Briefly: The Offspring, Sister2sister, Smashing Pumpkins, Richard Ashcroft, 'Today' Rock, Martha Stewart, Primal Scream
The Offspring are offering "Save Napster" T-shirts on their official website. Profits will go to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Sister2sister will open its first full-length American tour on July 24. The Australian pop duo will tour with the Nickelodeon All That Music & More Tour, and with the Britney Spears tour, among other tours.
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Smashing Pumpkins will release their next single "Try, Try, Try" in the U.K. on Sept. 11. It also features the extra track "Here's to the Atom Bomb."
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Former Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft will release his third solo single "C'Mon People (We're Making It Now)" in the U.K. on Aug. 28.
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NBC's "Today" show is releasing a compilation album of artists who have performed on the show. Artists include Phil Collins, Sheryl Crow, Doobie Brothers, and Earth Wind & Fire. Some of the proceeds will be donated to colorectal cancer research.
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On Sept. 5, Rhino Records will release "Martha Stewart Living's Spooky Scary Sounds for Halloween," the first in a series of "music and sound compilation albums for entertaining."
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Alternative British rockers Primal Scream will warm up for its Reading & Leeds Festival peformances with an Aug. 24 gig in London.


















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