On March 5th Showtime will air One Night, One Star: USHER Live, a ninety-minute special featuring the R&B star live from San Juan, Puerto Rico . . . NELLY has donated $50,000 to the Martin Luther King Memorial Monument Project Foundation, which will erect a statue of the late civil rights leader in the Mall of Washington, D.C. . . . PINK is currently at work on her fourth album. The DVD Pink Live in Europe, featuring footage of her recent tour, will be released February 5th . . . AARON CARTER escaped unharmed when his SUV burst into flames after an accident on a Florida highway late Wednesday night . . . LOS LONELY BOYS drummer RINGO GARZA and his wife were arrested for possession of marijuana Thursday after police were tipped to search the couple's Texas home. They were quickly released on $1,000 bail . . . NINE INCH NAILS' new album, now titled With Teeth, is due in the spring . . . SENSES FAIL kick off their tour in Orlando on February 18th . . . Ex-POLICE guitarist ANDY SUMMERS will release his best-of album The X Tracks on February 8th, with guest spots by Q-TIP, STING, DEBBIE HARRY and HERBIE HANCOCK . . .

The OSBOURNES' final season will premiere on MTV on January 17th . . . Producer GEORGE MARTIN will be the musical director for the Cirque du Soleil/BEATLES musical, debuting at Las Vegas' Mirage in 2006 . . . A statue in memory of JOHNNY RAMONE will be unveiled on January 14th at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles . . . On February 1st, the Recording Academy and Capitol Records will release a 2005 Grammy nominees CD, featuring songs by RAY CHARLES, ALICIA KEYS, GRETCHEN WILSON and KANYE WEST . . . Boys in the Band, a DVD of live footage and interviews with the recently defunct LIBERTINES, is due next Tuesday . . . HANDSOME BOY MODELING SCHOOL's PRINCE PAUL, SPEARHEAD's MICHAEL FRANTI and ex-LIVING COLOUR drummer WILL CALHOUN are set to perform at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 21-28 . . . UNWRITTEN LAW will celebrate the release of their new album Here's to the Mourning with an exclusive concert and album signing at SOMA in San Diego on February 1st . . .

January 8th would have been ELVIS PRESLEY's seventieth birthday, an event to be celebrated this Thursday through Sunday at Graceland, with a birthday cake cutting on the front lawn, gambling and a scavenger hunt tour of the premises . . . ALICIA KEYS will release an Unplugged album on March 22nd . . . Former BLUR guitarist GRAHAM COXON will play a benefit show at London's Colour on January 9th to raise money for the victims of the tsunami disaster . . . JENNIFER LOPEZ and FAT JOE will be filming the video for the second single off Lopez's Rebirth, "Hold You Down," this month . . . GARBAGE's new album, Bleed Like Me, hits stores on April 12th . . . Former LIBERTINES frontman CARL BARAT is set to undergo surgery to remove a tumor behind his ear . . . The ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND are set to play a string of dates at New York's Beacon Theatre March 10-12, 14-15 and 17-19 . . .

Starting Friday, MOTLEY CRUE's in-studio Sessions@AOL performance will be available at aolmusic.com . . . CHRISTINA MILIAN, STEVEN TYLER and OUTKAST's ANDRE 3000 appear in the upcoming JOHN TRAVOLTA vehicle, Be Cool. Milian also recorded two songs for the soundtrack, due March 1st: "Ain't No Reason" by ALICIA KEYS and RICH HARRISON and "Believer" by BLACK EYED PEAS' WILL.I.AM. . . . SUICIDE No Compromise, a biography/oral history of the New York punk band, features new interviews with BLONDIE, PRIMAL SCREAM, MOBY, R.E.M., HENRY ROLLINS and ex-SOFT CELL frontman MARC ALMOND . . . The MUSIC kick off their twenty-city tour in New York on February 17th, wrapping on March 18th in Austin . . . The CHARLATANS have begun working on their ninth studio album, to be released this fall. The new track "Alles Klar" is available for free download on their Web site . . .

STING will play a concert to benefit tsunami relief efforts on February 10th at the Leeuwin Estate in Perth, Australia . . . OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE have contributed approximately $190,000 to Britain's Disasters Emergency Committee for tsunami victims, and have also recorded a U.K. public service announcement encouraging donations . . . WILLIE NELSON and SPOON will play a concert to benefit the American Red Cross, UNICEF and Doctors Without Borders on Sunday at the Austin Music Hall in Austin . . . AMJED ABDALLAH, the owner of Detroit's Studio 8 (on Eight Mile Road), where EMINEM recorded his debut The Slim Shady LP, was found shot to death at the venue on Tuesday. Abdallah had put the studio up for auction on eBay last month . . . R&B star SEAL and model HEIDI KLUM announced their engagement Wednesday . . .

A New York federal judge ruled on Monday that EMINEM'S copyright-infringement lawsuit against The Source, related to the magazine's publication last January of a freestyle form the rapper's teenage years containing racial slurs, will go to trial . . . MISSY ELLIOTT has finished the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2004's Under Construction . . . On February 26th, IAN BROWN will perform at New York's Webster Hall, playing material from his recent solo effort Solarized (due February 22nd) as well as a number of STONE ROSES tracks . . . The SECRET MACHINES will kick off the U.S. leg of their 2005 tour on January 27th in Boston, wrapping up on March 5th in New York . . .

The video for U2's latest single, "All Because of You," premieres during halftime of the Orange Bowl on Tuesday night and will be available through ESPN.com . . . LUDACRIS will parody the villains of Austin Powers in his combined video for the tracks "Number One Spot" and "Potion," set to shoot January 14-16, with MIKE MEYERS making an appearance . . . FRANZ FERDINAND are at work on the follow-up to their 2004 self-titled debut, to be completed in Scotland . . . THREE DOG NIGHT are set to perform at the inaugural ball for West Virginia governor-elect Joe Manchin on January 17th . . . The WONDER STUFF will release Escape From Rubbish Island, their first studio album in twelve years, on March 22nd with a tour to follow in April . . . The Free Design 'Redesigned' (Vol.2) -- a Light in the Attic sampler CD featuring remixes by STEREOLAB, MARS VOLTA's OKEY OWENS, DANGER MOUSE and MANITOBA -- is due late this month . . .

The BEASTIE BOYS, CHUCK D, LE TIGRE and MY MORNING JACKET are among the artists being sampled for Creative Commons' and Wired's "The Fine Art of Sampling" contest . . . Oscar-winning director JONATHAN DEMME will interview singer-songwriter STEVE EARLE at the New York Public Library on January 14th . . . SUPER FURRY ANIMALS will release their seventh album, Songbook: The Singles Volume One, on January 25th . . . KEANE and the ZUTONS kick off their international tour on January 24th in Dallas, wrapping up April 1st in Copenhagen . . . 50 CENT, G UNIT's LLOYD BANKS and the New York Jets' JOSH EVANS opened the Book Bank Foundation "superstore" at New York's Bowery Mission over the holidays, providing homeless children over $100,000 in new clothing, toys and medicine . . .

On January 19th, Starbucks will release Sweetheart: Love Songs, a collection featuring RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, NEKO CASE and SONDRE LERCHE, among others . . . Mobile media company Zingy are set to release tracks by KANYE WEST and the late AALIYAH as ringtones and ringbacks, adding them to a roster including SNOOP DOGG, LUDACRIS, 50 CENT and PRINCE . . . Following the success of 2003's The Very Best of SHERYL CROW, Crow will release two albums in 2005 . . . NEW FOUND GLORY will kick off their Back to Basics tour in April . . . VANESSA WILLIAMS' Everlasting Love, a collection of Seventies love songs, is due February 1st . . . TERROR SQUAD's REMY MARTIN guests on the remix of dancehall star LADY SAW's single "I've Got Your Man" . . .

GETO BOYS member BUSHWICK BILL was a guest model at the First Annual Makaveli Branded Fashion Show held on January 1st. The clothing line was launched by late rapper TUPAC SHAKUR's mother, AFENI SHAKUR . . . Pittsburgh's six-year-old Vocal Group Hall of Fame, whose inductees include the PLATTERS, the SUPREMES and the BEACH BOYS, has closed its doors due to financial trouble . . . BOY GEORGE, opera singer RUSSELL WATSON and Sixties British pop singer CLIFF RICHARD are releasing a charity single, "Grief Never Grows Old," to benefit victims of the tsunami disaster . . . ALKALINE TRIO will wrap up the follow-up to 2003's Good Mourning this month . . .