Denny Tenaglia's remix of Yoko Ono's "Walked Across the Lake" will be featured in the May 18th episide of Showtime's series Queer as Folk . . . The White Stripes, Rufus Wainwright, De La Soul, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Jimmy Cliff, the Polyphonic Spree and others will perform in New York City as part of Central Park's SummerStage concert series, which launches on June 14th with a blues celebration and performance by Chris Thomas King . . . Train will begin a twenty-six-date club tour on June 6th in San Francisco in support of their new album My Private Nation, due June 3rd . . . Robbie Williams has contributed a new track, "A Man for All Seasons," to the soundtrack of Johnny English, due in July . . . LL Cool J and Dru Hill will hit the road together for an eighteen-date tour, starting June 7th in Baltimore . . .

Rachael Sage will release her new album, Public Record, on August 5th. On May 20th she'll begin a nine-date U.S. tour . . . Baby (a.k.a. Birdman) will make a guest appearance on Gemini, the debut album by TQ, the first R&B singer signed to Cash Money Records . . . Carlos Santana has launched a new line of RhytMix Drums for children, available at Borders Books and Music outlets in the San Francisco area . . . Bubba Sparxxx will release his second album, Deliverance, on July 1st. The album features production by Timbaland . . . Eve's sitcom, Opposite Sex, has been picked up by UPN for its fall lineup . . .

Coldplay are auctioning tickets for six shows on their upcoming U.S. tour on eBay to benefit Amnesty International . . . The Roots, Talib Kweli and N.E.R.D. will perform on the Sprite Liquid Mix Tour, which kicks off on August 14th in Denver . . . John Entwistle's prized "Frankenstein" bass, which was expected to sell for $11,000 in a London auction, pulled in $100,000 on Tuesday . . . Lynyrd Skynyrd will perform for American troops stationed in Germany on June 12th . . . Arthur Lee has lined up a four-city U.S. tour during which he will recreate the entirety of Love's classic Forever Changes. The tour starts May 30th in San Francisco . . . A California judge refused to issue a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Doors 21st Century from using that name. A final ruling on the petition filed by former drummer John Densmore is still pending . . .

The Matrix production team are working on tracks for David Bowie's next album . . . Britney Spears and Skechers footwear have settled after Spears filed a $1.5 million breach of agreement lawsuit against the company in December, which prompted a $10 million countersuit by Skechers . . . The Used will release Maybe Memories, a collection of demos and previously unreleased recordings in a CD/DVD package on July 17th . . . Vanessa Carlton will contribute the theme song to the new action video game SpyHunter 2, due this fall . . . Steve Earle will perform at the tenth annual Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty event in Washington, D.C., on June 30th . . . The Texas Senate honored Willie Nelson with an official gavel and Lone Star flag that had flown over the capitol on May 13th . . .

The Rolling Stones have scrapped their August 2nd performance in Belgrade, Serbia. The cancellation was attributed to safety concerns following the March 12th assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic. A state of emergency was declared in the country, though it was lifted in April. The performance would have been the first ever by an internationally renown pop act in Serbia, which was formerly part of the communist republic Yugoslavia . . .

OutKast's Speakerbox: The Love Below is set for an August 19th release . . . All ten shows from Trey Anastasio's upcoming tour will be made available for download through Phish's authorized bootleg program . . . R.E.M. have tapped Bill Rieflin (Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM) to be their drummer for their summer tour . . . Lonestar and Yolanda Adams will perform at the National Memorial Day Concert on May 25th in Washington, D.C. . . . Superchunk will release Cup of Sand, a two-CD collection of odds and ends, on August 19th . . .

Former Doobie Brothers frontman Michael McDonald will release Michael McDonald Motown on June 24th . . . Movin' Out, the Broadway musical based on the songs of Billy Joel, received ten Tony Award nominations. The Tonys will be held June 8th in New York . . . Nada Surf will begin a seventeen-date U.S. tour on June 16th in Carrboro, North Carolina . . .

Jay-Z, who already runs a record label, clothing line and vodka company, will open a sports bar, 40/40, in New York City on May 28th . . . A film student's footage of John Lennon from the former Beatle's "lost weekend" in 1974 will be auctioned in London in July . . . Jeff Beck will join the B.B. King Music Festival, a two-month tour scheduled to begin in late July on the West Coast . . . Lisa Marie Presley will begin a ten-date tour with CHRIS ISAAK on May 31st in Mansfield, Massachusetts . . . Sevendust will enter an Atlanta studio with producer Butch Walker in two weeks to record their next album . . .

Ashanti will open for Mariah Carey's summer tour starting July 18th in Anchorage, Alaska . . . Shooting on the feature film Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny is expected to begin by year's end . . . Ol' Dirty Bastard, recently released from a two-year prison stint, has been recording with the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams . . . Radiohead, the Flaming Lips, Van Morrison, Jethro Tull, Craig David, Jamiroquai and others will perform at the thirty-seventh annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, which runs July 4-19 . . . Dolly Parton, Jimmy Vaughan and Delbert McClinton will make guest appearances on Beyond Time, the solo debut by Asleep At The Wheel's Ray Benson . . . New Orleans rockers Supagroup will release their self-titled debut on July 22nd . . .

(May 15, 2003)