P.O.D. have placed a recent rehearsal performance on www.warnerbros.com for fans to download . . . Elton John will perform on A&E's "Live by Request" on December 3rd, during which he will field song requests made by fans via an 800 number or through www.AandE.com . . . Janet Jackson will receive the 2001 Award of Artistic Achievement at this year's Billboard Music Awards, on December 4th at the MGM Hotel in Las Vegas . . . The church hall stage where John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met is expected to fetch more than $70,000 at a Fleetwood Owen auction on November 27th. Other items up for auction include the grand piano used on "The White Album" . . . Lit will kick off an eleven-date holiday radio festival tour, starting on November 27th at the WBCN Christmas Show with Blink-182 in Boston . . .

Alanis Morissette will receive the Global Tolerance Award by the Friends of the United Nations at a ceremony in New York on December 11th . . . Mariah Carey will release "Greatest Hits," a two-disc anthology on December 4th . . . Living Colour will kick off a nine-date reunion tour on November 21st in Boston . . . VH1 will air "U2: Elevation Live 2001," which captures the group at a recent Boston performance, on November 23rd . . . Mobb Depp will release their new album, "Infamy," on December 4th; Ronald Isley, 112 and Lil' Mo will make guest appearances on the album . . . Reba McEntyre will host the twentieth annual Christmas in Washington event, which will also feature performances by Tony Bennett, Mandy Moore and Charlotte Church, on December 9th at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. . . .

Creed will perform a medley of songs at halftime of the Dallas Cowboys annual Thanksgiving Day football game against the Denver Broncos, while Enrique Iglesias will sing at the Detroit Lions game against the Green Bay Packers . . . Janet Jackson will star in her second HBO special, All for You: Live in Concert. The show will air live from Honolulu on February 17th . . . Mariah Carey has joined the lineup for the December 13th Z100 Jingle Ball, which will also feature performances by Jewel, Alicia Keys and others . . . The Nine Inch Nails DVD/VHS and CD, Live: And All That Could Have Been, has been delayed until January 22nd . . . Mandy Moore will contribute four songs, three of them new, to the soundtrack for A Walk to Remember. The film, in which she stars, is due in theaters January 25th, while the soundtrack will be released January 15th . . .

The B-52's will release the double-disc anthology Nude on the Moon on January 15th . . . Screenblast.com will stream four tracks from the Smashing Pumpkins' upcoming collection, Judas O, through November 19th . . . Waylon Jennings is recuperating after undergoing surgery last week for peripheral vascular disease, which was causing circulatory problems in his leg . . . Styx's Glenn Burtnick, Journey's Steve Augeri and James Young visited the wreckage of New York City's World Trade Center on November 13th and presented a check for $500,000 raised from their Volunteers for America benefit concerts . . . Wim Wenders filmed a New York performance by Lucinda Williams, T-Model Ford and the North Mississippi All Stars for his segment of The Blues, a PBS series that will air in 2003 . . .

Usher has delayed the start of his winter tour, which was to begin December 6th, until April, after dislocating his shoulder during a rehearsal . . . Garth Brooks will play his third televised concert on November 28th at South Padre Island, Texas, which has suffered a decline in tourism after a bridge collapsed, cutting off most traffic to the island . . . The Roots' ?Uestlove will take his jazz trio, the Philadelphia Experiment, out for a short tour starting December 14th in Falls Church, Virginia . . . A New York appeals court ordered producer Phil Spector to play $3 million to members of the Ronettes on November 13th for violating his contract with the group . . . Oysterhead donated proceeds from their November 13th and 14th shows in New York City to the New York Police and Fire Widow's and Children's Benefit Fund . . .

Green Day have posted acoustic versions of three songs from their last album, Warning, on www.greenday.net . . . Santana will head out on an eleven-date European tour, starting May 16th in Copenhagen . . . All online sales from Paul McCartney's singles, "Freedom" and "From a Lover to a Friend" (available at music.msn.com, bestbuy.com and windowsmedia.com) will be donated to the Robin Hood Relief Fund . . . Craig David will kick off a thirteen-date U.S. tour on December 1st in Auburn Hills, Michigan . . . Prophet Jones will headline the multi-act Motown Lounge Tour, which will launch on November 28th in Rochester, N.Y. . . . Jennifer Lopez will kick off a promotional tour of Europe on November 20th with a party that will also include a performance by Roxette . . .

MusicChoice.com will present concerts by Smash Mouth and Five for Fighting on various local cable channels, the former from December 17th through the 30th and the latter from November 26th through December 2nd . . . Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst is in New York this week to record a new collaboration with DMX for the soundtrack to the upcoming film, Undisputed . . . Biohazard will hit the road on November 15th in their hometown of Brooklyn, New York, for their thirty-two-date Uncivilization North American Tour . . . Goldfrapp will kick off a seven-date North American tour on November 24th in Toronto . . . R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck's trial on charges of assault and public drunkenness began on Monday and is expected to run through the week . . .

Missouri rapper Pretty Willie, who recorded the hit single, "Roll Wit Me," will release his first album, Enter the Life of Suella, in March . . . Mick Fleetwood and His All-Star Blues Band will perform a charity concert tomorrow at the House of Blues in Los Angeles to benefit the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund; Fleetwood's auction house, Fleetwood Owen is also hosting a new auction that includes guitars owned by Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora and Oasis' Noel Gallagher and a cowboy hat owned by Madonna . . . Brandy will release "What About Us?," the first single from her upcoming album in December; the album is due February 2002 . . . Raul Malo will launch a twelve-date tour behind his solo debut, Today, on November 24th in Minneapolis . . .

Britney Spears will speak with U.S. soldiers via satellite during her November 18th performance in Las Vegas. The show will be aired on Armed Forces networks around the world . . . U2 will release Elevation 2001: Live From Boston on DVD/VHS on December 4th . . . Mick Jagger will perform for 700 guests at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles on November 15th to celebrate the upcoming release of his new album, Goddess in the Doorway . . . George Harrison's new single, "Horse to Water," will be released as a single later this month . . . Tim McGraw will join 'N Sync for their The Atlantis Concert in the Bahamas, which will air on November 23rd on CBS . . . Don Henley and Sheryl Crow will join Stevie Nicks for the Stevie Nicks and Friends Benefit Concert on December 6th in Phoenix, which will aid the Arizona Heart Institute Foundation . . .

Pennywise has rescheduled a tour that was cancelled in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks; the new dates start January 16th in Columbus, Ohio . . . Best Buy is offering 'N Sync bobblehead dolls through the holiday season, with proceeds going towards New York City relief efforts . . . Huey Lewis and the News performed at a benefit for the Willie Mays' Say Hey Foundation, a youth charity, in San Francisco on November 10th . . . Alicia Keys, Shaggy and Tim McGraw have joined the lineup for the 2001 Billboard Music Awards, which are set for Las Vegas on December 4th . . . Keb' Mo' will appear with Garth Brooks, at Brooks' CBS concert special from the Forum in Los Angeles Wednesday night . . . Martina McBride leads a new sing-a-long, "When Love Rules the World," for a new album to benefit drug and alcohol treatment programs, due in April 2002 . . .

(November 16, 2001)