Songs by the Eels, Guided By Voices, Shawn Mullins, the Butthole Surfers and John Cale will be included on the soundtrack to NBC's Scrubs, due September 24th . . . Former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack De La Rocha has been recording with Trent Reznor in Reznor's New Orleans studio, though an album title and release date have not yet been set . . . Motley Crue has signed a deal to turn its book, The Dirt, into a feature film . . . The Hives and Jimmy Eat World will perform at a tenth anniversary celebration and benefit concert for the AIDS awareness organization Lifebeat on August 28th at New York City's Hammerstein Ballroom . . . The Possibilities, who have backed Jack Logan for the past four years, will release a new album, Way Out, next week . . .

Phantom Planet will begin a twelve-date tour on September 2nd in Chicago; the group will then start a twelve-date run opening for Elvis Costello on September 23rd in Seattle . . . They Might Be Giants will release the two-CD anthology Dial-A-Song on September 17th . . . Nanci Griffith will release Winter Marquee, a new live album featuring guest appearances by Emmylou Harris and Tom Russell on September 24th; a DVD featuring four additional tracks will also be released . . . Singer-songwriter Chuck Pyle will release his next album, Affected by the Moon, on October 1st . . . Will Kimbrough, who has backed Allison Moorer, Josh Rouse, Kim Richey and others, will release his second solo album, Home Away, this fall . . .

Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega and others will perform a benefit for writer Denis Craine, who suffers from ALS; the show is set for August 21st in East Hampton, New York . . . Adam Ant pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges in a London court this week and he will be sentenced on October 2nd; charges of criminal damage, assault and possession of an imitation firearm were dismissed . . . Ornette Coleman, Bobby McFerrin, Merle Haggard and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band are among the acts who will perform at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, which runs October 23rd through November 10th . . . Former Stray Cat Brian Setzer will release a holiday album, Boogie Woogie Christmas, on October 8th . . .

Victoria Williams and Mark Olson will begin a twenty-one-date tour behind Sings Some Old Songs and December's Child, respectively, on September 13th in Tempe, Arizona . . . Hazeldine enlisted Caitlin Cary and Superchunk's Jon Wurster to appear on their Chris Stamey-produced album, Double Back, due September 24th . . . Megadeth's Marty Friedman and Dave Ellefson have recorded an unfinished Buddy Holly song, "That Makes It Tough" . . . Linkin Park's Chester Bennington will join his old band Grey Daze on September 7th for a one-off show in Phoenix, Arizona . . .

Moby's recording of "The James Bond Theme" and a new song by Garbage will appear with songs by Duran Duran, Nancy Sinatra and Paul McCartney And Wings on The Best of Bond -- James Bond, due October 22nd . . . Bob Dylan, Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana will make guest appearances on Ronnie Wood's seventh solo album, Not For Beginners, which arrives in stores this week . . . Me'shell Ndegeocello will be the musical director of You Rock My Soul, a November 11th concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City to benefit the Gay Men's Health Crisis . . . John Lee Hooker's classic 1962 live album, Live at Sugar Hill, will be followed up by nineteen previously unreleased tracks on Live at Sugar Hill, Vol. 2, due August 20th . . .

Diana Krall will release her first ever live album, Live in Paris, which features a cover of Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are," in October . . . Luther Vandross, Angie Stone, Gerald Levert and Destiny's Child's Michelle Williams will perform on the nineteen city BK Got Music Summer Soul Tour, which starts August 15th in Boston . . . Nas will release his sixth album, God's Son, on November 22nd . . . A group of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, musicians including Reggie Young (Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline), Kelvin Holly (Little Richard) and others will release One Voice, an album to benefit the Firefighters and Police Officers Widows and Children's Fund on September 3rd . . .

Michelle Branch will make an appearance on NBC's new series American Dreams this fall, portraying Sixties pop singer Lesley Gore . . . Queens of the Stone Age will release a limited-edition DVD, featuring live and backstage footage, with their new album, Songs for the Deaf, due August 27th . . . Elton John, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Carlos Santana will perform at Andre Agassi's Grand Slam for Children charity concert on September 28th in Las Vegas . . . Patty Loveless and Ricky Skaggs will host the thirteenth annual International Bluegrass Music Awards show in Louisville, Kentucky, on October 17th . . . Porter Wagoner, who discovered DOLLY PARTON, and Grand Ole Opry vet Jumpin' Bill Carlisle will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on November 6th . . .

Steve Miller's Chicago Blues Reunion, featuring Miller, Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bishop, will headline the San Francisco Blues Festival, which runs September 28-29; the Robert Cray Band, Otis Rush and others will also perform . . . The Beat Summer Jam 2002 in Irvine, California, which was to have featured performances by LL Cool J, Nelly and others, was cut short Sunday after a fight broke out in the crowd and spilled onto the stage . . . Songs by Tweet, Nate Dogg and Missy Elliott will be featured on the soundtrack to The Transporters, due on September 17th . . . Alicia Keys won four Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards on August 9th in Miami . . .

(August 15, 2002)