Odds & Ends: Mariah Carey, Geoff Tate, Chance The Rapper, Celine Dion, Eagles

The world can rest easier knowing that there will only be one Queensrÿche touring the globe.  After lead singer Geoff Tate and the band went their separate ways in 2012, both sides claimed legal ownership of the group’s name.  At one point Tate called his band “the new Queensrÿche.”

In April Tate and his former Queensrÿche comrades came to an agreement in which the singer would have exclusive rights to perform the band’s Operation: Mindcrime I and II albums in their entirety as part of a unique performance.  The agreement also allowed Tate to perform shows already booked or solicited as Queensrÿche.  After that he was to perform under his own name.

Now Tate has a new moniker.  After his current “farewell” tour as Queensrÿche is completed at the end of this month, he and his band will take on the name “Operation: Mindcrime.”

Tate and his Operation: Mindcrime companions will enter the studio in September to begin work on recording three albums that Tate has been crafting for the past two years.

“I tried to reduce the story and eventually got it down to 37 ideas that needed representing to complete the story,” Tate said.  “I knew that one record wouldn’t cover it and that it would have to be a trilogy.  It’s an exciting project and one we’d like to release the first part of sometime next spring.”

Now here’s something you don’t see at most Eagles concerts – Academy Award-winning actor Robert Redford.

Redford and the Eagles’ signature sound will grace Boston’s Wang Theatre Sept. 16.  No, the “Sundance Kid” won’t be warbling “Take It Easy” or “Hotel California.”  Instead he will be presented with the Walden Woods Project’s 2014 Global Environmental Leadership Award.  WWP founder Don Henley will present Redford with the honor.

The plan is to open the doors at 7:30 p.m., begin the night’s program at 8 p.m. and launch the  Eagles concert at 9 p.m.  Tickets go on sale Aug. 4 at 10 a.m. EDT.  Visit Walden.org for more information.

As concert industry’s finest itinerary scientists work on completing the schedule for Mariah Carey’s upcoming world tour, there are unofficial reports the singer will launch the Southeast Asian part of her journey at Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Oct. 22.

Although no dates have been officially released, Malaysia’s The Star Online is reporting that a Malaysian concert promoter managed to lock down the date “amid cut-throat competition” with promoters in Singapore and the Philippines.

“KL will be her first stop,” an unidentified “industry source” told The Star. “Even though Singapore is unhappy with her management’s decision to have her show in the island republic two days after KL.”

So far, no dates have been officially released, but details are expected to be released very soon.  Stay tuned.

You’ll have a snowball’s chance of seeing Chance The Rapper on the Mad Decent Block Party tour.  Citing exhaustion, the artist has dropped off of shows scheduled for Philadelphia (Aug. 8), Brooklyn (Aug. 9), Boston (Aug. 10) and Toronto (Aug. 15).  The tour has replaced him with Vic Mensa.

Chance was also scheduled to play the Osheaga Festival in Montreal tonight and Lollapalooza in Chicago Aug. 3.  Osheaga says a replacement for the rapper will be announced shortly.  So far there’s been no word from Lollapalooza regarding any change of plans, and the festival’s website still lists him as a performer on Sunday.

This hasn’t been the best week for Celine Dion.  After experiencing discomfort in her throat area, Dion was diagnosed as suffering from acute inflammation and swelling in the muscles adjacent to her vocal chords. Physicians prescribed anti-inflammatories and rest.

That means Dion had to cancel a few of her Las Vegas residency gigs at The Colosseum At Caesars Palace.  Shows scheduled for Aug. 1-2 and 5-6 are no longer happening.  Earlier this week Dion canceled her July 30 Colosseum concert.

The singer is expected to resume her residency Aug. 8.