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MADONNA's will release her new album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, in November. The first single, "Hung Up," was produced by STUART PRICE, who co-wrote "X-Static Process" off her last album, American Life . . . The FOO FIGHTERS will join NINE INCH NAILS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, the FLAMING LIPS, NEW YORK DOLLS, SECRET MACHINES and MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE at this year's Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans, October 29th and 30th . . . INTERPOL will kick off another North American leg of their tour behind their second album, Antics, on November 9th in Dallas . . . LIL JON AND THE EASTSIDE BOYZ will release the remix album, Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz Crunk Juice: Chopped and Screwed, on August 9th . . . EMBRACE have cancelled their upcoming tour, which was set to begin July 26th in Toronto. The British rockers expect to make up dates later this year . . . WU-TANG's RAEKWON, HAVOC of MOBB DEEP and CORMEGA will make guest appearances on the new album, Thug Matrix, from TRAGEDY KHADAFI, formerly known as the INTELLIGENT HOODLUM. The CD hits stores on October 4th . . . FALL OUT BOY will headline the third annual Nintendo Fusion Tour with the STARTING LINE, MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK, PANIC! AT THE DISCO and BOYS NIGHT OUT. The trek kicks off on September 28th in Detroit and wraps on November 22nd in Providence, Rhode Island . . .
KELIS and PLACEBO's BRIAN MOLKO have contributed their vocals to German techno producer TIMO MAAS' second album, Pictures, due August 23rd . . . The NEPTUNES' PHARRELL WILLIAMS will produce the soundtrack for the film version of the Eighties animated television series, Voltron. Williams is also executive producer of the film . . . Reworked songs from ELLA FITZGERALD, BING CROSBY, CHARLIE PARKER and MAHALIA JACKSON will be featured on Christmas Remixed 2: A Six Degrees Collection, due this holiday season . . . FEFE DOBSON will release Sunday Love on September 20th. The rocker's second album will feature production and tracks written by VERUCA SALT singer NINA GORDON and former MARILYN MANSON guitarist JOHN5 . . . TONY BENNETT, BRANFORD MARSALIS, SONNY ROLLINS, the PAT METHENY TRIO and JOHN SCOFIELD will perform at California's forty-eighth annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 16th to 18th . . . Jackson Browne -- Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1, an album of acoustic performances from the singer-songwriter, will be released on his label, Inside Recordings, October 11th . . . FOO FIGHTERS bassist NATE MENDEL acts in and wrote the score for the indie film Our Burden Is Light, which was recently released straight to DVD . . .
The KILLERS will headline the premiere of the U.S. edition of the U.K.'s Download Festival, on October 8th in Mountain View, California. MODEST MOUSE, the ARCADE FIRE and DOVES will also perform . . . CHRISTINA AGUILERA has teamed up with HERBIE HANCOCK on the duet "A Song for You" (a LEON RUSSELL cover) on his new album, Possibilities, due August 30th. The CD includes collaborations with CARLOS SANTANA, TREY ANASTASIO, ANNIE LENNOX, JOHN MAYER, PAUL SIMON and STING . . . Starbucks will release Hear Music XM Radio Sessions, Vol. 1, featuring original songs by JEWEL, TRACY CHAPMAN and JASON MRAZ, on August 3rd . . . MEGADETH frontman DAVE MUSTAINE filed a lawsuit on July 25th claiming former bassist DAVID ELLEFSON used the name of the band without permission. Ellefson listed Megadeth as one of the bands he's involved with in an ad in the latest issue of Bass Player magazine . . . NEIL YOUNG's film, Greendale: A Musical Novel, currently available on DVD, is set to air on the Sundance Channel on September 3rd as part of a tribute to American music, "Rock Music Roll Picture" . . . Eagle Rock Entertainment is releasing Rick James: Superfreak Live 1982 on DVD on July 26th . . . R. KELLY, WYCLEF JEAN and the GAME will make guest appearances on R&B singer SHARISSA's Every Beat of My Heart, due September 27th . . . BRIAN WILSON: An Art Book, a book celebrating the former BEACH BOYS composer and singer with contributions from artists JOHN CAGE, Thomas Demand and Ed Ruscha, is now available at fourcornersbooks.co.uk . . .
Revived Seventies pop rockers BIG STAR -- with original members ALEX CHILTON and JODY STEPHENS, and Posies mainstays JON AUER and KEN STRINGFELLOW -- will release In Space, their first album since they disbanded in 1975, on September 27th . . . SISTER HAZEL, O.A.R. and MARC BROUSSARD will perform on the Rock Boat 2005, which leaves New Orleans on September 29th and stops in Mexico before returning on October 3rd. BETTER THAN EZRA, GLEN PHILLIPS, BLUE MERLE and the PAT McGEE BAND will join SISTER HAZEL on the winter version, Rock Boat 2006, when it sets sail on January 14th . . . Tracks from ELVIS PRESLEY, MY MORNING JACKET, NANCY WILSON and SUN KIL MOON (covering NEIL DIAMOND's "Kentucky Woman") will be featured on the Songs from the Brown Hotel EP, due August 16th. Proceeds from the CD sales will benefit the Louisville-based Center for Women and Families, which helps victims of sexual and domestic abuse . . . Country singer MINDY McCREADY was hospitalized in Florida on Friday when she overdosed on drugs. McCready was arrested and charged with identity theft last week in Arizona and has also faced allegations of drug violation and driving under the influence within the past two years . . . The Police: Synchronicity Concert DVD, which features footage from the band's Atlanta show off its 1983 world tour, hits stores September 5th . . . Backbeat Books will publish Eddie Van Halen: Know the Man, Play the Music on August 29th . . .
The San Francisco Park and Recreation Commission has voted to name the McLaren Park Performance Amphitheatre after late GRATEFUL DEAD frontman JERRY GARCIA . . . M.I.A. will kick off her North American headlining tour on September 19th in Athens, Georgia, and will finish up on October 5th in San Francisco . . . PAUL McCARTNEY will debut "Fine Line," the first single from his upcoming Chaos and Creation in the Back Yard album, on AOL Music's First Listen on July 26th . . . DANZIG will hit the road on the Blackest of the Black tour with metal rockers CHIMAIRA, DOYLE, BEHEMOTH, HISMA, MORTIIS and the AGONY SCENE on September 30th in San Diego . . . RUN DMC's REVEREND RUN will deliver the keynote address at the CMJ Music Marathon on September 15th. This year's festival will run from September 14th to 17th, with performances by the ARCADE FIRE, the BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE, the HOLD STEADY, BLACKALICIOUS, the DANDY WARHOLS and PARTICLE . . . BILLY JOE SHAVER will release the self-produced The Real Deal on September 20th. The album will feature duets with BIG AND RICH, NANCI GRIFFITH and FLACO JIMENEZ . . . QUEEN PLUS PAUL RODGERS will play two shows on October 16th and 22nd at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and California's Hollywood Bowl. The U.S. dates will coincide with the release of the live double-disc set, Return of the Champs (due September 13th) and a live DVD (due October 24th) . . .
SARAH McLACHLAN will release Bloom on September 6th. The remix album will feature ten previously unreleased tracks, including "Just Like Me," remixed by WILL.I.AM of the BLACK EYED PEAS . . . HUEY LEWIS will make his Broadway debut in the musical revival of Chicago. Lewis will play the part of lawyer Billy Flynn in the Tony-winning show beginning November 1st . . . Capitol Records will release the EAZY-E CD/DVD, Eternal E: Gangsta Memorial Edition, on September 6th. The set features sixteen tracks from the late N.W.A rapper, as well as the previously unreleased "A Lil' Eazier Said," from his son, LIL' E . . . The RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS and ICE CUBE will join SNOOP DOGG at a benefit concert for his Snoop Youth Football League on August 25th at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre . . . After battling a severe case of pneumonia and a related infection, SPIRITUALIZED singer JASON PIERCE has been released from the hospital and is recovering . . . JESSICA SIMPSON and WILLIE NELSON will host a special screening of their new movie, Dukes of Hazzard, on July 29th at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, California . . . British rockers SUPERGRASS will release their fifth album, Road to Rouen, on September 27th . . . Blues legend LONG JOHN BALDRY died in Vancouver on July 21st after suffering from a chest infection. Baldry was a profound influence on British rockers including ERIC CLAPTON, ROD STEWART and PAUL McCARTNEY.