FATBOY SLIM, CHINGY and FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE are among the artists contributing to the soundtrack to the animated film Robots, due in stores March 1st . . . To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Disneyland, LEANN RIMES will sing "Remember When," a song set to play throughout Disney's theme parks and commercials . . . JIMMY EAT WORLD and TAKING BACK SUNDAY will kick off a co-headlining tour on April 10th in Champaign, Illinois . . . A wrongful-death lawsuit seeking unspecified damages was filed Wednesday against producer PHIL SPECTOR by the mother of actress LANA CLARKSON, whom he is accused of murdering . . . TRAY DEE of SNOOP DOGG's EASTSIDAZ was sentenced to twelve years in prison on Wednesday for shooting into an occupied vehicle in Long Beach, California, in 2003 . . .
Former lead guitarist for the TURTLES, AL NICHOL, has been sentenced to six months in jail for a DUI arrest that occurred last spring in Nevada . . . HEAD AUTOMATICA has pulled out of the Sub City Take Action tour due to frontman DARRYL PALUMBO's complications from Crohn's disease. HOPESFALL will perform in their place . . . GREAT WHITE guitarist MARK KENDALL will release his solo album, 2.0, this spring, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit victims of the Rhode Island concert fire . . . ERIC GRIFFITHS, guitarist and founding member of JOHN LENNON's pre-BEATLES band the QUARRYMEN, died January 29th in his home in Scotland after battling cancer . . .
MADONNA will make a guest appearance on MISSY ELLIOT'S UPN reality show The Road to Stardom With Missy Elliott on February 16th . . . 50 CENT visits Springfield when he makes a guest appearance on The Simpsons. The episode entitled "Pranksta Rap" airs February 13th on Fox . . . SANTANA will release the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2002's Shaman this spring in conjunction with a tour of Latin American . . . ENRIQUE IGLESIAS is the new spokesperson for Tommy Hilfiger's new fragrance True Star Men, the male counterpart to True Star inspired by BEYONCE . . . UNCLE KRACKER is set to hit the road with KENNY CHESNEY and GRETCHEN WILSON. The tour kicks off March 9th in Houston . . .
MARC ANTHONY and JENNIFER LOPEZ will do their debut performance as husband and wife at the Grammy Awards on February 13th . . . SNOOP DOGG will host the Snooper Bowl, a youth football game and charity concert for inner-city kids, this Saturday night in Jacksonville, Florida . . . PAPA ROACH kick off their U.S. tour in support of Getting Away With Murder on February 17th in Seattle . . . KOOL AND THE GANG's upcoming The Hits: Reloaded CD will feature ASHANTI, LIL' KIM, LAURYN HILL and LISA STANSFIELD . . . The LIBERTINES' PETE DOHERTY was arrested yesterday after the London police received a call regarding a possible assault and robbery. Doherty remains in custody in London . . . REEL BIG FISH will release their new album We're Not Happy Til You're Not Happy on April 5th . . .
USHER and newcomer CIARA are the top nominees for the Soul Train Awards. Usher earned five, including best male R&B album for his blockbuster Confessions, and Ciara earned four, including best female R&B album for her debut Goodies. The ceremony will be broadcast from Hollywood on February 28th . . . The PIXIES, the FOO FIGHTERS and IRON MAIDEN will headline this year's Reading and Leeds Festival, taking place August 26th to 28th . . . The KILLERS kick off a tour of Europe and Japan on Wednesday in support of their 2004 debut, Hot Fuss, in Brighton, England . . . KENNY CHESNEY, TOBY KEITH, GRETCHEN WILSON and BIG AND RICH are set to perform at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, airing live on April 11th . . . Veteran Latin rockers LOS LOBOS will kick off their seventeen-city Cancionero 2005 tour February 27th in Oregon . . . MASTER P was arrested in Los Angeles on Thursday for unlawfully carrying a firearm and released on $35,000 bail . . .
The fifth annual Jammys will take place April 26th at the Theater in Madison Square Garden . . . The BEATLES song "Across the Universe" will be performed live at this year's Grammys with an all-star lineup including STEVIE WONDER, BONO, ALICIA KEYS, NORAH JONES, VELVET REVOLVER, BRIAN WILSON and TIM McGRAW . . . ROD STEWART will be featured on Great Performances on PBS on March 15th. The concert showcased was recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall and features CHRISSIE HYNDE of the PRETENDERS and RON WOOD of the ROLLING STONES) . . . Hip-Hop pioneer KURTIS BLOW is working on the documentary The History of Rap, due this summer . . . JACK JOHNSON, OZOMATLI, G. LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE and JACKSON BROWNE will perform at Hawaii's Kokua Festival on April 13th in Oahu and April 16th in Honolulu . . . New Orleans rockers SUPAGROUP will release their second album, Rules, on May 10 . . . The INDIGO GIRLS will be performing on the lesbian travel company Olivia's Mexican Riviera Cruise, scheduled to set sail in the fall . . .
Three years running, CHER'S Farewell Never Can Say Goodbye Tour will finally wrap on April 30th at the Hollywood Bowl in Austin . . . On February 10th, KANYE WEST will launch the Kanye West Foundation, aimed at decreasing the dropout rate and promoting school music programs . . . The HBO-produced movie starring OUTKAST's ANDRE 3000 and BIG BOI, formerly titled My Life in Idlewild, has finished filming and is scheduled for release in June. Although ROSARIO DAWSON will not appear in the musical film as reported, PATTI LaBELLE will . . . STEVIE WONDER and JASON MRAZ are featured on RAUL MIDON's debut album, State of Mind, due May 10th . . .
CHUCK D and other original members of PUBLIC ENEMY will discuss the making and impact of their seminal 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, at New York University's Tischman Auditorium on February 26th . . . DAVID LERCHEY of the doo wop group the DEL-VIKINGS -- whose 1957 hit "Come Go With Me" was named one the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone -- died on Saturday of cancer and pulmonary problems at the age of sixty-seven . . . Texas indie rockers SPOON will release their fifth album, Gimme Fiction, on May 10th . . . Incarcerated Southern rapper C-MURDER, the younger brother of MASTER P, will release The Truest **** I Ever Said on March 22nd . . . JERRY GARCIA BAND keyboardist MELVIN SEALS will release his solo debut, Melting Pot, on January 25th . . . RAY PETERSON died last Tuesday of cancer at the age of sixty-five. He was best known for 1960 hit "Tell Laura I Love Her." . . .
CHINGY will perform during the Lingerie Bowl, a February 6th pay-per-view event in which scantily clad women do battle on the gridiron . . . LIL' KIM'S manager Damion Butler pled guilty Friday to firing a gun "with the intent of hurting someone" after a Hot 97 radio station appearance in 2001. Kim's trial for the same incident, for which she's charged with conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice, is set for February 28th . . . British rockers ASH will launch a U.S. tour with the BRAVERY in Philadelphia on March 9th, a day after they release their new CD, Meltdown . . . TRACY BONHAM will release her new album, Blink the Brightest, on May 10th . . .
The ROOTS' RAHZEL, DOUG E. FRESH and PETE ROCK will perform at the Rap for Relief concert to benefit tsunami relief on February 22nd at New York's B.B. King Blues Club . . . German metal band DANZIG kick off their U.S. tour in support of their new album, Circle of Snakes, on February 18th in St. Louis, wrapping up March 15th in Anaheim, California. The group is also at work on a follow-up to 1993's Black Aria, Black Aria II, due this summer . . . SUGARCULT and HEAD AUTOMATICA are headlining the Sub City Take Action Tour kicking off February 2nd in Washington, D.C. The Take Action organization helps educate young people about depression and suicide . . .