LIL' KIM testified in her perjury trial in New York on Thursday and Friday, protesting the prosecution's argument that she intentionally lied to a grand jury about a 2001 shootout between her entourage and another one in front of radio station Hot 97. If convicted, the rapper could face up to thirty years in federal prison . . . JENNIFER LOPEZ's Pasadena, California, restaurant, Madre's, was surrounded by PETA protesters on Thursday. The animal rights activists held up images of the singer wearing fur that read "Fur Hag" . . . MORRISSEY's live DVD, Who Put the "M" in Manchester, will be screened in theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit and Chicago on the night before its March 29th release . . . RUSH guitarist ALEX LIFESON will stand trial for assault on May 16th. Lifeson is accused of shoving a female deputy down a stairwell and spitting blood at a male officer on last New Year's at a Naples, Florida, hotel . . .
BEYONCE and her mother Tina Knowles are set to expand their House of Dereon clothing line to include outerwear . . . FANTASIA, the ISLEY BROTHERS and UB40 are will play St. Lucia's annual jazz festival, April 29th through May 8th . . . SONIC YOUTH will play a string of East Coast shows, starting April 9th in Providence . . . Country legend LORETTA LYNN will be awarded the CMT Johnny Cash Visionary Award during the Country Music Television Music Awards on April 11th, to be broadcast live from Nashville's Gaylord Entertainment Center . . . After a three-year hiatus, Idaho rockers BUILT TO SPILL will play fifteen U.S. dates, kicking off on May 4th in Minneapolis . . . Singer-songwriter ROBERT EARL KEEN will release his eleventh album, What I Really Mean -- featuring country vet RAY PRICE -- on May 11th . . .
MADONNA will release an as-yet-untitled documentary chronicling her 2004 Re-Invention tour to theaters later this year . . . WILCO's tour, currently on its European leg, has been expanded: the U.S. leg will now kick off April 21st in New Orleans and wrap up May 28th in George, Washington . . . The WU-TANG CLAN's RZA will star alongside Jennifer Aniston, Clive Owen and fellow rapper XZIBIT in the upcoming film Derailed . . . ALKALINE TRIO, COHEED AND CAMBRIA and HEAD AUTOMATICA are next up to donate exclusive T-shirts to the Shirts for a Cure Project to help underprivileged women with breast cancer. Shirts by MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE and TAKING BACK SUNDAY are currently available online at shirtforacure.com . . .
DURAN DURAN, ALICIA KEYS, MAROON 5, GWEN STEFANI, KANYE WEST, and OZZY and SHARON OSBOURNE are among the celebrities that signed a soccer ball to benefit GlobalGiving, an organization for tsunami relief efforts, to be auctioned on eBay through March 18th . . . LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, HERBIE HANCOCK, CAT POWER, LAURIE ANDERSON, ARAB STRAP, MONEY MARK and the FALL are among the artists scheduled to perform at Scotland's Triptych.05 festival, April 27th to May 1st . . . RICKY FANTE recorded the lead song, "Shine," for the animated film Robots, out in theaters this week . . . G. LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE and JOHN POPPER PROJECT will perform on the Xingolati Groove Cruise of the Pacific, taking place October 14-17th . . .
STEVIE WONDER will headline TIGER WOODS' annual benefit concert Tiger Jam VII on May 21st in Las Vegas. COUNTING CROWS will also perform, with proceeds going to the Tiger Woods Learning Center . . . DEF LEPPARD and BRYAN ADAMS kick off their Rock 'N Roll Double-Header tour, playing at twenty-six minor-league baseball stadiums, on June 1st in Portland, Oregon, and wrapping up August 10th in Lansing, Michigan . . . LISA MARIE PRESLEY will debut her new video for the single "Dirty Laundry" off her new album Now What on AOL Music on March 11th. The clip features a cameo by GEORGE MICHAEL . . . UNKLE, Z-TRIP and EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL's BEN WATT have been added to the lineup for Coachella in Indio, California, April 30th to May 1st . . . The BRIAN WILSON Presents Smile double-disc DVD will be released on May 24th, featuring interviews with the ex-BEACH BOY on the making of the "lost" album and performances with his former bandmates . . .
A young, pre-DOORS JIM MORRISON is featured in a minute-long Florida State University promotional film from 1964 that can be viewed at ifilm.com . . . On March 8th R&B singer GERALD LEVERT was indicted on assault charges after being arrested and charged for drunken driving and resisting arrest on February 25th . . . The double-disc CD/DVD set BILLIE HOLIDAY: The Ultimate Collection is due on April 5th, just two days shy of what would have been Holiday's 90th birthday . . . Former STATIC-X guitarist KOICHI FUKUDA rejoined the band a week after they announced their split with guitarist TRIPP EISEN. Eisen was recently charged with kidnapping, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child . . .
MOTLEY CRUE will be featured in the upcoming claymation film Disaster! The Movie!, directed by the creators of MTV's Celebrity Death Match . . . JOSS STONE, JOHN LEGEND, QUEEN LATIFAH, JON BON JOVI and ROB THOMAS are all set to perform on April 11th at the "Save the Music" concert to benefit public school music programs, airing April 17th on VH1 . . . ELTON JOHN has cancelled his March 8th and 9th shows in Richmond, Virginia, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, due to an unspecified ailment . . . MAROON 5, FRANZ FERDINAND, the MUSIC, SCISSOR SISTERS, JOSS STONE and the KAISER CHIEFS are among the list of acts to join the V Festival lineup taking place August 20-21 in the U.K. . . . WILCO, GOV'T MULE, NELLIE MCKAY, MARS VOLTA and LES CLAYPOOL will perform at the ninth annual "Superfly during Jazzfest" concert series in New Orleans, April 21st to May 1st . . . GREEN DAY's "Jesus of Suburbia," off their Grammy-winning American Idiot, will be used in promotions for the Independent Film Channel throughout 2005 . . .
LIL' KIM, EVE, FAT JOE, MOBY, KISS' GENE SIMMONS and JADAKISS are among the artists set to appear in the March 10th episode of NBC's The Apprentice . . . SYSTEM OF A DOWN is headlining the "Souls 2005" concert on April 24th in Los Angeles, to benefit organizations working to end genocide worldwide . . . TIM MCGRAW, ALAN JACKSON and TOBY KEITH are headlining the WE country music festival in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, on August 4-6. The lineup also includes GRETCHEN WILSON and BIG AND RICH . . . BACKSTREET BOY NICK CARTER was arrested for driving under the influence on March 5th in Huntington Beach, California . . . EDWYN COLLINS' wife has announced on his Web site that the ORANGE JUICE frontman is "making progress" after suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage on February 20th and undergoing emergency surgery February 25th . . . JULIA FORDHAM joined with the Ashington School to remix her song "Happy Ever After" for a CD available from Empty Chair Records and Silverscreen DVD stores, with proceeds going to the rebuilding of a school destroyed by the tsunami in Tamil Nadu, India . . .
Former FUGEES LAURYN HILL and WYCLEF JEAN will perform at the March 18th Force of Nature Concert for Tsunami Aid in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, also featuring the BLACK EYED PEAS, the BACKSTREET BOYS and BOYZ II MEN . . . KENNY CHESNEY has rescheduled the first four shows of his Somewhere in the Sun tour due to an ankle injury. The stint now kicks off on March 17th in Tupelo, Mississippi, with shows in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on March 23rd and 24th and a Fargo, North Dakota, show on March 25th . . . Rapper BEANIE SIGEL, currently serving a year in prison for possession of drugs and firearms, will release The B. Coming on March 29th and appear in the movie State Property 2. The album is the first release from the DAMON DASH Music Group . . . Country singer TANYA TUCKER filed an order of protection against her ex-fiance and father of her daughter Jerry Laseter on March 4th for harassment and assault . . .
JAMIE CULLUM is in the studio working on the follow-up to 2004's Twentysomething. Cullum is set to work with the NEPTUNES and DAN THE AUTOMATOR . . . ALICIA KEYS and ALISON KRAUSS and UNION STATION will appear on the thirty-sixth season of Sesame Street, premiering April 4th . . . DENNY MARTIN, best known for creating the "tiki" sound, died on March 2nd in Honolulu at the age of ninety-three . . . The Joshua Tree Music Festival, featuring VICTORIA WILLIAMS, TIM EASTON and members of the STRING CHEESE INCIDENT, will be held May 13-15 in Joshua Tree, California . . . Volumes I and II of Best of NYC - Live At Continental, a compilation dedicated to the late JOEY RAMONE, will be released this spring and feature live recordings at the downtown club by the LUNACHICKS, TOILET BOYS and BELLVUE with JESSE MALIN . . . On March 22nd, the TRASHCAN SINATRAS will release the live album fez, named for the soon-to-close downtown New York club at which they played two sold-out shows last December . . .