Tommy Lee will fill Drowning Pools' slot on Ozzfest beginning August 22nd in Denver, Colorado. Drowning Pool dropped out of the festival following the death of frontman Dave Williams . . . Redman, Keith Murray, Onyx, Poverty and others will kick off the twenty-date Lyricist Lounge Tour in Orlando Florida on September 12th . . . Dionne Warwick will headline a three day ABBA tribute festival from August 22nd to the 24th at Stockholm's Globen theater . . . The cargo shorts, tank top and neck tie Avril Lavigne sported in her video for "Complicated" will be displayed at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in an exhibit featuring current artists . . . Chicago will perform on A&E's Live By Request in New York on September 5th . . .

Former Third Eye Blind guitarist Kevin Cadogan will debut his new band, Bully, on September 12th at the Roxy in Los Angeles . . . Ash's drummer Rick McMurray suffered two cracked ribs on August 16th in a bus accident en route to the band's Area2 gig in Seattle. None of the other band members were injured, though they were forced to cancel their appearance . . . Elbow and Texas band Lift to Experience will kick off a tour on September 3rd in Washington, D.C. . . . Tanya Tucker, Gene Watson and the late Nat Stuckey were inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame on August 17th . . . Neo-punkers Mest will launch a two-month headlining tour on September 12th in Providence, Rhode Island . . .

B2K will release their first Christmas album, Santa Hook Me Up, in October . . . Mana will kick off a tour on September 29th in Denver in support of their first studio album in five years, Revolucion De Amor . . . Home Town Hero will fill the supporting slot on Incubus' upcoming tour which kicks off on October 5th in Salt Lake City . . . Despite the loss of guitarist Michael Houser, who died of pancreatic cancer last weekend, Widespread Panic will carry on for the Seven Fiddlers Music Festival which kicks off today in Greenwood Village, Colorado . . . Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will headline the Grey Goose Tour along with 8 Ball And Mjg, Lil' John and the Eastside Boyz, Now City and Lady May beginning September 17th in New York . . .

Backstreet Boy Nick Carter will release his debut solo record Now or Never on October 29th; the first single "Help Me" hits radio today . . . Black Sabbath tribute band Hand Of Doom will release their debut record, Hand of Doom Live in Los Angeles on October 22nd . . . Deana Carter was sentenced to sixteen hours of community service and a $500 dollar fine for speeding and driving while intoxicated in Nashville last December . . . Ash will open all dates of Coldplay's upcoming tour which kicks off in Seattle on September 4th . . . Diana King's upcoming album, originally scheduled for release on August 27th has been moved to an early 2003 release; the first single, "Suga Suga," hits radio in mid-January . . . The Streets' Mercury Music Prize-nominated, Original Pirate Material, will be released in the U.S. on October 22nd . . .

(August 20, 2002)