Marc Anthony won three awards including Outstanding Male Performer at the 2002 American Latino Media Arts Awards in Los Angeles on May 18th. Ricky Martin, Freddy Fender, Shakira and Christina Aguilera were among the other winners . . . Bruce Springsteen dedicated a park in Freehold, New Jersey, to Gordon "Tex" Vinyard, on May 18th. Vinyard gave Springsteen and other fledgling musicians a rehearsal space in his loft in the late Sixties . . . Dolly Parton has lined up initial dates for her first U.S. tour in nearly a decade. The tour will begin on July 10th in New York City . . . Bobby McFerrin will receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America on May 23rd at Johns Hopkins University . . .

Bob Geldof will release Sex, Age and Death, his first new album in nine years in August. Plans for a U.S. tour are in the works . . . Asia will celebrate their twentieth anniversary with the release of the two-CD Anthologia on June 18th; the compilation will feature every track from the band's first four albums . . . The Moody Blues' Justin Haywood will perform on June 20th at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland to raise money for the Amazon Conservation Team . . . Nanci Griffith will release the twenty-two-track From a Distance: The Very Best of Nanci Griffith on June 25th . . .

Eminem's third album, The Eminem Show, will be released May 28th, a week earlier than planned, to combat the album being leaked onto the Internet . . . Billy Bob Thornton will join Elvis Costello for a three shows in Minnesota, Michigan and Ohio later this month . . . Michelle Branch, Leann Womack, K.D. Lang and Diana Krall are among those contributing tracks to Remembering Patsy, a Patsy Cline tribute album due later this year . . . John Mellencamp has parted ways with Columbia Records after releasing a pair of albums, 1998's John Mellencamp and last year's Cuttin' Heads. He will begin a summer tour on July 12th in Noblesville, Indiana . . . Fred Durst will direct his first movie, the skateboarding feature, Lords of Dogtown, which begins shooting later this year . . .

Coldplay will release A Rush of Blood to the Head in the U.S. on August 27th . . . Dry Kill Logic have recorded a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" for the videogame MLB SlugFest 20-03, which will be released this summer . . . Twenty-three T. Rex songs will be compiled on Ultimate Collection: 20th Century Boy, due in late-August . . . Aerosmith will appear in a new Dodge commercial that will debut over Memorial Day weekend . . . Eminem and the White Stripes will perform at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards on June 1st in Los Angeles . . . Sharon Sheeley, who wrote Ricky Nelson's hit "Poor Little Fool," died on May 17th in Los Angeles at age sixty-two . . . The White Stripes have enlisted Brendan Benson to open on their upcoming summer tour, which begins May 28th in Tucson, Arizona . . .

(May 21, 2002)