'N SYNC's JOEY FATONE and his girlfriend of ten years are engaged to be married, though no date has been set. The couple has a two-year-old daughter . . . SHANIA TWAIN and ROBBIE ROBERTSON were inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto on June 25th . . . STARSAILOR will release their second album, Silence Is Easy, in September. The record features production by PHIL SPECTOR and JOHN LECKIE . . . MUDHONEY guitarist STEVE TURNER will release his solo debut, Searching for Melody, featuring a guest appearance by PEARL JAM's STONE GOSSARD, later this summer on Rosalyn Recordings . . . CENTRO-MATIC will release their seventh album, Love You Just the Same, on September 2nd . . .

KENNA, COMMON, the EXIES and BUBBA SPARXXX will take part in two You Hear It First tours, sponsored by MTV, both of which launch next month . . . JOE JACKSON will begin a thirteen-date tour on August 9th in Hartford, Connecticut . . . ZANE, GINUWINE and TYRESE will head out on a twenty-two-date tour, starting July 29th in St. Louis . . . The KARL HENDRICKS TRIO will release their seventh album, The Jerks Win Again, on July 29th . . . ROBBIE WILLIAMS will appear in a short film sponsored by UNICEF to raise awareness about child trafficking in the U.K. . . .

MOBY, PAUL McCARTNEY, KELLY OSBOURNE and RUSSELL SIMMONS are among the non-meat-eaters included in PETA's online poll for the Sexiest Vegetarian Alive at peta.org . . . 50 CENT won Best Male Hip-Hop Artist and Best New Artist at the third annual BET Awards in Hollywood on June 25th. MICHAEL JACKSON appeared at the event to present JAMES BROWN with a lifetime achievement award . . . NIRVANA: The Day to Day Illustrated Journals, by Rolling Stone contributor CARRIE BORZILLO-VRENNA will be reissued this fall by Carlton Books . . . The SEX PISTOLS have lined up a thirteen-date tour starting August 20th in Boston . . . Jamaican singer VIC TAYLOR, who performed with the SKATALITES, died of a heart attack in New York on Monday; he was fifty-six . . .

The ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND and JAMES BROWN will perform at the Gathering of the Vibes festival in Mariaville, New York, July 10-13 . . . KRS-ONE won an injunction against Koch Records that pulled is new album, Kristyles, off of record store shelves this week. The rapper claims the recording is incomplete, and he's still hoping to secure guest appearances by OL' DIRTY BASTARD and others . . . Former ORANGE JUICE member JAMES KIRK will release a solo album, You Can Make It, If You Boogie, on August 12th . . . KENNY LOGGINS will release his first studio album in six years, It's About Time, on August 19th. He'll also launch a twenty-nine-date tour on July 15th in Hilton Head, South Carolina . . .

SNOOP DOGG said that he will not host another "Girls Gone Wild" video because of a lack of appearances by women of color. The rapper, who hosted an episode of the popular video series shot during Mardi Gras and released last September, is planning to launch his own interpretation of the series with a broader spectrum of women stripping. "They think I like white girls because I'm on there with them," Snoop said, "and I don't. I just did that for the money" . . .

The FOO FIGHTERS will release a limited edition DVD/EP featuring their video for "Low," on July 1st. The video was rejected by MTV and MTV2 . . . THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS have joined the lineup for MOE's Moefest, set for August 29-31 in Turin, New York . . . A live KRIS KRISTOFFERSON album, Broken Freedom Song, will be released July 8th. The set will feature four previously unreleased songs . . . KISS' PAUL STANLEY is working on his first solo album in twenty-five years, which he hopes to finish after his band's summer tour with AEROSMITH . . . SQUAREPUSHER will begin their first ever tour of the U.S. on July 18th in Chicago . . . SPIRITUALIZED will release a new album, "Amazing Grace," on September 9th . . .

RAPHAEL SAADIQ will release a live album in October, and is also at work on his second solo recording, due in February 2004 . . . R.E.M. have placed footage of rehearsals for their upcoming world tour online at remhq.com . . . A thirty-seven-year-old man was arrested for stalking ABBA's AGNETHA FAELTSKOG near her home in Sweden on Sunday . . The FLAMING LIPS, MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD and WARREN HAYNES will perform at Berkfest, set for August 15-17 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts . . . JOAN BAEZ has covered songs by GILLIAN WELCH and DAVID RAWLINGS, RYAN ADAMS, STEVE EARLE and others on Dark Chords on a Big Guitar, due September 9th. LIL' KIM claimed that a bag containing $250,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from her at JFK International Airport in New York City on June 20th . . . COLD have dropped out of their main-stage slot on this summer's Lollapalooza tour . . . CIBO MATO's MIHO HATORI and BECK guitarist SMOKEY HORMEL will release The Two Eps, a collaboration as SMOKEY AND MIHO, on September 23rd . . . Former MISSION OF BURMA bassist CLINT CONLEY will release Love and Affliction, the second album with his new band CONSONANT, on August 19th . . . SIR MIX-A-LOT will release Daddy's Home, his first album in seven years, in September . . . HAMELL ON TRIAL will release his new album, Tough Love, on August 26th . . .

PHISH bassist MIKE GORDON has enlisted bandmate JON FISHMAN, BELA FLECK and BRUCE HAMPTON to play on his solo debut, Inside In, due this fall . . . BLUES TRAVELER will release their new studio album, Truth Be Told, on August 5th . . . SLIPKNOT percussionist SHAWN "THE CLOWN" CRAHAN's side project, TO MY SURPRISE, will release its RICK RUBIN-produced debut in September . . . Rapper DOWN's debut album, California Cowboys, which features guest spots by SNOOP DOGG, SEN DOG and MC REN, will be released later this summer . . . SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES will release Seven Year Itch, a live CD and DVD, on July 22nd . . LIONEL RICHIE received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 20th . . .

(June 26, 2003)