Beth Ostrosky
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Howard Stern's fans know her as "the lovely Beth O," the object of Double A's affections and the svelte blond model who's been by the shock jock's side since 2000. But on October 3, Stern and Beth Ostrosky made it official, tying the knot after a 20-month engagement.

They had a quiet ceremony officiated by Mark Consuelos, the husband of "Live With Regis & Kelly" co-host Kelly Ripa, and held at the ritzy Le Cirque restaurant in Manhattan. The wedding was attended by 180 guests, including Joan Rivers, Chevy Chase, Rob Zombie, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, John Stamos, Barbara Walters and Donald Trump. During the evening, the Sterns were serenaded by 1970s songbird Phoebe Snow, who sang the wedding classic "You Send Me," and Billy Joel entertained guests with a rendition of "The Stranger" during the reception. Train's Patrick Monahan also performed before the night was through.

(Check out pictures of Sarah Silverman, Rob Zombie and more celeb guests at the wedding.)

"Chevy Chase doing an impromptu [and X-rated] speech was fun," Ostrosky told MTV News on Monday night outside the New York premiere of "Filth and Wisdom," a new film that marks Madonna's directorial debut. "Billy Joel serenading us was not planned, and my best friend got up and spoke. Jimmy Kimmel made a surprise speech at the altar as Mark Consuelos was officiating. It was so much fun."

The last few weeks have been especially busy for Mrs. Howard Stern, 36, who has been training for the upcoming New York City Marathon, set for November 2. Ostrosky, who is a vocal proponent of animal rights, is participating in the marathon to raise money for the North Shore Animal League. She hopes to raise more than $250,000 for her cause, which fans can support by visiting her Web site, GoBethO.org.

All the proceeds raised through Ostrosky's sponsorships will benefit the Animal League's mission to find permanent homes for more than 20,000 orphaned animals.

"Between getting married, the honeymoon and my marathon training, it's been crazy," she said. "I did my first 20-mile [run] on Saturday, and we moved. We've moved into a new apartment, so it's all at once."

How did Ostrosky keep up her training amid all the hectic wedding planning? "That, to me, is the top priority," she said of the marathon. "The getting-married part was easy. The planning was a little more difficult, but it was the training that took top priority."

• Howard Stern's Wedding Album

• Howard Stern
• Madonna
• Train
• Rob Zombie
• Billy Joel

Barry Manilow
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Barry Manilow sings about writing songs that make the whole world sing — the songs, he's claimed, that make the young girls cry. But this week, R&B diva Mary J. Blige might be the only one sobbing — thanks to a collection of songs that Barry didn't write.

It was a close race to Billboard's winners' circle, but in the end, The Greatest Songs of the Fifties — a collection of hits from the golden years produced by none other than Clive Davis — bests Blige's The Breakthrough by a formidable nose.

According to the latest SoundScan totals, sales of Manilow's album — which were helped along by the pop icon's appearance last week on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" — came in at just under 156,000, to secure The Greatest Songs of the Fifties the top spot on the albums chart. Despite a 25 percent hike in retail mobility, Blige's The Breakthrough couldn't keep up and finished at #2 with 123,000 scans.

The next closest threat to Manilow's reign came from Tuscan-born tenor Andrea Bocelli and his Amore, which opens at #3 with week-one sales of 113,000. One of the top five's most recent and stable leaders, Jamie Foxx's Unpredictable, continues to slide. The disc, which finished third last week, checks in at #4 with a 95,000-plus performance. In My Mind, the latest studio LP from R&B songbird Heather Headley, follows at #5 with debut-week sales of just over 95,000. Headley's LP features contributions from Lil Jon, Shaggy, Babyface and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

Simon Cowell-conceived pop act Il Divo's Ancora tumbles from #1 to #6, thanks to a 40 percent drop in retail interest. In its second week in stores, the disc sold more than 93,000 copies. Eminem's Curtain Call: The Hits climbs one spot to #7 with 78,000 units sold, while "American Idol" champ Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts claims the sales chart's #8 opening with 74,000 sales — just enough to push total sales of her debut past the 2-million mark. James Blunt's Back to Bedlam returns to the top 10 at #9, following last week's stint at #11. A 47 percent sales surge helped the Brit rocker move more than 71,000 units during the album's 18th week at retail.

Train return to the Billboard albums chart this week with For Me It's You, the band's fifth full-length effort. With first-week sales of 62,000 and then some, the band is sitting comfortably at the #10 spot. But Train weren't the chart's sole rock newcomer: Monster Ballads: Platinum Edition, a collection of hair-metal tearjerkers, debuts at #18 with 44,000 copies sold. The compilation features Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," Warrant's "Heaven," Extreme's "More Than Words," and Cinderella's "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)," among others. And the self-titled debut from brood-rockers She Wants Revenge opens at #38 with sales nearing 26,000.

Several Grammy nominees enjoyed a sales boost in the week leading up to the big night. Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi finished at #14 with 53,000 copies sold — a sales jump of 37 percent. Sales of the Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business swelled 21 percent, giving the group the chart's #17 slot and another 46,000 scans. Demon Days from the Gorillaz ends the week at #49 with 20,000 in sales (a 19 percent spike) and John Legend's Get Lifted returns to the top 200 at #187 following a 40 percent sales leap.

See "The Metamorphosis Of Jamie Foxx" for a feature on the actor's move to music. And check out "What's the 411, Mary" for Blige's answers to celebrity questions.

• Barry Manilow
• Mary J. Blige
• Jamie Foxx
• Train
• Il Divo

A Perfect Circle's Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel (file)
Photo: David Palmer

This Election Day, some artists are hoping you make your voice heard at voting booths and then at the record stores.

Releasing their politically charged third album on Tuesday (November 2) was a conscious decision for A Perfect Circle. Their eMOTIVe is a 12-song disc, of which 10 tracks are covers of songs like John Lennon's "Imagine," Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," "People Are People" by Depeche Mode, and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" by Nick Lowe (performed most famously by Elvis Costello). The two original tracks, "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" and "Passive," rally against apathy.

Somewhat less political is the new album by the Ying Yang Twins, My Brother & Me. The follow-up to 2003's Me and My Brother is a CD/DVD combo featuring 10 new songs, performance and behind-the-scenes footage, three videos, and collaborations on the album with Lil Jon, Juvenile, Fat Joe and others.

The 17th installment of the massively successful Now That's What I Call Music! series hits stores Tuesday with tracks by Ciara ("Goodies"), the Beastie Boys ("Ch-Check It Out"), Franz Ferdinand ("Take Me Out"), Nelly ("My Place") and Black Eyed Peas ("Let's Get It Started"), among a slew of others.

Also out this week are albums by the Rolling Stones (Live Licks); AFI (AFI); Catch 22 (Live); and Train (Alive at Last).

Out Tuesday, November 2:

• AFI - AFI (Nitro)
  Buy Now: AFI (Nitro)
• The Anomoanon - Joji (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
• Carlos Barbosa-Lima - Siboney (Zoho)
• Beakers - Four Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution (K Records)
• Blackouts - History in Reverse (K)
• Born From the Pain - Sands of Time (Blackmarket Activities/Metal Blade)
• Catch 22 - Live (Victory)
• Beth Neilsen Chapman - Hymns (Emergent)
• Bobby Cheeks - A Soldier's Story (Lightyear)
• D:Fuse - Begin (System Recordings)
• Jesse Dayton - Country Soul Brother (Stag)
• Iris DeMent - Lifeline (FlariElla)
• DJ Tiësto - Parade of the Athletes (Nettwerk)
• Dolour - New Old Friends (Made in Mexico)
• Duran Duran - The Singles 1986-1995 (box set, Capitol)
• Steve Earle - Live From Austin TX (New West)
• Electroputas - 3 (The Social Registry)
• Grip Weeds - Giant on the Beach (Rainbow Quartz)
• Grits - Dichotomy B (Gotee)
• Hall of Fame - Paradise Now (Social Registry)
• Richie Hart - Blues in the Alley (Zoho)
• He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood (Tooth & Nail)
• Hopesfall - A Types (Trustkill)
• If Hope Dies - The Ground Is Rushing Up to Meet Us (Ironclad/Metal Blade)
• Ronny Jordan - After 8 (N-Coded)
• Robert Earl Keen - Live from Austin TX (New West)
• King's X - Live All Over the Place (Brop!/Metal Blade)
• Lazarus - Like Trees We Grow Up to Be Satellites (The Backwards America)
• Lazy Boy - Lazy Boy TV (Universal)
• John Lennon - Acoustic (Capitol)
• Live - Awake: The Best of Live (Geffen)
  Buy Now: Awake: The Best of Live (Geffen)
• Neal Morse - One (Radiant/Metal Blade)
• Ms. Led - These Things We Say (Fish the Cat)
• Newsboys - Devotion (Sparrow)
• Josh One - Narrow Path (Silverline)
• Only Children - Change of Living (Glurp)
• The Panoply Academy - Everything Here Was Built to Break (Secretly Canadian)
• Paria - Misanthropos (Blackmarket Activities/Metal Blade)
• A Perfect Circle - Emotive (Virgin)
  Read: "A Perfect Circle Album Preview: Politics? They've Got It Covered"
  Buy Now: Emotive (Virgin)
• Phenomenauts - Re-Entry (SideCho)
• Rolling Stones - Live Licks (Virgin)
• Silver Sunshine - Silver Sunshine (Empyrean)
• Skates - Lord of the Rinks (Unschooled)
• Strung Out - Exile in Oblivion (Fat Wreck Chords)
• Tarentel - We Move Through Weather (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
• Susan Tedeschi - Live From Austin TX (New West)
• Train - Alive at Last (Columbia)
  Buy Now: Alive at Last (Columbia)
• Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Christmas Trilogy (Rhino)
• Two Cow Garage - The Wall Against Our Back (Stag)
• Voodoo Glow Skulls - Adicción, Tradición, Revolución (Victory)
• Darryl Worley - Darryl Worley (DreamWorks Nashville)
• Woven Hand - Consider the Birds (Sounds Familyre)
• Ying Yang Twins - My Brother & Me (TVT)
  Buy Now: My Brother & Me (TVT)
• Various artists - L.A.'s Rising Scene 2004 (Aeronaut)
• Various Artists - Non-Stop Funk Party: Music From & Inspired by 'The Bernie Mac Show' (The Right Stuff/EMI)
• Various artists - Now That's What I Call Music! 17 (Capitol)
• Various artists - "The Polar Express" soundtrack (Warner Bros.)
• DVD: Against Me! - "We're Never Going Home" (Fat Wreck Chords)
• DVD: The Microphones/Little Wings - "Wise Old Little Boy" (K)
• DVD: Stacie Orrico - "Live in Japan" (Sparrow)
• DVD: Yellowcard - "Beyond Ocean Avenue: Live at the Electric Factory" (Capitol)
• DVD: Various artists - "Punk Rock Holocaust" (Red)

November 9:

• Vanessa Carlton - Harmonium (A&M Records)
  Read: "Vanessa Carlton Recalls Her Days As A Naughty Ballerina"
  Buy Now: Harmonium (A&M Records)
• Britney Spears - Greatest Hits: My Prerogative (Jive)
  Read: "Britney Fans, You Can Stop Speculating Now — Official Hits LP Track List Revealed"
• Shania Twain - Greatest Hits (Mercury Nashville)Buy Now: Greatest Hits (Mercury Nashville)

November 16:

• Eminem - Encore (Aftermath)
  Buy Now: Encore (Aftermath)
• Bon Jovi - 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong (Island)
• Destiny's Child - Destiny Fulfilled (Sony)
  Read: "Beyonce Salutes Jay-Z On Destiny's Child Track 'Soldier' "
  Buy Now: Destiny Fulfilled (Sony)
• Lil Jon & East Side Boyz - Crunk Juice (TVT)
  Read: "Lil Jon's Crunk Juice Finalized; Usher, Luda, Nas, Snoop, Chris Rock On Board"
  Buy Now: Crunk Juice (TVT)

November 23:

• U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Interscope)
  Buy Now: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Interscope)
• Gwen Stefani - Love, Angel, Music, Baby (Interscope)
• Fantasia Barrino - Free Yourself (J Records)
  Read: "Missy Elliott, R. Kelly Helping Fantasia With Her Debut LP"
• Ruben Studdard - I Need an Angel (J Records)
  Read: "Ruben Studdard Decides Christmas Just Isn't Spiritual Enough"
  Buy Now: I Need an Angel (J Records)

November 30:

• Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway (RCA)
  Read: "Kelly Clarkson Tries For Another 'Breakaway' Hit"
  Buy Now: Breakaway (RCA)
• Nas - Street's Disciple (Sony)
  Read: "Nas: A Fire Inside"
  Buy Now: Street's Disciple (Sony)
• T.I. - Urban Legend (Atlantic)
  Buy Now: Urban Legend (Atlantic)

• A Perfect Circle
• Ying Yang Twins
• AFI
• The Rolling Stones
• Train

Jersey City, New Jersey, police think the shots fired outside a Doubletree Hotel on September 10 allegedly targeting 50 Cent could be linked to the rapper's feud with Lil' Kim, according to the New York Daily News. The newspaper reports that police are investigating Damion "World" Hardy, a 28-year-old ex-con who is also reportedly Kim's boyfriend. 50 and Kim have been engaged in a war of words ever since 50 pulled out of Kim's video for "Magic Stick," a hit record he wrote for her. Only hours before the incident, 50 was on New York's Hot 97 unleashing a scathing freestyle dis directed at Kim. ...

Ludacris will be serving up Chicken-N-Beer on Tuesday — literally. Beginning this week, patrons of the Gladys Knight & Ron Winans Chicken & Waffles restaurant in Atlanta can order the "Ludacris Special," which includes two chicken breasts, two legs or two thighs with sides of macaroni and cheese, collard greens and a cold Bud Light. ...

The performance lineup for the American Music Awards has beefed up to include Sheryl Crow, Outkast, Ruben Studdard and nominees Kid Rock (Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Album), Ricky Martin (Favorite Latin Artist) and Clay Aiken (Favorite Male Artist). The 31st annual American Music Awards, which has already slated Ashanti, Hilary Duff, Metallica and Britney Spears to perform, will air November 16 on ABC. ... Though Hell on Earth promised a live suicide as part of their act this weekend, whether or not they actually delivered is a matter of debate. The little-known Florida metal band had planned to let a terminally ill friend commit suicide onstage, but when local authorities filed an injunction against the group, the band decided to host the suicide at a separate, undisclosed location, which would be broadcast over the Internet. But that, too, ran into difficulties, when Hell on Earth's Web site was locked up due to a flood of data, which the operator of the host site characterized as a denial-of-service attack. No video was shown on the Web page, and no suicides were reported in the St. Petersburg area, according to the St. Petersburg Times, though an Internet shock jock for www.radiofreesatan.com claims he has video of what purports to be a man committing suicide, but even he says he doesn't believe it's real. ...

The digital age catches up with Guns N' Roses when three of the band's home videos get reissued on DVD. "Welcome to the Videos," originally released on VHS in 1998, and "Use Your Illusion I" and "Use Your Illusion II," both issued in 1992, are slated to come out on DVD on October 28. ... November 4 is the date that feels most right for Bon Jovi to release their reworked greatest-hits set This Left Feels Right. A dozen new versions of hits such as "Wanted Dead or Alive," "Bad Medicine" and "Everyday" are paired with new tunes "Last Man Standing" and "Thief of Hearts." In other Bon Jovi news, singer and namesake Jon and his wife Dorothea are expecting their fourth child this spring, according to www.BonJovi.com. ...

A double album from Led Zeppelin's frontman is on the way. Sixty Six to Timbuktu, due November 4, features all of Robert Plant's solo singles, along with material from Listen and the Band of Joy, groups he was in prior to joining Led Zeppelin in 1968. ... Alleged drunk driver Diana Ross' trial has been postponed from December 9 to January 14. ... Despite the loss of founding member Charlie Colin, Train aren't off the rails of their current U.S. tour. The bassist has been replaced by Johnny Colt, formerly of the Black Crowes. Colin and the band parted on good terms and the possibility of working together in the future has not been ruled out. ...

While a lack of medical benefits has been the bane of many signed artists, that may soon be a problem of the past. As part of a union pact, all five major U.S. record companies have agreed to provide health care for all of their musicians. In the past, artists who didn't earn enough in album royalties weren't eligible for coverage. The pact could take effect before the end of the year. ... If you thought the Rolling Stones' greatest-hits package 40 Licks was a must have, you might also want "Four Flicks," a four-DVD set of live Stones footage, which goes on sale November 11. Three discs feature recent full concerts from Madison Square Garden in New York, Twickenham Stadium in London and the Olympia Theater in Paris. The final disc features two Stones documentaries, "Licks Around the World" and "Tip of the Tongue." ...

10.03.2003

Lil' Kim's not wanted anymore, and the Queen Bee is smiling about it. The arrest warrant issued for her by Teaneck, New Jersey, police last week is no longer in effect. A member of Kim's camp posted $350 in bail on Tuesday for her, and police say she will be notified if and when she needs to appear in court for a 1996 charge of marijuana possession. ...

Mya will bring her latest album, Moodring, to the fans with a month-long tour. The outing starts on October 11 at the Big Fresno Fair in California then wraps up back in Los Angeles on November 11. Up-and-coming soul singer Javier will open. ... On October 28, Snoop Dogg will appear in ESPN's original television series "Playmakers." The network's first dramatic series chronicles the adventures of a fictional professional football team both on and off the field. Executives plan to reprise the role if the program is renewed for another season. ...

Five thousand limited-edition vinyl copies of Desert Sessions 9 & 10, the side project from Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme that features Polly Jean Harvey and Dean Ween, among other musicians, were seized by customs officials at New York's JFK Airport on Wednesday. The shipment was headed for the States in time for the album's release October 7 but did not have the correct paperwork. It has been returned to Island Records in the U.K., which will attempt to resend it with the appropriate documentation. ... The White Stripes' Jack White will play guitar on the debut single by Detroit alt-country act Blanche. "Who's to Say," which comes on a 7-inch vinyl disc, can be ordered directly from Blanche's label at www.cassrecords.com. ...

In the mood for some buzzing, grinding noise? The soundtrack for the remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" will include previously unreleased tracks by Static-X, Nothingface, Soil, Fear Factory and a yet-unheard remix of a Pantera song. The disc will also contain album cuts by Hatebreed, Motograter, Morbid Angel, Lamb of God, Index Case and others. The movie hits theaters October 17 and the soundtrack will come out November 4. ... Probot, the long-awaited heavy metal project by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, has finally been given a release date: February 10. Venom's Cronos, Saint Vitus' Wino, Cathedral's Lee Dorrian and Motörhead's Lemmy all contribute to the disc. In November, the band's label will issue 6,666 copies of a two-track single comprised of the Cronos-helmed "Centuries of Sin" and Wino's "Emerald Lies." ...

Radiohead were named Best Act in the World Today for the third year in a row at the Q Awards in London on Thursday, although in a taped thank-you message, the band said "Radiohead aren't talking to Q," most likely because of a bad review the magazine gave Hail to the Thief. Blur's Think Tank won Best Album, Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" won Best Single, Electric Six's "Gay Bar" won Best Video and the Thrills won Best New Act. Duran Duran, Jane's Addiction and the Cure also took home awards. ... Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood has gone solo — as a soundtrack composer. His score to the film "Bodysong" is due October 27, while the movie hits British theaters in December. ...

Sarah McLachlan, Brian McKnight, Ronald Isley and Burt Bacharach are the first performers announced for the annual City of Hope gala dinner to benefit the Los Angeles research hospital. This year's event, scheduled for Thursday at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, will honor Recording Academy President Neil Portnow with the Spirit of Life Award. ... Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and "American Idol" finalist Trenyce are headlining the 13th annual Divas: Simply Singing! benefit concert October 25 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Singer/actress Sheryl Lee Ralph organizes the event, which raises funds for Project Angel Food and the Black AIDS Institute. ... Cherrywine, the velvety funk band formed by ex-Digable Planets member Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, will hit the road for a three-week nationwide tour on October 22. The trek begins with two dates in New York and ends November 15 in San Francisco. ...Gift of Gab, the lyricist from rap duo Blackalicious, is putting the finishing touches on his first solo album, Fourth Dimensional Rocketships Going Up, due out on January 27 on Quannum Records. The first single, "The Writz," will be released at the end of October. ...

Underworld's reworked reissue of their 1996 EP Born Slippy received a little help from filmmaker Danny Boyle, who created a four-minute edit of his film "Trainspotting" to accompany the new release, due October 27 in the U.K. ...

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, is the adage shared by Fatboy Slim and Blur frontman Damon Albarn. Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. Norman Cook, co-produced the single "Crazy Beat" for Blur's album, Think Tank, and Albarn has since returned the favor. The new, hip-hop-flavored Fatboy Slim as-yet-untitled LP features Albarn on one track, as well as bassist Bootsy Collins and Blackalicious' Lateef, among others. ...

Tina Turner has provided the lead song for the animated Disney movie "Brother Bear," which hits theaters November 1. The track, "Great Spirits," marks Turner's first recording since her 1999 album, Twenty Four Seven. Phil Collins sings five new songs on the film's soundtrack, which comes out October 21. ... Tantric have finished recording their Toby Wright-produced second album, After We Go, which will be released early next year. In the meantime, the band will embark on a club tour kicking off October 6 in Chicago and wrapping up October 25 in Las Vegas. ... When the annual CMJ Music Marathon kicks off on October 22 in New York, Yoko Ono will be there. John Lennon's widow plans to discuss her views on music, art, activism and human rights in an interview to be conducted by music journalist Robert Christgau. ...

• OutKast
• Ludacris
• Clay Aiken
• Guns N' Roses
• Hell On Earth

Metallica
Photo: Elektra

They can play faster, sound rougher, take an extended hiatus, and even lose a longtime member, and still Metallica can't seem to do any wrong in the eyes of their fans.

Despite an abbreviated sales week, St. Anger, Metallica's first album of new material in five years, sold more than 417,000 copies in its first week, according to SoundScan, to top next week's Billboard albums chart. When it became apparent that the songs had been leaked online before the original June 10 release date, Elektra Records pushed up the album's availability five days to June 5 (see "Metallica To Unleash Their Anger Earlier Than Planned").

The titanic metallers' previous albums Reload (1997) and Load (1996) also debuted at #1, with sales of 417,000 and 680,000, respectively. Their double covers LP, Garage Inc., came in at #2 in 1998, with sales of more than 426,000.

Newly tarted-up Jewel will follow Metallica at #2 with 0304. The shift to dance-pop on her fourth LP didn't change her first-week take that much, however. 0304's total of 143,000 is just 3,000 more than what its predecessor, This Way, pulled in its opening week two years ago.

Fans responded to Train's decree "Calling All Angels," allowing the band's third album, My Private Nation, to place at #6. The follow-up to 2001's double-platinum Drops of Jupiter sold more than 86,000 copies.

Train will be trailed on the chart by country quartet Lonestar, whose first greatest-hits collection sold more than 86,000 copies to come in at #7.

Featuring 50 rare and unreleased tracks from skate-punk scenesters such as the Used, Less Than Jake, Simple Plan, NOFX and others, the double LP Warped Tour 2003 will take the #21 spot; while Sugar Ray's In the Pursuit of Leisure will drop in at a disappointing #29. With its fifth album the band will make its poorest chart showing since its 1997 breakthrough LP, Floored. John Mellencamp's Trouble No More, consisting of covers of blues and folk tunes by Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie and Son House, among others, will find a home at #31.

Albums that complete next week's top 10 are 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin', which moves a spot down to #3 (98,000) and cracks the 5 million mark in the process; Evanescence's Fallen, also taking a step back, at #4 (90,000); the soundtrack to "2 Fast 2 Furious," advancing three places to #5 (88,000) with a 13,000-copy boost to coincide with the film's release; the soundtrack to "Lizzie McGuire," slipping two spots to #8 (80,000); former top LP Led Zeppelin's How the West Was Won sinking eight places to #9 (75,000); and Kelly Clarkson's Thankful falling from #4 to #10 (74,000).

On the heels of their performance at the MTV Movie Awards, T.A.T.U.'s 200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane will make a significant leap forward. A medley that merged "All the Things She Said" with their latest single, "Not Gonna Get Us," helped almost double the album's weekly sales and push it from #127 to #71.

With the momentum of a cover of "Drift Away" featuring Dobie Gray, who himself had a top 10 hit with the song in 1973, Uncle Kracker's No Stranger to Shame has been advancing steadily up the chart. Having vacated placements in the #138 and #116 spots, the second solo album by Kid Rock's DJ will re-enter the top 100 at #92.

Other notable chart debuts include Ultimate Smash Hits, featuring contributions by Avril Lavigne, P. Diddy and Pink, at #55; Americana singer/songwriter Gillian Welch's Soul Journey at #107; Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan's solo debut at #127; Dolly Parton's Ultimate Dolly Parton at #130; and the Eels' Shootenanny! at #145.

• Metallica
• Jewel
• Train
• The Used
• t.A.t.U.

Sugar Ray is In the Pursuit of Leisure, and that process apparently involves Mark McGrath and company reuniting with their longtime producer, David Kahne. The new album features the group's usual mix of '80s-inspired tunes, a flirtation with hip-hop, and lighthearted party songs, plus a cover of Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out with Him" and the first single, "Mr. Bartender (It's So Easy)."

Jewel channels her inner Prince on 0304, using such song titles as "Run 2 U," "Yes U Can," and "U & Me = Love." Meanwhile, Nina Nastasia issues the beautifully haunting album Run to Ruin, engineered by Steve Albini, and Northern State, the all-girl hip-hop group from Long Island, New York, who fancy themselves a Beastie Boys for a new generation, is Dying in Stereo.

Eels deliver Shootenanny!, a solid pop album, while Souls She Said, a band featuring former members of the Icarus Line and Ink and Dagger, release the EP Rub the Sleep Out. Also out this week is Paper Monsters, the debut solo album from Depeche Mode's David Gahan.

The Yes New York compilation features Longwave, the Walkmen, and the Strokes on a live recording of "New York City Cops." Another team effort, Warped Tour 2003, contains songs from the Used, NoFX and Andrew W.K., among other performers at this year's festival.

Finally, indie hip-hop heads, Aceyalone and Saul Williams both release albums this week. The emcees espouse their political poetry on Love and Hate and Not in Our Name, respectively. Also on the independent hip-hop radar is S.A Smash/Cage's Smashy Trashy, produced by El-P and featuring Def Jux favorite Aesop Rock.

Out Tuesday, June 3:

• Aceyalone - Love and Hate (Red Urban)
• Adequate Seven - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Household Name)
• Amazing Transparent Man - Taking Back the Covers (EP, Springman)
• Joan Armatrading - What's Inside (Denon)
• Armor for Sleep - Dream to Make Believe (Equal Vision)
• Aspera - Oh Fantastica (Jagjaguwar)
• Audio Bullys - Ego War (Astralwerks)
• Gene Autry - Singing Cowboy (American Legends)
• Aziza A - Kendi Dunyam (Doublemoon)
• Belvedere - 'Twas Hell Said Former Child (Household Name)
• Brendan Benson and the Wellfed Boys - Metarie (Star Time)
• Biff Bang Pow! - Best of Biff Bang Pow (Rev-Ola)
• Big Star - Big Star Story (Rykodisc)
• Bodies Lay Broken - Eximinous Execration (Deathvomit)
• Marc Bolan - Work in Progress (Edsel)
• Bonepony - Jubilee (Superduper)
• Bride of No No - Bride of No No (Atavistic)
• Budapest One - This Town Just Gave You a Dreamer (Beatville)
• Canned Heat - Friends in the Can (Varese)
• Andre & Martine Charbonneau - Air Mail Music: Spain - Guitare Flamenca (Playasound)
• Chatham County Line - Chatham County Line (Bonfire)
• Don Chezina - Live from Miami (D.C.)
• The Clique - Vanbrugh Park (DeTour)
• Cousin Harley - Jukin' (East Side)
• Curse of the Golden Vampire - Mass Destruction (Ipecac)
• Terence Trent D'Arby - Wild Card (Compendia)
• The Daycare Swindlers - This Is No Way to Make a Living (Vile Beat)
• Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others (Matador)
• Death Comet Crew - DCC America (Troubleman Unlimited)
• Dee Rangers - Pretty Ugly Beat (White Jazz)
• Depswa - Two Angels and a Dream (Interscope)
• Destruction Made Simple - Terror Sticken Youth (Af )
• Divine Empire - Nostradamus (Olympic)
• DNA - Influences (Tommy Boy)
• Don't Look Down - Five (EP, NIT)
• Gordon Downie - Battle of the Nudes (Rounder)
• The Dragons - Sin Salvation (Gearhead)
• D.R.I. - Dirtiest ... Rottenest (Restless)
• The Durutti Column - Someone Else's Party (Artful)
• Dusty Drake - Dusty Drake (Warner Bros)
• Dust to Dust - Sick (Music Cartel)
• Stacey Earle/Mark Stuart - Never Gonna Let You Go (Evolver)
• Earth Quake - Purple: The A&M Recordings (Acadia)
• Eels - Shootenanny (DreamWorks)
• Elephant Micah - Elephant Micah, Your Dreams Are Feeding Back (Bluesanct Musak)
• Enon - In This City (Touch & Go)
• Erase Errata - Dancing Machine (EP, Troubleman Unlimited)
• Essential Logic - Fanfare in the Garden: An Essential Logic Collection (Kill Rock Stars)
• Extreme Noise Terror - From One Extreme to Another (Anag Punk)
• The Fall - It's the New Thing (Sanctuary)
• Federation X - X-Patriot (Estrus)
• Flamethrower - Flamethrower (DeAd Teenager)
• Adam Forkner - [[[[VVRSSNN]]]] (K)
• From Monument To Masses - Impossible Leap in 34 Simple Steps (Dim Mak)
• David Gahan - Paper Monsters (Warner Bros.)
  Read: "Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan Working On Solo Debut"
  
• Gasman - Remedial (Planet Mu)
• Ghetto Superstars - Ghetto Classics (Blackstone)
• The Gift Machine - Don't Turn Me Off (KNW-Yr-Own)
• Give Up the Ghost - Background Music (Equal Vision)
• Goldberg-Miller Blues Band - 1965-66 Blowing My Mind Plus (Acadia)
• Gold Chains - Young Miss America (Pias America)
• Grave Digger - Rheingold (Nuclear Blast America)
• Buddy Guy - Blues Singer (Jive)
• Steve Hackett - To Watch the Storms (Inside Out)
• Hoods - Pray for Death (Victory)
• Horace X - Sackbutt (Omnium)
• Hotwire - Routine (RCA)
• Glenn Hughes - Live in Tokyo (Shrapnel)
• The Jealous Sound - Kill Them With Kindness (Better Looking)
• The Jets - Bolt of Lightning (Krypton)
• Jewel - 0304 (Atlantic)
  Read: "Jewel Bites Into A Musical Pickle-And-Peanut Butter Sandwich"
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• Jumpin' Jack - Rhumba Lee (Back Bender)
• Josh Kelley - For the Ride Home (Hollywood)
• King Prawn - Got the Thirst (Golf)
• Landing - Passages Through (K)
• Langhorns - Mission Exotica (Bad Taste)
• Last Days of April - Ascend to the Stars (Crank)
• Chris Lee - Cool Rock (Misra)
• Barry Levenson & Johnny Dyer - Hard Times Won (Storyville)
• Limecell - It's Gonna Get Ugly (TKO)
• Erik Lindgren - Sound on Sound (Arf Arf)
• The Lonesome Organist - Form and Follies (Thrill Jockey)
• Lonestar - Greatest Hits (BNA)
• Lousy - Babylon District (Knockout)
• Love and Rockets - Sorted: The Best of Love and Rockets (Beggars Banquet)
• David McWilliams - Reflections of David McWilliams (RPM)
• Mea Culpa - They Put You in a Mask (Empty)
• John Cougar Mellencamp - Trouble No More (Sony)
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• Millencolin - Battery Check (Burning Heart)
• The Mink Lungs - I'll Take It (Arena Rock)
• Mister Zippy - Ambition Is Critical (Golf)
• Mistreaters - Playa Hated to the Fullest (Estrus)
• Moka Only - Lowdown Suite (Battle Axe)
• Eddie Money - Then and Now (Sanctuary)
• The Moondogs - John Peel Sessions (DeTour)
• The Movies - In One Era out the Other (Gern Blandsten)
• Nina Nastasia - Run to Ruin (Touch & Go)
• New Orleans Klezmer All Stars - Borvis (Kismet / Mri)
• None More Black - File Under Black (Fat Wreck Chords)
• Northern State - Dying in Stereo (Star Time)
  Read:"Ain't No Bling In Their Thing"
  
• Nuclear Saturday - Best Time You Never Had (New School)
• Louis Osbourne - Motion Audio (Blue Chip)
• Paradise Island - Lines Are Infinitely Fine (Dim Mak)
• Dolly Parton - Ultimate Dolly Parton (RCA)
• Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham - Avventura (Jetset)
• Pineapple Corner - Soul G & Tony Match (Milan)
• Planet Smashers -Mighty (Stomp)
• Puffball - Leave Them All Behind (Burning Heart)
• Rattlesnakes - I, Explosion (Localhost)
• Lou Reed - NYC Man: The Ultimate Lou Reed Collection (RCA)
• The Riffs - Death or Glory (TKO)
• The Riverboat Gamblers - Something to Crow About (Gearhead)
• Roxy Music - Live (Eagle)
• Carla Rugg - Dynamite (East Side)
• S.A. Smash/Cage - Smashy Trashy (Definitive Jux)
• The Satellites - Jump (Planet X)
• Saxon Shore - Four Months of Darkness (Burnt Toast Vinyl)
• Brian Setzer - Jump, Jive an' Wail (Interscope)
• Seventh Star - Dead End (Facedown)
• Shoe Suede Blues - Saved By the Blues (Beachwood)
• Sinister - Savage or Grace (Nuclear Blast America)
• Skinless - Sacrifice to Survival (Relapse)
• Sleep - Dopesmoker (Tee Pee)
• Snuff - Kilburn/Caught in Session (Golf)
• Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild (Century Media)
• Souls She Said - Rub the Sleep Out (EP, Buddyhead)
• Spacegirl - Alone (Topaz)
• Rebecca Spencer - Wide Awake and Dreaming (LML)
• Strung Out - Live in a Dive (Fat Wreck Chords)
• A Sudden Sway - Seventysix Kids Forever (Cherry Red)
• Sugar Ray - In the Pursuit of Leisure (Atlantic)
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• Surface of Eceon - Dragyn (Strange Attractors)
• Tabula Rasa - Role of Smith (Af)
• Tegan & Sara - If It Was You (Sanctuary) Read: Tegan & Sara: Just Don't Mention The Name 'T.A.T.U.' "
  
• Testostarone Kill - War All the Time (Fortified)
• They Came from the Stars - What We Are Doing Here (Lo.)
• Three Inches of Blood - Battle Cry Under a Winter Sun (Infect)
• Throw Rag - Desert Shores (Better Youth Organization)
• Devin Townsend - Terria (Inside Out)
• Train - My Private Nation (Sony)
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• Pete Turland - Both Wheels Left the Ground (East Side)
• Unseen -Explode (Better Youth Organization)
• Vanilla Muffins - Drug Is Football (Knockout)
• The Vanishing - Songs for Psychotic Children (Gold Standard)
• Variable Unit - Handbook for the Apocalypse (Wide Hive)
• Gillian Welch - Soul Journey (Acony)
• White Light Motorcade - Thank You, Goodnight! (Octone)
• Saul Williams - Not in Our Name (EP, Synchronic)
• Wirebox - Prison Cell (Tru-one)
• Woman & Children - Woman & Children (Attack 9)
• Zion - Zion (Native)
• Various artists - 25 Beach Music Classics (Varese)
• Various artists – “Beer: The Movie” soundtrack (Triple Crown)
• Various artists - Best of America, Vol. 2 (Curb)
• Various artists – “Bruce Almighty” soundtrack (Varese)
• Various artists - Cat'n Around, Vols. 1 & 2 (Pink & Black)
• Various artists - Compunktion, Vol. 2 (Sucka-punch)
• Various artists - Deadly Dose of Wylde Psych (Arf Arf)
• Various artists - Dream Babes, Vol. 4: Go Girl (RPM)
• Various artists - Forgive This Foolish Man: Hi Records' Deep Soul (Hi)
• Various artists - Grimey, Vol. 1 (Image)
• Various artists - Jesse and Jorge Morales Presents Z: Banda Rap (Sony)
• Various artists - Liberation Songs to Benefit PETA (Fat Wreck Chords)
• Various artists - Magpie (RPM)
• Various artists - Old School Oldies (Thump)
• Various artists - Pawn Stars!: The Pawn Label Story 1974-1978 (Hi)
• Various artists - Snoisses: The Skateboarder Sessions (Sessions)
• Various artists - Spanish Fly (Universal Latino)
• Various artists - Swami Sound System, Vol. 1 (Swami)
• Various artists - Terminal Sales (Sub Pop)
• Various artists - Ultimate Smash Hits (Arista)
• Various artists - Underground Radio: Volume High (Morisen)
• Various artists - Warped Tour 2003 (Side One Dummy)
• Various artists - We Are Tottenham (Cherry Red)
• Various artists - World Wide Noise Attack (Retch)
• Various artists - Vital Idol (Idol)
• Various artists - Yes New York (Atlantic)

June 5:

• Metallica - St. Anger (2 CDs, Elektra)
  Read: "Metallica Album Preview: Damage Inc. Is Back In Business"
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June 10:

• Duran Duran - Singles Box Set 1981-1985 (Capitol)
• Justin Guarini - TBD (RCA)
• Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
  Read: "New Radiohead Album, Hail To The Thief, Due In June"
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• Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father (J)

June 17:

• Petey Pablo - Still Writing in My Diary: 2nd Entry (Jive)
• Monica - After the Storm (J)

June 24:

• Beyoncé - Dangerously in Love (Sony)
  Read: "Beyonce Pushes Up Release Date Of Solo Debut"
• Gang Starr - The Ownerz (Virgin)

July 15:

• Macy Gray - The Trouble With Being Myself (Sony)

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• Dave Gahan

John "Fabolous" Jackson and four others were arrested Sunday night in New York on criminal weapons possession charges. Fab had just finished performing at Webster Hall as part of radio station Power 105's first anniversary celebration when, according to police, officers stopped the car the rapper was traveling in and found a loaded 9 mm handgun. He was still in custody, awaiting arraignment as of Monday afternoon. ... Train have set a June 3 release date for My Private Nation, the follow-up to 2001's Drops of Jupiter. The San Francisco roots rockers shot a video for the first single, "Calling All Angels," last week in Los Angeles. ...

Madonna took the most awards in the 23rd annual Golden Raspberry Awards, which honor the worst films of the year. Her "Swept Away" took Worst Picture and Worst Remake, and Madonna took Worst Actress. She shared honors for Worst Screen Couple with Adriano Giannini, and husband Guy Ritchie earned Worst Director for the flick. Britney Spears tied for Worst Actress with "Crossroads" and won for Worst Original Song. The awards were announced on Saturday in Santa Monica, California. Madonna and Britney were not there to claim their prizes. ... What's another two weeks for fans that have waited almost two years for the full-length debut from the Mars Volta? The as-yet-untitled LP from two-fifths of what was At the Drive-In now carries a June 17 release date. ...

A previously unreleased song Paul McCartney wrote when he was 16, "Thinking of Linking," will be included on the DVD release of "Beatles Anthology," due April 1. The track is one of five songs he, George Harrison and Ringo Starr played together during a private '90s jam session. Two of the others, "Ain't She Sweet" and "Baby What You Want Me to Do," were filmed while Harrison and McCartney sat on the grass strumming ukuleles and Starr drummed on his legs. ... Stone Sour guitarist Josh Rand's wife, Laura, gave birth to the couple's second child on Thursday. Mia Angelina Rand was born at 2:21 p.m. and weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces. ...

Liz Phair has changed the title of her first album in nearly five years from Happy Tragic Thing to Liz Phair. The set, produced by the Matrix (Avril Lavigne), singer/songwriter Michael Penn and R. Walt Vincent (Pete Yorn) and featuring the single "Why Can't I," is due June 24. ... It took only 10 days for the Eels to record their sixth album, Shootenanny, due June 3. Songwriter/violinist Lisa Germano appears on several tracks. ...

Everclear will promote their recently released sixth album, Slow Motion Daydream, with a spring tour beginning April 1 in Kansas City, Missouri. The outing, featuring the Exies and Authority Zero, will wrap May 15 in Seattle. ... DJs Dieselboy and Bad Boy Bill will headline the PlayStation 2 Dual Play tour, which kicks off Friday in Atlanta. Tiesto and Noel Sanger will take over April 13 in Las Vegas, through June 6 in San Francisco. ...

03.21.03

With eight nods, the Donnas lead the pack of nominees for the 26th annual California Music Awards, taking place Memorial Day weekend in Oakland. Queens of the Stone Age, who racked up six noms, Beck, Counting Crows and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the artists with multiple nominations. ...

50 Cent will shoot two videos next weekend. The first, for the song "21 Questions" featuring Nate Dogg, will be directed by Dr. Dre. The second clip, "Many Men," will be directed by "Wanksta" director Jessy Terrero. ... Like many burgeoning stars, late Drowning Pool frontman Dave Williams once vowed to buy his parents a house when he became famous. He died of a heart attack last year before he could realize his dream, so Drowning Pool's label has made a $250,000 contribution to a fund called The House That Williams Built, which will enable Williams' parents to purchase a new home. ...

Longtime Offspring drummer Ron Welty has left the band. After more than 15 years of rocking with Dexter Holland and the boys, Welty has decided to pursue his own project, Steady Ground. "I wish [them] the best of luck moving forward, and it's time for me to focus on my own thing," he said. A Perfect Circle drummer Josh Freese will play on the Offspring's next album, due before the end of the year. ... Even though they didn't win a Grammy, Bowling for Soup can console themselves with the fact that the recognition earned them a spot on the Vans Warped Tour. The Texas group will hitch its wagon to the trek from its start on June 19 in Boise, Idaho. This year's punk-rock summer camp also features Rancid, AFI and the Used. ...

John Mayer, the Nappy Roots, Wilco, Big Star, 3 Doors Down, Evanescence and LL Cool J are among the artists performing on one of four stages near the mighty Mississippi River for the annual Beale Street Festival in Memphis, Tennessee, taking place May 2 to 4. ... The 2003 Essence Music Festival will go down July 3-5 in New Orleans. Helping to celebrate the festival's ninth year will be Nelly and the St. Lunatics, P. Diddy and the Bad Boy Family (New Edition, Faith Evans, Carl Thomas and Loon) and old-schoolers Biz Markie and Doug E. Fresh. ... Possible topics of conversation may include Iroc-Zs, the old scene at Seaside and why both New York pro football teams play in the Garden State when Jersey boys Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi get together to share a stage in Red Bank, New Jersey, on April 29. The concert, which also features Southside Johnny, Bobby Bandiera and Gary "U.S." Bonds, will raise money for the Rock and Roll Music Fund. ...

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Sheryl Crow
Photo: A & M

Sheryl Crow and Train are among the first acts confirmed for the inaugural Jeep World Outside Festival 2002.

The five-week, 23-city trek gets in gear July 10 in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the tour's publicist. Following a path that hits the West Coast later that month, the trek returns to the East Coast to wrap up in Philadelphia on August 18.

The trek marks Crow's first set of dates to promote her fourth and latest album, C'mon, C'mon, which was released Tuesday. Train, meanwhile, continue to support last year's Drops of Jupiter, which has sold more than 2.1 million copies to date, according to SoundScan.

Ziggy Marley and reggae-tinged roots rockers O.A.R. (Of a Revolution) are also on the bill, and other artists are expected to be added.

The tour features two stages of music and an "Adventure Village" where concertgoers can participate in mountain biking, kayaking, skiing, snowboarding and mountain climbing activities. A 30-foot high ski jump, climbing wall, 30,000-gallon wave pool and ski training system are among the action-sports apparatus to be taken along for the ride.

The Jeep World Outside Festival 2002 tour dates, according to the event's publicist:

• 7/10 - Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
• 7/11 - Atlanta, GA @ HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
• 7/12 - Raleigh, NC @ Alltel Pavilion @ Walnut Creek
• 7/13 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post
• 7/17 - Houston, TX @ Woodlands Pavilion
• 7/18 - Dallas, TX @ Smirnoff Music Centre
• 7/20 - Winter Park, CO @ Winter Park Resort
• 7/21 - Albuquerque, NM @ Journal Pavilion
• 7/25 - Chula Vista, CA @ Coors Amphitheatre
• 7/26 - Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Pavilion
• 7/27 - Irvine, CA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
• 7/28 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
• 8/1 - Concord, CA @ Chronicle Pavilion @ Concord
• 8/3 - George, WA @ The Gorge
• 8/7 - Maryland Heights, MO @ UMB Bank Pavilion
• 8/8 - Noblesville, IN @ Verizon Wireless Music Center
• 8/9 - Burgettstown, PA @ Post-Gazette Pavilion @ Star Lake
• 8/10 - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre
• 8/11 - Tinley Park, IL @ Tweeter Center
• 8/14 - Wantagh, NY @ Jones Beach Amphitheatre
• 8/15 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amph.
• 8/17 - Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center
• 8/18 - Camden, NJ @ Tweeter Center @ The Waterfront

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Judging by the title of Korn's long-awaited fifth album, the follow-up to 1999's Issues will be positively peerless: Untouchables, produced by Michael Beinhorn (Aerosmith, Marilyn Manson), is scheduled for release May 14, their publicist said. Korn are rehearsing for a South American tour that begins March 14 in Venezuela, and North American dates are expected soon. ... While their Latin Grammy Awards performance was canceled (along with the ceremony itself) in the wake of September 11, Destiny's Child will get to perform with singer/guitarist Alejandro Sanz after all — at the 44th annual Grammy Awards on February 27. Train and Alan Jackson were also added to the event as performers, while Kid Rock, the Dixie Chicks and comedic actors Kevin James ("The King of Queens") and Ray Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond") will present awards. ... Neither Destiny's Child nor Dave Matthews Band will be going home empty-handed come Grammy time, as Rock the Vote will honor the bootylicious trio and the huggable jam band with this year's Patrick Lippert Award for their activism and efforts to educate young people about political issues. The Goo Goo Dolls and Nelly Furtado will perform at the ceremony, which takes place the day before the Grammys (February 26) in Los Angeles. ...

Jamie Foxx will host LIFEbeat's UrbanAID 2 charity concert, featuring previously announced acts P. Diddy and the show’s headliners, Jay-Z and R. Kelly. The April 9 event is focused on raising awareness of HIV prevention. ... Title TK, the Breeders' first album since 1993's Last Splash, will hit stores May 21. Sisters Kim and Kelley Deal and their new band, currently in the midst of a club tour, will launch another outing in the summer, according to Elektra Records. ... the Who have lined up 18 dates in the U.S., kicking off June 28 in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock Cafe and winding up August 31 in Wantagh, New York, at the Jones Beach Amphitheatre. The seasoned survivors will hit Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and more along the way. ... Before they tour Mexico, Argentinean fusion-rock collective Los Fabulosos Cadillacs will play a one-off U.S. show at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheatre on April 4. ...

Henry Rollins, X frontwoman Exene Cervenka and MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer will share the bill next month in Los Angeles to benefit three young Arkansas men convicted of murder. The show, set for the Troubadour on March 8, will benefit the legal defense fund of the West Memphis Three, whose case was chronicled in the 1996 documentary "Paradise Lost." ... Funky franchise Fishbone and their Familyhood Nexperience collective will release The Friendliest Psychosis of All, the follow-up to 2000's Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx, on February 19, the same day they play the Winter Olympics Ice Village in Salt Lake City. The EP features contributions from the Fishbone fellas Norwood Fisher, Walt Kibby II and Angelo Moore as well as Primus bassist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Brian "Brain" Mantia; peculiar GN'R guitarist Buckethead; and funk godfather George Clinton. ... Rhett Miller, frontman for the alt-country outfit Old 97's, has announced plans to begin recording his first solo album. ...

That '80s show: Depeche Mode have announced a "One Night in Paris, the Exciter Tour" pay-per-view concert debuting Friday, March 8 on iN, TVN, Echostar and DirecTV. Directed by Grammy-nominated photographer/filmmaker Anton Corbijn, the show was recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy during the band's 2001 Exciter world tour. ... On Wednesday, an L.A. Superior Court judge ruled that ex-Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy must stop using the band's name and logo and also ruled that Pearcy must hand over all the money he earned while billing himself as "Stephen Pearcy and Ratt" to his former bandmates, who have also been touring as Ratt. Ironically, the decision stemmed from a suit Pearcy filed last year to gain sole ownership of the name; the judge determined that Pearcy's claims against his former comrades were without merit because he vacated the band of his own accord, leaving guitarist Warren DeMartini and drummer Bobby Blotzer as the sole holders of the Ratt trademark. ...

02.07.02

Alicia Keys and Angie Stone will sing "America the Beautiful" during the NBA All-Star pre-game show on Sunday, before Elton John takes the court to perform "Philadelphia Freedom." ... Our condolences go out to Slayer vocalist and bassist Tom Araya, whose father died Wednesday night of a heart attack. The group has canceled its Friday (February 8) show in Dallas and may postpone or cancel other dates as well. ... A court date scheduled Wednesday for rapper Capone was adjourned until March 19. The MC is facing second-degree assault charges stemming from an alleged altercation involving a gun at a Queens, New York, nightclub in September. ...

The entire "Queen of the Damned" soundtrack — featuring new tracks penned by Korn's Jonathan Davis and interpreted by Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, Disturbed's David Draiman, Wayne Static of Static-X and Jay Gordon of Orgy — is available for preview at WBR.com via streaming audio. The album is due February 19. ... Ben Folds will embark on his first solo piano tour February 25 in Iowa City, Iowa. The 17-date outing, to support last year's Rockin' the Suburbs and his new single and video, "Still Fighting It," ends March 20 in Los Angeles. ... Marc Anthony will deliver Mended, his second English-language album, to stores on March 26. ...

Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough will host a one-hour meet-and-greet February 16 at the Rock & Sports Experience, a weekend event held at the Washington Convention Center and sponsored by Washington, D.C. radio station Hot 99.5 FM. Dorough will promote awareness of the autoimmune disorder lupus via his Dorough Lupus Foundation, which provides financial assistance to victims who cannot afford treatment and aids in research of the disease, which took his sister's life in 1998. ... Mindless Self Indulgence and Dillinger Escape Plan will fight for marquee space when they jump aboard the System of a Down tour, which kicks off Valentine's Day in Las Vegas. ...

Soul Coughing will release a greatest-hits album, Lust in Phaze, on April 9. Along with radio favorites like "Soundtrack to Mary" and "Rolling," the album will include Ruby Vroom outtake "Buddha Rhubarb Butter," "Unmarked Helicopters" from the "X-Files" compilation Songs in the Key of X, a Propellerheads remix of "Super Bon Bon" and a live version of "Casiotone Nation." ... Cornershop will attempt to break a record for the longest remix ever when their official Web site (www.cornershop.com) streams a dynamic, continuously mixed version of "Spectral Mornings" for 24 hours beginning February 12. The song, in its original 15-minute form with Oasis' Noel Gallagher on guitar, appears on Cornershop's Handcream for a Generation, which is now due April 9. ...

Turntablist ensemble the X-ecutioners will kick off a two-month tour to support their second album, Built from Scratch, at the South by Southwest music conference on March 14 in Austin, Texas. The trek wraps May 6 in Los Angeles. ... Hardcore band Speedealer will release their third album, Second Sight, on Palm Pictures on May 14. The record was produced by ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted and features heartwarming songs such as "Leave Me Alone," "Slowly Burning Alive" and "Kill Myself Tonight."... Pro File 1, a collection of remixes by Meat Beat Manifesto (a.k.a. Jack Dangers) due February 19, will include the famed sound manipulator's takes on Nine Inch Nails' "Closer," David Bowie's "You've Been Around" and others. Pro File 2, featuring Frankie Bones remixes, is due in May.

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India.Arie
Photo: MTV News

There's nothing unique about musicians contributing songs to movie soundtracks, but India.Arie, Train and other artists are being asked to watch screenings of the upcoming Vietnam war film "We Were Soldiers" before submitting their tracks, a practice usually reserved for score composers.

"There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes," said Arie, who wrote the acoustic ballad "Good Man" for the movie.

The song tells the story of a family man who gets shipped off to battle and he and his wife have to face the possibility he might not be coming home.

"It's about something I've never been through," Arie said. "This woman and her husband got married really young and had a baby and made the pact, 'Whatever happens, meet me in heaven.' "

Train wrote the title track for "We Were Soldiers," and are currently working on it in the studio. Five for Fighting's song is not yet finished or titled.

Another highlight on the disc, which comes out February 26, is a collaboration between Dave Matthews and Johnny Cash called "For You" (see "Dave Matthews Collaborates With Cash For Mel Gibson Movie"). Since the song was written by Steve Rosen and country singer Paul Brandt, neither Cash nor Matthews was asked to catch a movie screening.

Soundtrack co-producer Ken Levitan invited the two to work together, and since they shared a mutual respect for one another's work, both were happy to accept the offer. However, Cash and Matthews recorded their parts in different locations. Cash laid down guitar and vocals at his plantation studio in the Caribbean and then sent the tape to Matthews. Cash's manager has described the track as a dark alternative/country song.

The "We Were Soldiers" soundtrack will also feature a duet between Michael McDonald (Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan) and Jamie O'Neal called "Not So Distant Day"; a cut by Mary Chapin Carpenter called "My Dear Old Friend," which was written by Patty Griffin; and a tune by Christian rock band Jars of Clay.

"We Were Soldiers," which hits theaters March 1, was directed by Randall Wallace ("The Man in the Iron Mask"). It stars Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Hal Moore, who sends his soldiers in to fight the first major battle of the Vietnam War. The conflict took place on November 14, 1965, in the Ia Drang Valley, a village the French unsuccessfully tried to capture years before. The U.S. Army anticipated a quick search-and-destroy mission but wound up entrenched in a prolonged and bloody jungle battle that cost many lives.

The movie also stars Madeleine Stowe, Sam Elliott and Greg Kinnear, and is based on the book "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.

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45th Annual Grammy Award Nominees, Presenters, And Performers

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