Train and Rod Stewart have joined the October 21st What More Can I Give Concert for Washington D.C. and America . . . Tori Amos has placed "Strange Little Webcast," a forty-five-minute solo performance on www.warnerbros.com as part of the label's Live Concert Series . . . Pink will release her second album, Missundaztood, on November 20th . . . Sheryl Crow, Mary J. Blige, Melissa Etheridge and Smokey Robinson performed at the City of Hope benefit on October 11th, raising more than $5 million for medical research . . . Billy Joel's Opus 1-10 Fantasies and Delusions debuted Number One on the Classical Albums Chart, the highest first-week sales for an album of instrumental classical music in the SoundScan era . . . Luther Vandross will kick off a nineteen-date leg of a winter tour behind his new, self-titled album on October 21st in Boston . . .

Badly Drawn Boy will contribute songs and provide the score for About a Boy, a movie based on Nick Hornby's book and starring Hugh Grant. The film is due next year . . . Crystal Method will DJ at the fifth annual MTV Sports and Music Fest in Las Vegas on November 18th . . . Mobb Deep's fifth album, Infamy, is due December 4th . . . Former Brand Nubians frontman Grand Puba will release his third solo album, Understand This, featuring guest appearances by Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Ludacris, on November 6th . . . The Three 6 Mafia and Grandaddy Souf will be featured on Hypnotize Minds Presents...The Dirty Dirty Vol. 1, a collection of southern rap, due January 15th . . . Nate Dogg will release his new album, Music and Me, on December 4th . . . Patti Labelle will be honored by the BET Walk of Fame in Washington, D.C. on October 30th in a ceremony that will include appearances by Jill Scott, Faith Evans and Musiq Soulchild . . .

Eminem is officially divorced from Kim Mathers. The couple will share custody of their five-year-old daughter, Hailie . . . Kid Rock's Cocky will be released November 20th; the album features guest spots from Sheryl Crow and Snoop Dogg . . . The Backstreet Boys and John Mellencamp have joined the lineup for Paul McCartney's "Concert for New York City," which is set for October 20th . . . The Smashing Pumpkins' official Web site will broadcast a documentary titled 1988-2000 in six parts starting October 15th . . . Echo and the Bunnymen and the Psychedelic Furs will team up for a North American tour beginning in Atlanta on November 15th . . .

The Bee Gees will release a double album of their greatest hits on November 20th . . . Wallflowers guitarist Michael Ward has left the group . . . Puddle Of Mudd will kick off a twenty-six-date tour on October 14th in Charleston, South Carolina . . . Dolly Parton will host a "Red, White and Bluegrass" New Year's Eve benefit at the Grand Ole Opry. The show will aid the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships to children and spouses of the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks . . . The Stereophonics and U2 were among the top nominees with four and three nods respectively for the U.K.'s Q Awards, to be announced at a ceremony on October 29th . . .

They Might Be Giants will release Holidayland, a five-track EP of holiday-themed songs on November 6th . . . Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause was certified with a Diamond Award (sales of 10 million) by the Recording Industry Association of America . . . Dave Matthews' ATO Records will release The Deep End, the new album from Gov't Mule on October 23rd. The album features guest appearances by Phish's Page McConnell and Mike Gordon . . . Rhino Records will release The Very Best of Rod Stewart, a sixteen-track, career-spanning compilation on November 13th . . . The Psychedelic Furs recent reunion will be documented in Psychedelic Furs Live From the House of Blues, a DVD/VHS release due October 16th . . .

Jimmy Cliff, Dennis Brown and Toots and the Maytals are among the artists who will be included on the four-disc Reggae Box, due November 13th . . . Jackson Browne, Keb' Mo' and others will perform a concert in Los Angeles on November 17th to benefit for the Friends of Washington Prep Foundation, which aids the music and theater programs at a Los Angeles high school . . . New tunes from Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, D12, Xzibit and Bilal will be included on the soundtrack to The Wash, which will be released on November 6th . . . John Fogerty and wife Julie, welcomed a baby daughter, Kelsy Cameron, on October 5th . . . Jello Biafra and Krist Novoselic will again hit the road on the spoken-word Spitfire Tour, which kicks off on October 30th at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio . . .

An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson will be released on DVD/VHS on November 6th; the concert features guest performances by Elton John, Paul Simon, Aimee Mann and others . . . Ozzy Osbourne will kick off a five-city, in-store promotional tour behind his new album, Down to Earth, starting October 16th in Hollywood . . . Shaggy and 'N Sync are among the performers scheduled for the 2001 Billboard Music Awards, which will take place on December 4th in Las Vegas; John Mellencamp will be presented with the Billboard Century Award . . . B.B. King will release his first-ever holiday album, A Christmas Celebration of Hope, on November 6th, with proceeds going towards City of Hope, a biomedical research center . . . A Nevada man has filed a lawsuit against Mick Fleetwood's Fleetwood Owen auction house, claiming that the company sold him an inauthentic Elvis Presley guitar . . .

Dave Matthews was named to the Board of Directors of Farm Aid by founders Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp . . . Alice Cooper has opened a haunted house in Phoenix that will run through November 3rd . . . PJ Harvey, who celebrated her thirty-second birthday this week, premiered a new track, "Will's Song," written by Will Oldham on Later With Jools Holland, on October 12th . . . Jane Siberry will showcase some of the new material from her upcoming album, City on a North American tour that kicks off on October 13th . . . Country singer-songwriter Jimmie Logsdon, who performed with Hank Williams and wrote hits for Carl Perkins and Johnny Horton, died on October 7th at age seventy-nine . . .

Mudvayne have departed from the Pledge of Allegiance Tour, which also featured Slipknot and System of a Down . . . Natalie Merchant will kick off a tour behind her upcoming album, Motherland, on October 27th in Minneapolis . . . Cypress Hill's Stoned Raiders has been pushed back to December 4th . . . Sunny Day Real Estate have been recording with producer Brad Wood in Seattle for a 2002 release . . . Jamiroquai frontman Jay Kay was charged with common assault and criminal damage after fighting with a photographer back in April . . . Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard will release Ringwork Interiors, under the group name the Circus Devils, on October 31st . . .

Widespread Panic release their DVD, Live at Oak Mountain, this week as well as kicking off a thirty-date tour . . . Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour will play two acoustic shows in London on January 16th and 17th . . . Lee Ann Womack will launch a Christmas tour with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on November 29th in Sewell, New Jersey . . . Merle Haggard will perform at the Christian Country Music Awards on November 1st in Nashville; John Berry and Crystal Gayle will host and perform . . . The Bee Gees, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and twelve other acts were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on October 4th . . . ABBA cover band the A*Teens will release a DVD video collection on November 13th titled A*Teens: The DVD Video Collection . . .

(October 12, 2001)