Oct 28, 2005 12:00 AM

In Brief: Lennon, Snoop

JOHN LENNON's explicitly political 1972 album, Sometime in New York, and 1974's Walls and Bridges, featuring "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" with ELTON JOHN, will both be re-released on November 22nd. Sometime will feature reworked/remixed versions of most tracks, while Walls will bring three bonus tracks, including a cover of "Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)" and a live version of "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" . . . SNOOP DOGG will release Snoop Dogg Presents Welcome to tha Chuuch: Tha Album -- which takes its name from the West coast rapper's successful mixtape series -- with guest appearances by NATE DOGG, KURUPT and DAZ DILLINGER, on December 13th . . . ELVIS PRESLEY topped Forbes' annual list of the Ten Top Earning Dead Celebrities for the fifth year in a row. The legendary singer, who died in 1977, generated $45 million for his estate over the last year . . . SONIC YOUTH's LEE RANALDO and visual artist Leah Singer will perform Drift, their collaborative project featuring music and texts by the guitarist in response to Singer's film, on November 15th at New York's Gigantic Artspace gallery. The exhibition begins on November 4th and concludes January 14th, with a DVD due next month . . . 3 DOORS DOWN will release Away from the Sun: Live from Houston, the band's first live DVD, as a superdisc -- offering a digital music album and a high-definition video -- on November 1st . . . North Carolina rockers PATTY HURST SHIFTER will release their second album, Too Crowded on the Losing End, on January 24th . . . Expanded versions of BILLY BRAGG's Life's a Riot With Spy vs. Spy, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, Talking with the Taxman About Poetry and The Internationale will be released on February 21st. The back-catalog titles, along with rare and previously unreleased material, will be available both singly and as a nine-disc box set of seven CDs and two DVDs . . .

50 CENT's Get Rich or Die Tryin' film billboards are being taken down near Los Angeles-area schools after community groups complained that the ads promote gun violence. Paramount Pictures, the distributor of the film, started removing the posters, which show the gangsta rap star holding a microphone in one hand and a gun in the other in a crucifixion-like pose. The film hits theaters November 9th . . . In other 50 news, the unauthorized documentary, 50 Cent: Refuse to Die, will be available on DVD on November 8th. The film features interviews with the rapper's grandfather, DMC of RUN-DMC and NAUGHTY BY NATURE's TREACH . . . BOB GELDOF, who organized Live Aid in 1984 and this year's Live 8 concerts to promote the fight against extreme poverty, has been named this year's Man of Peace by previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in the Rome Summit. Geldof will receive the award, which is granted annually to those who have made outstanding contributions to promote social justice and peace, on November 24th in Rome . . . NINE INCH NAILS' groundbreaking debut album, Pretty Hate Machine, which has been out of print for several years, will be reissued on November 22nd . . . At JAY-Z's Thursday show at New Jersey's Continental Airlines Arena, the hip-hop superstar called fellow rapper NAS onstage, ending their longstanding feud. Several other stars joined Jay-Z throughout his set, including KANYE WEST, DIDDY, T.I., BEANIE SIGEL, YOUNG JEEZY and TEAIRRA MARI . . . Country artists GLEN CAMPBELL, LEE ANN WOMACK, CARRIE UNDERWOOD and TRACE ADKINS will join Broadway stars Brian Stokes Mitchell (Man of La Mancha), Patrick Wilson (Little Shop of Horrors), Idina Menzel (Wicked) and Ben Vereen (Wicked) for the Broadway Meets Country benefit concert at New York's Frederick P. Rose Hall on November 12th. Womack and Mitchell will co-host, and all proceeds will be donated to the Actors' Fund of America and the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund . . .

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND will bring their 2005 summer tour home to their fans with the release of Weekend on the Rocks and the The Complete Weekend on the Rocks, due November 29th and December 12th, respectively, both filmed during the last four nights of their jaunt (September 9th to 12th) at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. The two-CD plus DVD Weekend on the Rocks features performance highlights, while the eight-CD plus DVD The Complete Weekend on the Rocks features the shows in their entirety and is also available as a digital download . . . The BEATLES' original waxworks -- with the exception of PAUL McCARTNEY's bust -- from their legendary Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover will go on sale Thursday at London's Madame Tussaud's. Handwritten early BEACH BOYS music sheets and lyrics are also included in the sale . . . BONNIE RAITT will extend her Souls Alike tour, in support of her album of the same name, into 2006, beginning February 10th in Santa Cruz, California, concluding March 11th in Marksville, Louisiana . . . KANYE WEST, the FUGEES, MARIAH CAREY, GREEN DAY, KELLY CLARKSON and GWEN STEFANI are among the list of nominees for VH1's Big in '05 awards, where the viewers choose the "Big" winners, premiering December 4th in Los Angeles. West is nominated for both Big Winner and Big Quote for his criticism of President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina; while the FUGEES join JOURNEY and INXS in the Big Old School Triumph category. Carey, Green Day and Clarkson will battle it out for Big Music Artist . . . CHRISTINA AGUILERA will join DIANA ROSS as co-host for the Unite of the Stars gala banquet on November 9th in Johannesburg, South Africa. The pop diva will perform the following night at a concert benefiting the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, Unite Against Hunger and St. Mary's Hospital, for the Altech South African Grand Prix in Johannesburg . . . The BEASTIE BOYS will release their fifteen-track greatest-hits album, Solid Gold Hits, featuring the hip-hop trio's classics "Fight for Your Right," "Ch-Check it Out" and "Sabotage," on November 8th . . .

BON JOVI are teaming with Habitat for Humanity to build four homes for lower income families in Philadelphia and will film the video for their second single, "Who Says You Can't Go Home," on one of the building sites. The rockers have pledged the majority of the budget for the video, directed by frontman JON BON JOVI's brother ANTHONY M. BONGIOVI (GOO GOO DOLLS, MARILYN MANSON), to fund the project . . . COURTNEY LOVE was slapped with a lawsuit from the Seattle law firm Hendricks and Lewis, claiming she owes them more than $340,000 in fees. The firm, which helped the rocker gain control of the publishing rights to NIRVANA's songs and other materials, is seeking a lien on all of Love's papers in their possession, including work by her late husband, former Nirvana frontman KURT COBAIN . . . Billboards for 50 CENT's upcoming film, Get Rich or Die Tryin', are the subject of protests by Los Angeles activist group Project Islamic Hope, which claims the ads featuring the rapper toting a gun promote gun violence and should be removed . . . Two NBC holiday compilations are currently available exclusively through Target stores: Sounds of the Season: The NBC Holiday Collection, featuring ROD STEWART, GAVIN DeGRAW, ROB THOMAS, the GOO GOO DOLLS, SEAL, JASON MRAZ, MICHAEL BUBLE, EARTH WIND AND FIRE and RAY CHARLES; and Sounds of the Season: The NBC R&B Holiday Collection, featuring DESTINY'S CHILD, R.KELLY, JOHN LEGEND, LUTHER VANDROSS, BABYFACE, MACY GRAY and AL GREEN. Select artists featured on the CDs will perform at the network's November 30th telecast of the annual Rockefeller Center tree lighting dubbed, Christmas in Rockefeller Center . . . DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 will release the remix album, Romance Bloody Romance, on November 22nd. The CD features tracks from their debut, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, reworked by QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE frontman JOSH HOMME and producer PAUL EPWORTH (BLOC PARTY) . . .

JANET JACKSON issued a statement Wednesday morning denying that she has an eighteen-year-old daughter. On Friday, her former brother-in-law Young DeBarge appeared on New York hip-hop station Hot 97 stating that Jackson and her then-husband (DeBarge's brother) James have a daughter named Renee who he alleges has been living with Jackson's older sister Rebbie. Young DeBarge is currently promoting his upcoming album . . . The three-disc DVD The WHO: "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia" Live with Special Guests, featuring ELTON JOHN, BILLY IDOL, PHIL COLLINS, PATTI LaBELLE and STEVE WINWOOD, hits stores November 8th. The set features the veteran rockers performing their classic albums at Los Angeles' Universal Amphitheater in 1989 and on stops from their 1996-1997 tour . . . HOT HOT HEAT will perform at this year's Casby Music Awards, at which Canadian fans vote for their favorite native artists, on November 23rd at Toronto's Kool Haus venue. METRIC, SLOAN and THEORY OF A DEADMAN are also slated to perform, with Canadian comedian Tom Green as host . . . SHOOTER JENNINGS will be the subject of the new CMT pilot Shooter, premiering October 29th. The show will follow country legend WAYLON JENNINGS' son as he hits the road in support of his March release, Put the "O" Back in Country . . . New Orleans acid jazz band GALACTIC will return to their hometown for a special tenth anniversary gala on December 31st at New Orleans landmark music venue Tipitina's. The celebration -- originally slated for September, before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina -- will benefit the Tipitina's Foundation, a charity dedicated to preserving the culture of the city . . . R&B singer AKON will release an expanded edition of his 2003 breakthrough, Trouble, on November 22nd. The new version features a second CD of collaborations, including "Miss Melody" with hip-hop violinist MIRI BEN-ARI and "Find Us" with the BEATNUTS . . . MARY TRAVERS of PETER, PAUL AND MARY will join the group on December 9th at New York's Carnegie Hall when they perform their annual holiday concert. Travers, who learned in December 2004 that an earlier case of leukemia had returned, received a bone marrow transplant last April and recent tests show no leukemia cells . . .

BETH ORTON will release her as-yet-untitled new album in February. The project, produced by JIM O'ROURKE (WILCO's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot), is the British singer-songwriter's first studio album since 2002's Daybreaker . . . QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE will hit the stage at New Orleans' Riverview Park on Saturday and Memphis' AutoZone Park on Sunday, at this weekend's two-day Voodoo Music Experience. The festival will also feature performances, at either venue, by NINE INCH NAILS, SECRET MACHINES, the NEW YORK DOLLS, the DECEMBERISTS and DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 . . . TIM McGRAW, RASCAL FLATTS and KEITH URBAN will join MARIAH CAREY, KENNY CHESNEY, ROB THOMAS and the ROLLING STONES (via satellite from Utah) on the performance lineup for the thirty-third annual American Music Awards, broadcasting live from Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium November 22nd on ABC . . . BO BICE will release his debut album, originally due November 29th, on December 13th. The CD will feature BON JOVI's RICHIE SAMBORA, former EVANESCENCE guitarist BEN MOODY and NICKELBACK frontman CHAD KROEGER . . . Songs by DEPECHE MODE, RASCAL FLATTS, LIFEHOUSE, BRENDAN BENSON, JOSH KELLEY and BREAKING BENJAMIN will be featured on the soundtrack for the WB series Smallville, in stores November 8th . . . SLEATER-KINNEY guitarist CARRIE BROWNSTEIN was taken to the emergency room twice for inexplicable severe allergic reactions and is undergoing tests. The trio has postponed their European tour, which was set to begin November 8th in Brighton, England . . . POISON guitarist C.C. DEVILLE was sentenced to eighty days in jail, given five years probation, ordered to pay a $1000 fine and had his driver's license revoked for one year after he pled no contest Monday to driving under the influence in August . . .

Sirius Satellite Radio will launch the E Street Radio channel, the first ever 24/7 music channel devoted entirely to the music of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, on November 1st. Two weeks later, the thirtieth anniversary box set of Born to Run hits stores . . . The RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, MISSY ELLIOTT, OZZY OSBOURNE, XZIBIT and SNOOP DOGG are all set to appear at the third annual Spike TV Video Games Awards, set for November 18th at Los Angeles' Gibson Amphitheater. The show, hosted by actor Samuel L. Jackson, will premiere on the network on December 10th . . . PAUL McCARTNEY has launched the public charity the Music Lives Foundation, aimed at raising awareness and funds for music education programs in schools, in partnership with Fidelity Investments . . . LUDACRIS will release Ludacris Presents ... Disturbing tha Peace, the second Disturbing tha Peace Records compilation album, on December 13th. The collection will include guest appearances by JAMIE FOXX, STAT QUO, TRICK DADDY, FIELD MOB, BOBBY VALENTINO, REDMAN, GHOSTFACE KILLAH and UNCLE LUKE . . . BARENAKED LADIES will release Barenaked on a Stick, a flash memory drive (compatible with PC/Mac) containing songs, videos and other exclusive content by the Canadian rockers, on November 22nd. The drive will be available exclusively through Amazon and Werkshop, Nettwork Music Group's online merchandise store, as well as the band's tour venues. The Ladies' tour kicks off November 21st in Montreal, and wraps on December 21st in Winnipeg . . . Eagle Rock Entertainment will release the DVD, CHER: Extravaganza -- Live at the Mirage, featuring the pop diva's 1992 performance at the Las Vegas hotel, on November 15th . . . BUSH will release their first ever DVD and live CD set, Zen x Four, featuring all of the British rockers' hit videos, along with a CD of previously unreleased live and acoustic material, on November 15th . . .

MARY J. BLIGE has recorded a duet with BONO on a cover of U2's "One" to be featured on her retrospective album, Reminisce, which has now been pushed back to December 6th. Blige is slated to release her next studio album, The Breakthrough, this spring . . . PAUL SIMON and JON BON JOVI have been added to the performance lineup for the thirty-ninth annual CMA awards, taking place for the first time in New York, at Madison Square Garden on November 15th. Simon will perform a song with WILLIE NELSON, while Bon Jovi and SUGARLAND singer JENNIFER NETTLES come together again for "Who Says You Can't Go Home," which they performed recently on CMT Crossroads . . . EMINEM was given a break by a Detroit judge on Monday when most of a lawsuit filed by his aunt and uncle, who claim the rapper unfairly evicted them from a home he had built for them, was tossed out. The rapper's attorneys insist that there was no contract between the couple and Eminem . . . BEN LEE, KEITH URBAN, JET and the GO-BETWEENS were among the winners at Sunday's Australian Recording Industry Association awards . . . NELLIE McKAY will be performing at New York's Makor Cafe and Mercury Lounge on December 5th and 6th, respectively, in support of her new album, Pretty Little Head, due December 27th . . . On November 1st Rhino Records will release the three-CD set, Fillmore West 1969, which showcases the GRATEFUL DEAD's historic performances at the famed venue from February 27th to March 2nd in 1969. The package will feature performances of "Dark Star," "Death Don't Have No Mercy" and "The Eleven," along with a fifty-five-minute jam of "Alligator"/"Caution (Do Not Step on Tracks)" . . . MICHAEL JACKSON returned several antiques to settle a lawsuit with the Mayfair Gallery on Monday. The pop star was accused of not paying part of a nearly $380,000 bill for items purchased in May . . .

USHER's US Records will make its debut next month with the release of the soundtrack for In the Mix, a movie in which Usher stars as a DJ who saves a mafia princess, in theaters November 23rd. The CD, written and produced by Usher, will feature PAUL WALL, CHRISTINA MILIAN and newcomer CHRIS BROWN. Usher will also release the concert DVD Behind the Truth: Truth Tour -- Live, shot in his hometown of Atlanta, exclusively through Best Buy on November 8th . . . JOHN MAYER TRIO and PHIL LESH AND FRIENDS will team up for three holiday shows in San Francisco, taking place December 29th at the Fillmore, 30th at the Warfield Theater and 31st at the Bill Graham Civic Center. Tickets go on sale November 6th . . . Houston rapper LIL' FLIP will release I Need Mine, featuring NATE DOGG and LYFE JENNINGS, on December 6th. Rapper/DJ MANNIE FRESH joins Flip on the album's first single "What It Do" . . . In other Flip news, he appears on Houston rapper CHAMILLIONAIRE's reworking of "Turn It Up." The new single is a tribute to the Astros, who are playing in their first World Series in their forty-five-year history. Chamillionaire's revamped single will pop up on The Sound of Revenge, due November 22nd . . . The 1967 Newport Folk Film Festival documentary, Festival!, will be screened on November 15th at New York's Makor Cafe. The film features BOB DYLAN's first electric performance, which is also featured in the recent Martin Scorsese-directed Dylan documentary, No Direction Home . . . Georgia jam rockers WIDESPREAD PANIC will ring in the New Year at Atlanta's Philips Arena, playing shows on December 30th and 31st. Tickets go on sale November 26th . . .

Country legend JOHNNY CASH will be celebrated through the CBS special I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash on November 16th. Artists set to perform include U2, FOO FIGHTERS, SHERYL CROW, DWIGHT YOAKAM, NORAH JONES, ALISON KRAUSS, MARTINA McBRIDE, SHOOTER JENNINGS and BRAD PAISLEY. The show will be hosted by actor JOAQUIN PHOENIX, who stars as Cash in the biopic I Walk the Line, set to open two days later . . . CARLOS SANTANA and RealNetworks will celebrate the release of the guitar legend's thirty-eighth album, All That I Am, with a special concert Web cast, dubbed Rhapsody Presents: Santana "All That I Am" Live from New York, on November 1st, the day the CD hits stores. Tracks from the live concert will be available for download on Rhapsody, with proceeds benefiting Santana's Milagro Foundation, which serves disadvantaged youth through educational programs and health services, and performances from the show will be available through RollingStone.com in coming weeks . . . ELTON JOHN will release an expanded, double-disc edition of 2004's Peachtree Road on November 22nd. The set features three tracks John penned for the British play Billy Elliot -- "The Letter," "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher" and "Electricity" -- and a DVD featuring nine live performances of Peachtree tracks recorded last November at Atlanta's the Tabernacle . . . BRITNEY SPEARS and husband KEVIN FEDERLINE are threatening to take legal action after stolen pictures of her newborn son appeared on the Internet. Spears claims the photos were taken in a private session . . .

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