's Body is on a U.S. tour in support of its latest Shanachie Records album, "This Day." The band, with roots in Ithaca, N.Y., has two other albums, 1996's "All Time" and 1999's "Among Them." Tour dates include March 18 in San Francisco; March 24 in Los Angeles; March 31 in Salt Lake City; April 3 in Aspen, Colo.; April 12 in Chicago; April 14 in Milwaukee; and April 22 in Buffalo, N.Y.

R&B NEWCOMER.Hoping to follow in the footsteps of other one-named R&B divas (such as Brandy and Monica) is Jennifer, whose self-titled debut album is set for release March 28 on B-Town/Que it Up Records, distributed by EMI. The Dallas-based singer has completed a video for the first single, "Y U Callin' Me."

GOING CRAZY.Los Angeles band Crazy Town has been performing its brand of rock-meets-rap on a world tour since the release of the group's debut album, "The Gift Of Game" (Columbia Records). The album's first single is "Toxic," and the video has gotten exposure on MTV and the Box. On March 18, Crazy Town launches a U.S. tour in Seattle with Methods Of Mayhem. Other dates on the tour include March 22 and 23 in Los Angeles, April 5 in Chicago, and April 12 in New York.


THE REGIONAL ROUNDUP

Rotating top 10 lists of best-selling titles by new and developing artists.

EAST NORTH CENTRAL
1. Kittie Spit
2. Static-X Wisconsin Death Trip
3. 3 Doors Down The Better Life
4. Sonique Hear My Cry
5. System Of A Down System Of A Down
6. Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
7. Beth Hart Screamin' For My Supper
8. The Suicide Machines Suicide Machines
9. Trin-i-tee 5:7 Spiritual Love
10. Sole Skin Deep

SOUTH ATLANTIC
1. Sonique Hear My Cry
2. Diggin In The Crates--D.I.T.C. Diggin In The Crates--D.I.T.C.
3. 3 Doors Down The Better Life
4. Son By Four Son By Four
5. Kittie Spit
6. Carlos Vives El Amor De Mi Tierra
7. Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
8. Trin-i-tee 5:7 Spiritual Love
9. Beth Hart Screamin' For My Supper
10. Gilberto Santa Rosa Expresion