Sisqo has reunited with the rest of Dru Hill, who will release Dru World Order, their first album in four years, on November 26th . . . Britney Spears' 2000 performance at London's Wembley Arena will air as Britney Spears in Concert on pay-per-view on November 23rd . . . Loose Fur, featuring Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche along with Jim O'Rourke, will perform December 6-7 at the St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York . . . Ashanti, Sugar Ray, Michelle Branch and Sixpence None The Richer will perform November 4th in Universal City, California, at the Bogart Tour for a Cure benefit . . . Todd Rundgren will release Nazz Anthology, the third volume in his personal bootleg collection, on November 19th . . .

Rod Stewart will tape an A&E In Concert special in New York in November to air on December 6th . . . The Best of DJ Quik, a nineteen-song compilation, will be released on November 19th . . . Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will make a guest appearance on Lizzie McGuire, as Santa Claus, in an episode to air later this year . . . 311 will give a free performance today at the Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco . . . En Vogue will release The Gift of Christmas, a fifteen-track holiday album, on November 12th . . . The Church will release Parallel Universe on November 5th; the two-CD set includes unreleased songs and remixed tracks from last year's After Everything Now This . . .

Celine Dion changed the name of her three-year Las Vegas engagement from "Celine Dion Muse" to "A New Day..." after a copyright dispute with U.K. band the Muse . . . Unseen, early 'N Sync footage will be featured in The Reel 'N Sync, due on video on November 5th . . . Songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, the Band, Pink Floyd, Merle Haggard, Frank Sinatra, Radiohead, the VINES and others will be included in Capitol Records: 1942-2002, a six-CD box set due next month . . . Tahiti 80 will begin an eleven-date tour on November 3rd in Washington, D.C., in support of its latest album, Wallpaper for the Soul . . . Lou Reed, Will Ferrell and Harry Shearer will headline Hal Willner's second annual Halloween Show at Royce Hall in Los Angeles on October 31st . . .

Sean "P. Diddy" Combs has signed a reunited New Edition (without Bobby Brown) to his Bad Boy Records, which will release the group's next album next spring . . . Smithereens frontman Pat DiNizio and the Bigger Lovers will appear on a tribute album to the Who due next fall . . . Oasis cancelled a concert in the Philippines scheduled for tomorrow due to recent terrorist attacks in the region . . . Cassandra Wilson, Bilal and Meshell Ndegeocello will perform at You Rock My Soul, a benefit concert for the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City on November 11th . . . Kiss will celebrate their thirtieth anniversary with a February 28th performance in Melbourne, Australia, backed by a sixty-piece orchestra . . .

Beck, the Flaming Lips, DJ Sasha and John Digweed will appear at the ACA World Sound Festival, which runs November 1-3 in Acapulco, Mexico . . . Paul Simon contributed "Father and Daughter" to the soundtrack to The Wild Thornberrys, which also features music by P. Diddy, Brandy, Peter Gabriel and others . . . The Red Hot Chili Peppers cancelled an appearance in Bali scheduled for later this month, after a terrorist attack prompted the U.S. State Department to issue a safety warning . . . Queen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on October 18th . . . Lazlo Bane's Superman, the theme song to the NBC sitcom Scrubs, will be the first single from the show's soundtrack; the band's new CD "All the Time in the World" is due December 3rd . . .

Shannon McNally will begin a solo acoustic tour on November 1st in Madison, Wisconsin . . . Eels frontman E has composed songs for the upcoming Billy Bob Thornton film Levity, due out spring 2003 . . . Tony Bennett and K.D. Lang will appear on Tony Bennett's Beautiful World: Live From San Francisco on PBS in December . . . Kelly Osbourne's debut album, Shut Up, will be released November 26th . . . St. Etienne will begin a six-date North American tour on November 18th in Hollywood . . . Virgin Steele'S first two albums -- Virgin Steele and Guardians of the Flame -- will be released on CD for the first time on November 26th . . . The Juliana Theory will begin a six-date U.K. tour on November 25th . . . Radiohead won Q magazine's Best Act in the World Today award yesterday in London . . .

(October 23, 2002)