plus: Metallica [ tickets ]. Tori Amos [ tickets ]. Merger limbo. Stone Temple Pilots [ tickets ]. Dave Navarro. Turner South Live. The story of Atlantic Records.

"Children are being targeted with ads for adult-themed music despite the recording industry's promise last year to revise advertising practices, says a report by the Federal Trade Commission," the Associated Press reported.

Reportedly cited by the commission as examples of this practice, "... MTV's after-school hours were a busy time for ads for recordings with adult lyrics ... ads in teen magazines for groups like Blink-182, Crazy Town and Rage Against the Machine, whose recordings contain explicit lyrics."

The full FTC report is available at the government agency's official website.

Sonicnet reported that Metallica entered the studio on Monday (4/23), but without a bassist.

Tori Amos has tentative plans to play a series of North American and European concert dates late this summer, according to Atlantic Records. The tour will coincide with the release of her new album.

According to Reuters, "Bertelsmann and EMI Group are still fully committed to a music merger, and antitrust issues remain the only obstacle blocking the way, Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Middelhoff said on Tuesday [4/24]."

Stone Temple Pilots' next album, "Shangri-La Dee Da," is due on June 26, Billboard reported.

Capitol Records will release Dave Navarro's (Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers) debut album, "Trust No One," on June 19.

The Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, Darius Rucker (Hootie & the Blowfish) and Ann Wilson (Heart) will perform at Turner South Live in Atlanta on May 5. The concert will be broadcast live on the regional Turner South network.

Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, will release his book "What'd I Say: The Atlantic Story" sometime in June, according to A Publishing. The press release calls the book Ertegun's "personal story"--though it doesn't say if it's a memoir or an autobiography or what--and says that it will feature "900 rarely seen photographs."