Kid Rock

Here are your concert news for the week, including upcoming shows by Kid Rock, the Goo Goo Dolls, Drake, Ami Dang, Aimee Mann, and Lyle Lovett. Kid Rock, who played Jiffy Lube Live in August with Sheryl Crow, announced Monday he's going on a tour of mid-size clubs . Naturally, he's playing another Live Nation venue, the new Fillmore in Silver Spring. Kid Rock is on the road promoting "Born Free," which was released last year. The show at the Fillmore is November 20. The announcement did not include ticket price or on-sale date.

Here are your concert news for the week, including upcoming shows by Kid Rock, the Goo Goo Dolls, Drake, Ami Dang, Aimee Mann, and Lyle Lovett. Kid Rock, who played Jiffy Lube Live in August with Sheryl Crow, announced Monday he's going on a tour of mid-size clubs . Naturally, he's playing another Live Nation venue, the new Fillmore in Silver Spring. Kid Rock is on the road promoting "Born Free," which was released last year. The show at the Fillmore is November 20. The announcement did not include ticket price or on-sale date.

Kid Rock The History of Rock (Lava/Atlantic 83314) The funniest thing about Kid Rock's "The History of Rock" is its title. Because what we get on this CD isn't a look back at where Rock has been, but a collection of remakes that recasts his old songs in terms of his current sound. As revisionist history goes, not even the Soviets could have done better. It's not hard to see how Rock arrived at such a decision. When he started making records, way back in 1990, he was a straight-up hip-hop artist.

It's a crowded week. There are two music festivals (Silopanna and the Baltimore Independent Music), and several concerts with two headliners on the bill: Maroon 5 and Train; Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock; Dan Deacon and Future Islands. Elsewhere: Chuck Brown celebrates his 75th, Journey, and the Out of Your Head collective. On Monday , The Get Down, 701 South Bond Street, hosts its wweekly party Happy Mondays! $2 domestics all night. 8 p.m. Free. Also: Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, one of those concert duos we're seeing this summer, performs at Jiffy Lube Live . 7 p.m. Tickets start at $31.50 On Tuesday , the Out Of Your Head Collective performs at their Tuesday gig at the Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave. 9:30 p.m. Free.

In the days before he became Kid Rock, little Bob Ritchie used to stand in front of a mirror pretending he was Michael Jackson in sequins and a white glove, working out his dance routine to "Beat It." "Everybody has their little corny stage, and that was mine," Rock says with a laugh. "Now I realize what really got me was that beat, and it was an 808 drum machine - the most prominent instrument in rap music during the '80s. It was on everything from the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill, the Run-D.

As fireworks burst over the Inner Harbor last night, pyrotechnics of a different sort were at play at PSI-Net Stadium, where a crowd of 60,000 watched Metallica top off a five-band, seven-hour heavy rock spectacular. The occasion was the Summer Sanitarium Tour, which in addition to Metallica included Korn, Kid Rock, Powerman 5000 and System of a Down. But even though the other bands shared the bill, the evening clearly belonged to Metallica. Not only did the quartet play twice as long as any of the other acts, but its hit-heavy set earned the evening's most enthusiastic response.

KID ROCK, SAID IT "I like partying at home, with the TV, just having people over. It's kind of hard to do that this time -- every freaking celebrity in the world will be here." Kid Rock on his plans to at tend the Super Bowl Sunday in Detroit, his hometown.

Kid Rock Detroit-native rap-rocker Kid Rock skyrocketed to stardom in 1998 with such hick-hop tunes as "Bawitdaba" and "Cowboy." Since then, Rock has worked to prove that he's an "all-around" musician by participating in live performances on CMT and co-writing acoustic-based ballads with singer/songwriters such as Sheryl Crow. With his new live album Live Trucker on shelves, the Kid's ready to rock the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., tomorrow night. Show time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $39. Call 410-547-SEAT or 703-993-3000 or go to ticketmaster.

Tim Reynolds / The Funk Box Guitarist Tim Reynolds, known partly for his collaborations with Dave Matthews, brings his solo show to the Funk Box on Tuesday night. Marcus Eaton and the Lobby are also on the bill. The Funk Box is at 8-10 E. Cross St. Tickets are $15 in advance, $17 the day of the show. Doors open at 7 p.m. Call the club at 410-625-2001 or visit www.thefunkbox.com or call Ticketmaster at 410-547-SEAT (www.ticketmaster.com). Ani DiFranco / Lyric Opera House Ani DiFranco brings her "Vote Dammit!"

"Y'ALL LOOK LIKE you never seen a white person before," says the white rapper Eminem at the beginning of his hit song "The Real Slim Shady." That line captures and reverses an experience that many African-Americans have had, the experience of being treated as a "representative of the race." A black man who walks into a department store in an exclusive white suburb or a black woman who becomes one of the few minority employees at a software firm knows what Eminem felt like the first time he stepped onto the stage at a black club and started rapping.

Rumor has it Travis Pastrana did a backflip the day he was born - and stuck the landing. That's the story, at least, according to travispastrana.com. Though the Annapolis-born motocross and rally car champ's Web site stretches the truth about his birth, the action sport athlete's extreme feats seem just as impossible. In 2006, Pastrana received widespread recognition for landing motocross' first backflip. Today, he continues to thrill spectators with dirt bike double-backflips and plunges into the Grand Canyon.

Television 1. Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Fox 2. America's Got Talent, NBC 3. All-Star Pre-game Show, Fox 4. Criminal Minds, CBS 5. So You Think Can Dance, Fox FILM 1. Dark Knight, Warner Bros. 2. Mamma Mia!, Universal 3. Hancock , Columbia 4. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Warner Bros. 5. Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Universal SINGLES 1. "I Kissed a Girl," Katy Perry 2. "Take a Bow," Rihanna 3. "Lollipop," Lil Wayne 4. "Forever," Chris Brown 5. "Bleeding Love," Leona Lewis ALBUMS 1. Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne 2. Viva La Vida, Coldplay 3. Camp Rock, Soundtrack 4. Modern Guilt, Beck 5. Rock N Roll Jesus, Kid Rock DVDS (SALES)

Hey, have you heard about this seventh-grade kid who keeps a diary? Actually, he's not a real kid, because, like, what real seventh-grader would wanna write every day? Well, unless you're text messaging, but that's not like writing. Text messaging is cool. Anyway, the kid is a boy named Greg Heffley. He's not that cool. In fact, he's kinda wimpy. He's got a big head and a stick for a body; he looks like a Blow Pop. Plus, he wears a stupid backpack the size of a microwave. He's got a mom who's a total wimp.

She is 12, maybe 13, old enough to know all the lyrics to a rock song, but her smooth skin and soft features betray that she has only just entered adolescence. As the about 3 1/2 minutes of buffered video footage begins, she grabs a pair of headphones and begins bopping her head in time to the bass drum. She smiles. She grimaces. She adjusts the volume. And then, right before the vocals start, she turns toward the camera. Her large brown eyes look right at the viewer as she begins to mouth the words to Bloc Party's "Banquet": "A heart of stone/a smoking gun/I can give you life/I can take it away."

Kid Rock Detroit-native rap-rocker Kid Rock skyrocketed to stardom in 1998 with such hick-hop tunes as "Bawitdaba" and "Cowboy." Since then, Rock has worked to prove that he's an "all-around" musician by participating in live performances on CMT and co-writing acoustic-based ballads with singer/songwriters such as Sheryl Crow. With his new live album Live Trucker on shelves, the Kid's ready to rock the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., tomorrow night. Show time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $39. Call 410-547-SEAT or 703-993-3000 or go to ticketmaster.

Charles and Camilla off on another tour Prince Charles and wife Camilla are to leave today for a two-week tour of the Middle East and India, officials said. The Prince of Wales and the former Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall, are scheduled to make stops in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India. The tour, the couple's second official trip together, aims to improve Britain's profile and promote interfaith tolerance and the prince's environmental initiatives, according to a statement from the prince's office.

Charles and Camilla off on another tour Prince Charles and wife Camilla are to leave today for a two-week tour of the Middle East and India, officials said. The Prince of Wales and the former Camilla Parker Bowles, the Duchess of Cornwall, are scheduled to make stops in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India. The tour, the couple's second official trip together, aims to improve Britain's profile and promote interfaith tolerance and the prince's environmental initiatives, according to a statement from the prince's office.

It's a crowded week. There are two music festivals (Silopanna and the Baltimore Independent Music), and several concerts with two headliners on the bill: Maroon 5 and Train; Sheryl Crow and Kid Rock; Dan Deacon and Future Islands. Elsewhere: Chuck Brown celebrates his 75th, Journey, and the Out of Your Head collective. On Monday , The Get Down, 701 South Bond Street, hosts its wweekly party Happy Mondays! $2 domestics all night. 8 p.m. Free. Also: Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, one of those concert duos we're seeing this summer, performs at Jiffy Lube Live . 7 p.m. Tickets start at $31.50 On Tuesday , the Out Of Your Head Collective performs at their Tuesday gig at the Windup Space, 12 W. North Ave. 9:30 p.m. Free.

KID ROCK, SAID IT "I like partying at home, with the TV, just having people over. It's kind of hard to do that this time -- every freaking celebrity in the world will be here." Kid Rock on his plans to at tend the Super Bowl Sunday in Detroit, his hometown.