Briefly: STP, Slipknot, Petty, Halford, Radiohead, EMI-Time Warner

The "listeners of KROQ," a Los Angeles radio station, will be credited as the directors of a new Stone Temple Pilots video. Four hundred winners of a KROQ contest will shoot their own video footage of a Sept. 24 STP concert at L.A.'s El Rey Theater, and all of the tapes will then be edited into a presumably coherent whole at a later date.

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According to Pollstar, " Slipknot has canceled its fall headlining tour because of exhaustion."

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Tom Petty asked George W. Bush's campaign not to use Petty's song "I Won't Back Down" as a part of Bush's campaign, Salon reported. The campaign reportedly agreed.

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RockOnline.com will host a webchat with Rob Halford on Sept. 26.

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To promote its forthcoming album, Radiohead is offering the "iBlip." It seems to be a homing device that one adds to a website to receive bits of Radiohead content, including the Sept. 18 Internet debut of the new album, as well as short video spots and postcards.

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According to the Standard, the Financial Times reported that the European Commission is ready to block the Time Warner-EMI merger. The Commission denied this.

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The Recording Industry Association of America has hired Bruce Block, a former executive at Musicmaker.com, as its senior vice-president in charge of technology, CNet reported.