MISSY ELLIOTT has set a June 28th release date for her new album, The Cookbook. The follow-up to 2003's This Is Not a Test features collaborations with CIARA, FAT MAN SCOOP, the NEPTUNES and TWEET

 

. . . P. DIDDY cancelled his April 15th appearance at Las Vegas' Aladdin hotel-casino, where the mayor was set to proclaim "Diddy Day." Plans for prospective business ventures between the rapper and the city have now been put on hold

 

. . . JENNIFER LOPEZ, GWEN STEFANI, BLACK EYED PEAS, KELLY CLARKSON and the BACKSTREET BOYS are among the scheduled performers for New York radio station Z100's annual Zootopia concert, taking place on May 22nd at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. SIMPLE PLAN, GAVIN DeGRAW and JESSE McCARTNEY will also perform

 

. . . LINKIN PARK's MIKE SHINODA has recruited hip-hop and R&B acts COMMON, the ROOTS' BLACK THOUGHT, KENNA and JOHN LEGEND for his side project, Fort Minor. The album, Rising Tied, will be released in late summer

 

. . . LEANN RIMES has cancelled this week's hosting duties for USA's Nashville Star, due to a vocal-cord injury suffered as a result of severe viral bronchitis. Popular country artist SARA EVANS will fill in

 

. . . JOHN HIATT will release a new album, titled Master of Disaster on June 21st, featuring special guests the NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS

 

. . . Tejano music star LAURA CANALES died April 16th from complications of a gall bladder operation. She was fifty

 

. . .U2 will launch the Good Morning America summer concert series next month. The ABC morning show will interview the band on a stop of the current Vertigo tour and air live songs on May 20th and 21st

 

. . . YOKO ONO will headline the U.K. festival All Tomorrow's Parties, which also features Ono's son SEAN LENNON, the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS' JOHN FRUSCIANTE, PJ HARVEY and JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION. The festival -- curated by director and musician VINCENT GALLO -- will take place April 22nd to 24th

 

. . . The ROLLING STONES, the BEATLES, AC/DC, KISS, OZZY OSBOURNE, METALLICA, PEARL JAM, U2 and the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS are donating rare guitars, albums and gear for the Save the Earth Foundation's Earth Day charity online auction, beginning April 23rd at auctions.overstock.com/earthday. EMINEM, JENNIFER LOPEZ, JAY-Z, BEYONCE, NELLY, DR.DRE, SNOOP DOGG and CHRISTINA AGUILERA will donate autographed microphones

 

. . . FISCHERSPOONER will perform a string of dates in support of their sophomore album, Odyssey, kicking off on April 29th in Orlando, Florida

 

. . .WYCLEF JEAN will visit PBS' Sesame Street on Friday to perform a duet with Cookie Monster about eating healthy foods. ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION will stop by to perform with the Count on May 4th

 

. . . ARETHA FRANKLIN will be a presenter at the thirty-second annual Daytime Emmy Awards airing May 20th on CBS. The soul legend will perform at the McDonald's GospelFest, June 3-5, shortly before the release of her upcoming album, A Woman in Love

 

. . . JASON MRAZ cancelled three shows off his current college tour due to a respiratory infection that has affected his vocal cords .

 

. . Eighties pop singer TAYLOR DAYNE will star in the VH1 reality series, Remaking: Taylor Dayne, premiering April 21st. The show follows Dayne's attempts to rebuild her career with the help of producer RODNEY JERKINS (DESTINY'S CHILD, JENNIFER LOPEZ), a choreographer and two personal trainers

 

. . . Vancouver bluegrass band the CLUMSY LOVERS will release their seventh album, Smart Kid, on June 7th .

Collaboration with Fat Man Scoop = fat guy screaming like a New York version of Lil Jon over the track.

 

I hope Lopez gets shit on live.

 

Shinoda isn't so bad, his collaboration choices are pretty interesting. Probably worth a DL.

 

Yoko Ono headling ATP? What the fuck is that about? Is she fucking Gallo or what? PJ Harvey should headline out of that line up.

 

Wycleg and Cookie Monster have both sold out. I guess puppets stick together too.

I'm waitng for that Ja Rule-Cookie Monster collabo myself....

. . Eighties pop singer TAYLOR DAYNE will star in the VH1 reality series, Remaking: Taylor Dayne, premiering April 21st. The show follows Dayne's attempts to rebuild her career with the help of producer RODNEY JERKINS (DESTINY'S CHILD, JENNIFER LOPEZ), a choreographer and two personal trainers

god bless vh1 for giving us an outlet to laugh at all the old fad musicians that nobody gives a shit about.