SNOOP DOGG has teamed with Pony footwear to create "The One and Only," his own line of shoes to debut in November . . . PAPA ROACH will begin an eight-date tour on June 25th in Spokane, Washington . . . BEYONCE, JAY-Z, JANET JACKSON, MISSY ELLIOTT and KANYE WEST have contributed songs to the "'04 BET Awards Nominees" compilation, due June 29th . . . Standards sung by RICKIE LEE JONES, FRANK SINATRA, JILL SCOTT and CARLY SIMON will be included on "The Society of Singers Presents: Great Voices, Great Songs," due August 10th . . . The FAUX's KIRSTEN MALONE (a.k.a. LADY K) was hit by a car and killed on Tuesday while riding her bicycle in Allston, Massachusetts. She was twenty-nine . . . R.E.M., BRIGHT EYES and KINGS OF LEON are a few of the performances appearing on the Austin City Limits Festival Live CD, due in stores on July 27th . . .
A three-CD deluxe reissue of the KINKS' classic 1968 album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society will be released on June 28th in the U.K. . . . SPIKE LEE and former President BILL CLINTON are among the backers for a September 29th tribute to RAY CHARLES to be hosted by BILL COSBY in Beverly Hills. The show will benefit the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College in Atlanta . . . RADIO 4 will release their next album, Stealing of a Nation, on September 7th . . . MADONNA will announce on ABC's "20/20" Friday that she's chosen the Hebrew name ESTHER for herself as a follower of Kabballah . . . FU MANCHU are putting finishing touches on their seventh album, due in August . . . HANSON will release Underneath Acoustic Live on DVD on July 27th . . . Former DEAD KENNEDYS frontman JELLO BIAFRA's collaboration with the MELVINS, Never Breathe What You Can't See, will hit streets September 30th . . .
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE will join the Memphis celebration surrounding the 50th Anniversary of Rock & Roll on July 5th at the famed Sun Studio . . . CHER will extend her Farewell Tour 2004 through the summer with the addition of eighteen performances . . . COURTNEY LOVE has pledged to reschedule her summer tour, beginning August 1st at Japan's Fuji Festival, after canceling the trek due to legal troubles . . . STATIC-X will release an album of rarities titled, Beneath, Between, Beyond, on July 20th . . . DROWNING POOL, DROPBOX and FLAW will kick off their summer jaunt together on June 30th in Springfield, Missouri . . . EN VOGUE's DAWN ROBINSON makes a guest appearance on the DRE ALLEN PROJECT's L.Y.F.E., due September 14th . . . O.A.R. will release the two-CD live album 34th and 8th on August 10th . . .
RAY CHARLES, OUTKAST and ALAN JACKSON memorabilia, among other artists, is set to display at Atlanta's international airport as part of the highlights from the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The exhibit will run through July 2005 . . . PUBLIC ENEMY's FLAVOR FLAV and JORDAN KNIGHT (NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK) will join the third season of the television series, The Surreal Life, airing on VH1 beginning September 5th . . . Rapper LIL' JON is working with PARIS HILTON on tracks for her upcoming solo album . . . PHANTOM PLANET frontman ALEX GREENWALD has teamed up with activist group PETA for the organization's new campaign . . . SUZANNE VEGA, BEBEL GILBERTO and MOS DEF are among the performers taking part in the Joe's Pub in the Park concert series in New York starting August 16th . . .
BOB DYLAN will be made an honorary doctor of music by Scotland's oldest University, the University of St. Andrews, at its summer graduation ceremony on June 23rd . . . BOWLING FOR SOUP will release their new CD, A Hangover You Don't Deserve, on September 14th . . . SNOOP DOGG has signed with the NEPTUNES' label, Star Trak, for his upcoming solo album . . . COHEED AND CAMBRIA have signed to Columbia Records and will re-issue their album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, on June 29th . . . STAN RIDGWAY will release a new album titled Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads and Fugitive Songs on August 20th . . . Sweden's SAHARA HOTNIGHTS' new CD, Kiss and Tell, will be released July 27th. The band will begin their jaunt as openers for the HIVES' U.S. tour on July 20th in Washington, D.C. . . .
SPARTA will replace the VINES as the opening act for INCUBUS' North American tour staring June 24th in Atlantic City. The band's new album, Porcelain, will hit streets July 13th . . . PAUL MCCARTNEY will perform his 3,000th show during his fourteen-date summer trek across Europe . . . Country legend GLEN CAMPBELL was sentenced Tuesday to ten days in jail beginning July 1st, following last month's guilty plea of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident in Phoenix, Arizona . . . The POLYPHONIC SPREE, GOMEZ and the THRILLS will tour together during the off nights of Lollapalooza beginning July 16th in Vancouver . . . VASSAR CLEMENTS will release his first blues album, Livin' With the Blues, on August 24th . . .
ALANIS MORISSETTE and actor RYAN REYNOLDS are engaged to be married. "I knew early on that he was someone I could spend the rest of my life with," the singer told Us Weekly. "He's courageous, he'll talk about anything, he takes responsibility, he's just unbelievable" . . . WEEZER frontman RIVERS CUOMO has posted a trio of cover songs (including JOHN DENVER's "Annie's Song" and "Tomorrow" from the Broadway musical Annie) online at www.myspace.com/riverscuomo . . . WILLIE NELSON, B.B. KING, STEVIE WONDER, GLEN CAMPBELL and BILLY PRESTON will be among those who will honor RAY CHARLES at his funeral Friday in Los Angeles . . .
USHER has hooked up with ALICIA KEYS to record a duet called "My Boo" . . . P. DIDDY will head out on the road later this summer on the Daddy's House Dance Party world tour . . . COURTNEY LOVE has cancelled ten of her twenty-one summer gigs under the advisement of her lawyers . . . MADONNA has parted ways with Maverick Records, the label she co-founded twelve years ago, after Warner Music Group announced Monday it would buy her out . . . Former SAVES THE DAY bassist SEAN McGRATH passed away after a two-year bout with intestinal cancer. He was twenty-eight . . . DON HENLEY was honored at Restore American Heroes second annual gala last night in Washington, D.C. . . . The first annual ELVIS Film Festival will screen five of the King's movies on August 11th in Memphis . . .
STAIND have completed twelve tracks with producer DAVID BOTTRILL (GODSMACK, MUDVAYNE) for their next album . . . BILLY JOE SHAVER has completed an album by his late son, EDDY SHAVER, titled Billy and the Kid, which will be released on August 24th . . . DMX has been sued by pet-goods manufacturer Amusing Diversions for breach of contract and fraud for agreeing to promote a line of designer wear for dogs . . . R. KELLY and OUTKAST are among the nominees for the BET Awards, set for June 29th in Los Angeles . . .
MOBY will serve as King Neptune at New York City's Mermaid Parade set for June 26th at Coney Island . . . LIAM and NOEL GALLAGHER will make guest appearances on a PRODIGY track entitled "Shoot Down," featured on the band's upcoming album, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned, scheduled for release on August 16th . . . GOOD CHARLOTTE's Chronicles of Life and Death has been pushed back to an October 5th release . . . PAPA ROACH will release Getting Away With Murder in September . . . DIANA KRALL will launch a thirty-four-date tour on June 19th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . . . Actress MINNIE DRIVER will release her first album, Everything I've Got In My Pocket, this fall with Rounder Records Group . . . TOOTS HIBBERT and BERES HAMMOND appear on Is It Rolling, Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to BOB DYLAN, due August 10th. The album also features a remix of Dylan's "I and I" by SLY AND ROBBIE . . .
BRITNEY SPEARS is facing a ten-million-dollar lawsuit filed by a San Diego athletic-clothing company claiming trademark infringement on the singer's use of the phrase In the Zone. Spears is also scheduled to launch a new fragrance, "Curious," this fall in association with Elizabeth Arden . . . 2 LIVE CREW's LUTHER "LUKE" CAMPBELL will be honored at the Free Speech Coalition's Night of the Stars on July 24th . . . BJORK's new full-length album, Medulla, is scheduled to hit streets in late August . . . ABKCO is planning to release Hybrid/SACD compilations by British Invasion bands including the ANIMALS and HERMAN'S HERMITS next month . . . NORTHERN STATE will release their second album, All City, on August 17th. The set features CYPRESS HILL's DJ MUGGS and the ROOTS' ?UESTLOVE as guests.
