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Celine Dion has joined the lineup for Super Bowl XXXVII, January 26th in San Diego. Dion will sing "God Bless America" before the game . . . Moby, Ms. Dynamite and Big Brovaz will perform at Abby Road Studios for the Brit Award nominations event Monday night in London . . . Mariah Carey will perform at the thirtieth annual American Music Awards on January 13th in Los Angeles; Bobby Brown will join Ja Rule for a performance . . . Shakira's Laundry Service was the best-selling album in Europe in 2002 according to the Pan-European Music and Media Charts; the record has reached Number One in thirty countries . . . Joe Jackson will join Ben Folds on stage at the latter's New York City performance tonight . . .
David Bowie, Ray Davies, Laurie Anderson, Rufus Wainwright, Angelique Kidjo And Ziggy Marley will perform at the fifteenth annual Tibet House Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City on February 28th . . . Stan Ridgeway's Black Diamond, Jon Dee Graham's Escape From Monster Island and Slobberbone's Crow Pot Pie and Barrel Chested will be reissued by New West Records on January 28th . . . The Walkmen will begin a twelve-date tour on January 23rd in Vancouver . . . Queens of the Stone Age will launch a U.S. tour in Las Vegas on February 22nd . . . Chumbawamba will give their first U.S. performance in four years at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., on January 18th . . .
A white grand piano that once belonged to Elvis Presley was sold for $685,000 this week to the Blue Moon Group, which plans to place it on a promotional tour; plans also call for the piano to be housed on a proposed rock & roll museum at Disney World . . . Tenacious D make a guest appearance on Styx's new album, Cyclorama, due February 18th . . . Ryan Adams, Shivaree and Kathleen Edwards will perform at a benefit for Housing Works in New York City on January 17th . . . If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story will air on the Sundance Channel on March 17th . . . Dokken will join the Scorpions and Whitesnake on a twenty-date tour, starting January 29th in Jacksonville, Florida . . .
A new book, Spiels of a Minuteman, will collect the lyrics of former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt; the book is due January 11th . . . Joe Satriani will begin a nine-date tour on January 29th in Reno, Nevada . . . Galactic's Freezestyle 2003 Winter Tour will launch on January 23rd at Tipitina's in New Orleans and close March 3rd in the same place . . . Kenny Chesney will begin a thirty-nine-date tour on January 16th in Tupelo, Mississippi . . . DJ Spooky has lined up five dates with Headhunters drummer Mike Clark, starting January 15th in Washington, D.C. . . . After numerous delays, the D.O.C.'s new album, Deuce, will finally be released on February 25th . . . Colombian duo Aterciopelados will begin a six-date U.S. tour on February 19th in New York . . .
Kid Rock and Shelby Lynne made guest appearances at Allison Moorer's January 4th performance in Nashville; the show was being recorded for a future live album . . . Nickelback has joined the list of performers for the thirtieth annual American Music Awards, set for January 13th . . . American Hi-Fi, Kay Hanley and former Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz's Crown Victoria will perform at ESPN baseball guru Peter Gammons' third annual Hot Stove/Cool Music Concert and fundraiser in Boston on January 15th . . . Mos Def and Talib Kweli will perform at a pair of benefit concerts at New York City's S.O.B.'s tonight and tomorrow to aid the Nkiru Center for Education and Culture in Brooklyn . . .
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong was arrested and charged with driving under the influence on January 5th in Berkeley, California . . . Poison drummer Rikki Rocket has recorded Glitter 4 Your Soul, featuring covers of glam rock songs by David Bowie, T-Rex, the New York Dolls and others; the album is available at glitter4yoursoul.com . . . Los Lobos will begin a ten-date tour on January 30th in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in support of their 2002 release, Good Morning Aztlan . . . The Hopeville Tour, featuring Yolanda Adams, Kirk Franklin and Donnie McClurkin has been extended an additional twenty-three dates starting January 13th in Stockton, California . . . Sixteen of Lionel Richie's Top Ten singles will be collected on The Definitive Collection, due February 4th . . .
Shania Twain, whose latest album Up! remains one of the best-selling records in the country, will perform live during the AT&T Wireless Super Bowl XXXVII Halftime Show on January 26th in San Diego. "I can't imagine anyone getting up to go to the refrigerator with Shania Twain performing on the fifty-yard-line," said a spokesman for AT&T wireless. The event will be executive produced by Interscope Records chairman Jimmy Iovine. Last year, U2 performed during the Super Bowl's halftime show, and Mariah Carey sang the national anthem . . .
Ashanti, Snoop Dogg, P. Diddy and Mary J. Blige will make guest appearances on Fabolous' second album, Street Dreams, due March 7th. The New York-based rapper's follow-up to 2001's Ghetto Fabolous also features production by Timbaland, DJ Clue and Kanye West. "In the Seventies the street dream was to become a pimp or a mack," Fabolous told Rolling Stone. "In the Eighties, kids wanted to be some kind of drug dealer, and in the Nineties it switched to an athlete. Now rap is the street dream" . . .
DMX has rescheduled two Canadian concerts that were cancelled last week after authorities in Calgary refused to allow him into the country; the shows will now take place in late March . . . The Levellers will release Green Blade Rising, their first new album in eight years, on February 18th . . . Henry Rollins launches a fifty-date spoken word tour tonight in San Juan Capistrano, California; the tour is in support of the compilation DVD/CD I Am Spazticus . . . The Blood Brothers will release a live DVD, Jungle Rules Live, on February 4th . . .
Harmonica legend Richard "King Biscuit Boy" Newell died in his sleep on January 5th; he was fifty-nine . . . Vendetta Red will make their major-label debut with Between the Never and the Now June 24th . . . Apples In Stereo will launch a seventeen-date tour on January 28th in Nashville to support their new album, Velocity of Sound . . . Riders In The Sky will celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary with a fifty-date tour starting January 10th in Mobile, Alabama . . . Black Keys will release their second album, ThickFreakness, on Fat Possum on April 8th; the group will begin a five-date tour on January 10th in Toledo, Ohio, before serving as openers for Sleater-Kinney for their February tour . . .
Lil' Kim duets with Phil Collins on the latter's "In the Air Tonight," which will be included on Urban Renewal, a collection of Collins' hits covered by R&B artists. The album, also featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard, Brandy, Kelis and others, is due February 11th . . . Natalia Imbruglia and Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns got engaged last month; the couple has not yet set a wedding date . . . Alan Jackson, Montgomery Gentry, .38 Special, George Jones and Lynyrd Skynyrd have contributed tracks to The Songs of Hank Williams Jr. (A Bocephus Celebration), due February 11th . . .
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Wire and the Breeders will perform at the Los Angeles All Tomorrow's Parties festival, set for June 18-19 . . . Blues legend Bobby "Blue" Bland will release his new album, Blues at Midnight, on March 11th . . . Daft Punk, Alex Gopher, Air and others will be featured on the two-CD compilation, Sourcelabs (The Best of), due January 28th . . . John Doe will begin a thirteen-date tour on February 14th in Los Angeles . . . Patti LaBelle has recorded "Way Up There" as a CD-single; the song will also be used by NASA as its official song . . .