The GAME will make his big-screen debut playing a criminal leader named Meat in the upcoming film, Waist Deep. The rapper joined TYRESE (Four Brothers), LARENZ TATE (Crash) and MEAGAN GOOD (You Got Served, Biker Boyz) in the action thriller, which started production last week . . . GWEN STEFANI will launch her second fashion line called Harajuku Lovers: A Fatal Attraction to Cuteness later this month. The line, inspired by Japanese cartoons and gothic art and ranging in price from $45 to $100, will be available in specialty boutiques. In addition, the singer's label L.A.M.B. will make its runway debut during New York's Fashion Week in September . . . LIL' KIM won a court order, filed last month, against former friend/JUNIOR M.A.F.I.A. rapper LIL' CEASE preventing the rapper -- who testified against Kim during her criminal trial -- from releasing a DVD that unlawfully uses her name and image. A district judge ruled in her favor on Wednesday, when Lil' Cease failed to show up to answer the civil suit . . . RYAN ADAMS has cancelled the remainder of his summer tour, beginning at tonight's show in Seattle and running through August 20th, due to illness . . . The ARCADE FIRE, TALIB KWELI, NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD, BLACKALICIOUS, LYRICS BORN and the STRING CHEESE INCIDENT have been added to the performance lineup for the inaugural Vegoose festival, taking place October 29th and 30th in Las Vegas . . . JOSS STONE, LEANN RIMES, K.D. LANG, BARRY MANILOW and SMOKEY ROBINSON will perform when the Society of Singers present ELTON JOHN with the fourteenth annual Ella Award on October 10th in Beverly Hills, California . . . DISTURBED will headline the biannual Jagermeister Music Tour when it kicks off this fall . . .

Reggae star SEAN PAUL will release his new album, The Trinity, on September 27th. The video for the first single, "We Be Burnin'," will premiere on BET's Access Granted on August 17th . . . LE TIGRE and TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS will join STEVE EARLE, the MC5's WAYNE KRAMER, THIEVERY CORPORATION and host JELLO BIAFRA at the Operation Ceasefire concert on September 24th at the Washington Monument . . . BEYONCE, DESTINY'S CHILD's MICHELLE WILLIAMS, JAMIROQUAI, R. KELLY, KEITH SWEAT, KOOL AND THE GANG and BROOKE VALENTINE will rework and cover Seventies classics like ROSE ROYCE's "Wishing on a Star," AL GREEN's "Let's Stay Together" and A TASTE OF HONEY's "Boogie Oogie Oogie" for the Roll Bounce soundtrack, due September 20th . . . LOUIS XIV make a guest appearance on the fourth episode of the new UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets, starring actress Denise Richards. The show premieres on September 27th, with the episode featuring the band airing in late October . . . RICKY MARTIN will release his new album, Life, on October 11th. The video for the first single, "I Don't Care," featuring FAT JOE and AMERIE, was shot last week in Brooklyn . . . BRANDY's brother RAY J will release his new album, Raydiation, on September 20th. The singer has also been cast in the fifth season of the UPN show One on One, premiering September 19th . . . Promoter Ronnie Perkins filed a lawsuit against the ISLEY BROTHERS on August 8th for $65,000 in damages lost from three shows the group were forced to cancel when RON ISLEY suffered a stroke last summer . . . HENRY ROLLINS will kick off his 25 Years of Bullshit tour on September 29th in Phoenix. The forty-three-date jaunt wraps November 26th in Las Vegas . . .

U2 will be honored in Portugal on August 14th with the country's Order of Liberty award for the band's ongoing humanitarian efforts. President Jorge Sampaio will present the Irish rockers with the award before their concert in Lisbon . . . KANYE WEST, NELLY, EVE, COMMON, SNOOP DOGG, MISSY ELLIOTT and DJ JAZZY JEFF will perform at the second annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors, hosted by RUSSELL SIMMONS and REVEREND RUN. The show will air September 26th . . . LUDACRIS, the GAME, CHINGY, WYCLEF, T.I. and NATE DOGG will make guest appearances on DJ QUIK's new album, Trauma, due September 13th. The album will also feature all four members of JODECI, who haven't recorded together in nearly ten years, on the track "Quikstrumental" . . . NORAH JONES, SEBASTIAN BACH and ANTIGONE RISING will perform at T.J. Martell Foundation's thirtieth annual gala on October 6th at New York's Marriott Marquis. The T.J. Martell foundation has raised over $200 million for the research of treatments and cures for cancer and AIDS . . . AQUALUNG, TRACY BONHAM and the PERISHERS will hit the road September 7th in St. Louis. The trek wraps up on October 9th in Detroit . . . DISTURBED will unveil the cover art for their new album, Ten Thousand Fists, by comic artists Greg Capullo -- who created the award-winning CD jacket for KORN's Follow the Leader -- and Todd McFarlane (Amazing Spider-Man, Spawn) at spawn.com on August 17th . . .

RADIOHEAD, GORILLAZ, BLOC PARTY, the CORAL and RAZORLIGHT are featured on the compilation CD, Help: A Day in the Life, benefiting War Child, the non-profit organization dedicated to helping children affected by war. The album will be available for download at warchildmusic.com on September 9th . . . MIRI BEN-ARI's major-label debut, The Hip-Hop Violinist, hits stores August 23rd . . . TWISTA, MYA, ANTHONY HAMILTON, SCARFACE and FABOLOUS have contributed vocals to the CD . . . IRON MAIDEN will be inducted into the Hollywood Rockwalk on August 19th in Hollywood, California. They will join past inductees JIMI HENDRIX, ERIC CLAPTON, JOHNNY CASH, AEROSMITH, the RAMONES, CARLOS SANTANA, B.B. KING and CARLOS SANTANA on the sidewalk gallery . . . PAUL WALL will release The People's Champ on August 23rd. The album will feature collaborations with LIL' WAYNE, T.I., FREEWAY and BUN B . . . EMERY "DETROIT JUNIOR" WILLIAMS died of heart failure in his Chicago home on August 9th. The blues pianist and songwriter was seventy-three years old . . . LIL' MO will release her Cash Money Records debut, Syndicated (The Lil' Mo Hour), on August 16th . . . GURU of GANG STARR will headline the Join the Movement tour, which kicks off on September 16th in Santa Cruz, California . . . Toronto garage rockers the DEADLY SNAKES' fourth studio album, Porcella, will hit stores on September 27th . . .

The ROLLING STONES have signed a deal with ABC and the National Football League to create promos for the 2005-06 season of Monday Night Football. The first spots will air September 8th before the season opener between the Oakland Raiders and the New England Patriots, and will feature footage from the band's August 31st Detroit show . . . Before opening for the Stones himself, BECK will kick off his fall tour, on September 19th in St. Paul, Minnesota. The jaunt wraps up October 8th in Camden, New Jersey . . . BUSTA RHYMES and MASE made an onstage guest appearance at the Anger Management 3 tour's Madison Square Garden show on August 8th to support fellow New York rapper 50 CENT and his G UNIT crew during their set . . . ELTON JOHN, TOM PETTY, MY MORNING JACKET and RYAN ADAMS will be featured on the soundtrack for CAMERON CROWE's Elizabethtown, due September 13th. The film, co-produced by TOM CRUISE, hits theaters October 14th . . . BEANIE SIGEL was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey, Tuesday morning after serving nine months in prison. The Philadelphia MC began serving a year-long sentence for possession of drugs and firearms in November . . . LUDACRIS and SHAKIRA will join KANYE WEST, the KILLERS, MARIAH CAREY, GREEN DAY and KELLY CLARKSON at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, August 28th in Miami. SHAKIRA will perform her Spanish-language single "La Tortura," making her the first artist to sing entirely in Spanish at the awards show . . . Former PHISH bassist MIKE GORDON and LEO KOTTKE will hit the road on September 15th in Lawrence, Kansas, in support of their new album, Sixty-Six Steps, due August 23rd. The trek will wrap up on November 2nd in Washington, D.C. . . . The JIMI HENDRIX: Live at Woodstock double-disc DVD set will be available on September 13th. The set will feature every song played by Hendrix during his memorable 1969 performance . . .

WIDESPREAD PANIC will embark on a North American fall tour September 1st at Jazz Aspen in Aspen, Colorado, finishing up on October 31st in Las Vegas . . . Former BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES bassist VICTOR WOOTEN will open for the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND on September 3rd in Dallas . . . The DANDY WARHOLS will kick off their promotional Suitcase Tour, in which daytime sets at radio stations are followed by free nighttime parties at local clubs, on August 15th in San Diego. The stint, in support of their fifth album, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars, due September 13th, wraps up on the 19th in Portland, Oregon . . . Hard rockers ANTHRAX have teamed up with the merchandising company Bandmerch for the "Anthrax Demo Song" contest. The grand prize winner will have a demo critiqued by the band, win an endorsement deal with Washburn guitars and play onstage at the New York stop on their upcoming tour . . . THIEVERY CORPORATION, STEVE EARLE and WAYNE KRAMER of MC5 will perform at the Operation Ceasefire concert -- hosted by former DEAD KENNEDYS vocalist JELLO BIAFRA -- at the Washington Monument on September 24th . . . The CARY BROTHERS, RACHEL YAMAGATA, BUTCH WALKER and JOSH RADIN will kick off the Hotel Cafe 2005 tour on September 7th in Portland, Maine. The tour concludes on October 13th in San Diego . . . DMX was charged Monday with violating conditions of a plea deal after driving through an airport parking gate last year while under the influence of drugs. The rapper posted $500 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on October 11th . . . MARC COHN was shot in the head on August 7th in an attempted carjacking. The singer, best known for his 1991 hit "Walking in Memphis," has already been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery . . . Reggae singer SIZZLA will launch a twenty-four-date U.S. tour on August 18th in Farmingdale, New York . . . Roadrunner Records will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary with the release of The All-Star Sessions on October 11th. The nineteen-track collection features members of SLIPKNOT, the MISFITS, GLASSJAW and CHIMAIRA . . .

GWEN STEFANI, DESTINY'S CHILD, BILLY IDOL, NELLY, SHAKIRA, ROB THOMAS, ALICIA KEYS, JOSS STONE, DURAN DURAN, the ARCADE FIRE, DAVID BOWIE and TIM McGRAW will perform at the Fashion Rocks concert on September 8th at New York's Radio City Music Hall. CBS will air the show as part of a two-hour special on September 9th . . . JON BON JOVI, who serves as the liaison to the music world for Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope charity, kicked off the 2005 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Washington on August 4th. The annual conference, co-sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network, is the largest gathering of leaders in the national service and volunteer networks . . . The Bravo reality series Being Bobby Brown has been extended with two extra episodes airing August 18th and 25th. The final two shows will showcase Brown and wife WHITNEY HOUSTON's Georgia and New Jersey homes, as well as clips from the series . . . The FIERY FURNACES will launch a fall tour on September 20th in Athens, Georgia, finishing up on October 15th in Washington, D.C. . . . MICHAEL FRANTI will begin traveling with his new film, I Know I'm Not Alone, with a screening at the Griffith Film Theatre in Durham, North Carolina, on September 15th. I Know I'm Not Alone documents Franti's recent visits to Iraq and Palestinian territories, where he performed for the soldiers, residents and doctors involved in the war . . . JOAN BAEZ will release her new live album, Bowery Songs, on September 6th. The veteran folk singer will hit the road this fall, including a show with RICHARD THOMPSON on October 28th in St. Paul, Minnesota. The tour wraps up on December 6th in Arcata, California . . .

MARY J. BLIGE will release her new album, The Breakthrough, in November. The CD features production by KANYE WEST, DR. DRE, the NEPTUNES, SWIZZ BEATZ, COOL AND DRE, JIMMY JAM AND TERRY LEWIS and RODNEY JERKINS . . . WILCO, TORTOISE, FREAKWATER and the PONYS are all featured on the second installment of the Burn to Shine DVD due August 23rd . . . FOXY BROWN appeared in court on August 5th and rejected a plea bargain that would have kept her out of prison for an assault complaint at a New York nail salon. The rapper is due back in court on September 22nd . . . NINE INCH NAILS, the CURE, MINISTRY, the CULT and BAUHAUS will be featured on the new SUICIDE GIRLS compilation, The Suicide Girls Black Heart Retrospective, due September 27th. The CD will also feature previously unreleased tracks from ALKALINE TRIO and ATMOSPHERE . . . The all-girl band the LIKE will join TORI AMOS on her Summer of Sin tour, beginning August 10th in West Palm Beach, Florida. The trio will release Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? on September 13th, the same day as the tour's last show in Santa Barbara, California . . . Jazz bassist AL McKIBBON died of kidney failure on July 29th. McKibbon performed with MILES DAVIS, DIZZY GILLEPSIE and THELONIOUS MONK. He was eighty-six years old . . . SUGE KNIGHT pled no contest to driving without insurance and making an illegal U turn in San Bernardino County, last February. The Death Row Records label head was fined $691 for the incident that saw him in jail for a week when the police found marijuana in his vehicle. The drug charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence . . . Reggae artists ELEPHANT MAN, DAMIAN MARLEY and BEENIE MAN will perform at the third annual Irie Jamboree festival on September 4th at Roy Wilkins Park in Queens, New York . . .