SHANIA TWAIN's Greatest Hits is due November 9th. The twenty-one-track album will include three new songs, including the first single "Party for Two" (which features guest vocals by SUGAR RAY's MARK McGRATH on one version and country singer BILLY CURRINGTON on another), "Don't!" and "I Ain't No Quitter" . . . A PERFECT CIRCLE will release Emotive, a new album of political songs, on November 2nd to coincide with the presidential election. The collection will feature new material from the band, as well as covers like JOHN LENNON's "Imagine" and MARVIN GAYE's "What's Going On" . . . LOS LONELY BOYS will release a DVD, Texican Style: Live in Austin on September 14th, which captures a live performance from South by Southwest Music Conference . . .

BRITNEY SPEARS' fiance (and former backup dancer) KEVIN FEDERLINE will be featured in her video for "My Prerogative," the BOBBY BROWN cover and first single from Spears' upcoming greatest hits set. Spears' brother is also set for a cameo . . . PAUL McCARTNEY and wife HEATHER MILLS will host at the Adopt a Minefield benefit at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on October 15th. McCartney and NEIL YOUNG will perform . . . ASHANTI, QUEEN LATIFAH and QUENTIN TARANTINO will lend their voices to upcoming children's movie The Muppet Wizard of Oz . . . The Recording Industry Association of America has filed another 744 lawsuits against people it claims illegally traded or downloaded copyrighted music . . . The DEFTONES will kick off an eight-city club tour on September 28th in West Hollywood, California. The band will then head into the studio to record its fifth album with producer BOB EZRIN (PINK FLOYD, KISS, NINE INCH NAILS) . . .

The BEASTIE BOYS will warm up for their fall tour with an August 28th benefit for the AIDS prevention/education organization LIFEbeat at the Crobar nightclub in Miami. DE LA SOUL is also on the bill. The Beasties have also tagged dates onto their previously announced tour, which now continues through an October 23rd stop in Dallas. TALIB KWELI will open . . . METALLICA have set an October 26th release date for Vinyl Box, a boxed set of their first four studio albums, as well as the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP and the import-only Creeping Death picture disc . . . MORRISSEY has unveiled the full itinerary for his fall tour, which starts officially in Washington, D.C., on September 29th and wraps November 12th in Los Angeles . . . QUEEN LATIFAH will release The Dana Owens Album on September 28th. The disc finds the rapper trying out jazz, soul and pop classics, including first single, her take on the MAMA AND THE PAPAS' "California Dreamin'" . . . MELISSA ETHERIDGE will tour theaters beginning August 25th in Portland, Oregon, through October 30th in Tucson, Arizona . . .

BOB DYLAN will offer a rare glimpse into his personal life with Chronicles: Volume One, the first of a three-part autobiographical series. The book will be released on October 12th and will be followed by an updated edition of Lyrics: 1962-2001, a collection of the words to every Dylan song . . . For frustrated fans turned away from PHISH's recent Coventry Festival, the last show of the band's career, the band will offer free downloadable songs from the concert and a one-of-a-kind photo book compiled by photographer DANNY CLINCH and autographed by band members . . . BON JOVI will issue a five-disc box set on November 16th called 100 Million Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong. The set will feature three albums of unreleased material, a disc of rare tracks and a DVD of unseen film footage . . . Country singer MINDY McCREADY pleaded not guilty to a charge that she forged a prescription for painkiller OxyContin . . . LOU RAWLS will receive an honorary doctorate from Wilberforce University for his service over the past twenty-five years and help raising more than $200 million for the United Negro College Fund . . .

LORETTA LYNN's Van Lear Rose is one of seventy-three albums to be considered for this year's Shortlist Music Prize. Other albums in the running include NELLIE McKAY's Get Away From Me, rapper DIZZEE RASCAL's Boy in Da Corner, the KILLERS' Hot Fuss and PATTI SMITH's Trampin'. A list of ten final nominees will be announced in September . . . Lynn is also up for three Americana Awards, tying her with MINDY SMITH for the most nominations. Smith, TONY JOE WHITE and SHELBY LYNNE will take the stage at the Nashville Performance Center for the September 24th show . . .

MADONNA has made polyphonic ring tones available for North American fans through her official Web site. Fans can download the rings, and charges will appear on their wireless bill . . . KID ROCK has expanded his fall tour, which now stretches into October. The tour includes a performance at New Orleans' October 17th Voodoo Music Experience . . . WILCO have tagged on West Coast dates to their three-month fall tour, which now ends on November 22nd in Salt Lake City . . . HELMET have moved back the release of their latest album, Size Matters to October 5th because of singer PAGE HAMILTON's collar bone injury. The band also had to rearrange its fall tour . . . WILLIAM YORK, HANK WILLIAMS' bass player, died on August 15th. He was eighty-five. York was a member of Williams' DRIFTIN' COWBOYS from 1944 to 1949 . . .

Former LED ZEPPELIN guitarist JIMMY PAGE became the first musician to receive a star on the British Walk of Fame. On Monday, the musician left his handprint on the walk located in London's Piccadilly Circus . . . Rapper CHINGY has set a November 16th release for his second album, Powerballin'. The first single, "Balla Baby," hits radio in early September . . . STEVE EARLE will be a presenter on August 26th at the "Unconventional Heroes: An Evening of Performance to Honor Courageous Resisters" event at New York University Skirball Center for the Performing Arts . . .

TOM PETTY, BRITNEY SPEARS and KENNY ROGERS have autographed guitars for a Clear Channel-organized online auction to raise money for victims of Hurricane Charley. The auction will end on September 20th. For more information, visit StormAid.com . . . VANESSA CARLTON is streaming her new single, "White Houses," and the accompanying video directed by SOPHIE MULLER (BJORK, NO DOUBT), on her official Web site. The track is the first single from Carlton's Harmonium, due October 19th.

NATALIE MERCHANT has joined the lineup for MoveOn PAC's Don't Get Mad, Get Even! Event at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday. MOBY, the ROOTS and PERRY FARRELL will also perform . . . DAVID BOWIE has prepared a DVD capturing two Dublin shows from last year's world tour. The DVD, titled David Bowie - A Reality Tour will be released on October 19th . . . ANGELA McCLUSKEY, CHARLIE MARS, FIVE EIGHT, NOW IT'S OVERHEAD and JOSEPH ARTHUR will open select dates on R.E.M.'s fall tour, which opens in Los Angeles on October 13th . . . BROOKS AND DUNN, LEE ANN WOMACK, JACI VELASQUEZ and THIRD DAY will perform at next week's Republican National Convention in New York City.