Last week, the Beastie Boys filmed a video for "Triple Trouble," the second single off the group's new album, To the 5 Boroughs. The clip was directed by Nathanial Hornblower, the lederhosen-wearing lensman responsible for the Beasties clips "Intergalactic," "Body Movin' " and their current single, "Ch-Check It Out." ...

Mandy Moore has a chance at hitting the Great White Way. She's been offered the lead role in "Wicked," a Broadway retelling of "The Wizard of Oz" from the witches' point of view, once Kristin Chenoweth, who plays Glinda, leaves the show. Moore posted on her Web site that it was "an honor" to be considered, "But how could anyone step into those shoes? She's pretty unbelievable and irreplaceable and totally owns the role." ... Outkast will show viewers of the 12th annual ESPY Awards the way they move when they perform at this year's event. The group will perform "The Way You Move" at the ceremony, which will air on July 18 at 9 p.m. ET from Hollywood's Kodak Theatre. The ESPY Awards honor major sports achievements from the past year and will be hosted this year by Jamie Foxx. ...

Paris Hilton's not just releasing her own forthcoming record — the hotel heiress also has plans to release others as well. She's starting her own record label, which she's calling Heiress. Hilton will hold a launch party for the label on Friday in the Hamptons. ... New, live and rare tracks by Linkin Park, Korn, Snoop Dogg and others are available to fans who purchase tickets to any of the Projekt Revolution shows. Ticket holders can go to www.prsampler.com or www.linkinpark.com and enter the code printed on their tickets to give them access to download any or all of the 13 songs on the site. ...

Steven Van Zandt will unite old garage acts with new alternative and punk outfits at his International Underground Garage Festival, which will take place August 14 at Randalls Island in New York. Old-schoolers include Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Bo Diddley and surviving members of the New York Dolls. The Strokes, the Raveonettes and the Chesterfield Kings are among the new acts performing. ... Hip-hop's "godfathers," the Rock Steady Crew, have been denied a permit by the New York City Parks Department to hold their upcoming 27th anniversary celebration in a Bronx park. The Rock Steady Crew has celebrated its anniversary with public hip-hop festivities in New York for 12 years. The parks commission, though, said this year's celebration, slated for July 22-25, would interfere with the enjoyment of the park by other users. Last year, Mayor Bloomberg sang a different tune, declaring July 26, 2003, "Rock Steady Crew Day." ...

Instant Live, the Clear Channel endeavor that lets concertgoers buy a live CD of the show they just saw immediately afterward, has enlisted its first major-label artist. The live-CD campaign will begin on Jewel's summer tour, which starts July 8. Other new signees to the program include Kiss, Peter Frampton and the Cowboy Junkies. Based on last year's statistics, 20 percent of an audience purchases Instant Live CDs. ... The father of Dominic Howard, the drummer for the English band Muse, died at the Glastonbury festival at 1:15 a.m. Monday (June 28), shortly after the band finished its set. Police believe he died of natural causes. Two days earlier, a 24-year-old man from Lancashire, England, Neil Clinnings, died in a parking area outside of the festival site. Police believe his death was drug-related. ...

Courtney Love's money troubles may have temporarily suspended her Web site message board at kittyradio.com, but her fans are coming through with donations to pay the $5,000 server bill. So far, more than $3,000 has been raised for the cause. ... "Wildboyz" stuntman Steve-O is upset about a porn version of his show that is circulating called "Wildboyz Out" — not because it's gay porn, he says, but because it's "poorly produced gay porn." He said he wants to put an end to the pornography "tainting our good, virtuous and copyrighted name." ... Three Prince shows in Chicago this week have been rescheduled because of a death in the family of NPG drummer John Blackwell. The shows slated for Monday (June 28) through Wednesday will now take place July 22-24. ...

Lostprophets will launch a tour with Midtown on July 15 in Washington, D.C. Dates run through August 3 in St. Louis. ... After postponing her June concert dates due to a back ailment, Loretta Lynn has pulled out of three more shows — including a July 3 concert at her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee — because of a subsequent bout with double pneumonia. The Lynns — Loretta's daughters Peggy and Patsy, backed by Loretta's band, the Coal Miners — will fill in for mom on the 3rd for a "nominal admission fee," according to Lynn's Web site; tickets may also be refunded at point of purchase. Plans call for the July 9 and 10 concerts at Falls View Casino in Niagara Falls, New York, to be rescheduled. Lynn, who is currently recuperating at her ranch, is scheduled to return to the road for a July 17 concert in Branson, Missouri. ...

06.25.04

The first date of the Vans Warped Tour, June 25 in Houston, was postponed due to excessive storms. That show will now take place on Monday, though fans can present their Houston ticket at any show on the tour and gain admission, should they be unable to attend on Monday. ...

Ashley Olsen has canceled a promotional trip to Australia to promote "New York Minute" so that she can be with her sister, Mary-Kate, who is being treated for an eating disorder at an undisclosed clinic. "Ashley Olsen has decided to be with her family at this time," Robert Thorne, CEO of the twins' Dualstar Entertainment Group, said in a statement. "While it is unfortunate that plans have been canceled, Mary-Kate and Ashley appreciate everyone's support and understanding at this time." ... The fallout from T.I.'s unauthorized video project last week at the Fulton County jail has been settled. Three guards have been put on temporary leave in connection with the incident. ...

As the majority of the dozen or so items before the court in the Michael Jackson case were about whether various documents — such as grand-jury transcripts and search warrants — should be kept under seal, the judge in the case ultimately decided on Friday that Jackson's right to a fair trial superseded the public's right to know. "I'm following the law," Judge Rodney Melville said. "I'm being very careful in following the law." The Web site maintained by the Santa Barbara County court system also shows that Melville has been holding private telephone hearings with the parties, but those, too, remain secret. Another hearing was scheduled for July 9. ... P. Diddy's annual "White Party" will be populated by models, actors, musicians, and special guests including John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Making a special appearance at Diddy's Fourth of July bash at the PlayStation 2 estate in Bridgehampton, New York, is none other than the Declaration of Independence. The document is an original copy owned by producer Norman Lear, who drives it around the country on his Declaration of Independence Road Trip. On the eve of Diddy's party, a Blue Star helicopter will take Diddy and the document to the mansion after Diddy's performance in "A Raisin in the Sun." ...

Madonna is headed to Israel after all — but not for a concert tour. The artist also now known as Esther had canceled three Israeli stops on her Re-Invention Tour because of violence in the region, but is now in talks to visit the Jewish holy places in October with a group of students studying Kabbala. "If it does happen, it will be completely private," Madonna's spokesperson, Liz Rosenberg, said. "No Whitney-and-Bobby-go-to-the-homeland sort of thing." ... Paris Hilton has two movies that have yet to come out — not those kind of movies, but legitimate roles in the horror films "House of Wax" and "The Hillz" — and she's just snatched up her next part. Hilton will star as the president of a sorority at South Beach University in "National Lampoon's Pledge This!," which has been described as "Animal House" meets "Revenge of the Nerds" meets "American Pie." ...

While plugging away on their next album, AFI have recorded a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like a Hole," though it's not yet known where the track will surface. A release for the follow-up to last year's breakthrough Sing the Sorrow has yet to be scheduled. ... The man who owned serial killer Ted Bundy's Volkswagen has filed a $4 million suit against Jonathan Davis, claiming he had a deal with the Korn singer to display it and other items in what Davis has been calling a "serial killer museum." The problem is Arthur Rosenblatt has never seen any of the $250,000 in funding Davis promised him. ...

"Yankee ... Hotel ... Foxtrot": Those three little words that loop for 90 seconds at the end of Wilco's fourth album of the same name are costing frontman Jeff Tweedy a few thousand dollars. The bit was an unlicensed sample from a 1998 collection of mysterious shortwave radio transmissions. Wilco and the British label that released the discs recently came to an agreement to settle the complaint in a U.K. courtroom. ... Raunchy rapper Peaches — in spite of her tough-girl image — has a soft spot for elephants, especially ones that share her name. She's written to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo to ask that they allow Peaches the elephant — along with her fellow aging pachyderms Tatima and Wankie — to retire to a sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, since the climate during Chicago's winter gets especially harsh. "At the sanctuary they could rest, recuperate and live the rest of their days in peace and dignity with other African elephants," she wrote. ...

"Rock Star," the reality show that would find a new singer for INXS seven years after the band's original frontman, Michael Hutchence, died, will be broadcast next summer on CBS. The series is being produced by "Survivor" creator Mark Burnett. ... One of Eric Clapton's favorite guitars was auctioned off for $959,500 on Wednesday at a Christie's auction in New York. It was the most money ever paid for a rock instrument at an auction. The sale broke Clapton's previous record of $497,500, which was set in 1999. The guitar sold Wednesday was one of 88 guitars and other musical artifacts that Clapton and other artists donated to raise money for the drug and alcohol treatment facility Crossroads Center Antigua. ...

Rufus Wainwright recorded so much material for his 2003 Want album that he ended up splitting it into two LPs, Want One and the forthcoming Want Two. Four tracks from the latter will be released on Tuesday via iTunes under the name Waiting for a Want. Wainwright describes the EP as "some of the more daunting tracks, the operatic, weird stuff, some heavy numbers that relate to my classical sensibilities." Downloadable artwork for the EP will be available from www.rufuswainwright.com; another installment of songs from Want Two is scheduled for the fall ... The four-CD box set by the Faces, Five Guys Walk Into a Bar, has been bumped to July 20. The set was originally slated for release May 25. ...