The first 100,000 copies of We're a Happy Family, the Rob Zombie-organized Ramones' tribute will feature "Daytime Dilemma," a bonus track contributed by Eddie Vedder; the album has been pushed back to December 24th . . . India.Arie will begin a fifteen-city North American tour on October 16th in Montreal that wraps on November 29th in Chicago . . . Tickets for the tribute concert to George Harrison at London's Royal Albert Hall, featuring performances by Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Jools Holland, Jeff Lynne, Ravi Shankar and others, will go on sale October 11th . . . Fatboy Slim has compiled seventeen tracks for Big Beach Boutique II, a compilation from the annual Brighton Beach party in the U.K., on October 15th . . .

Imperial Teen will begin an eighteen-date tour behind their latest album, On, on October 11th in Seattle . . . The Blasters have lined up a reunion gig at B.B. Kings in New York City on November 18th. The band is planning additional dates in support of the upcoming live album, Trouble Bound, due October 15th . . . Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson reached a joint custody agreement for their two children in a Los Angeles court this week . . . Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn and Patty Griffin will perform on the Concert for a Landmine Free World tour, a five-date run starting November 6th in Raleigh, North Carolina . . . Idlewild bassist Bob Fairfoull has left the band due to "personal problems"; bass tech Alex Grant has been filling in on the band's current tour . . .

Cam'rom will hit the road for an eighteen-date tour with Naam Brigade, N.O.R.E. and M.O.P. starting October 10th in Atlanta . . . The Music will launch their first ever U.S. tour on October 31st in Boston before joining the VINES for a November jaunt; the band will follow up it's debut EP, You Might as Well Try to Fuck Me, with a full-length album on February 11th . . . Former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur will release Live in Los Angeles: Black Sabbath Tribute, with her new band Hand Of Doom, on October 22nd . . . Shadows Fall will kick off a tour in support of The Art of Balance on October 12th in Elizabeth, New Jersey . . .

The Streets, whose Original Pirate Material was nominated for the U.K.'s Mercury Music Prize, will kick off a tour in the U.S. on October 22nd in San Francisco . . . Toni Braxton will release her next album, "More Than a Woman," in November. Babyface, the Neptunes and Rodney Jerkins are among the producers who worked on the record . . . Drowning Pool have begun to seek a new singer after the August death of frontman Dave Williams . . . Alison Krauss and Union Station will release the two-CD Live on November 5th . . . The Blood Brothers will release Burn Piano Island, Burn next February . . .

Oasis covered Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" and Badly Drawn Boy recorded Dexy's Midnight Runners' "Come on Eileen" for 1 Love, an album of covers organized by New Music Express to benefit the War Child charity . . . Usher, Paula Abdul, Mya and Aaron Carter will perform at "The Disco Ball: A 30th Anniversary Celebration" in Los Angeles on October 13th . . . Singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury, who penned hits for Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley and others, died on September 29th of emphysema; he was sixty-two . . . Brian Wilson, Ace Frehley, Al Kooper, Richie Havens and Sebastian Bach are among the guests on The Late Show with David Letterman-drummer Anton Fig's new album, Figments, available through antonfig.com . . .

3LW will release their new album, A Girl Can Mack, on October 22nd; the group is also planning a holiday album for November release . . . Eminem, Shakira and Kylie Minogue each received four nominations for the MTV Europe Music Awards, set for November 14th in Barcelona . . . The Disco Biscuits will perform at the Primary Colors for Peace concert on October 24th in Washington, D.C. . . . Prince filed suit against freemyheart.com for allegedly offered recordings of his Xenophobia concert series from June for download . . . Jerry Douglas will begin a fourteen-date tour on October 11th in Somerville, Massachusetts . . . Barry White is in need of a kidney transplant after suffering from kidney failure last week . . .

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 . . .

(October 3, 2002)