Tweet cancelled nearly all of her upcoming tour dates with Glenn Lewis, though no cause has yet been given for the cancellation . . . Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has folded his label, the Music Company, which was distributed through Elektra; the label had released albums by Goudie, DDT and the Brand New Immortals . . . Weezer will begin a six-week tour with Dashboard Confessional in mid-July; the Strokes will join for several dates . . . The Beta Band will enter the studio this fall to work on the follow-up to Hot Shots II, with plans to release the new album in early 2003 . . . Following the completion of his Area2 tour this summer, Moby plans to launch a two-month European jaunt on September 29th in Germany . . .

3 Doors Down bassist Todd Harrell turned himself in to Jackson County, Mississippi police on May 23rd after a warrant was put out for his arrest on simple assault charges . . . ABBA's Bjoern Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson were presented with the Ivor Novello Special International Award at Novello Awards in London on May 23rd. Sting won the International Achievement Award and Kate Bush took home honors for Outstanding Contribution to British Music . . . Sense Field are asking that donations to offset the medical expenses of guitarist Rodney Sellars' four-year-old daughter Leilani, who is in a coma after a car accident be send to: Leilani Guitierrez, c/o Globe Packaging, 179 E. 17th Street, Box 400, Costa Mesa, CA, 92627 . . .

Eve has enlisted Alicia Keys to make a guest appearance on "Gangsta Love," the first single from her third album, Eve-olution, due in August . . . Fatboy Slim will serve as the official DJ at the World Cup soccer tournament in Japan this summer . . . Ratt, Dokken, Warrant, L.A. Guns and Firehouse will begin the twenty-two-date Rock Fest 2002 tour on June 20th in Fargo, North Dakota . . . The Moody Blues will release A Night at Red Rocks on DVD on June 25th; the film captures a 1992 Colorado performance . . . The Melvins and Jucifer will begin an eight-date tour on June 28th in Cleveland . . . The Best of the Moonglows, a compilation of twelve of the doo wop legends best-known songs, is due July 2nd . . .

The Strokes will release Hard to Explain as a single on May 28th. "New York City Cops," pulled from their album Is This It after September 11th, will be included as a B-side . . . Tickets for the first three months of Celine Dion's three-year run of performances in Las Vegas went on sale yesterday . . . Meat Loaf will release an expanded version of Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell on June 25th; the album will include a bonus disc with two additional versions of the hit "I'd Do Anything for Love" . . . Brooks and Dunn won entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards on May 22nd in Los Angeles . . . After twenty-five years of performing, Alabama have announced plans for a farewell tour, which will begin in 2003 . . .

Oasis will release their next album, Heathen Chemistry, on July 2nd. The band will begin its North American tour on August 2nd in Pompano Beach, Florida . . . Destiny's Child's Beyonce Knowles won Songwriter of the Year and Dido's "Thank You" won Song of the Year at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on May 20th . . . Space Monkeyz will release Space Monkeyz vs. Gorillaz, a collection of remixed Gorillaz tracks, on July 16th . . . Incubus will release Morning View Sessions, a DVD filmed during a live in-studio performance last October, on May 28th . . . The Hives will take the stage in Baltimore on June 2nd as part of MTV2's "2$Bill Concert Series," where fans pay only $2 for admission . . .

More than twenty acts will perform in Rosine, Kentucky, this weekend as part of the third annual Bill Monroe Memorial Day Bluegrass Festival . . . Neil Diamond has extended his Three Chord Opera Tour with a new leg that begins September 5th in New Orleans and runs into early October . . . Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and J Records founder Clive Davis will speak at the R&R Convention 2002 in Beverly Hills on June 14th . . . Lucy Pearl's Raphael Saadiq has lined up seven dates for his first-ever solo headlining tour, which begins June 3rd in Chicago . . . The Tragically Hip will release their next album, In Violet Light, on June 11th. The band will begin a twenty-date U.S. tour on June 6th in Philadelphia . . . Barry Adamson will release his new album, The King of Nothing Hill, on August 20th . . .

Marc Anthony won three awards including Outstanding Male Performer at the 2002 American Latino Media Arts Awards in Los Angeles on May 18th. Ricky Martin, Freddy Fender, Shakira and Christina Aguilera were among the other winners . . . Bruce Springsteen dedicated a park in Freehold, New Jersey, to Gordon "Tex" Vinyard, on May 18th. Vinyard gave Springsteen and other fledgling musicians a rehearsal space in his loft in the late Sixties . . . Dolly Parton has lined up initial dates for her first U.S. tour in nearly a decade. The tour will begin on July 10th in New York City . . . Bobby McFerrin will receive the George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America on May 23rd at Johns Hopkins University . . .

Bob Geldof will release Sex, Age and Death, his first new album in nine years in August. Plans for a U.S. tour are in the works . . . Asia will celebrate their twentieth anniversary with the release of the two-CD Anthologia on June 18th; the compilation will feature every track from the band's first four albums . . . The Moody Blues' Justin Haywood will perform on June 20th at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland to raise money for the Amazon Conservation Team . . . Nanci Griffith will release the twenty-two-track From a Distance: The Very Best of Nanci Griffith on June 25th . . .

Eminem's third album, The Eminem Show, will be released May 28th, a week earlier than planned, to combat the album being leaked onto the Internet . . . Billy Bob Thornton will join Elvis Costello for a three shows in Minnesota, Michigan and Ohio later this month . . . Michelle Branch, Leann Womack, K.D. Lang and Diana Krall are among those contributing tracks to Remembering Patsy, a Patsy Cline tribute album due later this year . . . John Mellencamp has parted ways with Columbia Records after releasing a pair of albums, 1998's John Mellencamp and last year's Cuttin' Heads. He will begin a summer tour on July 12th in Noblesville, Indiana . . . Fred Durst will direct his first movie, the skateboarding feature, Lords of Dogtown, which begins shooting later this year . . .

Coldplay will release A Rush of Blood to the Head in the U.S. on August 27th . . . Dry Kill Logic have recorded a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" for the videogame MLB SlugFest 20-03, which will be released this summer . . . Twenty-three T. Rex songs will be compiled on Ultimate Collection: 20th Century Boy, due in late-August . . . Aerosmith will appear in a new Dodge commercial that will debut over Memorial Day weekend . . . Eminem and the White Stripes will perform at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards on June 1st in Los Angeles . . . Sharon Sheeley, who wrote Ricky Nelson's hit "Poor Little Fool," died on May 17th in Los Angeles at age sixty-two . . . The White Stripes have enlisted Brendan Benson to open on their upcoming summer tour, which begins May 28th in Tucson, Arizona . . .

(May 24, 2002)