There's a big change in the Papa Roach camp, as the band is now fronted by Jacoby Shaddix. Actually, that's still singer Coby Dick — he just wants to go by his full name from now on, their publicist said. ... At Monday's Hip-Hop Youth Summit in Queens, Nas reiterated to the audience that his lyrical battle with Jay-Z is just that — lyrical. According to the Associated Press, Nas explained that the MCs are engaged in a "battle of the minds" that will "not go into the streets," and that neither MC wants "to take each other's lives over some music." An MTV News Now special celebrating the lyrical battle tradition in hip-hop, "Jay-Z Vs. Nas: Beats, Battles & Beef," premieres on Friday, January 25 at 5 p.m. ET, with a companion feature debuting here the same day. ...

Santana will play nine U.S. shows starting in Tampa, Florida, on March 21, hitting Orlando, Atlanta, Raleigh, Washington, D.C., and other cities before ending in Hampton, Virginia, on April 2. After a European outing, Santana will return to America in the summer and fall to tour behind a new, still-untitled album, which will be released in the coming months. ... Weezer have named their next record Maladroit, according to the band's Web site. They credit the April-due LP's title to a fan who posted the suggestion on their message board. ... D'Angelo, Common and other artists are in talks to head into the studio with jazz trumpet playa Roy Hargrove. The musicians hope to record an album that will help bring jazz music to a younger, broader audience. ...

Moby, Dido, Massive Attack, Jill Scott, Sade, Maxwell and Delerium with Sarah McLachlan all contributed airy, atmospheric tracks to The Classic Chillout, which comes out March 26. The disc was a #1 record in the U.K. last year. ... Dawn, the debut solo album by former En Vogue and Lucy Pearl singer Dawn Robinson, is due in stores January 29. ... Founding Buzzcocks members Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto have reunited to collaborate as ShelleyDevoto, with the full-length fruits of their labors, Buzzkunst, due out March 5 through SpinART. Devoto left Buzzcocks in 1977 after the release of their debut EP, Spiral Scratch, and formed Magazine. ...

Remixes of "Beautiful Day" and "Elevation," an acoustic version of "Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," and the B-sides "Summer Rain" and "Always" will be included on U2 7, a limited-edition seven-song U2 CD available only at Target stores beginning Tuesday (January 22). ... Ginuwine will open for Janet Jackson on her 10-city tour. Janet, who hits venues beginning January 25 in Louisville, Kentucky and ending February 16 in Honolulu, is making up shows she missed on her All for You tour last year. ... A second "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack is due February 26, featuring the original film versions of songs performed by Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor and others. Among the tracks on the album are saucy versions of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and Elton John's "Your Song." ...

With this year marking Onyx's 10th anniversary in the rap game, the trio of Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz and Sonny Caesar are working on their fourth group album with producers Mike City, Scott Storch and D.R. Period. Sticky's new series, "Rampart," is scheduled to debut this spring on FX, and the bald MC said Dr. Dre has agreed to executive produce his next solo LP. ... System of a Down brought the house down — literally — at Australia's Big Day Out festival on January 18 when their set was interrupted for 20 minutes by the collapse of a crash barrier. Event organizers rushed New Zealand band Shihad onto the second stage during the delay, System finished their gig unhindered and no one was seriously injured. ...

Quirky cabaret crooner Rufus Wainwright will hit the road for a month-long string of 21 dates beginning February 8 in Boston to support his second album, Poses. ... Wainwright's velvety warble can be heard on When Love Speaks, an LP of 40 William Shakespeare sonnets read by actors such as Ralph Fiennes, Kenneth Branagh and Alan Rickman, due February 4. Wainwright, Annie Lennox, Bryan Ferry and Des'ree are among the artists who provide eight musical tracks on the album, which is the brainchild of conductor Michael Kamen, who led the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra through a concert with Metallica recorded for 1999's S&M. ... Thirty-two years after its last run featuring the likes of the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, the Doors and Joni Mitchell, England's Isle of Wight festival will return this summer. The multi-band concert is slated for June 3, though a lineup hasn't been cemented, according to the promoters' Web site. ...

KMFDM, who disbanded in 1999 (and whose main members continued as MDFMK), have reassembled, and they'll release ATTAK on April 16 through Metropolis. The group will preface the disc on February 6 with "BOOTS," which features the new song "Back in the U.S.S.A." and two mixes of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Were Made for Walking." ... Vancouver's New Pornographers will launch a 13-date U.S. tour with the Frames on February 8 in Minneapolis and close with a March 2 performance at the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco. Their song "Mass Romantic" will be featured in the soundtrack to the film "Men With Brooms," which stars Leslie Nielsen, Paul Gross and Molly Parker. ... Drum'n'bass DJ/producer Dieselboy has struck a joint venture label agreement with System Recordings, and the first release on his new imprint, Human, will be a Dieselboy mix CD titled Project Human. Dieselboy will co-headline the Dirty Beat 2002 Tour with DJ Rap in February and will play the Planet of the Drums Tour with AK1200 and DJ Dara in April.