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Briefly: Radiohead, Crowes, Rage, Eminem

The Offspring has added four European dates to its current tour: Glasgow's SECC (1/17), Manchester's Evening News Arena (1/19), London's Wembley Arena (1/21) and Paris' Palais Omnisports de Bercy (2/7). Tickets go on sale on Saturday (11/3).

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Radiohead is making one of its British concerts available online at Capitol Records' website through Nov. 6. And Qonline reports that a Toronto concert will be available at nme.com for a week beginning on Thursday (11/2).

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The Black Crowes are working on their next album. They're recording on the stage of a converted Yiddish musical theatre on New York's Lower East Side.

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Green Day, Victoria Williams and Mark Eitzel are among the acts that will perform at the Take Back San Francisco rally on Nov. 5 in the city's Civic Center Plaza, RollingStone.com reported. The rally reportedly "is designed to call the city's attention to an ailing music community hit particularly hard of late by club and rehearsal space closures."

Our theory: Over the next century, the still-beautiful and painfully exclusive San Francisco will become the financial center of the world and Manhattan will finally be turned into a penal colony.

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Rage Against the Machine will release a DVD of its 1999 Mexico performance on Dec. 12.

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According to The Associated Press, "A small group of University of Illinois students is pleading with administrators to cancel a concert Thursday featuring rapper Eminem . The students say the concert violates the university's policy against discrimination."

One of the students was quoted as saying, ''I believe this concert is an explicit form of harassment.''

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Someone at Interscope sent this:

HELP! On Friday, October 28, EMINEM lost his lyrical notebook with extremely important work in it. The notebook has a picture of Britney Spears on the cover. It was last seen in an airport newsstand shopping bag with a discman, head phones, and CDs inside as well. Eminem was flying on a Delta airlines flight from Cincinnati to New Orleans.

There is a very generous reward for the return of this notebook/bag. If you have any information on this, email us at found@eminem.com.

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From Webnoize's newsletter:

Listen.com [an online music site] just bought Scour. This is important in the context of the Bertelsmann/Napster deal because all five major music companies have money in Listen.com.

Napster has a powerful brand, but it's not indestructible. Scour develops Scour Exchange, generally considered the second most commonly used file-sharing service.

Scour Exchange could provide what the other majors need to build file-sharing into a legitimate aspect of digital music distribution, without having to acquiesce to Napster's popularity or BMG's move to align with both sides in the Napster copyright infringement case.

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The Grammys will be held at Los Angeles' Staples Center on Feb. 21.