Chumbawamba have been chugging along for a decade now, but the anarchist octet was actually a Best New Artist nominee at this year's MTV Video Music Awards. |

So, to prove MTV has its head up its ass -- and that the group wasn't merely throwing Molotov cocktails for all those years -- they'll be releasing Uneasy Listening, a collection of pre-Tubthumper tracks from their first nine albums, plus live tracks and B-sides. Songs will include "Mouthful of Shit," "Morality Play in Three Acts," "Big Mouth Strikes Again," "Give the Anarchist a Cigarette" and "We Don't Go to God's House Anymore." The collection will hit stores some time in late November or early December . . .

Matthew Sweet will return to his Ming Tea roots when he provides the trailer music, "Psychedelic Scene Breaks," for the forthcoming Austin Powers: The Man Who Shagged Me, due in theaters next year. The trailer will begin airing this holiday season. It's not yet known if Sweet, who cameoed in the original Austin Powers film as the bassist for the fictional Ming Tea will get saucy again in the sequel . . .

Playing Marilyn Monroe to his John F. Kennedy, former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell will debut as a solo artist when she purses her lips and sings a special rendition of "Happy Birthday" to Prince Charles tonight (Wednesday) at London's Lyceum Theater. Now, if the once Ginger Spice wants to complete the nostalgic recreation, the two will be knocking boots by the time Big Ben strikes midnight . . .

Kiss in the Nineties can get away with sounding like classic Seventies' Kiss, but when they start sounding like classic Seventies' Alice Cooper, you better believe the lawyers start putting on their own war makeup. According to Billboard Online, Six Palms Music Corp., publisher (as Bizarre Music) of Alice Cooper's "I'm Eighteen," has filed a complaint against Paul Stanley and former Kiss member Bruce Kulick for copyright infringement. Apparently the Stanley/Kulick penned "Dreamin'," from the new Kiss album Psycho Circus, bears what Six Palms feels to be an inexcusable likeness to the lurching Cooper classic. When asked about the case Wednesday afternoon, however, Cooper's manager Toby Mamis was unaware that Six Palms had filed suit, though he had heard that there were apparent similarities in the two tracks. Stay tuned as the plot unfolds . . .