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The remix single of "Serve The Ego," has continued moving up on
Billboard's "Hot Dance Music" charts from #10 (last week) to #4 this
week! The single is currently available as an Atlantic Records 12" vinyl
two-record set, as well as a maxi-CD single.

Jewel has begun writing and experimenting over the last month for her next album. Oddly enough, she has taken a different path this time. Instead of a country western theme like This Way, Jewel has began experimenting with hip hop, R and B, soul, reggae, and jazz.

She started working at A touch of jazz studios in Philly with DJ Jazzy Jeff, P-Nut, and Pete Kuzma. Other artists who have worked at the studio include Jill Scott, Bilal, Darius Rucker (hootie and the blowfish anyone?), Paula Abdul,
Tatiani Ali and of course Will Smith.

All that is known at this point is that the next album will be very unique and much more electric than previous recordings.

As predicted, Jewel is trying to change her sound. This is the oddest news I've heard yet from the Jewel camp. I just hope we don't get the same sound as heard on her latest "single" sweet home alabama. I have not heard the song on the radio once. I'm hoping for more of a Fiona Apple style, but I'm probably out of luck. I think Jewel could pull that off. Tidal is a great album! To bad Fiona only got her crack at two albums before the record company cut her off.

Tonight Jewel will be giving a special performance of "Somewhere
Over The Rainbow" and "Sweet Home Alabama" at an invitation only City Of
Hope "Spirit Of Life" event in California.

The remix single of "Serve The Ego," released four weeks ago, has become
quite popular on the dance club scene and has moved up from #19 (last
week) to hitting the Top Ten (#10) on Billboard's "Hot Dance Music" charts
this week. The single is currently available as a 12" vinyl two-record
set, as well as a maxi-CD single.

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/coverstory/featuregen.asp?pid=1268

On October 17th, Jewel will be giving a special performance of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" and "Sweet Home Alabama" at an invitation only City Of Hope "Spirit Of Life" event.

Tickets for Jewel's November 13th
concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center go on sale to the public
this Saturday at noon.

Scott posted this recently:

Jewel is in the new issue of Rolling Stone with Britney, Mary J. Blige, and
Nelly Furtado on the cover.. It's a feature on "Women Who Rock!"

I'm planning on adding some real audio content to the site.. unfortunetely mac os 9.22 screwed up on my mac. I'm going to have to reinstall it to run the real encoder. I wish there was a native OS X encoder.

I've got about 40 pictures almost ready to upload. I have to finish making the thumbnails for them soon. Lucky that program is OS X native!

The message board is about 3/4 of the way done. Its certainly usable but some of the text is still in german. I regret picking the product now because the translation is taking so long. I like the features a great deal though.. I will stick with it at this point.

I've been playing around with the splash screen and new index pages to improve the look and make them xhtml compliant. I was disappointed in netscape 4 and opera rendering but I'm also tired of hacking things for old or small market share browsers. My code is compliant so its their problem. I may check the page with lynx again soon. I do that every once in a while. If a text browser, Netscape 7 and IE 5 Mac/ 6 win work then thats good enough for me. Besides, 90 percent of all my hits are Windows IE 5 or 6. And considering I use a Mac to view my own site... thats a big number. My website is my default homepage.