An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson will be released on DVD/VHS on November 6th; the concert features guest performances by Elton John, Paul Simon, Aimee Mann and others . . . Ozzy Osbourne will kick off a five-city, in-store promotional tour behind his new album, Down to Earth, starting October 16th in Hollywood . . . Shaggy and 'N Sync are among the performers scheduled for the 2001 Billboard Music Awards, which will take place on December 4th in Las Vegas; John Mellencamp will be presented with the Billboard Century Award . . . B.B. King will release his first-ever holiday album, A Christmas Celebration of Hope, on November 6th, with proceeds going towards City of Hope, a biomedical research center . . . A Nevada man has filed a lawsuit against Mick Fleetwood's Fleetwood Owen auction house, claiming that the company sold him an inauthentic Elvis Presley guitar . . .

Dave Matthews was named to the Board of Directors of Farm Aid by founders Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp . . . Alice Cooper has opened a haunted house in Phoenix that will run through November 3rd . . . PJ Harvey, who celebrates her thirty-second birthday today, will premiere a new track, "Will's Song," written by Will Oldham on Later With Jools Holland, on October 12th . . . Jane Siberry will showcase some of the new material from her upcoming album, City on a North American tour that kicks off on October 13th . . . Country singer-songwriter Jimmie Logsdon, who performed with Hank Williams and wrote hits for Carl Perkins and Johnny Horton, died on October 7th at age seventy-nine . . .

Mudvayne have departed from the Pledge of Allegiance Tour, which also featured Slipknot and System of a Down . . . Natalie Merchant will kick off a tour behind her upcoming album, Motherland, on October 27th in Minneapolis . . . Cypress Hill's Stoned Raiders has been pushed back to December 4th . . . Gwen Stefani and Sheryl Crow have joined the lineup for the October 11th City of Hope dinner, which raises money for cancer treatment and research . . . Sunny Day Real Estate have been recording with producer Brad Wood in Seattle for a 2002 release . . . Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay was charged with common assault and criminal damage after fighting with a photographer back in April . . . Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard will release Ringwork Interiors, under the group name the Circus Devils, on October 31st . . .

Widespread Panic will release a DVD, Live at Oak Mountain, tomorrow and will kick off a thirty-date tour on October 12th in Berkeley, California . . . Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will play two acoustic shows in London on January 16th and 17th . . . Lee Ann Womack will launch a Christmas tour with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on November 29th in Sewell, New Jersey . . . Merle Haggard will perform at the Christian Country Music Awards on November 1st in Nashville; John Berry and Crystal Gayle will host and perform . . . The Bee Gees, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and twelve other acts were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on October 4th . . . ABBA cover band the A*Teens will release a DVD video collection on November 13th titled A*Teens: The DVD Video Collection . . .

(October 9, 2001)