KEANE SINGER ADMITTED TO REHAB
According to the band?s official Web site, Keane frontman Tom Chaplin has been admitted to a rehabilitation center for drug and alcohol abuse. The singer, who was very open about the issue, wrote on the site saying, "I've been having to deal with an increasing problem with drink and drugs, and the time has come to get the professional help I need to sort myself out. I feel desperately disappointed to be letting down our fans, but I want to get myself right now so that I can be back on the road for the rest of the year." Keane have been forced to postpone their upcoming U-S tour in support of their latest album Under the Iron Sea. Rescheduled dates are expected to be posted on KeaneMusic.com in the coming days.

FLEA REMEMBERS PHOENIX
River Phoenix would have been 36 today, but on Halloween 1993, the actor died of a drug overdose in Los Angeles. As we come up to the anniversary of his death, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea remembers his friend. On a post on the band?s Web site, RedHotChiliPeppers.com, Flea wrote that Phoenix was ?the kindest person I ever knew.?

30 SECONDS & TAKING BACK SUNDAY HELP FIGHT AIDS
30 Seconds to Mars and Taking Back Sunday will perform at the MTV2 and LIFEbeat: The Music Industry Fights Aids annual benefit concert next Wednesday. The bands will perform the pre-VMA show at New York?s Webster Hall, which will help spread the message of HIV/AIDS prevention in the United States. 30 Seconds to Mars are up for ?Best Rock Video? for their track ?The Kill? at the 2006 Video Music Awards, which will air live from New York City on August 31st at 7 PM on MTV.

MODEST MOUSE SINK ON DECEMBER 19TH
Modest Mouse will release the follow-up to their 2004 breakthrough album Good News for People Who Love Bad News on December 19th. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank was recorded in Oxford, Mississippi, according to Billboard and features new Mouse member, former Smiths guitarist, Johnny Marr.

GNARLS BARKLEY: 'CRAZY' DEEPER THAN A PARTY SONG
Gnarls Barkley's debut single, "Crazy," has been the party song of the summer. But the duo's Cee-Lo Green told LAUNCH that the song itself actually has a message that's a bit deeper than its dancing fans may realize: "That song is written out of a great deal of humanity and humility. It pertains to a number of different things, because music in a number of ways is therapeutic for me, first, you know. So I get a chance to vent and I get a chance to make sense of the many things stirring around in my head and in my heart."

RIVERS DENIES WEEZER BREAKUP RUMORS
Weezer has denied speculation that the band is splitting up with a new posting at its official website. Although frontman Rivers Cuomo told MTV.com last month that the band "was done," the new message read, "A Public Service Announcement from the weez: We right here!...Now please, take those 'weezer split?' headlines and place them firmly into the 'Don't believe the hype' bin. And have yourself a fine afternoon now."

Cuomo, who got married and graduated from Harvard in June, also told MTV.com that he wasn't certain the band would "ever make a record again."
No future plans have been announced, although a live DVD and greatest hits collection are both reportedly in the works. Weezer's last album, Make Believe, came out in 2005. Cuomo was also the subject of an interview in the latest issue of Tricycle magazine, a publication dedicated to Buddhism and meditation.

QUICK HITS
Tool is reportedly mapping out another U.S. tour, tentatively slated to begin in January. The group will take a break after its current trek ends on October 7th so that singer Maynard James Keenan can head back to his vineyard in Sedona, Arizona to oversee the crushing of this year's grapes.

My Chemical Romance is reportedly eyeing October 24th as the release date for its new album, now tentatively titled The Black Parade. (The PRP)

Korn has posted the video for its new single "Liar" online. The clip is done completely with computer animation, including the images of the band. (Tunelab Music)

Modest Mouse has set December 19th as the release date for its new album, called We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. The disc will feature the debut of ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr as a full-time member of the band. (Billboard)

Fuel has entered the studio to begin recording its fourth album, according to an e-mail sent out to the band's mailing list. The group has not yet announced the name of its new singer, but did reveal that Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle drummer Josh Freese will lay down drum tracks for the new disc.

Oasis plans to release a movie in conjunction with the November arrival of its first greatest hits collection, Stop The Clocks. The film, titled Lord Don't Slow Me Down will be a documentary shot on the band's last world tour. There's no word on when or where the film will surface in the U.S. (NME)

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23

DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - John McEnroe, Artie Lang, Busta Rhymes
JAY LENO (NBC) - (repeat) Colin Farrell, Rainn Wilson, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Trace Adkins, Amy Smart
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Sarah Jessica Parker, Matisyahu
CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Luke Perry, Jose Gonzalez
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - Tom Cavanaugh, Tommy Chong, Cartel
JON STEWART (Comedy Central) - Frederick Lane