Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe INSANE CLOWN POSSE Insane Clown Posse's Violent J has been sentenced to 12 months unsupervised probation in connection with a fight that broke out in a St. Louis parking lot last February. Advertisement The musician, whose real name is Joseph Bruce, pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor assault and was sentenced Wednesday, his lawyer, John Rogers, told MTV News. Bruce was also ordered not to have any contact with the victims -- security guard Ron Culli and Michael Cook, a local radio DJ who broadcasts under the name Cooksie. Members of ICP and employees of St. Louis radio station KPNT-FM scuffled after the posse claimed Cooksie made disparaging remarks about the group on the air. While Bruce wasn't arrested at the time, he was later charged in a warrant and arrested following a concert in Columbia, Mo., in June. Advertisement Cook and the others involved in the fight have sued Bruce. The case is still pending. BRITNEY SPEARS Oops...he did it again. Los Angeles police say a man who has previously shown up uninvited at Britney Spears' Hollywood Hills home was caught camping in her carport. E! Online reports the man was spotted Tuesday morning by the pop diva's private security detail, which called police. However, the guards declined to press charges. A police spokesman said the man had been caught trespassing at the Spears abode at least once before and will be evaluated at a local hospital. His identity was not released because he wasn't charged with a crime. No comment from Spears' publicist. The singer was in New York at the time of the incident. CELINE DION Celine Dion is scheduled to release her first new album in two years in late March. "A New Day Has Come" is her first studio album since "Let's Talk About Love," which was released in 1997 and sold 28 million copies worldwide. The title track to the new album has just been released to radio stations. It also includes Dion covers of Etta James' "At Last" and Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy." Advertisement Dion will sing songs from the new album in a CBS-TV special on April 7. Next year, she begins a three-year, 600-show engagement at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. (Thanks to UPI's Miek Cooper in Atlanta) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Bruce Springsteen has reunited with old friends to record some new tracks. The Atlanta Journal Constitution quotes E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren telling ESPN Radio: "Last week in Atlanta we got together. It was supposed to be a big secret, but it's all over every Web site there is. There were spies in the (recording studio) parking lot when we were down there, from Italy." Lofgren added that the Atlanta recording dates are "the first step of what would have to be many" before a new album would be completed. It's not yet certain whether Springsteen has indeed gotten the entire E Street Band together. The last studio album of all new material by Springsteen and the E Street Band came out 18 years ago, "Born In The U.S.A." Springsteen's last solo album of all new material was 1995's "The Ghost of Tom Joad." CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG Graham Nash said he never thought his group -- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- would decide to tour again so soon after their wildly successful 2000 reunion. "I thought that possibly we might go out in the fall of this year, and even that was soon to me because, remember, the last time we went out it had been 26 years previously," the 60-year-old musician told the Toronto Sun. "So I was actually quite shocked when Neil called." That would be Neil Young, who joined CSNY in 1969, a year after Nash formed a trio with David Crosby and Stephen Stills in California. Nash said they really had no choice but to perform, given the events of Sept. 11. "I believe when Neil called and gathered the group together here (in Los Angeles), I think that he believed, and quite rightly because we all agreed, that it was time to go out. That it was time to play music because, of course, music is quite healing in its way and can take you out of your troubles and transport you to another place for a few hours. I think that might be very valuable." The 2002 Tour Of America kicked off Wednesday night in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Mich. Advertisement Tour dates: Feb. 7: Columbus, Ohio Feb. 10: Grand Rapids, Mich. Feb.12-13 Toronto, Canada Feb. 15: St. Louis, Mo. Feb. 17: Chicago, Ill. Feb. 20: Indianapolis, Ind. Feb. 22-23: New York, N.Y. Feb. 25: Cleveland, Ohio Feb. 28: Hartford, Ct. March 2-3: Boston, Mass. March 5: Philadelphia, Pa. March 6: Pittsburgh, Pa. March 8: Washington, D.C. March 9: Atlantic City, N.J. March 11: Milwaukee, Wis. March 12: Minneapolis, Minn. March 15: Tacoma, Wash. March 17: Portland, Ore. March 26: Phoenix, Ariz. March 27: San Diego, Calif. March 29: Las Vegas, Nev. March 30: Anaheim, Calif. April 1: Los Angeles, Calif. April 4: Oakland, Calif. April 5: San Jose, Calif. April 8: Denver, Colo. April 10: Austin, Texas April 11: Dallas, Texas April 13: Miami, Fla. April 14: Tampa, Fla. April 16: Greensboro, N.C. April 17: Atlanta, Ga. April 19: Philadelphia, Pa. April 22: Uniondale, N.Y. April 25: Chicago, Ill. 'WE WERE SOLDIERS' Train, India.Arie, Five For Fighting, Jars of Clay and duets by Jamie O'Neal and Michael McDonald, and Johnny Cash and Dave Matthews are among the tracks on the soundtrack album from the upcoming Mel Gibson movie "We Were Soldiers." Advertisement The CD -- "Music From and Inspired By 'We Were Soldiers'" -- hits stores Feb. 26. Each track was written specifically for the album. The first single released from the project will be "Didn't I" from country duo Montgomery Gentry. The film opens nationwide March 1.
