Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland and his wife, Mary, welcomed their second child, a daughter named Lucy, on July 20th . . . Beck will begin a fifteen-date solo acoustic tour on August 2nd in Seattle to showcase material from his upcoming album . . . Slayer will launch an eleven-date tour on August 3rd in San Jose, California . . . Bruce Springsteen gave NBC's Today show host Matt Lauer a tour of Asbury Park, New Jersey, on July 24th, footage from which will be used when Springsteen performs live on the program on July 30th . . . Moe will begin a nine-date stint opening for Robert Plant starting September 2nd in Cleveland; the band will also release Warts and All, a new three-CD live album, later this summer . . .

Saliva's Back Into Your System will be released on October 15th; the album will feature a song penned by Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx . . . Planet X will release their second album, the Simon Phillips-produced Moonbabies, on September 3rd . . . Former Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval and her band, the Warm Inventions, will kick off a two-month tour on August 7th in Sacramento, California . . . The hit musical Mamma Mia!, featuring the music of ABBA, will begin an engagement in Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay hotel and casino next February . . . Neo-punkers Hot Water Music will release their second album, Caution, on October 22nd . . .

Radiohead previewed nine new songs at a July 22nd performance in Lisbon, Portugal, the first night of the band's European tour . . . Willie Nelson has lined up the usual suspects -- Dave Matthews, Neil Young and John Mellencamp -- for the fifteenth annual Farm Aid, set for September 21st in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania . . . Ashanti earned five Soul Train Lady of Soul Award nominations to lead all acts; the event is set for August 24th at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in California . . . Supergrass' next album, Life on Other Planets, will be released in October; the first single, "Grace," is due in the U.K. September . . .

Jack Johnson will begin a nine-date U.S. tour on October 10th in Santa Barbara, California . . . The Kentucky Headhunters will christen the Bottleneck Blues Bar at the Ameristar Casino in St. Charles, Missouri, on August 9th and 10th . . . Radney Foster will release Another Way to Go, his first album of new material in four years, on September 10th . . . Dance and world music label George V Records signed a deal with Crunch Fitness to soundtrack the gym's facilities and create a compilation CD featuring Basement Jaxx, Nas, Beth Orton, Manu Chao and others . . . Gene will release their fifth album in the U.S., "Libertine," on August 6th . . . Berlin dance trio Edition Terranova will release "Hitchhiking Non-Stop With No Particular Destination" on October 8th . . .

Motorhead will release 25 and Alive: Live at Brixton Academy, a DVD to mark the band's twenty-fifth anniversary, on September 3rd; Queen guitarist Brian May and Ugly Kid Joe's Whitfield Crane make guest appearances . . . Beyonce Knowles will release a solo album, Dangerously in Love, in December, while Destiny's Child's mate Kelly Rowlands will release her first solo album on September 24th . . . New, remixed and live songs by Slipknot, Disturbed, Static-X, Mudvayne, Nashville Pussy and Slaves On Dope will be included on Mad Mike Jones Presents: Mototrax 1, due August 20th . . . Music videos for songs by R.E.M., Bjork, the White Stripes and others will be included in two new episodes of the Sundance Channel's Sonic Cinema, to air October 4th and 11th . . .

Kelly Price, Dave Hollister and Glenn Lewis will perform on the ten-date Hennessey Privilege Tour, which will launch in mid-September . . . The Waco Brothers will release their sixth album, New Deal, on October 22nd . . . Singer-songwriter Kim Richey will release her fourth album, Rise, on October 1st . . . Jazz singer Marion Montgomery died of cancer on July 22nd at age sixty-seven . . . Rush drummer Neil Peart will publish his first book, Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, later this month; the book consists of journal entries penned by Peart after the death of his wife and daughter . . . WWF wrestler Chris Jericho and his band Fozzy will release their debut album, "Happenstance," on July 30th . . .

James Taylor will join the Dixie Chicks for an episode of CMT's Crossroads that will tape on July 31st and air in October . . . Beck has put "Guess I'm Doing Fine," a song from his upcoming album on beck.com for download . . . Rolling Stones crew member Roydon McGee died of a heart attack during the band's rehearsals in Toronto late last week . . . Belle And Sebastian have signed a four-album deal with Rough Trade records; the group is starting to write songs for a new album due next year . . .

3LW will launch F.U.S.S. (Funky Urban Sassy Style), a new clothing line, in spring 2003 . . . Murderdolls, a side project featuring Slipknot's Joey Jordison and Static-X's Tripp Eisen will begin a nine date U.S. tour on July 30th in San Diego . . . Heavy D has signed on to work with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' Big and Tall Sean John clothing line . . . Ray Charles, Bela Fleck, Chris Botti, Quetzal and others will perform at the second annual Verizon Musical Festival, set for September 30th through October 6th in Los Angeles . . .

(July 25, 2002)