Q-TIP is recording his third solo album with plans for an early 2004 release. The album will be his first for Dreamworks. In related news, A TRIBE CALLED QUEST have reunited and recorded several songs, though no release plans are set . . . Scheduling conflicts have forced ASHANTI to drop off of MARIAH CAREY's Charmbracelet Tour . . . Humorist JAMES T. PENDERGRAST, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, is placing a new drawing on his Web site, pendyman.com, each day . . . LEANN RIMES will begin a twenty-six-date tour on July 10th in Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . SALIVA, the DANDY WARHOLS and the CRYSTAL METHOD will be featured on the Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life soundtrack, due July 22nd . . .

OZZY and KELLY OSBOURNE have recorded BLACK SABBATH's "Changes" for his next album . . . BEYONCE, SHANIA TWAIN and CRAIG DAVID headlined London's Party in the Park Concert this past weekend, which raised more than $1.5 million for a disadvantaged children's charity . . . LFO will release a new album, Sheath, in September . . . Hip-hop/dance artist POP will release his new album, Caramel '76, on September 23rd . . . DEBORAH COX will release a collection of her remixed songs, aptly titled Remixed, on July 22nd . . . DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE will release their new album, Transatlanticism, on October 7th . . . At least fifteen concert-goers were killed by two suicide bombers at the Krylya Festival in Moscow on July 5th . . .

(July 7, 2003)