GORILLAZ TO RELEASE DVD
Gorillaz will release a DVD titled Phase 2 - Slowboat To Hades on October 31st, according to a posting at the "virtual" band's website. The 40-track disc will include all the videos from the Gorillaz' 2005 album, Demon Days, along with concert footage, TV performances, interviews, short films and a 3-D interactive recreation of the cartoon act's online hangout and studio. A bonus CD-ROM will contain 16 games, wallpapers, screensavers and other hidden extras.

SNOW PATROL LEADS 'GREY'S ANATOMY' SOUNDTRACK
Snow Patrol and The Fray are among the acts appearing on the new Grey's Anatomy soundtrack, due out September 12th. The second volume will feature a previously unreleased acoustic version of Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars," along with the Fray's new single "How To Save A Life," which has been appearing in ads promoting the show's September 21st season premiere on ABC. Also on the compilation are tracks by Gomez, Metric, Jim Noir and others.


QUICK HITS
Crossfade has been named Grand Marshalls for the NASCAR Ameriquest 300 Busch Race, scheduled for September 2nd at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. The race will air on TNT.

Saturday Night Live cast member Horatio Sanz is fighting reports that he's being fired from the show. The hefty comedian told the Chicago Sun-Times, "I haven't been approached with anything that's led me to believe I won't be back." Sanz hasn't signed a new contract with the SNL yet for the upcoming season but he thinks the stories about his dismissal came from an NBC exec who "leaked a bunch of bull." The fates of Kenan Thompson, Chris Parnell, Will Forte, and Maya Rudolph are up in the air as well.

The rumors are true -- Winona Ryder and Christian Slater are reuniting for a Heathers sequel. The actors played lovers/murderers in the 1989 black comedy and they'll reprise their roles with a twist. Ryder told Entertainment Weekly, "It takes place in Washington and Christian Slater agreed to come back and make an Obi-Wan-type appearance. It's very funny."

USA Network's quirky detective series Monk ends its fifth season tonight (August 25th) with a trip to a rock concert. In the episode, Captain Stottlemeyer's son ditches school to see the band Novillero and Monk volunteers to go look for him. But instead of enjoying some tunes, Monk finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation. Monk airs at 8 on USA Network.

NEW TO THEATERS AUGUST 25TH

IDLEWILD
A modern-day musical complete with rapping and dancing, Idlewild is the story of childhood friends in Prohibition-era Georgia who find themselves in the middle of gangster and girl troubles. Outkast's Big Boi plays Rooster, a family man and bootlegger who's the headliner at a speakeasy and takes charge of the venue when his boss is gunned down. Andre 3000's Percival toils at his family's mortuary during the day and moonlights as the speakeasy's pianist at night. His life is thrown for a loop when he falls for a new singer who has come to town under dubious circumstances. Terrence Howard and newcomer Paula Patton co-star in the picture, which features music from Outkast's Speakerboxx-The Love Below album as well as new songs.

BEERFEST
Two brothers travel to Germany to spread their grandfather's ashes in Munich and are introduced to Beerfest, a super-secret, international beer drinking competition run by their long lost cousins. They discover that they're no match for the Beerfest regulars and return to the U.S. determined to assemble their own chugging squad for the next year's match. For a year, the brothers and their teammates -- a nerdy scientist, a food-eating champion, and a gay hustler -- hone their beerpong, quarters, and other drinking game skills. Beerfest is the latest effort by the guys behind Super Troopers and Club Dread, and is full of bodily functions, topless women, and drunks.

INVINCIBLE
Football diehards can get their gridiron fix before the season officially starts with Invincible, the real-life story of a 30-year-old unemployed teacher who wins a spot on the Philadelphia Eagles during an open tryout. Mark Wahlberg stars as the unlikely pro player, Vince Papale, and Greg Kinnear co-stars as Dick Vermeil, the now legendary NFL coach. Invincible was made in full cooperation with the NFL, so the uniforms, logos, team names, and game footage are authentic, as are the characters' '70s hairstyles and clothes.

HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS
Billy is a new kid at school and saves himself from a beating from the town bully, Joe, by saying he'll eat 10 worms in one day. No one believes the weak-stomached kid can do it until he comes up with inventive ways of cooking the crawlers. Billy's efforts are so awe-inspiring that even Joe's rag-tag gang of followers starts to warm up to their brave new friend. Fried Worms stars Luke Benward .

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for FRIDAY, AUGUST 25
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bill Buford
JAY LENO (NBC) - (repeat) Jeremy Piven, Cat Deeley, Corinne Bailey Rae
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Andre Benjamin, David Boreanaz, Mellowdrone
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Salma Hayek, Eric Balfour, Street Drum Corps
CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Sarah Silverman, Cheech Marin, Mobb Deep
JIMMY KIMMEL - (ABC) - (repeat) Paul Reubens, snake handler Jules Sylvester, Leonid "The Magnificent" Filatov, Under the Influence of Giants

FOR SATURDAY, AUGUST 26
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Host Antonio Banderas with musical guest Mary J Blige.

FORMER BLINK-182 MEMBERS TO 'TELL THE TRUTH'

Ex-Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker have set a November 14th release date for When Your Heart Stops Beating, the debut album from their new band, Plus-44. According to MTV.com, the disc directly addresses last year's split with former Blink bandmate Tom DeLonge. Hoppus said, "Now that the record is done, we get the chance to tell the truth about everything...we couldn't put into words what we were doing, so we just decided not to say anything and let the music speak for itself. Now it's time for people to hear that music and hear the truth."

• Hoppus added that the entire album is about "everything that's happened, including Blink, and the ugly feelings that were left over afterwards."
• Barker said that DeLonge was primarily responsible for the demise of Blink-182, explaining, "We had a year's worth of touring planned, we were writing a record, and all of a sudden (Tom) just dropped the ball."
• Songs on When Your Heart Stops Beating include the title track, which is also likely to be the first single, and "No It Isn't," which "absolutely" deals with the Blink situation, according to Hoppus.
• Plus-44 plans to launch a North American tour in late October.
• Barker recently filed for divorce from his wife, Shanna Moakler.
• Tom DeLonge now leads his own band called Angels And Airwaves.

BECK FEELS 'NAUSEA' COMING ON

Beck has posted two songs from his upcoming new album at his official website, according to Billboard.com. The first single, "Nausea," and an album track called "Strange Apparition" are both streaming at the site, while a video for "Nausea" is circulating at locations like YouTube.com. The new CD, titled The Information, is due out on October 3rd. As previously reported, the album cover will be blank, but the package will come with a set of stickers for fans to design their own covers.

• A contest is reportedly being planned in which Beck will select the best fan cover design, with art gallery displays of some of the creations also in the works.
• The Information will also include videos for all 15 tracks on the disc, including a clip for "Cell Phone's Dead" shot by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry. A low-budget video for another tune, "I Think I'm In Love," recently surfaced on Beck's MySpace page.
• Beck is slated to play at the U.S. version of the Download Festival on September 30th in San Francisco, with a fall tour scheduled to follow.

QUICK HITS

• The soundtrack to Snakes on a Plane debuted at Number 43 this week on the Billboard Top 200 album chart, selling 19,000 copies in its first week of release. The disc was released on Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz's label, Decaydance Records. Along with tracks from Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco and others, it features emo "supergroup" Cobra Starship singing the title track and first single. (Billboard)
• Guns N' Roses has added two more dates to its fall U.S. schedule. The two new shows are September 27th in Fresno, California, and September 29th in Bakersfield, California. More dates are expected to be announced for the trek, which begins on the 16th in Las Vegas. (Blabbermouth)
• An acoustic performance of 30 Seconds To Mars' hit single "The Kill" was taped for Live@VH1.com earlier this summer. The track is available at mars.vh1.com.

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for THURSDAY, AUGUST 24
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Mark Wahlberg, M. Ward
JAY LENO (NBC) - (repeat) Kevin Spacey, Taylor Hicks
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Denis Leary, Lewis Dix, Matt Goss
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Matthew McConaughey, Kristin Davis, James Hunter
CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Fred Willard, Rihanna
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - (repeat) TBA
JON STEWART (COMEDY CENTRAL) - Martin Short

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

DISTURBED MAN?S SUCCESSFUL SURGERY

David Draiman, the lead singer of Disturbed, underwent surgery on August 15th. His deviated septum was fixed, making the surgery a success. Draiman decided to have the operation after breathing became a problem and his singing was becoming affected. He spoke about it saying, ?I?m excited and relieved that the surgery is over and can?t wait to get back on the road to see our fans in Europe and to make up the dates we missed.? They head over to Europe on September 14th.

PLACEBO HIT THE ROAD

Brit rockers Placebo will head out on a U-S tour this fall. They?ll be joined by L-A duo She Wants Revenge and will kick off the trek in Phoenix, Arizona on October 17th. The band is out in support of their latest album Meds.

NEW FOUND SOUND
New Found Glory will soon be coming around again. The band is releasing its fifth album next month, a record called Coming Home. Guitarist Chad Gilbert and singer Jordan Pundik say it?s real different. ?(Chad Gilbert) I think it?s good to have every song just kind of catch you off guard in a certain way where it takes you up and down throughout the whole record. (Jordan Pundik) And it?s cool how some songs end in a certain way and then the next one starts and it?s kind of like the same, almost like it?s continuing on.? New Found Glory?s album will be out on September 19th, and the band will be launching a tour on October 4th, in Covington, Kentucky.

AMY LEE GETS PERSONAL
It?s been the better part of a year since Evanescence singer Amy Lee and Seether frontman Shaun Morgan called it quits ? but their crumpled relationship is recalled in a song on the new Evanescence album that bears the attention-getting title, ?Call Me When You?re Sober.? And hey, says Lee, nothing personal. ?It?s been a really long time since I was in that world and in that relationship. I am not a vengeful person, I definitely want everybody to be happy and healthy. Honestly, the song, I said what I needed to say it so bad because it had been something that had been pressing me down for months, a really long time. It felt so good to say it and it was sort of like, ?Rrrrrr!? But at the same time it?s definitely not designed to hurt anyone. I couldn?t have been so affected by it and hurt by it if it wasn?t someone that I had originally loved.? Seether had to cancel a tour this month so Shaun Morgan could go into rehab. As for the new Evanescence album, it?s called The Open Door, and it?ll be out on October 3rd.

JET ANNOUNCES FALL DATES

Jet has announced the dates and venues for a 10-city tour of North America this fall, which will launch the group's upcoming sophomore album. The trek begins on September 20th in Austin, Texas and will conclude two and a half weeks later on October 7th in Las Vegas. The quartet's second full-length effort, Shine On, arrives in stores on October 3rd. Texas dates:

September 20 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa

September 21 - Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom

September 22 - Houston, TX - The Warehouse

OFFSPRING IN EARLY STAGES OF RECORDING

The Offspring is now recording demos of songs for its eighth studio album, according to a posting by singer Dexter Holland at the group's official website. Holland wrote that the band took its time writing before heading into the studio, explaining, "We didn't want to rush into the studio just to record demos for the sake of doing something, so we've really taken our time getting the songs together first. Like, making sure the songs kick ass before we even try it in the studio...We've demoed five songs so far and I think it's the best stuff we've done in a long time."

As for the sound of the new material, Holland wrote, "I don't want to compare it to one of our other records or anything, but think guitar, lots of guitar, energy, lots of energy, and good songs." The Offspring's last album, Splinter, came out in 2003.

QUICK HITS

Incubus has finalized November 28th as the release date for its sixth studio album, Light Grenades, after initially announcing a November 21st arrival for the disc. (AOL Music)

A new Deftones track, called "Hole In The Earth," has been posted at the band's MySpace page, MySpace.com/deftones. The song is rumored to be the first single from the group's upcoming album, Saturday Night Wrist, due out on October 31st. (The PRP)

A free show by Alice In Chains at San Diego's Del Mar racetrack on Friday night (August 18th) was cut short when guitarist Jerry Cantrell was hit in the face with a bottle thrown by someone in the audience. According to online reports, Cantrell threw down his guitar and stormed off the stage, bringing the group's encores to an early close. (Metal Sludge)

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for TUESDAY, AUGUST 22
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Chris Elliott, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Razorlight
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Fred Willard, Rachel Blanchard, Stephen J. Cannell
JAY LENO (NBC) - (repeat) Dana Carvey, 8-year-old dental expert Nicholas Hearon, T.I.
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Alec Baldwin, Fred Goss, the Derek Trucks Band
CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Joey Lauren Adams, Matt Costa
DAILY SHOW (COM) - William Cohen
JIMMY KIMMEL - Hillary Duff, Ultimate Fighting Champion Chuck Lidell, Anti-Flag

RADIOHEAD THINGS ABOUT BREAKING UP
Radiohead singer Thom Yorke told Pitchfork Media in an interview last week that the band thinks about breaking up often. When asked whether there were moments during the last two years whether the group thought about calling it a day, Yorke replied, "Yeah, we have them all the time. It'd be deeply unhealthy if it weren't like that. And that's not just instigated by me. Sometimes people just have enough -- they just can't deal with it anymore."
Yorke said that part of the problem was that the band didn't give itself a deadline to make the follow-up to its last album, 2003's Hail To The Thief. He explained, "We didn't have a structure. We didn't have a purpose...There's no reason for the band to get together, nobody who sat there and said, you know, 'We're doing this.' We spent a lot of time f***ing about in the studio and not going anywhere because...we didn't have to (finish a record)."

Radiohead did recently complete its first tour of North America and Europe in more than two years, and has been back at work on its next album. Yorke released his first solo effort, called The Eraser, last month. Radiohead does not have a record label at the moment, having finished out its contract with EMI on Hail To The Thief.


QUICK HITS
Switchfoot plans to release its yet-to-be-titled new album on December 7th. The disc will follow last year's commercially Nothing Is Sound, a commercial disappointment in the wake of 2003's double platinum The Beautiful Letdown. (Tunelab Music)


A live version of a reportedly new Linkin Park song has made its way online. The track, called "Qwerty," can be found at lpassociation.com. There's no word yet on the arrival of the band's new album. (Tunelab Music)


Prison Break start's it's secont season tonight (August 21st). The new season starts eight hours after the events of last season's finale, with Lincoln, Michael, Sucre, Abruzzi, and C-Note outside of the prison walls and on the run from the vengeful guard Bellick and a tough new FBI investigator.



THIS WEEKEND'S TOP TEN MOVIES - AUGUST 18-20
1. Snakes on a Plane, $15.25 million
2. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, $14.1 million
3. World Trade Center, $10.8 million
4. Accepted, $10.1 million
5. Step Up, $9.9 million
6. Barnyard: The Original Party Animals, $7.5 million
7. Little Miss Sunshine, $5.7 million
8. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, $5 million
9. Material Girls, $4.6 million
10. Pulse, $3.5 million


LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for MONDAY, AUGUST 21
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Julianna Margulies, Outkast
JAY LENO (NBC) - (repeat) Tina Fey, Cris Collinsworth, Jerome Bettis, MercyMe
LATE LATE SHOW - Shannen Doherty, Eddie Kaye Thomas, E-40 with T-Pain
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Bob Costas, Jenna Fischer, Dwayne Perkins
CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Stanley Tucci, Aimee Mann
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - Heidi Klum, Dave Navarro, Panic Channel
DAILY SHOW (Comedy Central) - Reza Aslan

MYSPACE USERS HIT BY VIRUS
Computer experts warn viruses linked to MySpace are in circulation. Experts believe hackers have hit the site and say the viruses in circulation can change settings, delete files, secretly track users' movements online and even damage computers. They believe that the hackers have hidden dangerous software on the site which means that computers can be attacked unaware to users while they are just viewing pages. They say the viruses can be hidden in images. They've also seen pages that contain code to automatically spread viruses through MySpace's buddy system, which lets you add friends to your profile.

MySpace now accounts for 4.5 percent of all Internet traffic.

Make sure your anti-virus software is up to date. It's also good to have software that detects and deletes spyware...preferably more than one. Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware are a couple of good ones...and they're free. If you have AOL, it has a good bundle of anti-virus and anti-spyware software.

YOUTUBE TO BECOME A MUSIC VIDEO LIBRARY?

According to BBC, the popular Web site YouTube is in talks with record labels about making new and archived music videos available on their site. The label would like to have ?every music video ever created? on their site within the next 18 months. They plan to make the clips free of charge, like the footage that is currently available. The idea comes at a time when it is increasingly more difficult for artists and labels to keep content from leaking to the Web.

SMASHING PUMPKINS ENTER THE STUDIO

SmashingPumpkins.com, the official Web site for the reunited band, is reporting that they have begun recording a new album. The site states that the band is in the studio and working with famed Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker. It remains unclear as to who else is working on the album, as frontman Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin are the only confirmed reunited members.

KORN ALREADY WORKING ON NEXT ALBUM

Korn's latest studio album, See You On The Other Side, is just 10 months old, but the band is already planning its follow-up. Frontman Jonathan Davis told LAUNCH that the group hasn't really stopped working since the new album was finished: "Yeah, we're working on it right now. We don't know when we'll put it out. I mean, we're gonna write. It's when we have down time we go and write. But it's exciting and we like writing and keeping that going."

Korn released an archival collection, Live & Rare, in May.

NEW TO THEATERS AUGUST 18TH

SNAKES ON A PLANE

There's not much to say about the Samuel L. Jackson horror movie Snakes On A Plane other than it's about a flight that's taken over by hundreds of deadly snakes. Jackson is in the middle of it all as an F.B.I. agent transporting and protecting a mob witness on the reptile-laden flight. Five hundred live snakes were used to make the film, which got an R rating after filmmakers added more nudity, gore, and foul language to satisfy fan input.

ACCEPTED
Animal House meets PCU meets a lot of other college comedies in Accepted, a movie about a college application reject who starts his own fake school to placate his parents. What starts out as a fluke to keep the hero's mom and dad off his back turns into a full-fledged university including a campus, classes, students, and a dean played by comedian Lewis Black.

THE ILLUSIONIST
The Illusionist is a murder mystery starring Edward Norton as a magician who may or may not possess supernatural powers. Norton's character Eisenheim captivates the citizens of early 1900s Vienna with his sleight of hand. He's such a hit that he's summoned to perform for Austria's crown prince and discovers that the royal is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Sophie. The Prince sees the sparks reignite between Sophie and Eisenheim, and orders a police officer played by Paul Giamatti to expose Eisenheim as a fraud.

MATERIAL GIRLS
Real life sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff flex their acting skills by playing ... you guessed it ... sisters! Their characters are Tanzie and Ava Marchetta, the wealthy heiresses to a cosmetics company fortune. The siblings' privileged ways come to a screeching halt, however, when the family business is embroiled in a corporate scandal and they're stripped of their riches and forced to cope as "real people."

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for FRIDAY, AUGUST 18
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Edward Norton, Greg Fitzsimmons
JAY LENO (NBC) - (repeat) Wanda Sykes, Kevin Connolly, the Fray
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - (repeat) Andie MacDowell, Cirque du Soleil's KA, Boyd Matson CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Gisele Bundchen, Bill Bellamy, Belle and Sebastian CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Molly Sims, Anna Faris, Andrew Donnelly, Feist
JIMMY KIMMEL - (ABC) - Samuel L. Jackson, Elisha Cuthbert, Cobra Starship

FOR SATURDAY, AUGUST 19
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - Host Alec Baldwin with Musical Guest Shakira

BLUE OCTOBER KEEPS THEIR COOL
What?s the most challenging thing about spending half your life out on the road with a band? Well, apart from the grueling slog from one town to another, Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld says it?s the never-ending attempt to keep your head screwed on straight. ?I think a lot of musicians forget that they need to take care of themselves, that they need to stand up and go, ?Hold on!.? That need to take a breath for a second. There are a lot of people out there who are not just musicians but heavy thinkers and heavy weighers so like the little things weigh on them, every aspect of it. You have to keep your head straight or else you?re gonna just blow up. You?re gonna implode. You just need to relax and take in all these good things, because it is good things. Sometimes you just gotta go, ?Wake up, dude, enjoy this, it?s awesome!?? Blue October will be heading out on the road next month, starting at San Francisco?s Now And Zen festival on September 19th.

DAVE GROHL IS ?VILE.?

According to NME, Dave Grohl will turn up on the soundtrack for the film Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi. Solo material from the Foo Fighters frontman comes in the form of a track called ?Vile.? Other artists featured on the soundtrack include Gnarls Barkley, System of a Down, Queens of the Stone Age and more.

BREAKING BENJAMIN DEBUTS AT NUMBER 2

Breaking Benjamin's new album Phobia debuts at Number Two on the Billboard charts this week, selling 125,000 copies in the band's best sales week ever, according to Billboard.com. The band's previous album, We Are Not Alone, debuted at Number 20 on the charts. Breaking Benjamin was kept out of the top spot only by Miami rapper Rick Ross' debut album, Port of Miami.

DELONGE WELOMES CHILD; MORE IMPORTANT THAN BLINK

Former Blink-182 guitarist Tom Delonge and his wife, Jennifer, have welcomed their second child on Wednesday (August 16) in Los Angeles, People reports. Jonas Rocket DeLonge weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz., and measured 20 1/2 inches. Delonge, who also has a 4-year-old daughter, Ava Elizabeth, acknowledges that one of the reasons he left Blink-182 is because he no longer wanted to tour as much as bandmates Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker did. But Delonge told LAUNCH that he has no regrets that his family became a greater priority than the band: "I found myself at a kind of crossroads in my life where I couldn't see myself doing this the same way I've been doing it with the Blink guys 'cause I was constantly compromising being with my family or just being the family man I wanted to be. I couldn't do it anymore. It just wasn't worth it to me."
Blink-182 announced its "indefinite hiatus" in 2005. Barker recorded a second album with his side band, the Transplants, before focusing on a new band with Hoppus, Plus 44. Their debut album, tentatively titled Little Death, is due out later this year.
Hoppus and Barker have criticized Delonge in recent interviews for trying to take control of Blink-182's affairs to accommodate his own agenda.
Delonge was on the road this year with his new band, Angels & Airwaves, promoting the group's debut album We Don't Need to Whisper.

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for THURSDAY, AUGUST 17
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Whoopi Goldberg, Fatboy Slim
JAY LENO (NBC) - (repeat) Kate Hudson, Kevin Smith, Soul Asylum
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Jane Kaczmarek, Esai Morales, Larke Miller
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - (repeat) Bruce Willis, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Dropkick Murphys CARSON DALY (NBC) - (repeat) Dave Navarrro, the Duke Spirit
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - (repeat) TBA
JON STEWART (COMEDY CENTRAL) - Matt Dillon

GORILLAZ IN THE PARK LIFE
Before Damon Albarn created that animated supergroup Gorillaz, he used to front the massively popular Brit pop act Blur, and it appears that he?s going back to his roots a bit. Albarn will reveal his new band at the BBC?s Electric Proms festival in Camden, England in late October. The band still hasn?t revealed a name, but the record is titled The Good, The Bad and the Queen, and according to Albarn, it?s the ?follow-on record? to Blur?s Park Life. BBC reports that Albarn describes the album as ?a very English record. It?s the first time I?ve really written about home since Park Life.?


BECK GIVES YOU THE INFORMATION
The track-listing for Beck?s upcoming album, The Information, has been revealed. Billboard reports that the record contains 15 tracks, which is the most that Beck?s ever included on an album. The album comes out on October 3rd, the same day as The Killers? second album and Evanescence?s latest. Beck went down the same road as Thom Yorke, choosing producer Nigel Godrich for the project. Here are the tracks:

"Elevator Music""Think I'm In Love""Cell Phone's Dead""Nausea""Soldier Jane""Strange Apparition""Dark Star""Movie Theme""We Dance Alone""No Complaints""1000 BPM""Motorcade""The Information""New Round""Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton"

CHRIS CORNELL TEAMS WITH LILLYWHITE
Famed U2 producer Steve Lillywhite will get behind the desk to produce Chris Cornell?s upcoming solo album. According to Billboard, the singer will release the album in early 2007. The former Soundgarden frontman plays double duty of course as Audioslave?s lead vocalist. Audioslave?s third album, Revelations, hits shelves on September 5th.

THE SOON TO BE MRS. KATE DOHERTY?
Now that supermodel Kate Moss and notorious rock and roll bad boy Pete Doherty have been photographed kissing all across London, it?s pretty safe to say that the two are back together, but are they thinking of tying the knot? U-K tabloids are reporting that Moss is wearing an engagement ring, and London paper The Sun reports that Pete has been telling friends how desperate he is to marry Kate.

KILLER CONCERTS
As Killers fans wait patiently for the release of the band?s new album Sam?s Town, they can ease their tension by catching the Las Vegas boys play. The band has announced two dates on their Web site. Brandon Flowers and company will be playing their hometown of Las Vegas on August 26th, and the V Festival in Baltimore on September 23rd. If you can?t catch the band at either of those dates, you can watch them perform at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards on August 31st at 7 PM.

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Jessica Biel, Christina Aguilera
JAY LENO (NBC) - Owen Wilson, Lance Armstrong, Chris Isaak (repeat)
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Alice Cooper, Penelope Ann Miller
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - Rachel Weisz, Paul Bettany, Graham Bensinger (repeat)
CARSON DALY (NBC) - The Game (repeat)
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - Paul Reubens, snake handler Jules Sylvester, Obie Trice
JON STEWART (Comedy Central) - Thomas Kean

One last post before I leave for a few days.


MTV CURSE?
First it was Nick and Jessica. Then it was Carmen and Dave. Get ready because here we go again... Travis Barker has filed for divorce from his wife and Meet the Barkers costar Shanna Moakler, People reports. Do you think it just might not be a great idea to turn your marriage into a reality television show?


YOUR PLANS FOR THANKSGIVING 2008
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince scheduled for release on Nov. 21, 2008.

I'm going on vacation for a week, starting tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll have some buzz from Austin to give you when I get back. In the meantime, you can get rock news, updated daily, at our website, www.95x.net.


ARCTIC MONKEYS DEBUT NEW VIDEO
The Arctic Monkeys have debuted their new video for the track ?Leave Before the Lights Come On? on their Web-site. The video is directed by John Hardwicke and features In America star Paddy Considine. You can catch the clip now over at ArcticMonkeys.com. ?Leave Before the Lights Come On? is off the Arctic Monkeys highly-successful debut album. They are currently on tour in Australia.


?ORIGINAL FIRE? VIDEO PREMIERES TODAY!
The video for Audioslave?s new single, ?Original Fire,? will premiere today on Yahoo! Music. The video is available at Music.Yahoo.com/Premieres and will pay tribute to music and cultural icons that have inspired the band. The clip will feature such icons as The Clash, Malcolm X and Che Guevara. ?Original Fire? is featured on the Miami Vice soundtrack and is off Audioslave?s upcoming album Revelations, which will hit stores on September 5th.



O?REILLY TO DISCUSS EVERCLEAR?S ?HATER?
Everclear?s controversial video for their latest track ?Hater? has stirred up so much controversy on the Internet that frontman Art Alexis will appear as a guest on Bill O?Reilly?s The O?Reilly Factor tonight to discuss the clip. The video features a fictional ?Hater Jesus? character and takes a sinful comedic look at those who hate in the name of religion. The band has also made an alternate video for the song, which takes a look at celebrity break-ups. ?Hater? is off Everclear?s upcoming album Welcome to the Drama Club, which will be in stores on September 12th. The O?Reilly Factor airs tonight at 7 PM on FOX News.


INXS SINGER HONORED IN FILM
INXS singer Michael Hutchence died in a hotel in Sydney, Australia back in 1997, and the events surrounding his death made world headlines. The singer died either of suicide or accidental death via autoerotic asphyxiation at the age of 37, and now some filmmakers would like to honor his memory by telling his story. Producer Clark Westerman and video director Nick Egan are working on a project called Slide Away, according to Reuters, which is a story about the man that Hutchence was, not the seedy details of his passing. Egan directed many of INXS? videos throughout their career. No word when the film will be released.


JOY DIVISON GET UNDER CONTROL
Famed photographer and video director Anton Corbijn is currently in England directing Control, a new film about the life of late Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Rising star Harry Treadway plays Joy Division drummer Stephen Morris and he says that it?s the music that drew him to the part. ?I love them. It?s bizarre because I got into their music about a year and a half ago. It is just absolutely mind-blowing music. The fact that so many people, well, strangely a lot of people do, that I?ve been speaking to recently, do know about them but general people, a lot of people aren?t aware of them, and you say, ?Love Will Tear Us Apart,? and they go, ?Oh yeah.? But the 50 songs or whatever that they recorded are unbelievable and what they did by mixing the sort of Kraft Work influence with the late punk in England is complete genius.? Harry Treadway and his twin brother Luke currently star in Brothers of the Head, a fake documentary about the lives of Siamese twins that form a rock band in the ?70s. Brothers of the Head is in theatres now.


BREAKING BENJAMIN BECOMES PHOBIC TODAY
Breaking Benjamin releases its third album today (Tuesday, August 8th), called Phobia. The Pennsylvania-based group spent most of the last year working on the disc, and frontman Ben Burnley told LAUNCH that it was well worth the time and effort: "It seemed like there was no end to me finishing this thing, but I got it done. Everybody did a really good job and we had as good of a time as you possibly could have for doing a CD in a studio. And, you know, we just put our heart and soul into it and I put my heart and soul into it, and hopefully that'll translate to the listener." Phobia follows the band's platinum 2004 sophomore effort, We Are Not Alone. An acoustic version of the album's first single, "The Diary Of Jane," is included on all copies of the first pressing of Phobia and will be deleted immediately after the initial release.


TOOL FANS INJURED AT SAN DIEGO FESTIVAL
At least 15 fans were injured Saturday night (August 5th) at a Tool concert in San Diego, when the crowd rushed forward to see the band as they took the stage. The concert was the final act of an all-day outdoor music festival held in the parking lot of the Qualcomm Stadium.

The crowd had been getting increasingly excited before the show began, chanting the band's name and pressing forward. After Tool finally appeared, several people were trampled by the overeager crowd as it pushed forward. The band stopped playing for several minutes during their second song, at which point singer Maynard James Keenan asked the crowd to back up and to "mellow out," according to blabbermouth.net. A number of fans who had been injured by the crowd were taken by ambulance to area hospitals.

Some video footage of the event has been posted at NBCSanDiego.com.


LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for TUESDAY, AUGUST 9
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Dwayne Wade, Amy Sedaris, Morningwood (repeat)
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Aaron Eckhart, Cheyenne Kimball, Fran Solomita
JAY LENO (NBC) - Bill Maher, Ashley Tisdale, Stone Sour
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - Christina Milian, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
CARSON DALY (NBC) - Brooke Burke, the Constantines
DAILY SHOW (COM) - Brian Williams
JIMMY KIMMEL - Ed Burns, Dwayne Wade, Flyleaf (repeat)

WHATS THE 411 ON 311?S BREAK?
311?s last album, Don?t Tread on Me, was released last year, but fans may not be hearing new music from the band anytime soon. The band is still out on the road touring the 2005 record, but according to Billboard, they hope to take some time off when the cycle is over. So, is it personal issues within the band causing the break? Not really, according to frontman Nick Hexum. He said, ?It?s time for a step. I wouldn?t feel satisfied if our next album can be so closely compared to our last one. I think it?s time for a little bit of a break and a little time away from each other, not out of necessity but as a pre-emptive thing, before we get sick of it.? Hexum has also been working on some jazz standards, rock and pop things with Dryden Mitchell of Alien Ant Farm and singer Edie Brickell.


JOHNNY MARR IS NOW A MODEST MOUSE!
Although former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr was working with Modest Mouse on their upcoming album, no one expected that Marr would become a full-time mouse. According to Rolling Stone, the guitarist has become a full-on member of the band and will tour with them in support of their new record. The album is tentatively titled We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Mouse frontman Issac Brock confirmed the addition saying, ?He made a cautious commitment to write and record with us, and then the tighter we got he was like, ?Okay let?s tour too.? Then he was pretty much a member of the band-not pretty much. He?s a full blown member of the band.?


NEEDTOBREATHE ARE ?HOMEGROWN.?
When you head over to South Carolina band NeedtoBreathe?s Website, NeedToBreathe.com, You?ll see that their tour dates come first before news, media or anything else. Their humble beginnings have taught the rock act that old-school touring is the only way to gain a real fan base. Singer Bear Rheinhart explains. "One that definitely describes us is ?homegrown.? We started making, doing our own artwork and our own promotion. We bought a van from our grand-dad for one dollar and we put a futon in the back that we bought at Wal-mart because it had no seats in the back and no A-C. And we traveled like that just for years really making a name for ourselves." Daylight, the debut album from NeedtoBreathe, is out now. They play Kansas City, Missiouri tonight.


THIS WEEKEND'S TOP TEN MOVIES - AUGUST 4-6
1. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, $47 million
2. Barnyard: The Original Party Animals, $16 million
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, $11 million
4. Miami Vice, $9.7 million
5. The Descent, $8.8 million
6. John Tucker Must Die, $6.05 million
7. Monster House, $6 million
8. The Ant Bully, $3.9 million
9. The Night Listener, $3.6 million
10. You, Me and Dupree, $3.6 million


LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for MONDAY, AUGUST 7
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Meryl Streep, Yellowcard (repeat)
JAY LENO (NBC) - Sen. John McCain, Justin Long, Five for Fighting
LATE LATE SHOW - Steve Carell, Lindsay Sloane, the Subways
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - Kate Beckinsale, Brian Posehn, Metric (repeat)
CARSON DALY (NBC) - Jerry Ferrara, Morningwood (repeat)
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - Rerun TBA

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE GREEN DAY GUYS
My Chemical Romance will release their new album on October 24th and it looks like the guys were really inspired by Green Day. Rob Cavallo, longtime Green Day producer, worked with the band on the as-yet-untitled album and the band have also hired Sam Bayer to direct their first video. Bayer directed many of the videos off Green Day?s American Idiot album. My Chem are expected to perform some new material at San Diego?s Street Scene Festival this weekend.


NEW FOUND GLORY ARE COMING HOME
New Found Glory debuted their new video for ?It?s Not Your Fault? on TRL this week. ?It?s Not Your Fault? is the first single off their upcoming album, Coming Home, which?ll be released on September 19th. The band has announced a tour in support of the record and here are the Texas dates:

10/30 - Dallas, TX @ Ridglea Theatre
10/31 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
11/1 - Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa


NO DEPECHE MODE TONIGHT
Depeche Mode will not be performing tonight in Tel Aviv, Israel. The band cancelled what would have been their final show on their world tour due to the current situation in the Middle East. According to DepecheMode.com, the concert slated for Hayarkon Park will not be rescheduled and ?The band apologize to the fans, and thank them for their understanding.?


BLUE OCTOBER FITS MANY FORMATS
Do musical categories serve any real purpose? Well, as long as there are major differences between the works of, say, Mozart and the works of Good Charlotte, categories will obviously be helpful for the uninitiated. On the other hand, many musicians dislike having their music pigeonholed in narrower ways, Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld, for example. ?Music is music to me, it?s like we?re not a rock band, we?re not a pop band, we?re just a band that plays music. So the fact that the world has to have categories in the first place is like, ?Argh!? So put it on any station, put it in country, we don?t care." Blue October will be playing the Lollapalooza show in Chicago tomorrow. The band?s current album, Foiled, is ranked at number 38 on this week?s Billboard chart.


KORN ISSUES APOLOGY FOR FAMILY VALUES FAN KILLING
Korn and the rest of the bands on the Family Values tour have issued a joint statement regarding the death of a fan who was beaten by two men during the tour's stop in Atlanta on Sunday (July 30th). The statement read in part, "All the bands on the Family Values tour offer their sincerest condolences and prayers to the family of 30-year-old Andy Richardson...Korn are appalled at the actions of these men and are imploring anyone who witnessed this senseless act or has any information about the attack to please immediately come forward by contacting local authorities."

• According to initial reports, Richardson was attacked by two unidentified men after he asked them to be careful around his pregnant girlfriend and a mentally challenged child accompanying them. A friend of Richardson described the attackers to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as "way too drunk."
• One of the men punched Richardson in the head and knocked him head first onto the concrete floor, said eyewitnesses. The friend reported that Richardson was "unconscious" and "had blood all over his face."
• Richardson, who never regained consciousness and was declared brain dead, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday (August 1st).
• Atlanta police are reportedly investigating "people of interest" in the incident, although they have only a vague description of the suspects.
• The Family Values tour, which also features Deftones, Stone Sour, 10 Years and others, arrives in Selma, Texas tomorrow night (Friday, August 4th).

ANI DiFRANCO PREGNANT

I was talking to Jera, host of 95X's Over The Edge, and she hadn't heard about this. I forgot to blog this story last week. Ani DiFranco announced she's pregnant. The 35-year-old singer said Friday she is due in February. The baby's father, Mike Napolitano, produced her upcoming album Reprieve.

Reprieve, a collection of a dozen songs and spoken-word pieces, will be released next month. It will be Difranco's 18th full-length album since her debut was released in 1990.

LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for THURSDAY, AUGUST 3
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Anne Hathaway, Jim Gaffigan, Dashboard Confessional (repeat)JAY LENO (NBC) - Courteney Cox-Arquette, Floyd Landis, Yung Joc
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Jaime Pressly, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Franti and Spearhead CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - Ice-T, Tim Gunn, Body Count
CARSON DALY (NBC) - Leslie Bibb, Wolfmother
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - Lance Armstrong, Matt Dallas, Smoosh (repeat)
JON STEWART (COMEDY CENTRAL) - Danny DeVito

TRAGEDY STRIKES AT FAMILY VALUES SHOW
The Family Values Tour, which features Korn, Flyleaf and more, rolled into Atlanta, Georgia for a show on Sunday, but the night did not end well. A 30-year-old man was beaten to death in the mosh pit after asking two unidentified men to leave his pregnant wife and mentally challenged son alone. The victim, Andy Richardson, was declared dead at 2 PM yesterday. According to MTV News, the two men responsible for the attack have not been found as of yet, but the police continue to investigate.



MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE RETURN IN OCTOBER
My Chemical Romance will release their much-anticipated third album on October 24th, according to Billboard. The band has pretty lofty goals for the as-yet-untitled album, with bassist Mikey Way saying, ?We want the entire world to be moved.? Green Day producer Rob Cavallo is working with the band on the record. My Chemical Romance will play San Diego?s Street Scene Festival this Sunday.



EVANESCENCE AREN?T AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF?
The first single off Evanescence?s new album, The Open Door, will be ?Call Me When You?re Sober,? and frontwoman Amy Lee spoke to MTV News all about the video for the song. Directed by Marc Webb, the clip features live, trained wolves and a ?Little Red Riding Hood? theme. The video features Lee being seduced by the ?Big Bad Wolf,? who is more like a cute guy with scruffy overgrown facial hair. To see if Amy can get the better of this wolfman, fans will have to wait until August 7th, when the video is released. The Open Door will hit shelves on October 3rd.


?AND WANT YOU TO ?CALL WHEN YOU?RE SOBER.?
Amy Lee?s former beau, Seether singer Shaun Morgan, was admitted to rehab this week. Ironically, Evanescence?s new single is titled ?Call Me When You?re Sober.? So, is this track about Morgan? Lee spoke to MTV News about the track saying it?s about ?something that everyone?s been through. Dealing with someone with an addiction, which is really hard, especially when you love someone.? Morgan was forced to cancel an upcoming tour with Seether to get the help he needed.



RED HOT ENERGY RUSH
After more than 20 years together, the Red Hot Chili Peppers seem still to be at or near the top of their game. Their latest album ? Stadium Arcadium ? has topped the Billboard chart and gone platinum, and bassist Flea offers a semi-mystical explanation for the record?s commercial strength. ?When it came time to make this record there was this huge wave of energy that was there for us and we were ready to ride it you know. Because at that we were capable of you know writing that best music we have ever written and really focusing in and getting down because we were ready to do it. It wasn?t hard, it was easy. You know we just have to be there and let it flow throw.? The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be playing Lollapalooza in Chicago on Friday. The band is also nominated for seven Video Music Awards this year. To see what they wind up taking home, tune in to the 2006 VMAS on Thursday, August 31st, at 7 PM.



MORE INFO COMING OUT ABOUT INCUBUS ALBUM
Incubus will release its sixth studio album, titled Light Grenades, on November 20th, according to MTV.com. Guitarist Mike Einziger said that the band just finished recording the CD a few days ago, calling it "a total mess...It sounds like 13 different bands playing 13 different songs. That's kind of how all our records sound. Every time we're about to start making a new album, I tell myself, 'OK, this one's going to be cohesive,' and it never happens...I think we just get bored if we have even two songs that sound alike." Light Grenades is the follow-up to 2004's A Crow Left of the Murder, which has sold more than 1.1 million copies.



BECK POSTS VIDEO FOR NEW SONG
Beck has posted a low-budget video for his new song, "I Think I'm In Love," online at his MySpace page, according to NME.com. The track is taken from Beck's upcoming new album, which the singer began working on at the same time as last year's Guero. A title and release date have yet to be announced, although the disc is expected to surface this fall. Beck says he wrote 40 songs for the new album and has been cutting that list down to the final track selections. Beck also recently revealed that he is working on a 10th anniversary edition of his Odelay album.



LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for WEDNESDAY, JULY 2
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Sandra Bullock, Widespread Panic (repeat)
JAY LENO (NBC) - Dr. Phil McGraw, Aaron Eckhart, Jessica Kirson
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Dr. Drew Pinsky, Carnie Wilson, Tally Hall
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - John C. Reilly, Ashanti, Jackie Greene
CARSON DALY (NBC) - Nikki Reed, Bubba Sparxxx featuring Mr. Collipark
JIMMY KIMMEL (ABC) - Cheryl Hines, Shaun White, Russell Peters, Michael Bolton
JON STEWART (Comedy Central) - Chris Paine

THE RACONTEURS GO LIVE AT THE VMAS
Jack White?s new band, The Raconteurs, will have a very special job at the upcoming MTV VMAs. They will be the first ever band to score a live soundtrack for the event, which will take place at Radio City Music Hall on August 31st in New York City. This means that the band will be playing live throughout the entire show. Broken Boy Soldiers is the latest album from The Raconteurs and it?s in stores now. They play Lollapalooza at Chicago?s Grant Park on Friday.


BACH TAKES OVER FOR AXL
British music news site NME.com is reporting that Axl Rose had to leave the stage during Guns N? Roses? final U-K concert on Sunday night due to an unspecified illness. Replacing the singer on vocals for the final two songs was none other than SuperGroup star and former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach. And it was probably a fitting replacement, because as Bach tells us, he knows a thing or two about how to front a band. ?When people say you guys got big egos well you?ve gotta have a big ego to be the lead singer of a rock band. I mean if you don?t have a big ego you can?t do that.? If you log onto YouTube.com and search for ?Sebastian Bach,? you will find a video of Bach singing ?Paradise City? during the fateful Sunday night show at London?s Wembley Arena.


RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS LEAD VMA NOMINATIONS
The Red Hot Chili Peppers lead the nominations for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards with seven, tying them with Latin singer Shakira. Also landing multiple nods is Panic! At The Disco, which garnered five nominations.


STONE SOUR ALBUM HITS STORES
Stone Sour releases its second album, called Come What(ever) May, today (Tuesday, August 1st). The CD is the successor to Stone Sour's 2002 self-titled debut, which featured the hit "Bother." Singer Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root are also both members of Slipknot, and Root told LAUNCH that it's important for them to progress musically in both bands: "You have to evolve, I mean, and if you don't, then you just end up putting the same record out over and over and over again, and to me that's very boring. I can't imagine any musician who wants to just keep writing the same thing over and over again, and that's something, fortunately, in the career that I've had so far, we've been able to do.



LATE NIGHT TALK SHOWS for TUESDAY, AUGUST 1
DAVID LETTERMAN (CBS) - Kate Bosworth, Broken Social Scene (repeat)
LATE LATE SHOW (CBS) - Bonnie Raitt, Travis Pastrana, Randy Kagan
JAY LENO (NBC) - Lisa Kudrow, Piers Morgan, Wolfmother
CONAN O'BRIEN (NBC) - Will FerrellCARSON DALY (NBC) - Brandy, Everclear
DAILY SHOW (COM) - Vali Nasr
JIMMY KIMMEL - Sandra Oh, Jewel