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The Baha Men will release Move It Like This, the follow-up to their multi-platinum breakthrough, Who Let the Dogs Out?, on March 26th . . . Alicia Keys and Lil' Bow Wow will join Britney Spears at the NBA All-Star Read to Achieve charity event on February 9th in New York . . . The Dave Matthews Band, Bilal and City High will be the featured artists for Music Choice's February concert series, which will make performances available for download at www.musicchoice.com . . . Elvis Costello joined Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, John Prine and Nanci Griffith at the January 13th stop on their Concert for a Landmine-Free World tour in Belfast . . . Busta Rhymes will kick off a ten-date tour behind his new album, Genesis, on January 25th in Worcester, Massachusetts . . . Deep Dish begin a fourteen-date North American tour tonight in Miami . . .
Megadeth will release their first-ever live album, the two-CD Rude Awakening, on March 19th accompanied by a DVD/VHS release . . . Universal Records reached a deal to pay $4.75 million in back royalties, ending a class action lawsuit filed by Peggy Lee, the estates of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline and others . . . Gorky's Zygotic Mynci will begin a twelve-date U.S. tour on February 27th in Los Angeles . . . Singer-songwriter Bob Neuwirth has signed on to MC the seventeen-city O Brother Where Art Thou? tour, which launches on January 25th in Lexington, Kentucky . . . Girls Against Boys have signed with Jade Tree Records for their next album, due May 14th; the band will begin a fourteen-date tour on January 26th in New York . . . KMFDM will release their next album, Attak, on April 19th . . .
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Nas and members of the Wu-Tang Clan have signed on for the first Hip-Hop Youth Summit, which is set for January 21st in Queens, N.Y. . . . Green Day and Blink-182 will co-headline a nine-week North American tour this spring and summer; no dates have been set . . . Nelly Furtado will kick off a forty-two date tour on January 28th in Victoria, British Columbia . . . Nine Inch Nails will make their first-ever in-store appearance at the Virgin Megastore in New York City's Time's Square on January 22nd to promote their new live album/DVD, And All That Could Have Been . . . American Hi-Fi, Sum 41 and N.E.R.D. are among the artists included on the National Lampoon's Van Wilder soundtrack, due March 26th . . . Billy Joel and Elton John have extended their Face to Face tour through March 18th . . .
Jon Stewart will return to host the Grammy Awards for the second year on February 27th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles . . . Michael Jackson and his fans will be the subject of VH1's Fanclub: Michael Jackson program, which will air on January 21st . . . ZZ Top will play RodeoHouston on February 21st, their first live performance since George W. Bush's inauguration last year . . . Adam Ant was committed to a London psychiatric hospital for observation after he was arrested for assault and firearm possession on January 13th . . . Travis, Starsailor and Ryan Adams will perform at a February 4th benefit in London to aid Warchild, an organization that assists victims of war . . . Brooks and Dunn will take their Neon Circus and Wild West Show back on the road on April 12th in Madison, Wisconsin . . .
Jill Scott sang "We Are All Earthlings" for an episode of Sesame Street that will air on February 4th. "I grew up in front of the television set learning from Sesame Street," Scott said. "I never thought I would be on the show, playing with all the Muppets" . . . Gorillaz received six nominations for the Brit Awards, the U.K.'s equivalent of the Grammys, which will take place on February 20th in London; Dido, Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue received four nods each, and Sting will be honored with the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award . . . Steve Earle will mark the fifteenth anniversary of Guitar Town's release with an expanded reissue, due January 29th, and a concert on February 6th in Nashville to benefit the Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing . . .
Four members of the crew working on the Eminem movie Eight Mile in Highland Park, Michigan, were injured on Sunday during a scene in which a house was set on fire . . . Songs by PJ Harvey, Stereo MC's and Shuggie Otis will be included on the Six Feet Under soundtrack, due on March 5th . . . Ted Demme, who directed the feature film Blow as well as co-founding the television program, Yo! MTV Raps, died of a heart attack on January 13th at age thirty-eight . . . Mick Jagger recorded a voice-over for an episode of The Simpsons, which will air later this year . . . Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears will host a Super Bowl Party/charity auction at the Planet Hollywood in New York City on February 3rd . . . Iron Maiden are breaking their yearlong sabbatical to play two benefit gigs on March 20th and 21st in London to raise money for former drummer Clive Burr, who suffers from multiple sclerosis . . .
Tracks from Green Day, Vertical Horizon and OutKast will also appear on the soundtrack to The New Guy, due on February 19th . . . A U.S. district judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Marc Anthony alleging that he and writer Cory Rooney did not write Anthony's hit single, "I Need to Know" . . . Adam Ant was arrested on January 12th in London on charges of firearm possession and assault . . . The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will release Plastic Fang, their first album in three years, on April 9th; Elliott Smith, Dr. John and Bernie Worrell make guest appearances on the album . . . Bob Weir's Ratdog will kick off a twelve-date tour on February 1st in St. Petersburg, Florida . . . Midnight Oil have signed with Liquid 8 Records and will release their new album, Capricornia, on February 19th . . .
Alien Ant Farm will headline the seventh annual SnoCore Rock Tour, which kicks off on February 15th in Providence, Rhode Island; Spearhead and Nikka Costa will play select dates on the SnoCore Icicle Ball Tour, which begins on February 15th in Los Angeles . . . Master P and his son Lil' Romeo have signed on to appear in a new Nickelodeon sitcom titled Pieces of the Puzzle . . . Two new Tom Waits songs will be included on the soundtrack to Big Bad Love, due on February 19th . . . The String Cheese Incident will kick off their annual, seven date Winter Carnival on March 21st in Denver . . . Bobby McFerrin will release his twelfth album, Beyond Words, on March 12th.
(January 17, 2002)