Aimee Mann, Norah Jones, Beth Orton and others will perform at A Sounds Eclectic Evening in Los Angeles on November 23rd to benefit local public radio station KCRW . . . Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland will make a solo appearance at the Musician's Assistance Program in Los Angeles on November 7th . . . Tom Petty will release The Last DJ Studio Sessions, a thirty-eight minute documentary DVD as part of a special edition of his new album, The Last DJ, due October 8th . . . Susan Tedeschi has enlisted husband Derek Trucks, Col. Bruce Hampton and Johnnie Johnson to appear on her third album, Wait for Me, due November 19th . . . Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor charge of battery last week stemming from an April altercation in a West Hollywood nightclub; a pretrial hearing is set for November 19th . . .

Enya will release Only Time: The Collection, a four CD box set, on November 12th . . . Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson will undergo surgery this week to have a brain tumor removed . . . Queen Latifah has signed with CBS to star in Mali Anderson, a new drama series . . . King Crimson will release a new EP, Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With, on October 8th . . . Joan Jett performed for more than 500 American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan on September 27th . . . Sixties folk rocker Tim Rose died of complications from bowel cancer last week in London; he was sixty-two . . . ZZ Top will begin a European tour tonight in Helsinki, Finland; the dates were cancelled in 2000 after bassist/singer Dusty Hill became ill with Hepatitis C . . .

(September 30, 2002)