DMX will receive a special award at tonight's Billboard Music Awards for being the only artist in history to have his first four albums debut at Number One . . . PJ Harvey was voted Q Magazine's Greatest Female Rock and Pop Artist of all time. Madonna was second and Kate Bush third . . . The release of Meshell Ndegeocello's upcoming album "Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape" has been pushed back to March 12, 2002. The album features guest appearances by Talib Kweli and Lalah Hathaway . . . Country star Alan Jackson will release his eleventh album, "Drive," on January 15th . . . After postponing their U.S. tour, Slipknot will kick off their European tour January 20th in Helsinki, Finland.

The Dismemberment Plan, the Faint and the New Pornographers are among the indie rockers set to play the tenth annual Noisepop Festival in San Francisco from February 26th to March 3rd . . . Naughty by Nature will release "iicons" on TVT Records next spring . . . "Classic Album" DVD documentaries on the making of Lou Reed's "Transformer" and Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" hit stores this week . . . Former Frank Zappa band members Ike Willis, Napolean Murphy Brock, Don Preston and Bunk Gardner will go on the road for an eight-city tour beginning December 27th in Buffalo, New York . . . New York natives and U.K. stars the Strokes have lined up five U.K. tour dates, beginning February 23rd in Leeds.

After filming a football-themed video for their latest single, "Stuck in a Moment," U2 will perform on the National Football League's biggest stage. The Irish quartet will headline the half-time festivities for Super Bowl XXXVI, which will air Sunday, February 3, 2002 on Fox. The telecast is expected to reach 130 million viewers in the U.S. and 800 million worldwide . . . David Bowie and Phillip Glass are the first artists confirmed for the 12th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert, which will take place at New York's Carnegie Hall on February 22nd . . . The Dave Matthews Band won four awards -- best band, album ("Everyday") and single ("The Space Between") -- at Sunday night's My VH1 Music Awards. . . . Jennifer Lopez, Kid Rock and Ja Rule will perform for American troops at an undisclosed military base overseas. The concert will air January 1st on MTV as "For the Troops: An MTV/USO Special" . . . 'N SYNC have announced plans to team up with Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet to create 200 limited-edition watches, the sale of which will benefit children orphaned by the September 11th terrorist attacks.

Toni Braxton gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday in Atlanta . . . GOO GOO DOLLS frontman Johnny Rzeznik has put his 1967 Pontiac GTO up for auction on eBay, with proceeds from the sale going to VH1's Save the Music Foundation. Meanwhile, the Goos have finished recording twelve songs for their new album, "Gutterflower," due next year . . . Nelly Furtdado plans to kick off a 2002 North American tour January 28th in Vancouver, B.C. . . . Tenacious D are set to headline a December 20th benefit for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation at the House of Blues in Los Angeles . . . Marc Anthony has signed on to headline the Hispanics United for New York benefit concert, scheduled for December 9th at Madison Square Garden. The event will raise money for the United Way's September 11th Fund and for families of victims of the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 . . . 311 will release a pair of DVDs on December 11th, "Enlarged to Show Detail," originally released on VHS in 1996, and the new "Enlarged to Show Detail 2."

(December 3, 2001)