Though R. Kelly was due in court Friday (September 26), the embattled R&B singer got an extension until next week so that he could finish making promotional rounds in New York, a trip that had been court-approved earlier this month during an unscheduled court hearing. Kelly had gotten permission to travel to New York on September 27 through October 1, and is due back in court for a status hearing on October 3. ...

Korn will debut their new track "Let's Do This Now" during the pay-per-view Ultimate Fighting Championship event "UFC 44: Undisputed." The song will blast from the PA when Tito Ortiz enters the Octagon to battle Randy Couture. "Let's Do This Now" will be featured on Korn's upcoming disc, Take a Look in the Mirror, which comes out November 18. ... If you have a burning desire for the Strokes' Room on Fire, you'll have to stay warm another week. The release of the band's second album has been delayed by seven days, to October 28. A video for the first single, "12:51," was shot by director Roman Coppola, who helmed the band's previous clips for "Last Nite," "Someday" and "The Modern Age." ...

50 Cent won three awards at the 2003 MOBO Awards (hip-hop act, album and single), but the real surprise was dark horse Justin Timberlake nabbing the trophy for Best R&B Act at the awards show whose acronym stands for "Music of Black Origins." JT beat out Beyoncé, Ashanti, Kelly Rowland and Terri Walker for the honor at the ceremony, held Thursday in London. ... A Salt Lake City man was badly injured after diving from the balcony during an Insane Clown Posse show on Wednesday. The rowdy rappers were playing with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony when a man, who had already needed medical attention from being beaten by another fan, decided to jump 30 feet from a second-floor balcony onto a cement floor. ...

The streets can't wait. Coldplay's live CD and DVD package, "Coldplay Live 2003," originally slated for a November 11 release, will now hit shelves on November 4. The DVD features two tracks previously unreleased in North America: "The One I Love," which was a B-side on the U.K. single for "In My Place," and new track "Moses." The package also contains interview footage, a behind-the-scenes documentary and a tour diary. ... Mondo Generator, the side project of Queens of the Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri, will begin a tour on November 6 in San Diego. Dates run through December 10 in West Hollywood, California. Mondo Generator's second album, A Drug Problem That Never Existed, came out in July. At the conclusion of the tour, Oliveri will return to the studio to record the next Queens album. ...

Marques Houston has secured a new record deal with Elektra Records. After several delays, his solo debut, MH, is now slated to drop on October 21. ... Hardcore metal band Superjoint Ritual, which features ex-Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo, will tour this fall with Brazilian thrash band Sepultura and Devildriver, which is fronted by former Coal Chamber singer Dez Fafara. The trek will launch October 17 in Detroit. ...

Greg Divine, the frontman for metal band Thrust, was seriously injured Wednesday night when the motorcycle he was riding smashed into a car, reported local TV station KMBC. The singer was rushed to University of Kansas Medical Center. He will likely require reconstructive surgery. ... The new record by Fantômas, Delirium Cordia, will feature one 55-minute long track, and will come out in November. ...   Nothing says Christmas like Jethro Tull's flute-playing singer Ian Anderson hitching up a leg and blowing. That's why the band is spreading holiday joy this season with Christmas Album, a delightful disc that includes such yuletide cheer as "A Christmas Song," "Another Christmas Song," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow." The LP drops down chimneys September 30. ... Fresh from doing time at Alcatraz with Train as part of a T-Mobile concert promotion on October 16, the Barenaked Ladies will set out for a month-long tour October 21 in Boston. The release of the Canadian chuckleheads' sixth album, Everything to Everybody, will coincide with the tour's launch. ...

 Air will release their proper third album, Talkie Walkie, on January 27. Radiohead collaborator Nigel Godrich assisted in production, but the French duo handled all the vocals this time around. ... Tim Burgess of the Charlatans UK will release his debut solo album, I Believe, in the U.S. early next year. Meanwhile, he has one Stateside show scheduled, October 4 at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. ... 311 will follow-up Evolver's "Creatures (For a While)" with the mellower "Beyond the Gray Sky," which will hit radio outlets at the end of October. The band will launch a fall tour October 12 in San Bernardino, California. ...

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The sentencing hearing for Mystikal, who pleaded guilty to extortion and sexual battery in June, has been adjourned until November 3. The rapper faces up to 10 years for his involvement in an attack on his hairstylist in July 2002. ...

3 Doors Down, Jason Mraz, Santana, John Popper, and DMC are getting in the zone. As part of a new ABC Sports feature, "Monday Night at the Mic," the musicians are competing with NFL players on their home turf in a round of guitar and MC battles. The competitions begin at halftime of the Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears Monday night game — with Popper and Mraz taking on Detroit Lions QB Joey Harrington and San Diego Chargers DE Marcellus Wiley — and will continue at select halftimes this season. ...

Courtney Love's not ready to be America's Sweetheart quite yet. She's pushed back the release of her upcoming solo album to February 10. Love collaborated with rock-songwriting-partner-du-jour Linda Perry for much of the album, along with Matchbox Twenty producer Matt Serletic, Limp Bizkit producer Josh Abraham and her former manager/boyfriend James Barber. ... Garbage drummer and producer Butch Vig's Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, where parts of Nirvana's seminal Nevermind album were recorded, was demolished last week when a 10-ton truck crashed into it. No one was inside at the time. ... P.O.D. have set the track list for November 4's Payable on Death: "Wildfire," "Will You," "Change the World," "Execute the Sounds," "Find My Way," "Revolution," "The Reasons," "Freedom Fighters," "Waiting on Today," "I and Identify," "Asthma" and "Eternal." "I can't wait for everyone to hear the new record and come out to the shows," singer Sonny Sandoval said on the band's Web site. "I know the fellas and I are looking forward to hitting the road again and playing the new stuff." ... Alicia Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, Ray Charles and former Pink Floyd mainman Roger Waters will judge the Sir Charles Blues Lab Songwriting Contest for aspiring musicians 13-19 years old. The five winners will get to record in Los Angeles with Charles producing. ... On a far smaller scale than the annual Warped Tour, the Vans Off the Wall Club Tour, featuring Sick of It All, Avenged Sevenfold, Suicide Machines, T.S.O.L., and Death by Stereo, is set to launch October 8 in Pomona, California. The two-month trek concludes December 5 in San Diego. ... Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable has left the band. He has been temporarily replaced by ex-Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman, who will tour with the band through at least the end of the year. The group's latest record, You Gotta Go There to Come Back, came out September 9. ...

Mike Watt will be testing out material from his next album when he hits the road opening for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Flaming Lips next month. Watt will be on board from October 8 in Las Vegas through October 27 in Calgary, Alberta. ... Harmonizing Scottish pop darlings Belle & Sebastian are coming to the U.S. to support their sixth album, Dear Catastrophe Waitress, due October 7. The three-week trek begins October 26 in Atlanta and winds down November 14 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Then it's back to the U.K. through mid-December. ...

Orchestral composer Michael Kamen is planning to reunite with Metallica for another album. The two seemingly disparate entities collaborated on 1999's S&M, which paired the metal gods with the San Francisco Symphony. In the Hollywood Reporter interview in which he revealed those plans, Kamen also confessed to be living with multiple sclerosis for the past six years, though he said it isn't slowing him down. ... The most bizarre bunch in pop music, the Polyphonic Spree, who are enjoying mucho exposure from the iPod/Volkswagen TV spots, will release their Light and Day EP on September 30. The limited-edition record features Stereolab's remix of their The Beginning Stages Of ... album track "Soldier Girl." ...

Recently split from Rancid's Tim Armstrong, Distillers frontwoman Brody Armstrong is now using her former last name, Dalle. With a new album, Coral Fang, due October 14, the Distillers will hit the road with Queens of the Stone Age September 28 for a month-long North American trek. ...