The Cure [ tickets ] will start cutting demos next week in London, and plans to begin recording a new album in September, according to the group's publicist. Ross Robinson (At the Drive-In, Korn) will produce, and the CD is expected to hit stores in early 2004.

The band Boston [ tickets ] filed a $1 million-plus lawsuit against Artemis Records on Tuesday (6/24), alleging that the label failed to live up to a promise to mount a year-long promotional campaign for group's latest CD, "Corporate America," the Boston Globe reported.

With the No. 1 debut of his new album "Honkytonkville," four of George Strait [ tickets ]'s albums can be found on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. The others are "For the Last Time: Live From the Astrodome" (No. 15), "The Millennium Collection" (No. 30) and "The Road Less Traveled" (No. 49).

Pioneering thrash-metal outfit Slayer [ tickets ] has released its first DVD, "War at the Warfield." It features 19 songs from a Feb. 13, 2002 concert at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre during the tour for the band's most recent album, "God Hates Us All."