MICHAEL JACKSON and his family are throwing an invitation-only party at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California, on June 18th. The event is for fans to celebrate the pop star's Monday acquittal on all counts of child molestation and conspiracy . . . NELLY is inviting fans to create the theme song to be used in commercials for his new Pimp Juice Tight energy drink. Further info is available at letitloose.com . . . ELTON JOHN and BILLIE JEAN KING will host the thirteenth annual Advanta WTT Smash Hits tennis charity event at Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on November 7th. The event will benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the National AIDS Fund . . . Psychedelic rock disciples the CHURCH, TEENAGE FANCLUB, the SOFT BOYS and the CHILLS are among the artists featured on Rhino Records' four-disc box set, Children of the Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996, due August 30th. The retro-minded label will also release Weird Tales of the Ramones on August 16th. The four-CD set includes a bonus comic book about the pioneering punk rockers . . .

P. DIDDY, MARY J. BLIGE and CYNDI LAUPER have created playlists for specially designed iPods to raise money for breast cancer research. The iPods, along with custom cases, will be auctioned on eBay through June 22nd . . . CELINE DION, MARY J. BLIGE, FANTASIA and RUBEN STUDDARD will be featured on the JIMMY JAM and TERRY LEWIS-produced LUTHER VANDROSS tribute album . . . The dream-pop foursome LONGWAVE will release There's a Fire on June 28th . . . Industrial music vets PSYCHIC TV are finishing work on their next album and will release a best-of collection early next year . . . IRON MAIDEN will release the double-disc collection, The Essential Iron Maiden, on July 12th . . . Ex-KORN guitarist BRIAN "HEAD" WELCH is working on his solo album and plans to record a tribute song to DAMAGEPLAN's late guitarist DIMEBAG DARRELL entitled "A Letter to Dimebag" . . . Former CARS frontman RICK OCASEK will release Nexterday, the follow-up to 1997's Troubilizing, on September 27th . . .

NORAH JONES and BOB DYLAN will perform a concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall in celebration of Amazon.com's tenth anniversary. The show will be streamed live on the site on July 16th . . . DESTINY'S CHILD will perform at the thirteenth annual ESPY awards at Los Angeles' Kodak Theatre on July 13th. The show, hosted by actor MATTHEW PERRY, will air July 17th on ESPN . . . LINKIN PARK guitarist BRAD DELSON, GOOD CHARLOTTE's BILLY MARTIN and Paris Hilton have designed their own pairs of Reeboks for an online auction at rbk.com/trickyourkicks.com, benefiting the Forefront Organization, a nonprofit global network of human rights defenders. Bidding ends June 22nd . . . The PIXIES will perform their first live acoustic set at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 4th to 7th. ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE IMPOSTERS, BRIGHT EYES, PATTY GRIFFIN and RAY LaMONTAGNE will also perform . . . AC/DC: Two Sides to Every Glory, a new book about the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers by Paul Stenning, hits stores November 1st . . .

The new season of Livin' It Up with Patti LaBelle premieres June 24th on the new TV One network. The series will include behind-the-scenes footage of the diva recording her new album, Classic Moments, due June 21st . . . Kentucky rockers MY MORNING JACKET will release their new album, Z, on September 20th . . . ARLO GUTHRIE, EMMYLOU HARRIS and BUDDY MILLER will perform at the forty-fourth Philadelphia Folk Festival, August 26th to 28th . . . The Singing Drifter, the only album by the late blues singer BLIND ARVELLA GRAY, will be released on August 2nd . . . 50 CENT is re-releasing his multiplatinum second album, The Massacre, this summer. The reissue will include a video for each song, as well as new tracks . . . AUTOLUX will open for NINE INCH NAILS and QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE on the bands' North American tour, which kicks off September 16th in San Diego, California . . . KANYE WEST has pushed back the release of his second album, Late Registration, to August 16th . . .

ELTON JOHN has extended his contract for his "Red Piano" show at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. The singer will perform an additional 150 shows through 2008. John's concert was scheduled to conclude after the completion of seventy-five shows over a three-year period ending in 2007 . . . AC/DC's BRIAN JOHNSON, BRAD WHITFORD of AEROSMITH, JACKYL's JESSE DUPREE and RACHEL BOLAN of SKID ROW will race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Nascar Nation, airing tonight on the Speed channel . . . MICHAEL JACKSON's rhinestone jacket, a signed BUDDY HOLLY yearbook, KISS stage costumes and an autographed JOHN LENNON record are available through auction on Itsonlyrocknroll.com through June 28th . . . PRIMUS will join the PIXIES, BILLY IDOL, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, the BRAVERY, KAISER CHIEFS, CAKE, the ARCADE FIRE, LOUIS XIV and WEEZER at this year's Lollapalooza festival on July 23rd and 24th in Chicago . . . The GO-GO's bassist KATHY VALENTINE will release her solo debut album, Light Years, on September 6th, with guest appearances by BLONDIE drummer CLEM BURKE, ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS drummer PETE THOMAS, and back-up guitarists GILBY CLARKE of GUNS N' ROSES and ACE FREHLEY of KISS . . .

The original lineup of DINOSAUR JR. kicks off its West coast tour on August 13th in Las Vegas, wrapping up in Vancouver on August 22nd . . . The BACKSTREET BOYS' opening act, the CLICK FIVE, will release their debut album on August 16th. The album features guest appearances by ELIOT EASTON of the CARS and PAUL STANLEY . . . STEVE CROPPER and BOBBY WOMACK will appear on ELLIS HOOKS' new album, Godson of Soul, due August 9th . . . O.A.R. will hit the road on July 9th at Summerfest in Milwaukee, finishing up August 20th in Chicago . . . Scottish rockers ORANGE JUICE will release the twenty-two track compilation CD, The Glasgow School, on July 26th. The album includes early singles and out-of-print material. Frontman EDWYN COLLINS underwent brain surgery in spring . . . American Idol third-season finalist LATOYA LONDON will release her debut album, Love and Life, on September 20th. The album's first single, "Appreciate," features a guest spot from the ROOTS' BLACK THOUGHT . . . ANASTACIA will release her new self-titled album on August 30th . . .

EMINEM will make a rare appearance at the Atlantic City House of Blues on July 9th in New Jersey. The performance is part of a series of concerts -- including the COUNTING CROWS on July 8th and the BLUES BROTHERS featuring BUDDY GUY on July 10th -- marking the venue's grand opening . . . MOTLEY CRUE drummer TOMMY LEE makes an appearance in MISSY ELLIOTT's new video, "Lose Control." The song is the first single off her album The Cookbook, due July 5th . . . The DONNAS, MARK McGRATH and LINDSAY LOHAN appear on the soundtrack to the movie Herbie Fully Loaded, which stars Lohan. The soundtrack hits stores June 21st . . . NATALIE MERCHANT, SHANNON McNALLY, NANCI GRIFFITH and PATTY GRIFFIN are featured on American Folk, a new compilation CD from Putumayo World Music, due August 9th . . . The BACKSTREET BOYS' KEVIN RICHARDSON has signed on to be the spokesman for Provectus Pharmaceuticals, a company that develops new technologies to fight cancer . . . TWISTED SISTER lead singer DEE SNIDER has quit as the host of Philadelphia's WMMR 93.3 nighttime radio show. Snider's last night on the air will be June 17th . . .

Country star TRISHA YEARWOOD will join the Starkey Hearing Foundation to help their volunteers give 1,000 underprivileged children in Guadalajara and Marida, Mexico, hearing aids this week . . . Former BYRDS member CHRIS HILLMAN will release his new CD, The Other Side, on June 21st. The album features a bluegrass version of his old band's psychedelic classic "Eight Miles High" . . . Texas guitar slinger CHARLIE SEXTON will release Cruel and Gentle Things, his first album in ten years, on September 13th . . . 50 CENT's G-Unity Foundation is offering scholarships to ten students from the rapper's native Queens, New York. Winners will be announced on July 15th . . . The CONCRETES -- whose song "Say Something New" is featured in Target commercials -- are releasing Layourbattleaxedown, a collection of singles and B-sides, on July 26th . . . The CURE, OASIS, KEANE, DINOSAUR JR., the KILLS, DOVES, KAISER CHIEFS and HOT HOT HEAT will perform at the eleventh annual Benicassim festival in Spain on August 4th to 7th . . .

BJORK penned and produced eleven songs for the soundtrack to the upcoming Japanese themed Matthew Barney film, Drawing Restraint 9. The soundtrack is due in late July . . . Superstar DJ TIESTO will launch his U.S. tour on August 20th in Los Angeles before heading to the Voodoo Music Experience festival in New Orleans on October 29th and 30th . . . BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN has announced a second set of North American tour dates, to follow the rocker's in-progress European trek. Springsteen's second leg kicks off in Ottawa, Ontario, on July 13th, wrapping up August 13th in Vancouver . . . Icelandic pop group SIGUR ROS will kick off their North American tour on September 6th in Atlanta . . . Psychedelic icon ROKY ERICKSON will join COLDPLAY, OASIS, WILCO, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE and ARCADE FIRE at the fourth annual Austin City Limits Festival on September 23rd to 25th in Austin, Texas. The performance will be Erickson's first full concert appearance in almost twenty years . . . JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS will perform a free concert on the fourth of July in Pennsuaken, New Jersey, as part of 102.9 WMGK's Let Freedom Rock Fest. Classic rockers BLUE OYSTER CULT will also perform . . .

California hip-hop outfit FLIPSYDE will release their debut album, We the People, on July 12th. The rappers will also join EMINEM and 50 CENT on the European dates of this year's Anger Management tour . . . New York funk rockers the SPIN DOCTORS will release their new album Nice Talking to Me in September . . . ALL AMERICAN REJECTS will release Move Along on July 12th. Fans can pre-order the CD on the band's official Web site and receive a limited edition T-shirt . . . BOB MOULD will release his upcoming album, Body of Song, on July 26th. The indie rocker will hit the road in support of the release on September 22nd in Chapel Hill, North Carolina . . . TONY ORLANDO AND DAWN are getting back together after more than two decades apart to release the holiday-themed Tony Orlando and Dawn -- A Christmas Reunion, due October 11th . . . A thirty-two-year-old man from Huntsville, Alabama, later identified as David Ottman, was found dead on June 11th at the site of the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Ottman's cause of death has not yet been determined . . .