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Bow Wow's big screen debut, Like Mike, has been pushed back to July 3rd, one of the biggest movie event weekends of the year . . . R.E.M.'s Mike Mills, June Carter Cash, Edwin McCain, Don McLean and the B-52's' Cindy Wilson will perform at the Music Midtown festival in Atlanta on May 4th for Turner South Live, a concert special to air on the Turner South Network . . . Ed Harcourt will return to the U.S. with a full band for a ten-date tour starting May 7th in San Francisco . . . Celine Dion, Clint Black, Jessica Simpson and Lonestar will perform aboard the USS Harry S. Truman on May 2nd. The concert will be broadcast by CBS on May 25th . . . AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson is writing songs for a musical titled Helen of Troy, which will debut next year in Sarasota, Florida . . .
Coolio will release his fourth album, Coolio2002.com, in June . . . A California judge ruled that Courtney Love will not have to undergo a psychiatric exam to determine whether she is competent to handle her responsibilities with the Nirvana LLC partnership. Love is battling former Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic over the rights to the band's music . . . Vince Neil, Jackyl and Skid Row will hit the road for the twenty-eight-date Rock Never Stops tour, which kicks off on May 17th in Maryland Heights, Missouri . . . Brad Paisley will host the Hook, Line and Sinker Fishing Tournament just outside of Nashville today. The event will benefit the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital . . .
Bono and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill will visit Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Ethiopia, starting May 20th, to discuss securing aid for third world countries . . . Kylie Minogue received four nominations for the 2002 Ivor Novello Awards, presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songeriters, which are set for May 23rd in London . . . Remy Zero will make an appearance on Smallville's season finale on May 21st . . . George Jones was forced to reschedule two performances after breaking his right foot on April 18th. His tour will resume on April 26th in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina . . . Jerry Lee Lewis and his wife Kerrie are splitting up after seventeen years together. Kerrie will resume her role as president of Lewis' company, JKL Enterprises . . .
Chris Isaak and Natalie Merchant will begin a joint tour on June 21st in Irvine, California . . . The Doves and Elbow will begin a twelve-date U.S. tour on June 3rd in Seattle . . . Yun Kyeong Sung Kwon, the woman who accused Rene Angelil, Celine Dion's husband, of rape, was arrested this week on charges of check forgery . . . Brazilian tropicalia legend Tom Ze suffered a heart attack after a performance on April 21st near Rio de Janeiro. He is expected to be released from the hospital later this week . . . The The's fifteen singles will be compiled into a two-CD set, 45 RPM: The Singles of The The, due on May 21st. On July 2nd four of the band's albums, Soul Mining, Infected, Mind Bomb and Dusk will be reissued by Epic/Legacy with bonus tracks . . .
Tom Waits fans can preview his upcoming albums at www.anti.com prior to their release; Alice will be available for streaming from April 30th to May 2nd and Blood Money can be played between May 3rd and 6th . . . Nick Carter will sing the national anthem before the start of the American Power Boat Association Super Vee Race in Daytona Beach on April 25th . . . Filmmaker Sam Jones' I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, a documentary about the making of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, will be released in New York City on July 26th, before opening in other national markets in August and September; the film will also be released on DVD later this year . . .
Mott the Hoople singer Ian Hunter and guitarist Mick Ralphs are planning a U.K. tour, their first jaunt together in nearly three decades, to begin on May 7th in Bristol, England . . . Dashboard Confessional will tape an episode of MTV Unplugged this week in New York to air later this year . . . The Scorpions will release Bad for Good: The Best of the Scorpions, a collection of hits along with two new songs, on May 28th. The band will begin a thirty-seven date U.S. tour on May 31st in Las Vegas . . . 1 Giant Leap, a new audio/visual project by Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman, which features contributions by Michael Stipe, Speech, Spearhead's Michael Franti, Brian Eno and Kurt Vonnegut will visit New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, starting May 1st, before being released on DVD later this year . . .
The White Stripes won two Detroit Music Awards, including Outstanding National Album and Outstanding National Single at the twelfth annual event. The late Marvin Gaye was also a winner for Outstanding Reissue for What's Going On . . . Bow Wow performed at a celebration for students at Southern University-Shreveport in Louisiana yesterday. The teenage rapper will also kick off his Scream 2 Tour on July 25th in Memphis . . . Soul Asylum singer Dave Pirner will release his still-untitled debut solo album on July 16th . . . Jellyfish will release a four-CD box set, Fan Club, in June . . . Australian buzz-band the Vines will release their debut album, Highly Evolved, on July 16th . . . Ludacris has signed on to appear in Radio, a feature film to begin shooting this summer.
Alanis Morissette, Mary J. Blige, Marc Anthony, Shakira and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs will perform at the 2002 Zootopia summer concert on June 2nd at Giants Stadium in New Jersey . . . Patti Smith performed at the inauguration of the Parco Della Musica, now the largest concert hall complex in Europe, in Rome on April 21st . . . Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan was inducted into the Hall of Honor at the John P. Stevens High School in Edison, New Jersey, last weekend. Bryan graduated from the school in 1980.
(April 25, 2002)