Tommy Lee covers David Bowie's "Fame," and Ben Folds covers Jackson Browne's "Doctor My Eyes," on the soundtrack to The Banger Sisters, due September 10th . . . Spoon will begin a twenty-eight-date tour behind Kill the Moonlight September 10th in Denton, Texas . . . David Gilmour will release a new DVD/VHS, David Gilmour in Concert, on November 5th . . . Galactic will launch their twenty-two-date Sight of Sound Tour on October 30th in Dallas . . . Guns n' Roses guitarist Buckethead will release a solo album, Electric Tears, on October 8th . . . Rocket From the Crypt have completed a new studio album, Live From Camp X-Ray, due October 22nd . . . Art Garfunkel will sing "America the Beautiful" before the 2002 U.S. Open men's singles finals in New York City on Sunday . . .

Clarence Clemons' Temple of Soul will release Live in Asbury Park on October 15th . . . Ash will open for Dashboard Confessional on a sixteen-date tour that launches on October 1st in West Palm Beach, Florida . . . Final Fling, a two-DVD live set by Big Country, will be released on September 24th . . . The Best of INXS will be released along with reissues of the band's Kick, X and Welcome to Wherever You Are on October 15th . . . Black and Blue, the Black Sabbath/Blue Oyster Cult concert film will be released on DVD on October 8th . . . The Kottonmouth Kings will release their new album, Rollin' Stoned, on October 8th . . . Travis Tritt's tenth studio album, "Strong Enough," will be released on September 24th . . .

A U.S. District Judge threw out a suit claiming that Mariah Carey's "Thank God I Found You" violated the copyright of a tune written by songwriters Seth Swirsky and Warryn Campbell . . . Neil Young's classic concert film, Rust Never Sleeps, will be released on DVD on September 24th. Phish bassist Mike Gordon and former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir will be among the performers at the third annual Jammy Awards on October 2nd at New York City's Roseland Ballroom . . . The career-spanning The Very Best of Linda Rondstadt will be released on September 24th . . . Rob Zombie's film House of 1,000 Corpses will be released by Lion's Gate Films next year . . . Sixties songwriter Bert Berns will be the subject of The Heart and Soul of Bert Berns, a collection of his songs performed by the Drifters, the Isley Brothers and others, due October 1st . . .

Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Bela Fleck, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Bruce Hornsby are among the artists who will appear at Merlefest 2003, which is set for April 24-27 in Wilkesboro, North Carolina; the sixteenth annual festival is guitarist Doc Watson's tribute to his late son Merle . . . Solomon Burke's classic live album Soul Alive! will be reissued on October 8th . . . Run-D.M.C. will release the eighteen-track Greatest Hits on September 10th . . . Six Bruce Cockburn albums will be reissued on October 29th with rare bonus tracks and new liner notes . . . Singer-songwriter Ramsay Midwood will release "Shootout at the OK Chinese Restaurant" on November 5th . . .

Radiohead began recording their sixth album with longtime producer Nigel Godrich in Los Angeles on September 1st . . . Travis are offering a new song, "Love Will Come Through," as a paid download on travisonline.com to raise money for the Spinal Injuries Association. Drummer Neil Primrose had surgery for head and back injuries in July after a swimming accident . . . The Hives, Fatboy Slim, Remy Zero, Blackalicious and others will perform at the Icelandic Airwaves festival, which runs October 16-20 in Reykjavik . . . Stereolab will release the two-CD ABC Music: The Complete Radio One Sessions, on October 14th in the U.K. . . . Ween will play two Concerts for Claude in New York City on October 7-8; the shows will raise money to pay the medical bills for band drummer Claude Coleman, who broke his pelvis in an automobile accident last month . . .

Lou Reed's Take No Prisoners, a live album recorded at New York City's Bottom Line in 1978, will be issued on CD for the first time on September 24th; Reed's Transformer will be reissued with bonus tracks the same day . . . Russian Space Agency officials claim that Lance Bass has been asked to leave their cosmonaut training program after his sponsors failed to raise the $20 million fee . . . Jazz legend Lionel Hampton died on August 31st of heart failure; he was ninety-four . . . Bob Geldof will launch a North American tour behind Sex, Age and Death on September 20th in Toronto . . . Coolio, Vitamin C and Tiffany will appear in the Fox reality show, Celebrity Boot Camp, which begins September 30th . . .

(September 5, 2002)