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The current power struggle between Jay-Z and Nas for the hip-hop crown may be the hottest topic in the rap game today, but for the verbal pugilist, battling is as natural as saying, "Throw your hands in the air." It's the definitive arena where MCs pit their skills against one another to see who can take it to the next rhyming level.

Girl-power flagbearers Salt-N-Pepa came into the game dissing Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh — who made the classic "The Show" — with "The Show Stoppa (Is Stupid Fresh)." Those huggable tykes Kris Kross sparked a puppy-powered beef with fellow youngsters Another Bad Creation, dissing how ABC wore their clothes on "Jump" (" 'Cause inside-out is wiggedy, wiggedy, wiggedy wack"). And who could forget Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown getting all catty with each other?

As long as egos linger and mics are handy, MCs will continue to try to out-rhyme each other. Here is a look at 10 of hip-hop's most memorable exchanges.

U.T.F.O. & the Real Roxanne Vs. Roxanne Shanté (1984-85)

U.T.F.O. had no idea their love song about a stuck-up girl named Roxanne would cause so much controversy. "Roxanne, Roxanne, I wanna be your man," the foursome sang over the breakbeat. While they were making it big, a 14-year-old named Roxanne Shanté was in the wings, waiting to make a splash. With some help from her ghostwriter, Big Daddy Kane, she put out the answer record "Roxanne's Revenge."

Now three grown men teaming up to make a song directed toward a little girl could be considered crossing the line, so U.T.F.O. introduced their own fly girl to save face. To make matters worse, her name was Roxanne too — "the Real Roxanne," as the song goes.

Even MCs who had no association with the ladies started jumping on the battle-of-the-Roxys bandwagon — Dr. Freshh ("Roxanne's Doctor") being among them.

To her credit, some of today's female rappers credit Shanté as paving the way for them. As for her rivalry with her namesake, let's just say she had bigger fish to fry. She and some of the Juice Crew — which included Kane, Marley Marl, Masta Ace, Craig G and Biz Markie — got into a verbal tussle with KRS-One's Boogie Down Productions, and she also stepped to MC Lyte.

KRS-One Vs. MC Shan (1986-87)

This battle was bigger than the two MCs — it was about repping for their 'hoods. Shan yelled that Queensbridge was hip-hop's Mecca on "The Bridge." KRS thought his neck of the woods was making it the hottest, hollering back with a two-piece combo, "South Bronx" and "The Bridge Is Over." "Saying hip-hop started out in Queensbridge/ Saying rhymes like that, bwoy, you can't live," the Blastermaster spouted.

Although KRS went on to have a bigger career in the rap game, both men were winners. Years later, the two had a brief stint endorsing Sprite with a TV commercial that was inspired by their battle.

Antoinette Vs. MC Lyte (1988)

If Big Worm from "Friday" were commentating during a lyrical catfight, he would chalk the situation up to "the principalities of it."

In 1988, MC Lyte accused Antoinette of stealing one of her tracks by lashing out on "10% Dis." "Beat-biter! Dope-style taker!/ Tell you to your face you ain't nuthin' but a faker!" went the chant on the chorus. (The line Lil' Kim says on Mobb Deep's "Quiet Storm" remix — "Hot damn, here we go again" — was authored by Lyte on the record.)

Antoinette went in for the kill with "Lights Out, Party's Over," warning that she was bringing "100 percent beef" and would "fly that head," intimating that Lyte was a lesbian.

Lyte, the MC from "the planet of Brooklyn," would go on to silence her rival with "Shut the Eff Up! (Hoe)," boasting, "In '10% [Dis]' I popped your head in a microwave/ I'm into blenders now, so you better behave."

LL Cool J Vs. Kool Moe Dee (1987-90)

Probably the biggest issue in the battle between LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee was respect. Kool Moe Dee ("How Ya Like Me Now") publicly expressed his feelings that LL's music was too frivolous. But you don't stomp on a man's art form, especially when that man comes from Queens and is white-hot at the moment.

"'How Ya Like Me Now,' punk?" LL struck back on 1988's "Jack the Ripper." "A washed up rapper needs a washer/ My name is Jack the Ripper."

Moe Dee ripped into the Ripper on "Let's Go," rhyming, "Lower Level, Lack Luster/ ... Lazy Lemon/ Little Logic/ ... Low Life with the loud raps, boy/ You can't win, huh, I don't bend/ Look what you got yourself in."

Showing his resiliency, LL struck back with "To Da Break of Dawn." "Got the nerve to have them Star Trek shades on," he rhymed. "You can't handle the whole weight/ Skin needs lotion/ Teeth need Colgate/ Wise up, you little burnt up French fry." He also levied shots at Ice-T and MC Hammer for good measure.

N.W.A Vs. Ice Cube (1991)

One of the first times we heard about shady contract dealings on wax, this war of words had nothing to do with who was the best at rocking the mic. After blazing a trail with his gangsta brethren on 1987's Straight Outta Compton, Ice Cube bolted the group due to a dispute over money.

Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella didn't take too kindly to the departure of the man they called "Benedict Arnold" on 1991's N---az4life. Not only did they do the unheard of at the time and shout out the frosty one by his government name, Oshea, they also called him the "b" word.

Cube blasted back on "No Vaseline" off of his Death Certificate LP, painting "the world's most dangerous crew" as fake gangstas who were getting robbed by Eazy and his business partner, Jerry Heller. Dre decided Cube was right on the money, and he left the group too.

Dr. Dre Vs. Eazy-E (1992)

Listening to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg on the classic "Dre Day," you're too busy dancing to realize that it's a dis record. But once you take a break from getting your groove on, you'll hear it's on. ("Mr. Busta, where the f--- you at?" hisses Dre). Again, with these OGs, the feud had nothing to do with being the best lyricist.

Dre was already rolling with Death Row, and Eazy was suing his former groupmate. Among Eazy's allegations was that Suge Knight threatened him with a baseball bat to let the Doc out of his contract. Meanwhile, Dre's "Dre Day" guest star, Death Row franchise Snoop Doggy Dogg, took his time on the mic to address Luke and Bronx MC Tim Dog, who made the song "F--- Compton."

Eazy came back with "Real Compton Gs" and showed, for the first time, the infamous back-in-the-day pictures of Dre in a glitter suit. However, with the Row turning into a juggernaut, Dre and Snoop could no wrong. Eazy didn't stand a chance.

DJ Quik Vs. MC Eiht and Compton's Most Wanted (1991-95)

This is the beef that never was supposed to happen. Back in the day, on one of the underground tapes Quik and his crew sold in the streets, he gave props to a bunch of Cali rappers, from N.W.A to King Tee. Unfortunately, MC Eiht and Compton's Most Wanted took it the wrong way and went after some payback.

Eiht threw the first official blow with "Def Wish," and Quik responded on "Let You Havit," saying, "And yeah, I said your monkey-ass name in my underground tape ... / We wasn't dissin'."

From there it just got ugly. Eiht went on to make three more sequels to "Def Wish," and today, Quik openly admits he regrets some of the things he said on his musical receipts, including "Dollars & Sense." The two have since squashed everything and even recorded together a year and a half ago. No word on when that tune will see daylight, though.

LL Cool J Vs. Canibus (1997-98)

Leave it up to hip-hop battle king LL Cool J to dis somebody on the same song he's performing with them. Depending on who you ask, there's a misunderstanding at the heart of the badmouthing.

In 1997, Uncle L invited then-mic upstart Canibus to perform on the posse cut "4,3,2,1" along with Redman, Method Man and DMX. While recording, Bus made a reference to the microphone tattoo on L's arm. The self-proclaimed Greatest of All Time took it as a dis and later made the youngster change his verse. The final version of the song hit shelves complete with a venom-filled LL verse warning "shorty with the big mouth" that "the symbol on my arm is off limits to challengers."

The following year, Bus took off the gloves for "Second Round K.O.," where he threatened to stick L up for his MTV Video Vanguard Award. L responded with the equally poisonous "Ripper Strikes Back." The two would subsequently spit at each other again, with Canibus' then-mentor Wyclef Jean jumping in the fray with a freestyle toward L on "What's Clef Got to Do With It." It was all academic, however. The Bus' career ran out of gas.

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These guys take the term "love/hate relationship" to the next level.

Nas, Mobb Deep, Tragedy, Nature, Cormega, Capone and Noreaga all grew up in the same housing projects (while Nore and Mobb Deep's Prodigy are actually from Lefrak City, Queens, they have strong ties to the Bridge because of their partners in rhyme). At one time they professed love for one another and even appeared on songs together. However, the tables turn often out there in the Bridge.

Nas has gone back and forth on records dissing Cormega and Nature. He threw jabs at Prodigy as well, but P has yet to retaliate. Cormega also went at it with Nature over his replacing Mega in the group the Firm. C-N-N were signed to Tragedy's label at one point, and they severed ties with him; neither side had anything nice to say about the other on their records. Capone, Noreaga and Tragedy have since made up, but as for the rest? It's anyone's guess.

Jadakiss Vs. Beanie Sigel (2001-?)

If you would have asked some diehard rap fans early last year, they would have told you that Jadakiss would be going at it with a member of the Roc-A-Fella family, but most would have told you it would be Jay-Z — not his bad lieutenant, Beanie Sigel.

Although Jadakiss never used Jay's name, people assumed that some of the indirect disses in Kiss' rhymes were really for Jigga. Kiss dismissed, saying the two were friends. With animosity already in the air, Jada got a rise out of Beans when he was quoted in reports saying that some rappers from Philly stole his rhyme flow.

Things boiled over this summer when the freestyles "Fu-Jada" and "Fu-Beanie" hit the mixtape circuit. It's been a slobberknocker since, with the two using mixtapes, radio and concerts for their belligerent rhymes. With Beanie Sigel's State Property squad and Jadakiss' LOX crew climbing on board as we speak, who knows when this merry-go-round of verbal jabs will stop turning

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So far, the pop titans have lined up nine dates for the outing, which they've dubbed the Celebrity 2002 Tour. While most of the confirmed dates are on the West Coast, the group says it will canvass the country before wrapping the tour on April 28 in Orlando, Florida.

The fivesome has yet to name opening acts for the trek.

The outing marks the group's first set of dates since its sold-out PopOdyssey stadium tour last year. (Click for photos from 'NSYNC's PopOdyssey Tour launch.)

That tour turned out to be one of the year's biggest, grossing a total of $90.2 million, second only to U2 (see "U2, 'NSYNC, Backstreet Top List Of 2001's Biggest Concert Grossers").

The group plans to add additional dates in Ames, Iowa; Boston; Buffalo, New York; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Memphis; Minneapolis; Orlando, Florida; Philadelphia; Phoenix; Pittsburgh; San Antonio, Texas; Uniondale, New York; and Washington, D.C.

Itinerary for 'NSYNC's Celebrity 2002 Tour so far:

3/3 - Portland, OR @ Rose Garden
3/4 - Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
3/6 - Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
3/7 - Sacramento, CA @ ARCO Arena
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LOS ANGELES — The more time Wes Borland spent in Limp Bizkit, the more things around him turned black.

First his wardrobe — draping cloaks that brought to mind one of his favorite characters, Darth Vader. Then his eyes — gripping contacts that, next to his flaring nostrils, made him look like a guitar-toting monster. His heart was the next to go.

"Bells start going off, like, 'This is what it feels like to sell out,'" Borland recalled. "I'm enjoying all the perks of [Limp Bizkit], but I feel my heart is going black, because this is not what I'm called to do. The little voice inside my head says, 'You should be somewhere else. You should take the risk. You should let it go.'

"I think they'll be better now that I'm gone," he adds. "I think I held them back from being their best, because I was so against all the things that were going on."

Borland, reclining in a fancy office chair in his home studio and staring at walls lined with packaged "Stars Wars" figures and his own eerie graffiti, talked at ease last week in his first interview since he left Limp Bizkit four months ago (see "Limp Bizkit And Wes Borland Part Ways "). With Greg Isabella, friend and drummer of his new band, Eat the Day, at his side, Borland explained exactly what inspired him to leave one of the world's biggest rock bands, take singing lessons and start up his own group.

"I could have probably gone on and still played the part of the guitar player of Limp Bizkit, but musically I was kind of bored. If I was to continue, it would have been about the money and not about the true music, and I don't want to lie to myself, or to them or to fans of Limp Bizkit," Borland explained.

"I think I had a good run," he continued. "I was with that band for five or six years, we did a lot of really neat things and I had a great time. I went there and did the whole fame and money thing, and it's just not as important as making the music that I want to make. It's just time to move on for me."

Borland said his bandmates in Limp Bizkit gradually became more like work friends than real friends, which meant being in the band had become a job. He wanted none of that, especially when his brother and best friends were making music without him.

Since the night he called Fred Durst, DJ Lethal, Sam Rivers and John Otto one by one and told them he was leaving Limp Bizkit, Borland has not talked to anyone from the band. "The original statement said the split was amicable, and I would say that it is, but that doesn't mean that we can, like, hang out. It's gonna take a lot of time to heal. There's definitely not any bad feelings, but it's not like we're going to have lunch anytime soon."

After the split, Borland took apart his guitar pedal rigs and slowly let his parts in "Nookie," "Rollin' " and the rest of the Limp Bizkit catalog escape from his head. He needs new gear and mental energy for Eat the Day, the band he has since formed with his brother, guitarist/bassist Scott Borland, Isabella and sound engineer Kyle Weeks — the same Speedo-wearing band he took on the road to promote his quirky solo project Big Dumb Face (see "Ex-Bizkit Borland Digs In With His New Band, Eat The Day").

Borland would like to make very clear, however, that Eat the Day is not Big Dumb Face or anything close to it.

"Big Dumb Face was sort of an experiment in extreme stupidity, and I guess part of me wanted to see how much I could get away with as far as like, 'OK, I'm in this big rock band, let me put out a record of complete garbage to see what people do and how hard I get bashed and maybe [gain] a little cult following,' " Borland explained. "If you've ever been drunk or done a drug and had an idea while you were under the influence that you thought would be good then, but then you sober up later, [Big Dumb Face] was holding onto that idea all the way through!"

Borland said Big Dumb Face got all of the humor out of him, and he is ready to make a serious album with Eat the Day — so serious that he and his brother are learning to sing properly. (They want to avoid having an official frontman.)

"We both always wrote lyrics and wanted to sing, so we've been doing vocal lessons twice a week for the last four months," Borland said. "I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along."

Borland's contributions on guitar and bass are similar to the big chunky riffs he provided to Limp Bizkit. Meanwhile, his brother adds a more classically trained, chord-heavy sound to the mix.

"The two of them compliment each other perfectly," Isabella said. "One picks up where the other one leaves off. They are natural together, like only brothers can be. It's pretty cool."

Eat the Day have written 18 tracks since October. They are presenting a demo to Interscope Records later this month and hope to rent a house together and record an album in early spring. They had originally planned to have Ross Robinson (Limp Bizkit, Slipknot) produce, but later decided to do it themselves. "What he does for bands is he gives bands a lot of fire and a lot of fury, but I think we've located where our energy is and where our message is from," Borland said.

By late summer, Eat the Day plan to release their debut and promote it with a tour. The band's live show will be a rock experiment of sorts, with engineer Weeks taking the stage with the rest of the guys. "He will be taking things that everyone else in the band is playing and running them through effects and spitting them back out, and really just giving everything interesting textures," Borland explained.

The name Eat the Day came from an old music file on one of Borland's keyboards. "It is not an intentional 'Seize the day!' type of thing, but it kind of worked in with the whole [concept of] me taking control of my life," Borland said. "It is a very 'live in the moment' type of name, and it kind of reminds me of a horror movie too, like an old 70's film, like 'Dawn of the Dead' or ... 'Eat the Day!' "

As for Goatslayer, Borland's other project, those recordings have been laid to rest. "Big Dumb Face was a very professional version of Goatslayer," he said. "It's just really, really, really dumb. But we're ready to be big boys now and get on with the big boy band."

Call them the Jonathan Davis All-Stars.

Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park's Chester Bennington, Disturbed's David Draiman, Orgy's Jay Gordon and Static-X's Wayne Static were selected by the Korn frontman and Warner Bros./Reprise chairman Tom Whalley to sing Davis' songs for the upcoming "Queen of the Damned" soundtrack, according to a Warner Bros. spokesperson.

While Davis co-wrote and recorded the five tracks that will be heard in the vampire flick, his record label contract prohibits his voice from appearing on the soundtrack, which will be released just before the next Korn album.

Veteran hard rock singer Jeff Scott Soto, who recorded some of the music in "Rock Star," was originally slated to take Davis' place on the soundtrack, but the organizers of the project later decided otherwise (see "Korn's Davis Uses Stunt Double For Vampire Movie Soundtrack ").

Manson sings on "Redeemer," Bennington on "System," Draiman on "Forsaken," Gordon on "Slept So Long," and Static on "Not Meant For Me." The songs are performed in the movie by the main character, Lestat, and his band, Satan's Night Out. The band's videos can be viewed at the movie's official Web site, www.queenofthedamned.com.

Davis' Korn bandmates Brian "Head" Welch and James "Munky" Shaffer play guitar on the songs, while seasoned drummer Vinnie Colaiuta (Frank Zappa, Sting) handled the beats. Limp Bizkit's Sam Rivers played bass on "Forsaken" and "Redeemer," and Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa, Missing Persons) played additional drums on "Slept So Long."

Richard Gibbs, former keyboardist for quirky rockers Oingo Boingo, co-wrote the songs and scored "Queen of the Damned" with Davis (see "Korn's Davis To Score Vampire Pic" ). Gibbs has scored several films, including "28 Days," "Say Anything" and "10 Things I Hate About You."

Other songs on the soundtrack, due February 19, are hard-rocking favorites like Disturbed's "Down With the Sickness," Papa Roach's "Dead Cell" and Deftones' "Change (In the House of Flies)." The late R&B singer Aaliyah, who co-stars in the movie, does not appear on the soundtrack.

"Queen of the Damned," based on the third novel in Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles," was directed by Michael Rymer ("In Too Deep") and stars Stuart Townsend ("Wonderland") as Lestat, a vampire first introduced in "Interview With the Vampire" who eventually becomes a rock star.

"Queen of the Damned" soundtrack track list, according to Warner Bros.:

Wayne Static of Static-X - "Not Meant For Me"
David Draiman of Disturbed - "Forsaken"

3. Chester Bennington of Linkin Park - "System"

Deftones - "Change (In the House of Flies)"
Marilyn Manson - "Redeemer"
Papa Roach - "Dead Cell"
Godhead - "Penetrate"
Jay Gordon of Orgy - "Slept So Long"
Disturbed - "Down With the Sickness"
Static-X - "Cold"
Earshot - "Headstrong"
Dry Cell - "Body Crumbles"
Tricky - "Excess"
Kidney Thieves - "Before I'm Dead"

NEW YORK — Anyone walking into the swank Waldolf-Astoria hotel Thursday morning would've been hard-pressed to figure out exactly what was going on. Jay-Z and R. Kelly had scheduled a press conference there to hype and answer questions about their March 26 release, The Best of Both Worlds, but it felt a lot more like a party. (Click here for photos)

Funkmaster Flex was spinning both superstars' greatest hits on the wheels of steel, and a spread of spinach-and-mushroom omelets and hash browns was left out for all to indulge upon. The morning's hosts, however, were nowhere to be found. They had been out until around 5:30 a.m., partying and finishing up their album, so they sent a few of their friends to make time with the press.

After the presidents of Jive and Def Jam addressed the crowd, attorney Johnnie Cochran came out to introduce moguls Andre Harrell and Russell Simmons. After words of praise for Jigga and Kelly, they introduced a panel of guests that would give even more kudos to the music kings. Ronald "Mr. Biggs" Isley, Kareem "Biggs" Burke, Tone from Trackmasters, independent music retailer George Daniels, reformed pimp Bishop Don "Magic" Juan and P. Diddy all came out to support.

"I'm basically here — to be honest — I'm here as a fan," Diddy said. "These are my two favorite artists in the whole wide world. I go to all the concerts, I've got all the albums, I know every lyric to every song. It's just a pleasure to be here. I can't wait to see the concert, I can't wait to hear the album."

"What The Best of Both Worlds means to me," Magic told the spectators, "is when you have two fine gentleman like these come together it's gonna be a spiritual explosion. It's spiritual 'cause the [fans are] gonna know the music of the hip-hop world is one world, under one nation on the music side."

That was the perfect segue back to Flex as he debuted the album's first offering, titled "Honey," which is about being under pressure from your girl to stop chasing money in the streets.

"This is mean and vicious, man," said Jay's voice, blaring from the speaker over a sample of the Bee Gees hit "Love You Inside Out."

"Lord forgive, I'm ballin' outta control/ I got the spirit of a hustla pouring outta my soul," Jigga went on to rhyme on the track. "Mommy, I love you, but there ain't no stoppin' my stroll/ If you wanna be down with me, you gotta go."

"Stuck bee-tween these two worlds," Kelly's voice sang as it oozed through the speakers. "What I'm gonna do with two girls?"

"Get This Money," whose slow Spanish guitars made it sounds like a sequel to the remix of Kelly's "Fiesta," which Jay appeared on, was also previewed. On that song, Kelly and Jay do their best to reach a light-speed pace, singing and rhyming about raking in the dough.

"We had the 'Fiesta' remix and ['Guilty Until Proven Innocent,']" Jay told the crowd, beginning to explain how the collaborative LP came about. "Hearing how those are, we would always talk back and forth: 'We should do a whole album together.' We're creative people — creative people create. Just the idea of having a whole album with myself and R. Kelly is such an amazing prospect."

"We're like mad scientists," Kelly said. "You want to get together and mix potions."

Jay said listeners can expect to hear songs about "just real-life situations" since "we both came from the dirt."

"We're not afraid to talk about the things we go through in our music," said Kelly. "We're gonna continue to do that."

As Kelly explained to MTV News earlier this month, the two tried to bring the best out in each other while recording, even though they were not together for most of the LP's production.

"On the last four songs we plan to come together and do them," Kelly said in early January, "because the ideas we wanna put together, we have to be together to do them. Other than that, I do tracks in the studio and write the hook and do some lyrics and send it to him. He puts his thing down. Then he'll send it back and send me something.

"Tone from Trackmasters, him and [his partner] Poke have been like the referees, making sure we get the tracks back to each other. Tone flies to Chicago and goes back to New York. It's been working out."

"It started out back-and-forth because we wanted to know how serious it was," Jay said Thursday. " 'Let's see what you can do with this one right here.' He'd send it back in one day. 'All right, send him two.' We got together at the end, the championship round, and put it together."

Helping to construct the opus were the Trackmasters on production (they split the work with Kelly) and Beanie Sigel and Lil' Kim with some raps. The duo also hopes to make Kelly's protégés Boo & Gotti last-minute guests.

But even without them, Kelly has visions of grandeur for the LP, especially on the marketing end.

"Best of Both Worlds T-shirts, drawers, condoms, everything," he joked.

Though it's still unclear what kind of paraphernalia the album will spawn, a tour is definitely in the works.

"Best of Both Worlds tour coming soon to a theater near you," Jay-Z said. "We're gonna put the show together. Just one set, one long set. He's doing the songs people love him for. I'm doing songs from my album, and we're doing songs from the Best of Both Worlds album."

And if Jay and Kelly can put their egos to the side long enough to wrap up and promote their album, then their labels — Def Jam and Jive, respectively — can surely figure out a way to join forces and make cheddar together. As determined by a coin toss, the album will be distributed on Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam in the U.S. and Canada, while Jive will handle distribution internationally.

"[We hope this is] a trend for more unity for black people on a whole," Jay told the crowd. "You've got a cab company, I've got a cab company, we're fighting for the same money? Maybe we can join forces. That's why this panel is here. That's why we have the support of Russell, Andre and Johnny C."

P. Diddy will shoot the video for his next single, a remix of "Roll With Me," with director Benny Boom next week in New York. Boom also directed the clip for "Got Ur Self A ..." by Nas. .. Adema and Earshot will accompany Alien Ant Farm, Fenix TX and Glassjaw on the SnoCore Rock Tour, which kicks off February 15 in Providence, Rhode Island. Adema will join the outing on March 1; Local H have been added to the first three dates. ... The Goodie Mob's Cee-Lo will release his debut solo album, Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections, on April 2. The first single and video from Cee-Lo, who is also a member of the Atlanta hip-hop collective the Dungeon Family, is "Closet Freak." ...

Hopefully the Spice Girls invested their fortune well, because they may have to fork over as much as $1.5 million to motor scooter company Aprilia. Three judges in a London Court of Appeal declared the ladies were guilty of misrepresentation for not telling the company of Geri Halliwell's plans to leave the group when they signed a sponsorship deal with the company. . Raphael Saadiq of Tony! Toni! Toné! and Lucy Pearl will drop his solo debut, Instant Vintage, on May 28. D'Angelo guests on the album's first single, "Be Here," and will also appear in the video, which Saadiq will direct. ... Former Powerman 5000 bassist Dorian Heartsong (a.k.a. Dorian 27), who left the group in November under amicable circumstances, has resurfaced as the bass player for rock combo Flying Tigers. The band's self-titled debut will come out April 16. ...

Fresh off a tour with Sum41, Unwritten Law will kick off a headlining jaunt on February 12 in Tallahassee, Florida. The outing will support their fourth album, Elva, which hits stores on Tuesday. ... Rare tracks by Gallic acts such as Daft Punk, Air and Cassius will be released March 5 on My House in Montmartre. Highlights include Dimitri From Paris' remix of Alex Gopher's "Party People," Etienne de Crecy's remix of Air's "Modular Mix" and the Stardust favorite "Music Sounds Better With You." .. Also due March 5 is the self-titled debut album from Playgroup, the latest project from British producer and U2/Massive Attack remixer Trevor Jackson (a.k.a. the Underdog). Among the album's peculiar guests are Scottish artist Edwyn Collins, original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre), Lucy Pearl singer Joi, and dancehall vocalist Shinehead on a cover of Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." ...

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Papa Roach's Lovehatetragedy has been set for release on June 25. The band plans to play some club dates in May before launching a full-scale tour. ... LL Cool J has reunited with "Deep Blue Sea" director Renny Harlin for "Mindhunters," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, which also stars Christian Slater and Val Kilmer, concerns FBI profilers who discover that one of their cohorts is a serial killer. ... Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has organized for his band to play a benefit for the Musicians' Assistance Program on February 7 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California. Hawkins retreated to MAP, a Los Angeles treatment center for musicians addicted to drugs and alcohol, during his recent struggle with substance abuse. ...

Three vintage live collections by Björk will hit U.S. shores in mid-February on DVD: "Björk Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire" (1997); "Live at Cambridge with the Icelandic Octet" (1998) and a disc of MTV Europe performances taped in 1994. Plans are in the works for a fourth disc culled from her concert at London's Royal Opera House last month. .. New Sarah McLachlan and Dido remixes, Coldplay's previously unreleased "Brothers and Sisters" and songs by Travis and Sheryl Crow appear on the soundtrack to the TV series "Roswell," due February 26. California's Sense Field, whose "Save Yourself" is the first single off the LP, will perform at the Virgin Megastore on Sunset Strip the day of the album's release. ... The Neptunes, Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter, Modjo and Mr. Oizo are among the artists who rework Air tracks on the duo's upcoming EP, Everybody Hertz. Due February 19, the record features remixes of songs from last year's 10,000 Hz. Legend, an unreleased track titled "The Way You Look Tonight" and a live "People in the City" video shot in L.A. at the end of Air's U.S. tour last summer. ...

Lovers Live, Sade's first live album, will be released on February 5, followed by a live DVD and VHS. The 13-track album was recorded at dates in Anaheim and Inglewood, California, on last year's Lovers Rock tour, her first outing in seven years. ... French DJ Dimitri From Paris will follow-up 2000's A Night at the Playboy Mansion mix LP with the double CD After the Playboy Mansion on February 19. Disc one features house music for the dance floor, including a Grace Jones remix, while disc two is a groovy after-hours collection. ... Eels founder Mark Everett, better known as E, has settled out of court with Rondor Music for authorizing the use of "I Like Birds" for a Spanish television commercial without E's permission; Rondor will donate the proceeds from the commercial to the Sweet Relief Musician's Fund for musicians in need of medical assistance at E's request. Eels' fourth album, Souljacker, is due March 12. ...

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There's a big change in the Papa Roach camp, as the band is now fronted by Jacoby Shaddix. Actually, that's still singer Coby Dick — he just wants to go by his full name from now on, their publicist said. ... At Monday's Hip-Hop Youth Summit in Queens, Nas reiterated to the audience that his lyrical battle with Jay-Z is just that — lyrical. According to the Associated Press, Nas explained that the MCs are engaged in a "battle of the minds" that will "not go into the streets," and that neither MC wants "to take each other's lives over some music." An MTV News Now special celebrating the lyrical battle tradition in hip-hop, "Jay-Z Vs. Nas: Beats, Battles & Beef," premieres on Friday, January 25 at 5 p.m. ET, with a companion feature debuting here the same day. ...

Santana will play nine U.S. shows starting in Tampa, Florida, on March 21, hitting Orlando, Atlanta, Raleigh, Washington, D.C., and other cities before ending in Hampton, Virginia, on April 2. After a European outing, Santana will return to America in the summer and fall to tour behind a new, still-untitled album, which will be released in the coming months. ... Weezer have named their next record Maladroit, according to the band's Web site. They credit the April-due LP's title to a fan who posted the suggestion on their message board. ... D'Angelo, Common and other artists are in talks to head into the studio with jazz trumpet playa Roy Hargrove. The musicians hope to record an album that will help bring jazz music to a younger, broader audience. ...

Moby, Dido, Massive Attack, Jill Scott, Sade, Maxwell and Delerium with Sarah McLachlan all contributed airy, atmospheric tracks to The Classic Chillout, which comes out March 26. The disc was a #1 record in the U.K. last year. ... Dawn, the debut solo album by former En Vogue and Lucy Pearl singer Dawn Robinson, is due in stores January 29. ... Founding Buzzcocks members Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto have reunited to collaborate as ShelleyDevoto, with the full-length fruits of their labors, Buzzkunst, due out March 5 through SpinART. Devoto left Buzzcocks in 1977 after the release of their debut EP, Spiral Scratch, and formed Magazine. ...

Remixes of "Beautiful Day" and "Elevation," an acoustic version of "Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of," and the B-sides "Summer Rain" and "Always" will be included on U2 7, a limited-edition seven-song U2 CD available only at Target stores beginning Tuesday (January 22) ....bGinuwinebwillopenforJanet Jackson on her 10-city tour. Janet, who hits venues beginning January 25 in Louisville, Kentucky and ending February 16 in Honolulu, is making up shows she missed on her All for You tour last year. ... A second "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack is due February 26, featuring the original film versions of songs performed by Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor and others. Among the tracks on the album are saucy versions of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and Elton John's "Your Song." ..

With this year marking Onyx's 10th anniversary in the rap game, the trio of Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz and Sonny Caesar are working on their fourth group album with producers Mike City, Scott Storch and D.R. Period. Sticky's new series, "Rampart," is scheduled to debut this spring on FX, and the bald MC said Dr. Dre has agreed to executive produce his next solo LP. ... System of a Down brought the house down — literally — at Australia's Big Day Out festival on January 18 when their set was interrupted for 20 minutes by the collapse of a crash barrier. Event organizers rushed New Zealand band Shihad onto the second stage during the delay, System finished their gig unhindered and no one was seriously injured. ...

Quirky cabaret crooner Rufus Wainwright will hit the road for a month-long string of 21 dates beginning February 8 in Boston to support his second album, Poses. ... Wainwright's velvety warble can be heard on When Love Speaks, an LP of 40 William Shakespeare sonnets read by actors such as Ralph Fiennes, Kenneth Branagh and Alan Rickman, due February 4. Wainwright, Annie Lennox, Bryan Ferry and Des'ree are among the artists who provide eight musical tracks on the album, which is the brainchild of conductor Michael Kamen, who led the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra through a concert with Metallica recorded for 1999's S&M. .. Thirty-two years after its last run featuring the likes of the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, the Doors and Joni Mitchell, England's Isle of Wight festival will return this summer. The multi-band concert is slated for June 3, though a lineup hasn't been cemented, according to the promoters' Web site. ...

KMFDM, who disbanded in 1999 (and whose main members continued as MDFMK), have reassembled, and they'll release ATTAK on April 16 through Metropolis. The group will preface the disc on February 6 with "BOOTS," which features the new song "Back in the U.S.S.A." and two mixes of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Were Made for Walking." ... Vancouver's New Pornographers will launch a 13-date U.S. tour with the Frames on February 8 in Minneapolis and close with a March 2 performance at the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco. Their song "Mass Romantic" will be featured in the soundtrack to the film "Men With Brooms," which stars Leslie Nielsen, Paul Gross and Molly Parker. .. Drum'n'bass DJ/producer Dieselboy has struck a joint venture label agreement with System Recordings, and the first release on his new imprint, Human, will be a Dieselboy mix CD titled Project Human. Dieselboy will co-headline the Dirty Beat 2002 Tour with DJ Rap in February and will play the Planet of the Drums Tour with AK1200 and DJ Dara in April.

Like their boy band predecessors, the Backstreet Boys, teenage vocal group 'N Sync were formed in Orlando, Florida, USA. Singers JC Chasez (b. Joshua Scott Chasez, 8 August 1976, Washington, DC, USA) and Justin Timberlake (b. 31 January 1981, Memphis, Tennessee, USA) had previously appeared on the [ Walt ] Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Club , a training ground for other future teenage pop stars Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. They met up again when working on separate solo projects in Nashville with the same vocal coaches. Returning to Orlando, Timberlake joined Chris Kirkpatrick (17 October 1971, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) and Joey Fatone (b. 28 January 1977, New York City, New York, USA). With the addition of Chasez and James Lance Bass (b. 4 May 1979, Clinton, Mississippi, USA), and managed by former New Kids On The Block manager Johnny Wright, 'N Sync was formed in 1995. Enlisting several hot pop producers, including Kristian Lundin (Backstreet Boys), and Denniz Pop and Max Martin ( Robyn , Ace Of Base ), the team recorded a collection of lightweight pop/dance tracks designed to appeal to a teenage audience.

Their debut album was originally released through BMG Ariola Munich, and the band became an instant success in Europe on the strength of the bestselling singles "I Want You Back" and "Tearin' Up My Heart". A tour of American roller rinks introduced them to the US audience, as a result of which "I Want You Back" climbed to a high of 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1998. Their album gained a US release in spring 1998, and eventually climbed to number 2 in October. The band opened for Janet Jackson and performed their first television concert on the Disney Channel in August. Home For Christmas was released to cash in on the seasonal market. An insipid mix of new material and standards, the album still debuted at number 7 on the US album chart in November. In the UK, 'N Sync entered the album chart at number 2 in January 1999, while "I Want You Back" debuted at number 5 in February. Their new single, "(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You", climbed to US number 8 in February 1999, while "Music Of My Heart", a soundtrack single recorded with Gloria Estefan , debuted at number 2 in October. After protracted discussions the group signed to Jive Records. Their debut for the label, March 2000's No Strings Attached , became the first album in US chart history to sell more than 2 million copies in its first week of sales. The album also generated the US chart-topping single, "It's Gonna Be Me". Further hit singles preceded the release of the following July's Celebrity, the group's musically adventurous and hugely successful fourth album.

Formed in Orlando, Florida, USA, in the mid-90s, white vocal quintet the Backstreet Boys comprises Kevin Scott Richardson (b. 3 October 1972, Lexington, Kentucky, USA), Nicholas Gene Carter (b. 28 January 1980, Jamestown, New York, USA), Brian "B-rok" Littrell (b. Brian Thomas Littrell, 20 February 1975, Lexington, Kentucky, USA), A.J. McLean (b. Alexander James McLean, 9 January 1978, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA) and Howie D. (b. Howard Dwaine Dorough, 22 August 1973, Orlando, Florida, USA). Managed by former New Kids On The Block tour manager Johnny Wright and his wife Donna, they began their careers by making a breakthrough in Europe rather than their domestic market. Their success began in 1995 when the single "We've Got It Goin' On" became a substantial hit in Germany, and eventually charted in the rest of mainland Europe. The band's first UK success came in June 1996, when "Get Down (You're The One For Me)" reached number 14. Reissues of their earlier singles broke them into the UK Top 10 for the first time, with 'We've Got It Goin' On' reaching number 3 in August, and "I'll Never Break Your Heart" climbing to number 8 in November (the previous year they had stalled at number 54 and 42 respectively). Their self-titled debut album repeated this success, although it was only made available in Europe, as was the 1997 follow-up, Backstreet's Back. The latter featured a cover version of P.M. Dawn 's "Set Adrift On Memory Bliss", but was otherwise another suite of teenage-orientated love songs and ballads. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" became another huge hit, and was instrumental in breaking the group in the US when it reached number 4 in June 1998.

Further huge hits followed with "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" and "As Long As You Love Me". Their self-titled US debut, compiling tracks from the European albums, went on to become the third best-selling record of 1998 in that country. They topped the UK singles chart in May 1999 with a new single, "I Want It That Way", which also proved an enduringly popular US Top 10 radio hit. Millennium was a predictable success, topping the US album charts at the start of June 1999 and selling two million copies in just over three weeks. The group's popularity showed no sign of waning over the following year, with a string of hit singles followed by the bestselling Black & Blue, which topped the US charts in November 2000.

b. 2 December 1981, Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. One of the last teenage pop superstars of the 20th century, Spears enjoyed her breakthrough success at the end of 1998. She appeared in local dance revues and church choirs as a young girl, and at the age of eight auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club . Although she was too young to join the series, a producer on the show gave her an introduction to a New York agent. She subsequently spent three summers at the Professional Performing Arts School Center. She appeared in a number of off-Broadway productions as a child actor, including Ruthless (1991). She returned to the [ Walt ] Disney Channel for a spot on The Mickey Mouse Club, where she was featured for two years between the ages of 11 and 13. She began to audition for pop bands in the New York area, her demo tapes eventually landing on the desk of Jive Records' Jeff Fenster. "Her vocal ability and commercial appeal caught me right away," he recalls.

Spears was expensively groomed by Jive, who put her in the studio with Eric Foster White (producer and writer for Boyzone , Whitney Houston and others). They employed top R&B writer Max Martin (of Backstreet Boys fame) to produce her debut single, "... Baby, One More Time", and an album of the same title. They also set up a promotional free phone number where fans could listen to Spears' music and interviews throughout the summer of 1998. She toured American venues for a series of concerts sponsored by US teen magazines, eventually joining 'N Sync on tour. The careful planning paid off when her debut album and single went on to top the American charts at the start of 1999. The album and single enjoyed similar success in the UK and Europe. The ballad "Sometimes" and the funky "(You Drive Me) Crazy" were also substantial transatlantic hits, and "Born To Make You Happy" topped the UK charts in January 2000. The demand for new Spears material was satisfied when her sophomore set, Oops! .. I Did It Again, was released in May. The album contained the expected quota of well-produced, expertly crafted pop songs, alongside a risible cover version of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".

Spears' self-titled third album was a laboured attempt by the singer to cultivate a more mature image. Although its initial sales were not as strong as her previous two albums, Britney shot straight to the top of the US album chart on its release in November 2001.

b. Christina Maria Aguilera, 18 December 1980, Staten Island, New York, USA. Aguilera was one of several US teen pop stars to rise to huge popular acclaim in the late 90s. Of Irish and Ecuadorian descent, her mother played violin and piano professionally while her father's position in the military resulted in the family travelling extensively around the world. Finally settling in Wexford, Philadelphia, Aguilera began performing at school talent shows, before making her first professional appearance at the age of eight on the nationally syndicated Star Search show. When she was 10 she sang the national anthem for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pirates. She joined [ Walt ] Disney 's Mickey Mouse Club at the age of 12, appearing alongside future pop stars JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync , and Britney Spears. Aguilera spent two years with the Mickey Mouse Club before moving to Japan to record "All I Wanna Do", a hit duet with local pop star Keizo Nakanishi.

Back in the USA in early 1998, Aguilera recorded "Reflection' for the soundtrack of Disney"s full-length animation Mulan Her rapid ascent to stardom continued when she signed to RCA Records shortly afterwards. Her debut album was recorded with a host of leading songwriters and producers. "Genie In A Bottle", a lightweight swingbeat number with an infectious hookline, went to the top of the US charts in July 1999. Written by UK-based songwriter Pam Sheyne, the single stayed at the top for 5 weeks, making it the biggest selling US single of the year. The other tracks on Aguilera's self-titled debut included upbeat dance anthem "Love Will Find A Way", soulful ballad "So Emotional", and the requisite Diane Warren blockbuster, "I Turn To You". The album entered the US album chart at number 1 in September. A month later "Genie In A Bottle" entered the UK singles chart at number 1.

Aguilera proved herself a genuine rival for Spears' teen pop crown when she returned to the top of the US charts in January 2000 with "What A Girl Wants" and again in October with "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)". In a shrewd marketing ploy, she then released a Spanish-language collection of her hits, Mi Reflejo , and the seasonal My Kind Of Christmas. Aguilera enjoyed a transatlantic chart-topper the following summer with a cover version of LaBelle 's "Lady Marmalade", recorded with Lil' Kim, Mya and Pink for the soundtrack of the movie Moulin Rouge.

Is Durst on TV better than no Durst at all? That's the question Coroner Jacqueline Milledge will address Tuesday (February 26), when an Australian court resumes its inquest into Limp Bizkit's possible role in the death of a 15-year-old girl at the 2001 Big Day Out Festival, according to the Associated Press.

Milledge had requested in-person testimony from frontman Fred Durst when Sydney's Glebe Coroner's Court started looking into the factors that contributed to concertgoer Jessica Michalik's death, but Durst refused to go to Australia, citing, among other reasons, that he was a "fearful flier" who won't travel by air unless absolutely necessary (see "Limp Bizkit Pledge Cooperation In Probe Of Fan's Death"). Instead, he offered his testimony via video teleconferencing, and the band members have faxed their written accounts to the court.

Lawyers for the concert promoter, however, scoffed at the prospect of televised testimony, claiming witnesses weren't bound by perjury laws when testimony was given via videophone.

A band spokesperson reportedly told Milledge Monday (February 25) that several of Limp Bizkit's tour managers had made written statements and would testify before the court, but Durst couldn't fit the trip into his schedule.

On November 19, Sydney's Glebe Coroner's Court began examining the factors that contributed to the death of Michalik, who died five days after suffering a heart attack during Limp Bizkit's set at the annual multi-band festival (see "Teen Who Had Heart Attack In Limp Bizkit Pit Dies"). While the band and its management company cited inadequate security measures as causal factors, a security consultant hired by concert promoters point the finger at the band's failure to halt their performance when they were told by security to do so.

After hearing testimony from promoters, security personnel and fans, the inquest rested November 30 and resumed February 25.

—Joe D'Angelo

Six months to the day of her death on August 25, 2001, Aaliyah is still very much alive in the hearts and minds of her fans.

"Queen of the Damned," in which the late singer/actress has the title role, was king of the box office this weekend, grossing a little over $15 million to take first place. Meanwhile, the hits "More Than a Woman" and "Rock the Boat" — both released as singles after she was killed in a plane crash following the "Rock the Boat" video shoot (see "Aaliyah Killed In Plane Crash") — are showing no signs of letting up on radio or on video.

This summer, Aaliyah will continue to live on through her music with a still-untitled album, according to her label, Blackground. A spokesperson for the project says no exact date has been set and that it was too early to tell what material it would include.

An untitled "Aaliyah tribute album" is on the release schedule for Blackground's distributor, Universal Records, with a date of August 20, Universal said on Friday. The Blackground spokesperson clarified on Monday (February 25) that they have not yet determined what sort of material would be included on the record — if it would include Aaliyah's greatest hits and/or unreleased material, or if it would feature guests paying homage to the singer.

This summer, Blackground is re-releasing the last LP we heard Aaliyah on, Timbaland and Magoo's Indecent Proposal. She's featured on a track called "I Am Music" (see "Timbaland, Magoo Have 'Another Classic' Ready With Jay-Z, Ludacris")

Timbaland, who produced many of Aaliyah's most popular songs, said in October that he would be heavily involved in putting out some of the late singer's unreleased tracks. "I've got a couple of songs that aren't even on [Indecent Proposal]," he said. "I've got a lot of unreleased stuff on Aaliyah. So some of the stuff we'll put out, but it's not gonna be the sad Baby Girl. You can grieve but so much. The grief can kill you."

Aaliyah's self-titled LP, released in July, has sold over 2.06 million copies to date, according to SoundScan.

Should Justin Go Solo?

He's got money, fame and one hot girlfriend, so what else could Justin Timberlake possibly want?

How about a solo career?

The 'NSYNCer has already dueted with Brian McKnight, stepped out in a video for Elton John, and is lining up collaborators for a solo project. So we ask you ...

Can Justin go it alone without 'NSYNC?


	No way. Justin needs 'NSYNC, and they need him.
	Absolutely. Justin is fully equipped for solo stardom.
	Who cares? Fatone's the real star of the show.

As those who caught her black-leather-clad act at Sunday night's closing ceremony of the Olympics may have been able to guess, Christina Aguilera is no longer the pop princess next door.

After bursting onto the scene three years ago as the apple-cheeked face behind "Genie in a Bottle," Aguilera has done her best to set herself apart from other teen queens. So as the chart-topper puts the finishing touches on her follow-up to her 1999 self-titled debut album, the emphasis is on pow, not pop.

"This album is very real," Aguilera told MTV News recently during a visit to the recording studio. "This whole album is very much from me, and it's just on a very real level. It's not a pop-pop record. It's got a lot of soul on it. It's got more R&B. It's got hip-hop influences. It's got rock, which is very interesting, but very much a part of who I am. ... It needed to come out, so it's exciting."

Aguilera's been working on new material since last fall with producers Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, No Doubt) and Rockwilder (Jay-Z, Redman) and is expected to have a new album in stores this summer (see "Christina Aguilera Album Expected In June").

For much more from MTV News' studio visit with Christina and your first earful of some of her new music, tune in to "Backstage at the Grammys" Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET on MTV. Then, point your browser to MTVNews.com for our complete Christina interview.

—MTV News staff report

NEW YORK — When a "supergroup" finds success, it often leads to rumblings about whether the bandmembers are going to leave their bread-and-butter outfits to focus on their new baby. Especially when the musicians start griping.

For example, during recent interviews about their side project Down, Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown have been questioning the longevity of Pantera and confirming that the band is on shore leave.

"With the last record, we were kind of like, 'That's the best we can f---in' get it. What are we gonna do now?' " Brown said, relaxing in a deluxe hotel suite in Midtown Manhattan. "If you can't go any further, you can't go any further. And then you just burn yourself out and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth when it's all said and done."

He cracked open a bottle of Jim Beam, poured some in a glass filled with ice and continued. "It's hard enough the four of us from Pantera getting in the same room. Phil lives down in New Orleans, we're all from Texas. And getting everybody on the level keel to say, 'Well, are you ready to do one now? Y'all got any riffs?' That's a tough one. Sometimes you gotta take time to sit back and recharge the batteries. And it's gonna take us awhile to do it."

However, in a statement issued by Pantera's label, Anselmo said Pantera are still very much together and will record a new record this year. He added that he cherishes the ability to work with both bands and that he's excited about Down's second disc, Down II, due March 26.

The album takes the murky Black Sabbath-influenced sludge rock formula of the group's 1995 record, NOLA, to a higher level of doom-laden craftsmanship. The first single from the album, "Beautifully Depressed," is a tumbling, trippy bout of fisticuffs that surges with rhythmic groove. While the track abounds with mind-bending guitars courtesy of Corrosion of Conformity's Pepper Keenan and Crowbar's Kirk Windstein, it's Anselmo's surprisingly melodic vocals that are the most arresting thing about the track.

"He sang like a f---in' lark," said Keenan, who grew up with Anselmo in New Orleans. "I haven't heard him sing like that since he was 16 years old. I didn't think he could do it."

"We had done a lot of the music, but not the lyrics. We took a break for Thanksgiving, and I came back and the guys went, 'Hey man, listen to the vocals,' " recalled Brown. "And I went, 'You all are f---in' with me. C'mon.' But they weren't."

For Anselmo, Down provides an opportunity to spread his wings and break through the barriers he confronted with Pantera.

"Pantera is very, very mechanical," he said. "It's very guitar-chop-oriented with heavy drums and some vocals. I'm not gonna bite the hand that fed me for years and still feeds me, I'm just saying that with Pantera the attitude is definitely all-out heavy metal and nothing else. With this, I wanted to add within the hooks some melody here and there just because I was a little tired of screaming over everything."

From the first dissonant opening notes of Down II to the last atmospheric fadeout, the album progresses like a journey, evolving in a way not dissimilar to the band's childhood favorite Led Zeppelin.

"Those guys were always known for their extravagance," said drummer Jimmy Bower, who also plays in Eyehategod. "There was always a mystical vibe to their records. For this one we wanted a strange vibe too, but instead of being proper English guys, we're a bunch of f---in' coon-asses from New Orleans, so we're just doing it our way."

—Jon Wiederhorn

-- by Corey Moss with additional reporting by John Norris

One dreary afternoon last fall, Wes Borland put his ailing cat to rest. It was a devastating event, and he returned to his Los Angeles home feeling depressed. Borland knew he had more than his pet to move on from, something he'd been putting off for months. He picked up the phone and called his Limp Bizkit bandmates one by one to announce his departure from the group.

The way Borland tells it, leaving Limp Bizkit after six years was simply a matter of following his heart. He was the most widely respected musician in one of the biggest rock bands in the world, but deep down he was no longer happy with the music he was playing and he wanted something different. He was remaining in Limp Bizkit for all the wrong reasons. He was, metaphorically speaking, doing it all for the nookie.

"If I were to continue to be in that band it would not have been for real," Borland said, reclining in his home studio, staring at walls lined with packaged "Star Wars" figures and his own eerie graffiti. "It's just money and fame, and I kind of went there and did the whole fame and money thing and it's just not as important as making the music that I want to make. I couldn't be proud of what I was doing and couldn't stand completely behind it, and if you're somebody who is doing something they don't want to do, bells start going off — like I'm actually selling out, this is what it feels like to sell out. I'm enjoying all the perks of this job, but you know, I feel my heart going black because this is not what I'm called to do. The little voice inside my head said, 'You should be somewhere else, you should take the risk, you should let it go.' "[RealVideo]

A few weeks later, in the midst of a nationwide search to find a new guitar player, Fred Durst sat in a Guitar Center in New York, pondering why his old friend felt so artistically deprived in Limp Bizkit. Durst, who has never been one to hide his conflicts with others, had been relatively quiet about Borland's departure, saying only encouraging things about the guitarist and the future of Limp Bizkit. During one interview, Durst even compared Borland to legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. But now Durst was feeling a little hurt.

"That, I would agree, is selling out," Durst said after reading Borland's comments on MTVNews.com. "And so if that's how he felt, then he sold out, but [not] Limp Bizkit. He can't put a label on the whole band, 'cause he's alienated himself from the whole band. He knows in his heart how much we believe in our music and how much we really believe in just not settling for something unless it's really moving us, 'cause he's been a part of it the whole time. It seems to me like he wanted the article to feel like we're making music for money and he wasn't down with that and he just wanted to get back to music. But I hope that's not what he was saying, because it just seems so rude and wrong, because we love what we're doing and we don't want to turn the page and say that about him, because that's just not right. We don't want to get into some type of war like that."

A war this is not. After all, this is the band that denounced "the he said/she said bullsh--" in the enraged rock anthem "Break Stuff." When Limp Bizkit announced Borland's departure, they called the spilt amicable, and in a joint press release the two sides wished each other "the best of luck in all future endeavors." They both still stand by that.

"They're treating me with respect and I'm treating them with respect," Borland said "But it's like a divorce. You don't want to talk to the person immediately after it happens. It's gonna take a lot of time to, you know, heal. There's definitely not any bad feelings, but we're not going to go and have lunch anytime soon."

Borland's relationships with Durst, DJ Lethal, Sam Rivers and John Otto weakened over the years not because of anything they had done, he said, but because of his growing misery in the band. Borland stressed that his reasons for leaving are entirely artistic — nothing personal.

Durst, however, can't help but think about the quarrels he had with Borland before his bandmate left. There was the time they played Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" at the "America: A Tribute to Heroes" telethon and Durst asked Borland if he was really going to wear casual Birkenstock sandals on the somber show. "I think that upset him 'cause he started wearing Birkenstocks [often]," Durst said.

There was the time Durst was working on his remix of "What's Going On" and asked Korn's Brian "Head" Welch to play guitar rather than Borland. "Wes was having writer's block for the new record and I told him, 'Hey, if you come up with any sick riffs or anything, we need to save them for our record,' " Durst recalled. "I wanted to put together a medley band anyway. I'm not performing on the song. I think that kind of made him unhappy."

And there were the times they disagreed about other bands' music. "I would always be, 'Hey, man, don't dog those bands out,' and every once in a while he would dog one of those bands out," Durst said. "I could see that he was against that, me trying to [tell him], 'Don't say that.' "

Borland's taste differences with the other members of Limp Bizkit have never been a secret. Though he often talked about the metal music he loved, it was when he released his quirky side project Big Dumb Face that it become obvious he was not a poster child for rap-rock.

"Hip-hop is great for people who love that music, but I don't and I don't really get anything out of it," Borland said. "Some of the guys in the band, I would notice them listening to hip-hop music and saying, 'Wow, that gave me [goose] bumps right there when I heard that in that song.' And I would go, 'Wait, rewind it, because I want to hear what you're hearing here that I'm not hearing.' And then I would listen to it and they'd say, 'You don't think that's awesome?' And I'd go, 'No, I don't get it.' "[RealVideo]

Still, Durst always felt Borland, whom he calls "a creative person exploding at the seams," loved Limp Bizkit. Before Borland quit, the band had written a new song he seemed to enjoy. "I thought he was so into it," Durst said.

Durst reminisced about Limp Bizkit's days with Borland, about getting ready to go onstage and being continuously shocked by Borland's eccentric costumes, about watching him perform. "He really gets into [Limp Bizkit] onstage and he really seems to vibe off the energy and the crowd, so it seemed like he loved it," Durst said. "I mean, every show."

This Borland will not deny. "I always enjoyed the live show part of it, and Fred's such a good frontman live, but the music got more and more to the point where I wasn't enjoying it so much. I wished I was doing something that my good friends liked. Some of what Limp Bizkit was doing I liked, but the stuff that I didn't like about the music was so much where I couldn't listen to our records."

After chatting in his studio, Borland showed off his impressive guitar collection and a few rooms of his house, where, he noted, he won't be living much longer. "This is a Limp Bizkit salary house," he said, almost proudly. Borland is prepared to leave a life of luxury behind. He said he'll even sell some guitars if need be. He's just excited to move on with his new project, Eat the Day, which he compared to Tool.

"I definitely think that what [Limp Bizkit] are doing is what needs to be done and making that kind of music is what they enjoy making, but for me I want to be in Eat the Day. I think they'll be better now that I'm gone. I think I held them back from being their best because I was so against all the things that were going on."

Since Borland's departure, Limp Bizkit have been surprisingly active, releasing a remix album and launching the high-profile Put Your Guitar Where Your Mouth Is Tour. Although there have been no announcements regarding a new guitarist yet, Durst said Limp Bizkit are forging ahead with their next album.

"This is like losing someone in your family," he said. "It's been a real bonding experience for the guys left in Limp Bizkit to really get a lot tighter and to just really be there for each other. We all have some great ideas for songs right now. We're gonna start jamming with a couple people that we wanted to jam with. I'm very optimistic."

In 2000, the Grammy Awards belonged to Carlos Santana. And to Jennifer Lopez's dress.

Santana took home a record-tying eight Grammys on a night when, in true Grammy form, the old folks won. The night seemed to honor the guitarist's 30-plus-year career as much as his 1999 chart-topping album, Supernatural. His wins included honors for Album of the Year, and Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Smooth," his collaboration with Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 (the Song of the Year award actually went to songwriters Itaal Shur and Thomas).

The guitarist gave credit to one-time collaborator Lauryn Hill for introducing him to Grammy voters.

"I'm very grateful to ... Lauryn Hill, because she's the one who opened the door for me," Santana said. "She invited me to the Grammys last year, and I'd never been invited, and somehow I made a lot of friends and they all made it possible ... so here we are, thanks to her."

As for Lopez's Versace gown ...

"Well Jennifer," co-presenter David Duchovny said, "this is the first time in five or six years that I'm sure that nobody is looking at me."

While J.Lo's plunging neckline threatened to halt the proceedings, as all in attendance were virtually hypnotized into a drooling, babbling state, the show did in fact go on, with more of the old guard taking home awards. Sting grabbed two (Best Pop Album for Brand New Day and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the title track), and Cher topped Fatboy Slim and Lopez for Pop Dance Recording (for "Believe"). Wily veteran Whitney Houston barely had the gods of experience on her side, as the diva needed all her strength to turn her seven nominations into one Grammy (for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance).

The youngsters were eventually given their due — TLC had a pretty big night as their hit "No Scrubs" landed honors for Best R&B Duo or Group With Vocals and Best R&B Song, and the trio's Fanmail was named Best R&B Album.

Eminem also made a case for the new kids, taking home two awards for Best Rap Solo Performance for "My Name Is" and Best Rap Album for The Slim Shady LP.

In the sole domain of the Grammy virgin, a stunned Christina Aguilera topped Kid Rock, Macy Gray, Susan Tedeschi and fellow teen popster Britney Spears for Best New Artist.

"At age eight or nine years old I remember watching Mariah Carey win Best New Artist," Aguilera said. "I was like, 'God, one day you know, I'm gonna practice up in my room.' "

The singer left the ceremony with second thoughts about her dazed but giddy acceptance speech.

"I'm just really afraid to see the playback, because I know my legs were, like, wobbling," she said of her speech. "I was, like, shaking, and I had no speech prepared. It was crazy."

The Roots also hit Grammy pay dirt for the first time, landing an award for Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group for "You Got Me," a song the group recorded with Erykah Badu.

-- from MTV News

Stick with MTV News for complete coverage when the Grammys are handed out on February 27. You can catch the action live from the red carpet on "Backstage at the Grammys" beginning at 7 p.m.(ET) on MTV, and get up-to-the-minute news and reaction from the stars on MTVNews.com throughout the night.

For more on Carlos Santana, TLC, Lauryn Hill, and Jennifer Lopez, check out the MTV News Archive >>

"We were actually on another planet yesterday. We just descended down to check out this earthly activity," the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea said at the 35th annual Grammy Awards.

Flea and his bandmates were probably in an intergalactic mood, having just staged a monster jam at the ceremony on their Grammy-winning "Give It Away" with their one-time producer, funk pioneer George Clinton, along with his P-Funk All-Stars — no strangers to descending onto stages in funked-up spaceships.


	MTV News 1993 Grammy Awards RealVideo Report

Funkiness aside, the 1993 Grammys were all about Eric Clapton. In the end it proved to be a very big night for the guitar god, a two-time Grammy winner who added six more statuettes to his collection. Clapton got two Grammys for his MTV album, Unplugged, and three more including Song and Record of the Year for one of its tracks, "Tears in Heaven," written after the death of his four-year-old son, Conor.

"The one person I want to thank is my son for the love he gave me and the song he gave me," Clapton said.

If Eric Clapton was the sentimental favorite that night, one of the most emotional moments came when Michael Jackson, who received a Grammy Legend Award from his sister Janet, started talking onstage about his difficult childhood.

"My childhood was completely taken away from me. There was no Christmas. There were no birthdays. It was not a normal childhood," he said.

Jackson also demonstrated, at last, that he had a sense of humor, too.

"In the past month I've gone from 'Where is he?' to 'Here he is again,' " he said. "I hope this finally puts to rest another rumor that has been in the press for too many years — me and Janet really are two different people."

Rap Grammy Award winner Sir Mix-a-Lot ("Baby Got Back") announced the need for more black music executives, and Arrested Development, named Best New Act of the Year, also scored a rap Grammy for their single "Tennessee."

As far as other winners, K.D. Lang crossed over from country in a major way with a Best Female Pop Vocalist award for her single "Constant Craving." Boyz II Men's top-charting "End of the Road" was named Best R&B Song. Melissa Etheridge was named Best Female Rock Singer, and while Best Metal Performance winners Nine Inch Nails ("Wish"), Best Alternative Music Album winner Tom Waits (Bone Machine) and Lifetime Achievement Grammy winner Little Richard didn't make the live broadcast, Peter Gabriel, who copped the Best Music Video award ("Digging in the Dirt"), turned up and performed with support from the Canadian avant-garde circus troupe Cirque du Soleil.

-- MTV News

Stick with MTV News for complete coverage when the Grammys are handed out on February 27. You can catch the action live from the red carpet on "Backstage at the Grammys" beginning at 7 p.m.(ET) on MTV, and get up-to-the-minute news and reaction from the stars on MTVNews.com throughout the night.

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One to Watch: Kylie Minogue

February 28, 2002

She's one of the biggest superstars in the world - and she's finally coming (back) to the USA.

Kylie Minogue searches have jumped over the last few weeks as the Australian pop star, as successful as Madonna across the rest of the world, finally makes a second attempt to conquer America with her new single "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" and album Fever.

Minogue is a pop culture icon in Australia and Europe who has recorded hit after hit since 1987. She was originally an actress on the internationally popular soap opera Neighbours before crossing over to music with her remake of "The Loco-Motion."

That song began her dominance of the international pop charts. In the past 15 years Minogue has had twelve top 10 hits in the U.K. -- but "The Loco-Motion" was her only hit in the United States. Here, Minogue is remembered with Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, while in England she's in the same class as Madonna and Britney Spears.

Minogue is also the subject of tons of online fan sites from devoted listeners. Check out The Australian Kylie Minogue Network, or this Angelfire site which promises "No naked pictures of Kylie Minogue here!"

Over time Minogue has switched from a young girl next door to a sexier diva, and her sound developed in a more techno direction as dance pop moved that way as well. "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" has now moved up to #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. The album hit U.S. stores on Tuesday.

Minogue already got plenty of Lycos searches thanks to our overseas users. In 2001, for example, she received more searches than either Leann Rimes or Beyonce Knowles, to give two examples of better-known American singers.

But her assault on America has her reaching new heights of Internet popularity. Kylie Minogue searches are up 150 percent in the last two months. This week Minogue came in about 25 slots shy of the Lycos 50, with more searches than Michael Jackson, popular rapper Ja Rule, or heavy metal icons Slipknot.

At age 32, Minogue isn't really old - but she's not exactly Britney, either. Will she be able to reach the top of the Billboard charts -- and a place with Britney, Shakira, and J. Lo on the Lycos 50? Time will tell.

Visit CDNOW to purchase Minogue's new CD, Fever.

TOMORROW: Another one to watch, this time in the world of heavy metal.

This Week's Lycos 50

Here are the top 50 searches on Lycos for the week ending February 23, 2002.

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Olympics
On to Athens

Dragonball
Anime empire

132

IRS
Taxmen

Morpheus
#1 file swap

Britney Spears
Crossroads star

132

Chu Mei-Feng
Taiwan sex scandal that just won't go away

Taxes
You gotta pay

Tattoos
Skin is in

#10

132

Las Vegas
Sin City USA

#11

132

NASCAR
Auto racers

#15

Anna Kournikova
She's our gal

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WWF
nWo returns

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132

Final Fantasy
Video games

#18

130

Pamela Anderson
Popular pinup

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132

Apolo Anton Ohno
Short track superstar

New

NFL
Will last salary cap casualty please turn out lights

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California Lottery
You didn't win

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Prom Dresses
Girls want 'em

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Marijuana
Wacky weed

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Jennifer Lopez
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132

Harry Potter
Wizard of lit

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Lord of the Rings
Blockbuster

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The Bible
Good book

#31

129

NBA
Pro hoops

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Enron
Embattled corporation

#34

Hockey
O Canada!

New

Anorexia
Eating disorder

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Black History Month
MLK and more

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Real women will never wear these

New

Linkin Park
Best new artist?

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Cloning
Cat's meow

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Baseball
Spring training

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Lisa Guerrero
Fox Sports beauty

New

Pokemon
Catch 'em all

#37

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Grand Theft Auto 3
Hot PS2 game

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KaZaA
#2 file swap

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Abutments
            NT: Bridge abutments
Acceleration
            NT: Mode acceleration
Accelerators particles (Added ‘92)
            UF: Super colliders
Accelerograms
Accelerometer tests
            BT: Tests
Accelerometers
Acceptability
Acceptance tests
            BT: Tests
Access control
            BT: Control
Access roads
            BT: Roads
Accessibility
Accident data
Accident factors
Accident prediction
            BT: Prediction
Accident prevention
Accidents
            NT: Construction site accidents
            NT: Traffic accidents
Accounting
Accreditation
Accretion
Accuracy
            NT: Model accuracy
Acetate
            NT: Calcium magnesium acetate
Acid mine water
            BT: Acid water
Acid rain
Acidic water
            BT: Water
Acids (Added May ‘96)
            NT: Phosphoric acid
Acoustic detection
Acoustic measurement
            BT: Measurement
Acoustic waves
            BT: Waves
Acoustics
Acquisition
            NT: Land acquisition
Activated carbon
            BT: Carbon
Activated carbon filters
            BT: Filters
Activated carbon treatment
            RT: Aerobic treatment
            RT: Biological treatment
            RT: Chemical treatment
Activated sludge
            BT: Sludge
Activated sludge process
Active control
            BT: Control
Adaptive systems
Adhesive bonding
            BT: Bonding
Adhesive joints
            Use: Bonded joints
Adhesives
            UF: Glues
Adjustment
Administration
            NT: Business administration
            NT: Contract administration
Admixtures
            UF: Concrete additives
            UF: Concrete, admixtures
Adsorbed water
            BT: Water
Adsorbents
Adsorption
            BT: Sorption
            NT: Ion adsorption
Advection
Aeolian sands
            BT: Sand
Aeration
Aeration tanks
            BT: Tanks
Aerators
Aerial photography
            BT: Photography
Aerial rudders
Aerial surveys
            BT: Surveys
Aerobic processes
Aerobic treatment
            RT: Active carbon treatment
            RT: Biological treatment
            RT: Chemical treatment
Aerodynamic forces
            BT: Force
Aerodynamics
            BT: Dynamics
Aeroelasticity
            BT: Elasticity
Aeronautics
Aerosols
Aerospace engineering
            BT: Engineering
Aerospace industry
            BT: Industries
Aerospace transport
Aesthetics
            Use: Esthetics
Affirmative action
            RT: Equal employment opportunity
Afghanistan
            BT: Asia
Africa
            NT: Egypt
            NT: Ethiopia
            NT: Ghana
            NT: Nigeria
            NT: South Africa
            NT: Sudan
            NT: Tanzania
            NT: Zambia
            NT: Zimbabwe
Age factors
Aggradation
Aggregate gradation
            RT: Soil gradation
Aggregates
            NT: Conrete aggregates
Aggregation
            UF: Disaggregation
Aging
Agreements
Agricultural engineering
            BT: Engineering
Agricultural wastes
            RT: Chemical wastes
            RT: Domestic wastes
            RT: Hazardous waste
            RT: Industrial wastes
            RT: Mine waste
            RT: Mixed waste
            RT: Municipal wastes
            RT: Radioactive wastes
            RT: Solid wastes
            RT: Toxic wastes
            RT: Wastewater
Agricultural watersheds
            BT: Watersheds
Agriculture
            NT: Crop production
            NT: Farms
            RT: Aquaculture
Air chambers
Air classifiers
Air conditioning
Air entrainment
            BT: Entrainment
Air flow
            BT: Flow
Air Force (Added ‘92)
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Air injection
            UF: Air sparging
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Air pollution
            BT: Pollution
            NT: Indoor air pollution
Air pollution control
            BT: Pollution control
Air quality
Air quality standards
            BT: Standards
Air sparging
            Use: Air injection
Air stripping
            BT: Stripping
Air supported structures
            BT: Structures
Air temperature
            BT: Temperature
Air traffic
            BT: Traffic
Air transportation
            BT: Transportation
Air water interactions
            BT: Interactions
Airblast
            BT: Blasting
Airborne equipment
            BT: Equipment
Aircraft
Aircraft hangars
            Use: Hangars
Aircraft technology
            BT: Technology
Airfields
            RT: Airports
Airlines
Airport access
Airport construction
            BT: Construction
Airport control towers
            BT: Towers
Airport design
            BT: Design
Airport runways
Airport terminals
            BT: Terminal facilities
Airports
            RT: Airfields
Alabama
            BT: United States
Alaska
            BT: United States
Alcohols
Alfalfa
            BT: Crops
Algae
            BT: Aquatic plants
Algorithms
            UF: Heuristics
            UF: Problem sovling
            RT: Optimization
Alignment
Alkalinity
Allocations
            NT: Cost allocations
            NT: Funding allocations
            NT: Resource allocation
            NT: Risk allocation
            NT: Wasteload allocation
Allowable stress design
            UF: ASD
            BT: Design
Alloys
Alluvial channels
            RT: Approach channels
            RT: Channels, waterways
            RT: Circular channels
            RT: Distributary channels
            RT: Open channels
            RT: Stable channels
            RT: Stream channels
            RT: Trapezoidal channels
Alluvial deposits
            Use: Alluvium
Alluvial fans
Alluvial streams
            BT: Streams
Alluvial valleys
Alluvium
            UF: Alluvial deposits
Altimeters
Alumina
Aluminum
Alums
American Association of Engineering Societies
            RT: Engineering societies
American Samoa (Added May ‘95)
            BT: United States
Ammonia
Amplification
Amplitude
Anadromous fish
            BT: Fish
Anaerobic digestion
            BT: Digestion
Anaerobic filters
            BT: Filters
Anaerobic processes
Analog models
            BT: Models
Analogs
Analysis
            NT: Bayesian analysis
            NT: Bilinear analysis
            NT: Chromatographic analysis
            NT: Computer analysis
            NT: Cost analysis
            NT: Data analysis
            NT: Deformation analysis
            NT: Dimensional analysis
            NT: Discriminate analysis
            NT: Dynamic analysis
            NT: Economic analysis
            NT: Elastic analysis
            NT: Error analysis
            NT: Factor analysis
            NT: Fourier analysis
            NT: Fractal analysis
            NT: Frequency analysis
            NT: Foundational analysis
            NT: Graphical analysis
            NT: Hypsometric analysis
            NT: Image analysis
            NT: Income analysis
            NT: Infrared analysis
            NT: Input-output analysis
            NT: Limit analysis
            NT: Linear analysis
            NT: Matrix analysis
            NT: Mineral analysis
            NT: Model analysis
            NT: Multiple objective analysis
            NT: Network analysis
            NT: Nonlinear analysis
            NT: Numerical analysis
            NT: Petrographic analysis
            NT: Photographic analysis
            NT: Plastic analysis
            NT: Power spectrum analysis
            NT: Qualitative analysis
            NT: Quantitative analysis
            NT: Regional analysis
            NT: Regression analysis
            NT: Reliability analysis
            NT: Risk analysis
            NT: Safety analysis
            NT: Seismic analysis
            NT: Sensitivity analysis
            NT: Settlement analysis
            NT: Soil analysis
            NT: Spatial analysis
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            NT: Stability analysis
            NT: Stress analysis
            NT: Structural analysis
            NT: System analysis
            NT: Thermal analysis
            NT: Three-dimensional analysis
            NT: Time series analysis
            NT: Traffic analysis
            NT: Traverse analysis
            NT: Two-dimensional analysis
            NT: Uncertainty analysis
            NT: Variance analysis
            NT: Vector analysis
            NT: Vibration analysis
            NT: Wind analysis
            NT: X-ray analysis
Analytical techniques
Anchorages
Anchored bulkheads
            BT: Bulkheads
Anchors
Anemometers
            BT: Measuring instruments
Angle section
            RT: Cross sections
            RT: Hollow section
            RT: Thin wall section
Animals (Added Dec ‘99)
            NT: Birds
            NT: Livestock
            NT: Marine animals
            NT: Reptiles
            NT: Wildlife
Anion exchange
Anisotropic materials
            BT: Materials
Anisotropic plates
            BT: Plates
Anisotropic soils
            BT: Soils
Anisotropy
            RT: Isotropy
Antarctic
            BT: Cold regions
Antennas
Application methods
            BT: Methodology
Approach channels
            RT: Alluvial channels
            RT: Channels, waterways
            RT: Circular channels
            RT: Distributary channels
            RT: Open channels
            RT: Stable channels
            RT: Stream channels
            RT: Trapezoidal channels
Approximation
Approximation methods
            BT: Methodology
Aprons
Aquaculture
            RT: Agriculture
Aquariums
Aquatic environment
            BT: Environment
Aquatic habitats
            NT: Fish habitats
Aquatic plants
            BT: Vegetation
            NT: Algae
Aqueducts
Aquifer characteristics
            BT: Characteristics
Aquifer tests
            BT: Tests
Aquifers
Aramid
            UF: KELVAR
            RT: Synthetic fibers
Arbitration
            RT: Dispute resolution (Added Sep ‘96)
Archaeology
Arches
Architect/engineers
            BT: Engineers
            BT: Architect
Architects
            NT: Architect/engineers
Architectural engineering (Added Mar ‘96)
            BT: Engineering
Architecture
Arctic engineering
            BT: Engineering
Arctic regions
            BT: Cold regions
Argentina
            BT: Latin America
Arid lands
Arizona
            BT: United States
Arkansas (Added ‘92)
            BT: United States
Armenia (Added Feb ‘93)
            BT: Asia
Armor units
Army
            UF: U.S. Army
Aromatic hydrocarbons
            BT: Hydrocarbons
Arsenic
Arterial highways
            BT: Highways
Artesian pressure
            BT: Pressures
Artificial intelligence
Artificial islands
            BT: Islands
Artificial life
            Use: Evolutionary computation
Artificial recharge
Asbestos
ASCE
ASCE Activities
ASCE Awards & Prizes
            BT: Awards
ASCE Board of Direction
ASCE Code of Ethics
            BT: ASCE ethics
ASCE Committees
ASCE Conferences
            BT: Conferences
ASCE Conventions
ASCE Dues
ASCE Education
            BT: Education
ASCE Educational Divisions
ASCE Employment Conditions
            BT: Employment conditions
ASCE Ethics
            BT: Ethics
            NT: ASCE Code of Ethics
ASCE Honorary Members
            BT: ASCE members
ASCE Institutes (Added Dec ‘99)
ASCE Members
            NT: ASCE Honorary Members
            NT: ASCE Younger Members
            RT: Memoirs of deceased members
ASCE Membership
ASCE National Affairs
ASCE Officers
ASCE Outstanding Civil Engineering
ASCE Policy
ASCE Presidents
ASCE Professional Divisions
ASCE Publications
            BT: Publications
ASCE Salaries and Fees
            BT: Fees
ASCE Sections
ASCE Service to Members
            BT: Services
ASCE Staff
ASCE Student Chapters
ASCE Technical Divisions
ASCE Younger Members
            NT: ASCE Members
ASD
            Use: Allowable stress design
Ash disposal systems
Ashes
            NT: Bottom ash
            NT: Fly ash
            NT: Volcanic ash
Asia (Added Mar ‘93)
            NT: Afghanistan
            NT: Armenia
            NT: Bangladesh
            NT: China
            NT: Hong Kong
            NT: India
            NT: Indonesia
            NT: Iran
            NT: Iraq
            NT: Israel
            NT: Japan
            NT: Jordan
            NT: Kazakstan
            NT: Korea
            NT: Kuwait
            NT: Lebanon
            NT: Malaysia
            NT: Nepal
            NT: Oman
            NT: Pakistan
            NT: Philippine Islands
            NT: Saudi Arabia
            NT: Singapore
            NT: Sri Lanka
            NT: Syria
            NT: Taiwan
            NT: Thailand
            NT: Turkey
            NT: United Arab Emirates
            NT: Vietnam
Asphalt cement
            BT: Cements
Asphalt mixes
Asphalt pavements
            BT: Pavements
Asphaltic concrete (Added Sep ‘96)
            BT: Concrete
Asphalts
            NT: Rubber modified asphalt
Assembly line
            RT: Manufacturing
Assessments
            NT: Damage assessment
            NT: Technology assessment
Astrogeology (Added ‘92)
            UF: Space geology
            BT: Astronomy
Astronomy
            NT: Astrogeology
            NT: Geodesy
            NT: Meteors
            NT: Moon
Asymmetric structures
            BT: Structures
Asymmetry
            RT: Symmetry
Asymptotic expansion
            Use: Asymptotic series
Asymptotic series
            UF: Asymptotic expansion
Atmospheric boundary layers
            BT: Boundary layer
Atmospheric diffusion
            BT: Diffusion
Atmospheric pressure
            BT: Pressures
Attenuation
            NT: Light attenuation
            NT: Wave attenuation
Atterberg limits
Attitudes
Audits
            NT: Environmental audits
Australia
Austria (Added Aug ‘92)
            BT: Europe
Auto-regressive models
            BT: Models
Auto-regressive moving-average model
            BT: Models
Automatic guided transit systems
            UF: People movers
Automated highways
            UF: Intelligent vehicle highway systems
            BT: Highways
Automatic identification systems (Added ‘92)
            UF: Automatic vehicle identification
            UF: Computer aided vision systems
            UF: Pattern recognition systems
Automatic vehicle identification
            Use: Automatic identification systems
Automation
            NT: Office automation
Automobiles
            UF: Passenger cars
            BT: Vehicles
Avalanches
            RT: Rockslides
            RT: Landslides
Awards
            NT: ASCE Awards and Prizes
Axial compression
            BT: Compression
Axial forces
            BT: Force
Axial loads
            BT: Loads
Axial strain
            BT: Strain
Axisymmetry
            BT: Symmetry
Azimuth

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