Wyclef Jean and Paul McCartney will perform at the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert on December in Oslo, Norway . . . Travis will release More Than Us, a DVD/VHS culled from a 2001 performance in Glasgow, Scotland, and this year's Reading and Leeds festivals . . . Michael Jackson's new album, Invincible, debuted at Number One on the U.K. charts, his seventh British Number One record . . . Bob Mould will perform a benefit for a New York City fire station on November 13th with all ticket proceeds and partial bar proceeds going to a relief fund for families of firemen killed on September 11th . . . Jill Scott will release Experience: Jill Scott (826 Plus), a double-live album with six new tracks, on November 20th . . . Icelandic trip-hop artist ARIA will release her first album, Haze, on January 22nd . . .

Angie Stone and Maxwell will kick off a twenty-four date tour on November 8th in Seattle . . . The Pet Shop Boys have wrapped work on their ninth album, due in March 2002; former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and drummer Jodie Linscott make guest appearances . . . Coldplay have rescheduled a U.S. tour that was postponed in the wake of September 11th; the new dates will kick off on November 30th in Chicago . . . The Red King, the Churchills, I-Decline and the Brain Rakes will perform at a benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation at New York City's Mercury Lounge on November 20th . . . Britain's highest court upheld a decision to block the release of Before the Fame, a collection of Bruce Springsteen's earliest recordings . . . Bebop saxophonist Spike Robinson died on October 29th at his home in England at age seventy-one . . .

Michael Jackson will make his first ever in-store appearance at the Virgin Megastore in New York City's Times Square at 3 p.m. on Wednesday to promote his new album, Invincible . . . Peter Gabriel, Sarah McLachlan and the Roots will make guest appearances on BT's fourth album, due next year . . . Mick Jagger, Destiny's Child, Lenny Kravitz, Creed and others will perform at the My VH1 Music Awards '01, which are set for December 2nd at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles; U2 and the Dave Matthews Band lead all acts with six nominations . . . Marc Anthony will release his next Spanish-language album, Libre, on November 20th . . . Johnny Cash checked out of Nashville Baptist Hospital on November 1st after being admitted for bronchitis for the second time in the past month last week . . .

Garth Brooks will perform at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles on November 14th to promote his new album, Scarecrow, which is due in stores the day before . . . American Head Charge guitarist Dave Rogers was arrested on charges of public lewdness on October 31st for performing naked at a New Jersey stop on the Pledge of Allegiance Tour . . . Willie Nelson performed a benefit concert on November 4th in Brea, California, to raise money for a new center for the Boys and Girls Club . . . Gorillaz and Fatboy Slim won three awards apiece at the 2001 Billboard Music Video Awards on November 2nd in Beverly Hills, California . . . Merle Haggard was forced to pull off the road after straining a muscle in his chest while in Texas. He will resume his tour on November 14th . . .

(November 6, 2001)