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Cam'rom will hit the road for an eighteen-date tour with Naam Brigade, N.O.R.E. and M.O.P. starting October 10th in Atlanta . . . The Music will launch their first ever U.S. tour on October 31st in Boston before joining the VINES for a November jaunt; the band will follow up it's debut EP, You Might as Well Try to Fuck Me, with a full-length album on February 11th . . . Former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur will release Live in Los Angeles: Black Sabbath Tribute, with her new band Hand Of Doom, on October 22nd . . . Shadows Fall will kick off a tour in support of The Art of Balance on October 12th in Elizabeth, New Jersey . . .
The Streets, whose Original Pirate Material was nominated for the U.K.'s Mercury Music Prize, will kick off a tour in the U.S. on October 22nd in San Francisco . . . Toni Braxton will release her next album, "More Than a Woman," in November. Babyface, the Neptunes and Rodney Jerkins are among the producers who worked on the record . . . Drowning Pool have begun to seek a new singer after the August death of frontman Dave Williams . . . Alison Krauss and Union Station will release the two-CD Live on November 5th . . . The Blood Brothers will release Burn Piano Island, Burn next February . . .
Oasis covered Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" and Badly Drawn Boy recorded Dexy's Midnight Runners' "Come on Eileen" for 1 Love, an album of covers organized by New Music Express to benefit the War Child charity . . . Usher, Paula Abdul, Mya and Aaron Carter will perform at "The Disco Ball: A 30th Anniversary Celebration" in Los Angeles on October 13th . . . Singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury, who penned hits for Kenny Rogers, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley and others, died on September 29th of emphysema; he was sixty-two . . . Brian Wilson, Ace Frehley, Al Kooper, Richie Havens and Sebastian Bach are among the guests on The Late Show with David Letterman-drummer Anton Fig's new album, Figments, available through antonfig.com . . .
3LW will release their new album, A Girl Can Mack, on October 22nd; the group is also planning a holiday album for November release . . . Eminem, Shakira and Kylie Minogue each received four nominations for the MTV Europe Music Awards, set for November 14th in Barcelona . . . The Disco Biscuits will perform at the Primary Colors for Peace concert on October 24th in Washington, D.C. . . . Prince filed suit against freemyheart.com for allegedly offered recordings of his Xenophobia concert series from June for download . . . Jerry Douglas will begin a fourteen-date tour on October 11th in Somerville, Massachusetts . . . Barry White is in need of a kidney transplant after suffering from kidney failure last week . . .
Aimee Mann, Norah Jones, Beth Orton and others will perform at A Sounds Eclectic Evening in Los Angeles on November 23rd to benefit local public radio station KCRW . . . Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland will make a solo appearance at the Musician's Assistance Program in Los Angeles on November 7th . . . Tom Petty will release The Last DJ Studio Sessions, a thirty-eight minute documentary DVD as part of a special edition of his new album, The Last DJ, due October 8th . . . Susan Tedeschi has enlisted husband Derek Trucks, Col. Bruce Hampton and Johnnie Johnson to appear on her third album, Wait for Me, due November 19th . . . Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil pleaded innocent to a misdemeanor charge of battery last week stemming from an April altercation in a West Hollywood nightclub; a pretrial hearing is set for November 19th . . .
Enya will release Only Time: The Collection, a four CD box set, on November 12th . . . Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson will undergo surgery this week to have a brain tumor removed . . . Queen Latifah has signed with CBS to star in Mali Anderson, a new drama series . . . King Crimson will release a new EP, Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With, on October 8th . . . Joan Jett performed for more than 500 American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan on September 27th . . . Sixties folk rocker Tim Rose died of complications from bowel cancer last week in London; he was sixty-two . . . ZZ Top will begin a European tour tonight in Helsinki, Finland; the dates were cancelled in 2000 after bassist/singer Dusty Hill became ill with Hepatitis C . . .
(October 2, 2002)