KILLERS frontman BRANDON FLOWERS married his longtime girlfriend Tana Munblowsky in "a small, intimate wedding" earlier this week, with the rest of the band in attendance. The new Mrs. Flowers, a retail manager, also resides in Las Vegas . . . MICHELLE BRANCH and husband Teddy Landau gave birth to their first child, baby girl Owen Isabelle, this week in Los Angeles. The singer's project with country singer JESSICA HARP, the WRECKERS, are promising the delivery of their debut album, Stand Still, Look Pretty, in the near future . . . NINE INCH NAILS have launched a special ticketing program to combat scalping on their upcoming tour. The program features a series of online auctions that allow fans to bid on premium seats through Ticketmaster in an effort to reduce the selling of tickets at inflated prices at the venue. The band will also donate the expected scalpers' proceeds to charity . . . Ozzfest's August 7th stop in Somerset, Wisconsin, has been pushed back to September 10th. The show was cancelled so that BLACK SABBATH frontman OZZY OSBOURNE can rest his voice . . . ELTON JOHN will release a double-disc version of Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy on September 13th to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the original release. The set will feature the original recording with bonus B-sides and rarities from 1974 and 1975 and the live performance of the album at Wembley Stadium, with guests performances from the EAGLES, the BEACH BOYS and CHAKA KHAN . . . STAIND will perform tracks from their new album, Chapter 5, on video channel Fuse's 7th Avenue Drop on August 9th, the day the album hits stores . . .

BON JOVI will premiere the video for "Have a Nice Day" at AOL Music, beginning August 6th. Fans can also see the video at bonjovi.com starting August 8th . . . Q AND NOT U frontman CHRIS RICHARDS will play a string of dates under his new moniker RIS PAUL RICE beginning August 6th in Pittsburgh . . . VELVET REVOLVER drummer MATT SORUM fractured his hand as a result of a boating accident and will not be able to play when the band resumes its Electric Wonderland tour on August 11th in Mount Pleasant, Michigan . . . Music videos from MADONNA, U2, JAY-Z, the KILLERS, WEEZER, BECK, LENNY KRAVITZ, METALLICA, NIRVANA, JOHHNY CASH, NINE INCH NAILS and BJORK will be featured in the latest four volumes of the Directors Label DVDs, due September 13th . . . Punk veterans the MISFITS will hit the road on September 23rd in Norfolk, Virginia . . . METRIC will release their new album, Live It Out, on October 4th. The indie rockers will hit the road in support of the release on October 2nd in Boston and finish up November 16th in Fort Lauderdale, Florida . . . JESSE McCARTNEY, the CLICK FIVE and newcomer RIHANNA will perform at the 2005 Arthur Ashe Kids' Day on August 27th at the USTA National Tennis Center during the US Open tennis tournament. Tennis superstars Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Andy Roddick will also be in attendance . . . Pop rockers HARVEY DANGER will release its third album, Little by Little..., on September 13th . . .

CIARA will co-host the tenth annual Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards show along with TONI BRAXTON and BRIAN McKNIGHT. STEVIE WONDER, JOHN LEGEND, AMERIE and ARETHRA FRANKLIN, who will be honored at the event with the Lena Horne Award for outstanding career achievements, will also be present . . . The ROLLING STONES have made three tracks from their new album, A Bigger Bang, available for download a month before its September 6th release. The songs, "Rough Justice," "Streets of Love" and "Back of My Hand," are being sold through all major online retailers . . . 50 CENT will be signing his memoir, From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens, on August 9th, the day of the book's publication, at New York's Union Square Virgin Megastore . . . PAUL SIMON and Jerry Seinfeld will team up to perform at "One Night Only: A Concert for Autism Speaks" on September 24th at Los Angeles' Kodak Theater . . . MELISSA ETHERIDGE has announced that she is cancer-free just nine months after a malignant tumor was found in her breast. The singer is also making plans to have a baby with her partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels . . . JOHN MAYER is asking his fans to help him finish a song he wrote for his upcoming album, Continuum, by adding music to the lyrics. Information on how to help Mayer complete the track -- which never made it onto the album -- is available in the September issue of Esquire . . .

RYAN CABRERA, the CLICK FIVE, TYLER HILTON, KACI BROWN and B-5 will take the stage at Simon Malls as part of the Simon DTour Live beginning today in Jersey City, New Jersey . . . Rhino Home Video will release the live concert DVD Pixies Sell Out, featuring footage from seven of the band's 2004 reunion shows, on September 20th . . . The Great American Baseball Box, a four-CD set of historical play-by-play calls, related comedy and baseball-themed music such as BOB DYLAN's "Catfish" and JOHN FOGERTY's "Centerfield," is due on October 19th . . . The DEFTONES will release a collection of B-sides and rarities in the fall in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of their 1995 debut, Adrenaline . . . Hard rockers SUPAGROUP will open for a week for WHITESNAKE starting tonight in Hartford, Connecticut to August 13th in Atlanta, before kicking off their own trek with BRAND NEW SIN on August 15th in Baltimore . . . CHRISTINA AGUILERA and LL COOL J will join a list of celebrities including CINDY CRAWFORD, ELIJAH WOOD, SALMA HAYEK, ASHLEY JUDD and PENELOPE CRUZ for the new YouthAIDS fall campaign "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil" . . . "LITTLE" MILTON CAMPBELL died on August 4th in Memphis while in a coma induced by a stroke in late July. The blues musician and IKE TURNER protege was seventy-one . . .

EMINEM has signed up with Showtime to tape the Anger Management tour's Madison Square Garden show for a special to air on the cable network in December. Eminem along with 50 CENT, G UNIT, D12, LIL JON AND THE EASTSIDE BOYZ and STAT QUO will take the stage in New York on August 8th and 9th . . . The KILLERS will release Hot Fuss Limited Edition on August 16th. The new version of the indie rocker's debut will include the bonus tracks "Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll," "The Ballad of Michael Valentine" and "Under the Gun" . . . METALLICA will open for the ROLLING STONES when they hit San Francisco's SBC Park on November 13th and 15th. The metal men join the rock legends' stellar list of openers, which include JOHN MAYER, BECK, MAROON 5, BLACK EYED PEAS, JOSS STONE and PEARL JAM . . . BUDDY GUY will release Bring 'Em In on September 20th. The guitarist's new album, mostly covers, will feature collaborations with CARLOS SANTANA, KEITH RICHARDS and JOHN MAYER, as well as the new Guy track "What Kinda Woman Is This" . . . Reggaeton artist DADDY YANKEE will hit the road on August 27th in New York, with dates running to October 8th in Rosemont, Illinois . . . KANYE WEST, FAT JOE and the GAME will participate in the fifth annual BMI Urban Awards on August 26th in Miami, when R&B vets the GAP BAND receive the prestigious Icon award . . . The United Negro College Fund will honor STEVIE WONDER with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on September 9th and 10th. The event will be broadcast in January during the organization's annual telethon, "An Evening of Stars" . . .

BOB SEGER joined 3 DOORS DOWN for a rare appearance on stage Tuesday night at the Detroit stop of the band's North American tour. Seger, who hasn't actively toured in almost a decade, performed with the band during "Landing in London," a track he recorded with the band off their recent release, Seventeen Days . . . The CHEMICAL BROTHERS, PAUL OAKENFOLD and TIMO MAAS will headline the five-hour electronica concert, Ultra.NY, on September 16th in New York's Central Park . . . GALACTIC will perform in their hometown of New Orleans on September 9th and 10th to mark their tenth anniversary. Special guests will include CYRIL NEVILLE, GEORGE PORTER JR., THERYL "HOUSEMAN" DECLOUET and members of the DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND . . . OK GO will kick off their North American tour with the REDWALLS on August 23rd in Houston. The trek will wrap on September 10th in Tempe, Arizona . . . BUDDY MILLER, STEVE EARLE, MARY GAUTHIER, TIFT MERRITT, SOLOMON BURKE and EMMYLOU HARRIS will be in attendance at the fourth annual Americana Music Association Honors and Awards at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, September 8th to 10th . . . ROBERT WALTER will hit the road on August 17th in Telluride, Colorado, in support of his new album, Super Heavy Organ . . . BARRY MANILOW has added 150 shows to his "Manilow: Music and Passion" Las Vegas act. The singer, who was originally scheduled to play from 2005 into 2006, will now perform at the Vegas Hilton into 2007 . . .

The FOO FIGHTERS, SLIM THUG, ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS, HOT HOT HEAT, MEMPHIS BLEEK, FALL OUT BOY, STAT QUO, DISTURBED and REVEREND RUN have all contributed tracks to the Madden NFL 06 video game, which hits stores on August 9th . . . KINGS OF LEON, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, DAVID GRAY and the SECRET MACHINES will be featured in National Public Radio's online concert series All Songs Considered. The performances will be streamed live from Washington D.C.'s 9:30 club on August 6th (Gray), 7th (Williams) and the 11th (Kings of Leon and Secret Machines) and can be viewed on NPR.org . . . MAROON 5 will release the CD/DVD set Live at the Santa Barbara Bowl on September 20th . . . COLDPLAY have finished shooting the video for their new single, "Fix Me." The video can be viewed exclusively on the band's Web site . . . JOHN MAYER, WIDESPREAD PANIC, EMMYLOU HARRIS and ARLO GUTHRIE will join WILLIE NELSON, NEIL YOUNG, JOHN MELLENCAMP, DAVE MATTHEWS, KENNY CHESNEY, WILCO, LOS LONELY BOYS, BUDDY GUY and SUSAN TEDESCHI at this year's Farm Aid at Chicago's Tweeter Center on September 18th . . . The BLACK KEYS will release the live DVD of the band's sold-out performance at Sydney, Australia's Metro Theatre last spring on October 4th . . .

Secret Films will release Happy Mondays: Live in Barcelona on October 4th. The DVD features the early Nineties Manchester dance-club band in a rare reunion performance in December 2004 . . . Fans can receive an autographed STRYPER pocket bible when they preorder the Christian metal rockers' new CD, Reborn, due August 16th . . . MARIAH CAREY and the KILLERS have joined KANYE WEST, KELLY CLARKSON and GREEN DAY as performers for this year's MTV Video Music Awards, airing live on August 28th in Miami . . . ANTHRAX will release the double-disc collection Anthroplogy: No Hit Wonders (1985-1991), on September 20th. The set will include a bonus live concert CD, Alive 2, from the band's recent reunion tour . . . ASHLEE SIMPSON's new album, In Another Life, will hit stores in October . . . TAPROOT are offering fans and aspiring filmmakers a chance to create the video for the track "Facepeeler," from their new album, Blue-Sky Research, due August 16th. Details are available at taprootvideocontest.com . . .

JESSICA SIMPSON's And the Band Played On is scheduled to hit stores in November. Simpson acts as executive producer on the new album, which features production from JIMMY JAM and TERRY LEWIS, COREY ROONEY, and SCOTT STORCH, who lends his hand on the prospective single "Fire It Up" . . . 50 CENT has set a September 6th date for the re-release of his latest CD, The Massacre. The set contains a remix of "Outta Control" featuring the newest addition to the rapper's G Unit Records, MOBB DEEP. 50 will make his big screen debut in Get Rich or Die Tryin' on November 11th followed by the release of his video game, Bulletproof, on the 15th . . . BOB DYLAN, ERIC CLAPTON, RINGO STARR and RAVI SHANKAR are featured on the The Concert for Bangladesh -- George Harrison and Friends CD/DVD, due October 25th. The DVD will include performances from 1971's benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, organized by the former BEATLE, as well as a forty-five minute documentary with exclusive interviews with BOB GELDOF and UN Secretary-General KOFI ANNAN . . . RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, BEN FOLDS and BEN LEE will perform at the Celebrate Brooklyn festival on August 4th in Brooklyn, New York. The benefit concert will raise money to keep the festival free . . .

BRAD PAISLEY will headline the Country Music Television tour Time Well Wasted, which is named after Paisley's new album, due August 16th. SARA EVANS and SUGARLAND are also on the trek, which begins September 23rd in Portland, Oregon, and finishes up December 11th in Salem, Virginia . . . DON McLEAN will release the retrospective, Rearview Mirror, on October 11th. The album includes live performances, the original recording of his hit "American Pie" and his new song "Run Diana Run" . . . DIERKS BENTLEY was invited to perform on the Grand Ole Opry radio show. The country singer will join the likes of HANK WILLIAMS, PATSY CLINE, JOHNNY CASH and ELVIS PRESLEY, who have all performed on the show, which turns eighty this year . . . PAUL SHAFFER will host a benefit/tribute concert for DAVE CLARK FIVE lead singer MIKE SMITH, who is now paralyzed from the ribcage down as a result of a 2003 accident in Spain. The show will feature performances by the ZOMBIES, the reunited duo PETER AND GORDON, BILLY J. KRAMER and the BEATLES tribute band the FAB FAUX . . . QUEENSRYCHE will release Operation: Mindcrime II, the sequel to the band's 1988 blockbuster concept album, early next year. The veteran rockers will hit the road for a five-week North American tour on September 13th in Victoria, British Columbia . . . The family of late rapper BIG PUN have launched the Big Pun Clothing Line in his memory. The line, which features T-shirts with Pun's picture airbrushed on, will be sold exclusively at BigPunShop.com . . .