The GAME is joining Hurricane Katrina relief efforts by donating his silver 2005 Bentley Continental GT, worth more than $250,000, to Morgan Freeman's Charity Folks auction to benefit the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. The car was given to the rapper in June as a signing bonus for his new sneaker, Hurricane by 310, which hits stores in December . . . DAVID BOWIE made a surprise appearance with the ARCADE FIRE during their Central Park SummerStage concert, Thursday. Bowie, who also performed with the band during last week's Fashion Rocks concert, joined the indie rockers for "Wake Up" and his own "Queen Bitch" . . . The Broadway musical Lennon will close on September 24th after forty-nine performances. The show, which celebrated the life of the late former Beatle, has been struggling at the box office since its August 14th opening . . . JAY-Z will return to the stage to headline two shows this fall. The retired rapper will perform in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on October 27th, followed by a Philadelphia show the next night. Both dates are expected to be filled with special guests . . . BOW WOW has signed on to star in The Fast and Furious 3. The film, which is in pre-production, has featured artists like LUDACRIS, JA RULE and TYRESE in its past installments . . . ELVIS COSTELLO, LOU REED, DAVID BYRNE and LES MISERABLES BRASS BAND, BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO, QUEEN IDA and ALLEN TOUSSAINT will perform at the Parking the Waters Hurricane Katrina benefit hosted by the New Yorker on September 24th in New York City's Town Hall. Actors Terrence Howard, Mary Louise Parker, Willem Defoe and Kevin Kline, and writers Toni Morrison and Richard Ford will read at the event, which will feature music and literature inspired by New Orleans . . .

RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS, DEBBIE HARRY, JESSE MALIN, TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS, JOSEPH ARTHUR and BUTCH WALKER will perform at the Mojo Aid Hurricane relief concert in New York's Irving Plaza on September 18th . . . The MARS VOLTA will release the live album, Scabdates, on November 8th . . . The Big Apple to the Big Easy concert featuring ELTON JOHN, JIMMY BUFFETT, LENNY KRAVITZ, ELVIS COSTELLO, DIANA KRALL, JOHN FOGERTY, and New Orleans natives the NEVILLE BROTHERS and the METERS will be available live on pay-per-view television when it airs September 20th . . . RAMONES drummer Marky Ramone will host the two-hour Sirius satellite radio show "Marky Ramone's Punk Rock Blitzkrieg," premiering October 4th on channel Faction 28 . . . Songs by MUDVAYNE, PAPA ROACH, BUCKETHEAD and the USED will appear on the soundtrack for horror film sequel Saw II, due October 25th. The album will also feature VENUS HEAD TRAP's remix of MARILYN MANSON's "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" and UNKLE's version of QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE's "Burn the Witch" . . . LIL' MO will kick off the 2005 Seagram's Gin Live tour with Nineties R&B group XSCAPE and newcomers RAHEEM DAVAUGHN and TELA on September 16th in San Francisco, and will finish October 23rd in Miami . . . Singer-songwriter P.J. OLSSON will release his second album, Beautifully Insane, on September 27th . . .

The DAVE MATTHEWS BAND's September 12th A Concert for Relief benefit featuring the NEVILLE BROTHERS and JOHN BUTLER TRIO raised $1.5 million that the band will donate to the Bama Works Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund to provide short-term disaster relief and long-term rebuilding efforts . . . MARIAH CAREY's "Shake It Off" remix featuring JAY-Z and YOUNG JEEZY will be available for download exclusively at the iTunes Music Store on September 20th . . . COLDPLAY canceled Wednesday's Tampa, Florida, show due to a band member's illness. Plans are being made to reschedule the show and fans are being urged to hold on to their tickets . . . In other Coldplay news, the band has partnered with iTunes and are selling a digital EP including the group's new single, "Fix You," along with "The World Turned Upside Down" and "Pour Me (live)," two songs that didn't make it on X&Y. All proceeds from the sale of the EP, which is available now, will be donated to the American Red Cross and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund . . . TENACIOUS D will host a fundraising concert for the American Red Cross on September 22nd in Los Angeles. The comedic rock duo will be joined by FIONA APPLE, FOO FIGHTERS' DAVE GROHL and QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE's JOSH HOMME with JESSE HUGHES of the EAGLES OF DEATH METAL . . . TOM WAITS has filed a lawsuit against General Motors' Opel and a German ad agency that created a series of car commercials featuring an impersonation of Waits' raspy singing voice. Waits claimed he was approached many times by the company but refused to participate . . .

Country singer JO DEE MESSINA has joined the national Autographs for Education program, which raises funds and supplies for school districts across the country. The Boston native's former elementary school was the eighth stop on the program's ten-city tour . . . The TRAGICALLY HIP will release the double CD/double DVD career retrospective box set, Hipeponymous, on November 1st. The thirty-seven-track set will include two new songs by the Canadian rock heroes . . . The title of USHER's new movie has changed from Dying for Dolly to In the Mix. The R&B superstar will play a bodyguard who falls in love with his boss' daughter in the film, due in theaters November 23rd . . . DANIEL LANOIS, BILL FRISELL, KAKI KING and TAJ MAHAL will perform at the Wall to Wall Festival, taking place September 29th to October 2nd in Urbana, Illinois . . . Ozzfest Xth Anniversary, a two-disc DVD commemorating the tenth installment of Ozzfest, will hit stores on November 22nd. The set features performance footage from some of the bands from this year's Ozzfest lineup, as well as interviews from past performers . . . New Orleans native and jazz musician WYNTON MARSALIS will host the Hurricane Katrina Higher Ground Relief Concert on September 17th at New York's Lincoln Center. Special guests will include NORAH JONES, CASSANDRA WILSON, ELVIS COSTELLO, PAUL SIMON, MERYL STREEP, BILL COSBY, ROBERT DeNIRO, DIANA KRALL and BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO . . .

PEARL JAM will play a $1,000-per-ticket show on October 5th at Chicago's House of Blues to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims. Proceeds from the concert will be distributed between the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, the Jazz Foundation of America and the New Orleans Musicians' Clinic . . . PRINCE has released two new tracks, "SST" and "Brand New Orleans," through npgmusicclub.com and iTunes to raise money for Katrina relief. Another Prince track, sung by MAVIS STAPLES, is available for download on his Web site . . . The ROOTS, JILL SCOTT, TV ON THE RADIO, DEERHOOF and New Orleans musicians TBC BRASS BAND will perform at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center on September 16th. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Red Cross and Philadelphia's Project Brotherly Love. In addition, the Roots will be donating their entire performance fee to MoveOn.org Civic Action in support of HurricaneHousing.org and NAACP's relief efforts . . . SEAL and his wife, model Heidi Klum, have given birth to Henry, who is named after his Grammy-winning father. Henry is their first child together . . . The release of SANTANA's All That I Am -- featuring AEROSMITH's STEVEN TYLER, LOS LONELY BOYS, JOSS STONE, WILL.I.AM of BLACK EYED PEAS, SEAN PAUL, BO BICE, MARY J. BLIGE and ROBERT RANDOLPH -- has been pushed back to November 1st . . . BECK created the cover art for Sounds Eclectico, a collection of live performances by acclaimed Latin artists such as OZOMATLI, THIEVERY CORPORATION, BRAZILIAN GIRLS, JORGE DREXLER, LOS LOBOS and JUANA MOLINA . . .

98 DEGREES singer JUSTIN JEFFRE came in fifth among the seven Cincinnati mayoral candidates in Tuesday's primary . . . JAMIROQUAI will kick off the North American leg of his world tour on October 21st in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The trek will wrap on November 9th in Los Angeles before heading to Japan . . . MISSY HIGGINS tops the list of Australian Recording Industry Awards nominees, grabbing seven nods including Album of the Year and Best Female Artist. BEN LEE, who received five nominations, is also a contender for the Album of the Year award when the show is held on October 23rd in Sydney. Other nominees include KEITH URBAN, NATALIE IMBRUGLIA, KYLIE MINOGUE, HI-5 and the WIGGLES . . . JIMMY EAT WORLD's latest EP, Stay on My Side Tonight, is now available for download at online music vendors. It hits stores October 4th . . . The Grand Ole Opry will celebrate its eightieth anniversary on November 14th with performances at New York's Carnegie Hall by ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION, VINCE GILL, BRAD PAISLEY, ALAN JACKSON, MARTINA McBRIDE, RICKY SKAGGS and TRISHA YEARWOOD . . . Blues legend CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN, who died September 10th, will be laid to rest on Saturday in his hometown of Orange, Texas . . . KASABIAN will release the Live From Brixton Academy DVD, filmed at the London venue last winter, on November 7th . . . DISTURBED will headline the Jagermeister Music Tour, kicking off November 4th in Minneapolis. The thirty-two-date trek will wrap on December 22nd in Baltimore. The rockers release their new album, Ten Thousand Fists, on September 20th . . .

TOM PETTY will be featured in the 200th episode of the Fox animated TV show King of the Hill, returning as the voice of Luanne's boyfriend Lucky. The show's tenth season premieres September 18th, and the Petty episode, "Ed-jamicating Lucky," will air in May . . . FAITH HILL, KENNY CHESNEY, ALAN JACKSON and GEORGE STRAIT are the first artists announced to perform at the thirty-ninth-annual CMA Awards when it airs live from New York's Madison Square Garden on November 15th . . . The GRATEFUL DEAD's original tour bus -- which JERRY GARCIA, PHIL LESH, MICKEY HART, BOB WEIR, BRENT MYDLAND and BILL KREUTZMAN traveled in -- has been restored and placed on display at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois . . . MADONNA has tapped DAVID LaCHAPELLE as the director for the video "Hung Up," the first single off her new dance-themed album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, due November 15th . . . In other Madonna news, her songs will be performed by REGINA SPEKTOR at the kick-off gala for New York's Jewish Music and Heritage festival, taking place September 13th at New York's 92nd Street YMCA. Other artists taking part in the "Great Jewish Artists Perform Great Jewish Composers" include MATISYAHU and jazz musician URI CAINE. BILLY JOEL, CAROLE KING, RANDY NEWMAN and GEORGE and IRA GERSHWIN will also have their music interpreted. In addition, JOEY RAMONE will be honored posthumously with the festival's lifetime achievement award on September 19th . . . FIONA APPLE will perform live with guests producers MIKE ELIZONDO and JON BRION on September 20th at New York's Union Square Virgin Megastore. Apple fans also have a chance to audition for a guest spot in a TV clip promoting the singer's new album, Extraordinary Machine, on Wednesday at New York's Loft 11 . . .

Songs from BLACK EYED PEAS, M.I.A., STAT QUO, TEGO CALDERON, Q-TIP, BUSTA RHYMES and N.O.R.E. will appear on the soundtrack for the upcoming Electronic Arts video game NBA Live '06 . . . BILLY JOEL will release his second book, New York State of Mind, on November 1st. The book, geared towards children ranging from four to eight, combines Joel's lyrics with illustrations and includes a CD of the 1976 hit it is named for . . . A museum dedicated to the RAMONES will open its doors on September 16th in Berlin and will house more than 300 items of memorabilia, including one of the first Ramones concert T-shirts, a pair of JOHNNY RAMONE's jeans, JOEY's old stage glove and the band's debut on vinyl, signed by all four members . . . DEPECHE MODE have teamed with Ticketmaster and iTunes for the first digital download/concert ticket pre-sale. Through September 26th, fans can preorder the band's new album, Playing the Angel, from the iTunes store and purchase advance tickets for their North American tour, which kicks off November 2nd in Fort Lauderdale, Florida . . . BILLY IDOL is auctioning off 100 tickets a night from his current tour, with all proceeds being donated to the Red Cross . . . DAVE KOZ will launch the "Dave Koz and Friends: A Smooth Jazz Christmas" tour 2005, featuring PATTI AUSTIN, JONATHAN BUTLER and DAVID BENOIT, on November 25th in Incline Village, Nevada. The jaunt wraps December 23rd in Cerritos, California . . . Having won a suit against U.K.-based label Purple Haze earlier this year, Experience Hendrix, the Seattle-based company owned by the members of the late JIMI HENDRIX's family, has filed suit once again against the imprint for the continued sale of unauthorized CDs featuring Hendrix . . .

JACK JOHNSON will donate a total of $65,000 to Hurricane Katrina relief, drawn from proceeds from recent and upcoming shows. The singer-songwriter will also auction off tickets to upcoming concerts in support of the cause . . . KELLY CLARKSON canceled three more shows last weekend due to bronchitis. The American Idol champ called off the September 9th, 10th and 11th shows -- in Reno, Las Vegas and Spokane, Washington, respectively -- of her Behind These Hazel Eyes tour, which is scheduled to wrap September 16th in Pensacola, Florida. Clarkson's September 15th New Orleans stop was canceled due to Katrina. The canceled dates will be rescheduled, and all tickets will be honored . . . BECK has added a second New York date to his tour, which kicks off September 19th in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Beck will play New York's Hammerstein Ballroom on October 6th and 7th . . . LIL JON will host the Heal the Hood Hurricane Relief Concert, organized by Mississippi rapper DAVID BANNER and his charity foundation Heal the Hood. NELLY, T.I. and 112 are also among the artists scheduled to hit the stage at the benefit concert, taking place September 17th in Atlanta. Fans can also make donations at healthehood.com . . . MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE was forced to cancel their upcoming Houston show at the Reliant Arena since the venue is being used to accommodate the victims of Katrina. The band has added a Tucson, Arizona, show on September 26th to make up for the canceled date . . . SIMPLE PLAN was forced to cancel their performance on Saturday's ReAct Now: Music and Relief Hurricane Katrina benefit concert on MTV due to frontman PIERRE BOUVIER's injury. The singer was rushed to the hospital from the band's Stratford, Ontario, show the night before when the singer was injured onstage . . .

The ROLLING STONES have added another Florida show to the second leg of the veteran rockers' tour. The Stones will perform at Fort Lauderdale's Bank Atlantic Center on March 12, 2006 . . . GREEN DAY's BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG will make his big-screen debut in Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, due in theaters early 2006. The stop-motion animated film, in which Armstrong plays a young man obsessed with Charles Manson, will also feature the voices of fellow Green Day member TRE COOL, TRANSPLANTS and members of GOOD CHARLOTTE and BLINK 182 . . . G UNIT's YOUNG BUCK, LIL' FLIP, MIKE JONES, SLIM THUG, EIGHTBALL AND MJ, TRICK DADDY and PAUL WALL will all guest on THREE SIX MAFIA's new album, Most Known Unknown, due September 27th . . . STING and RICHARD CARPENTER of the CARPENTERS make guest appearances on Russian pop duo T.A.T.U.'s second album, Dangerous and Moving, due October 11th. Sting plays bass on the track "Friend or Foe," while Carpenter arranges and conducts the string parts on "Gomenasai" . . . Metal rockers DANZIG have a new addition to the band, guitarist JOE FRAULOB, formerly of DECONSTRUCT . . . Indie rockers AQUEDUCT will hit the road on September 14th in New York, wrapping up on November 15th in Tucson, Arizona . . . JOHN COLTRANE's 1965 jazz performances at New York jazz club the Half Note will be released on October 11th. The album, One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note, will feature improvisational versions of the saxophonist's "My Favorite Things," "Afro Blue" and "Song of Praise" . . . Singer/actress CHRISTINA MILIAN just finished filming the Wes Craven horror film Pulse, alongside Veronica Mars star Kristin Bell and Lost actor Ian Somerholder . . .