Sting, Sheryl Crow, Don Henley, Billy Joel, James Taylor and others have signed guitars and other memorabilia to be auctioned by Ticketmaster to raise money for the family of late rock critic Timothy White . . . Papa Roach and Sev have signed on to promote Pepsi Blue soft drinks in a series of television commercials . . . Songs by the Rolling Stones, Sly and the Family Stone, David Bowie, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and others will be included on the soundtrack to Moonlight Mile, due September 24th . . . Three Doors Down will perform six shows for overseas U.S. Navy personnel in October . . . Rick James will make a guest appearance on a remix of Nocturnal Rage's "Miss Mary Jane," which is inspired by James' own hit "Mary Jane" . . .

Skylab will release their new album, Side Effects, on September 24th . . . Garageland will release their third album, Scorpio Righting, on October 15th . . . Steve Forbert has recorded Any Old Time, an album of Jimmie Rodgers covers produced by the E Street Band's Garry Tallent due October 8th . . . Missy Elliott and Tweet honored Aaliyah and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes at the fourth annual Sashi Concert in Jamaica on August 25th . . . Ellis Paul has recorded a previously unreleased Woody Guthrie lyric, "God's Promise," on his new album, Translucent Soul, due September 10th. Paul will begin a twenty-seven-date tour on September 7th in Pawling, New York . . .

Avril Lavigne, the Goo Goo Dolls, Ashanti and Carson Daly will make appearances on the upcoming season of the WB's Sabrina the Teenage Witch . . . Marc Anthony and Carlos Vives will perform at the third annual Latin Grammy Awards on September 18th. Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and John Secada will be presenters . . . Before Phish regroup for New Year's Eve, Trey Anastasio will begin a nine-date solo tour on October 22nd in Burlington, Vermont . . . Tiffany and Coolio are among the celebrities who will appear on Fox's Celebrity Boot Camp, where participants go through the Marine Corps regiment to compete for $100,000 . . . Michael Bolton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27th.

Jennifer Love Hewitt will host and perform at the third annual "Women Rock! Girl and Guitars" concert on October 25th . . . Rob Thomas and the Police's Andy Summers are among the judges for the ISC Songwriting Competition (www.songwritingcompetition.com). Entries must be in by September 30th . . . Country singer Marty Stuart was cleared of drunk driving charges on August 27th, but he will lose his driver's license for a year for refusing to take a blood-alcohol test . . . British rockers Elbow have cancelled their North American tour due to a personal emergency. The tour was set to begin on September 3rd in Washington, D.C. 'N Sync's Lance Bass flew from Moscow to Houston this weekend to begin a week-long training program at NASA's Johnson Space Center. After he completes the course of safety briefings and simulated flights there, Bass could be cleared to fly a Russian mission scheduled for October 28th, provided he reaches a financial agreement with the Russian Space Agency . . . Korn will kick off the second leg of their "Pop Sux!" tour on October 8th in Manchester, New Hampshire . . . Run-Dmc have compiled their greatest hits for an eighteen-track anthology set for release September 10th. The rappers are currently on tour with Aerosmith and Kid Rock.

Ousted American Idol contestant Tamyra Gray signed a management deal with 19 Entertainment, a company run by one of the show's producers, but her contract with the show prevents her from releasing an album until three months after the release from Idol's eventual winner . . . Led Zeppelin's request to gain the copyright to their 1973 album Houses of the Holy was denied by the U.S. Copyright Office, which instead renewed Atlantic Records' claim to the rights . . . Acclaimed vocalist and professor of music William Warfield, best known for his rendition of the standard "Old Man River," died Sunday in Chicago at the age of eighty-two.

U2 spent this past weekend in France filming the video for their new single, "Electrical Storm." Minority Report star Samantha Morton will appear as a mermaid in the clip. The song will be one of two new tracks featured on the band's seventeen-track, later-era anthology, 1990-2000 Greatest Hits, which is due November 12th . . . Michelle Branch and Carlos Santana shot a video together in Chicago last week for "Game of Love," a single from the latter's upcoming album Shaman, due October 22nd . . . Ashanti accepted the Soul Train Queen of Soul Award Saturday. The twenty-one-year-old R&B newcomer did not address the Internet petition that charged she was not yet worthy of the honor, named for Aretha Franklin . . . Nelly pushed the start of his fall tour in support of Nellyville back a week, to October 3rd, in Virginia Beach. The outing, which was scheduled to kick off September 26th in Worcester, Massachusetts, features the Cash Money Millionaires in the opening slot.

Corrs drummer Caroline Corr wed longtime boyfriend Frank Woods last week on the Spanish island of Mallorca . . . Rufus Wainwright will team with the McGarrigles, the folk duo made of up of his mother and aunt, as well as his sister Martha Wainwright, for an August 31st concert to save late actor James Dean's former high school in Fairmount, Indiana; the building is now slated for demolition . . . Phish frontman Trey Anastasio has set a nine-date solo outing that will kick off October 22nd in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont . . . British rockers Gomez will tour North America for the first time in two years, beginning September 23rd in Washington, D.C., and wrapping up October 10th in Los Angeles. Their third album, In Our Gun, was released this spring.

(August 29, 2002)