Briefly: 311, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy, Sheryl Crow

The release date for "Don't Tread on Me," 311 's eighth studio album, has been pushed back three weeks to Aug. 16.

Radio stations will have the album's title track--its first single--by July 25, two days before 311's summer tour gets underway, according to Volcano/Jive Records.

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A financial company filed a $48 million suit against Michael Jackson on Monday (7/11), claiming it is owed the money for helping the artist to retain the publishing rights to The Beatles' catalog of songs.

Prescient Acquisition Group Inc. claims in its lawsuit that Jackson hired the company in late 2004 to help him to refinance a $272 million debt his company owed to Bank of America.

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Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Random House, Inc., have settled a lawsuit filed in February, in which the publisher claimed the rap mogul did not return the $300,000 advance for a memoir he failed to complete.

A statement issued by Random House on Tuesday (7/12) said, "The matter has been amicably resolved." A spokesperson for the publisher told the Associated Press that Random House would not be issuing a book by Combs, but he wouldn't say whether or not Combs had returned the money.

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Sheryl Crow and her upcoming single, "Good is Good," will appear in an upcoming Dell computers ad campaign that launches later this week.

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