Rock News: Music's high and low notes

KORN

Sony Music Entertainment is upset with a New York-based radio show for prematurely airing four songs from Korn's fifth album, "Untouchable," which doesn't hit stores until June 11.

MTV News reports that radio personalities Opie and Anthony -- whose four-hour afternoon show is syndicated in 18 cities nationwide from WNEW -- played three tracks from the CD Tuesday. After premiering the third, "Tear Me Down," the show received a cease-and-desist letter from Sony, parent company of Korn's label, Epic, threatening legal action.

In response, the DJs tore up the letter (or at least said they did) and proceeded to spin "Falling Through Time," another song from the album.

This isn't the first time Opie and Anthony have jumped the gun with a new album. They pulled a similar stunt with the Stone Temple Pilots latest CD "Shangri-La Dee Da."

OASIS

The fifth Epic studio album from Oasis, "Heathen Chemistry," is due out in July, according to Billboard.com. The first single "The Hindu Times" will be released commercially April 15 in the band's native Britain. The track can be sampled on Oasis' official Web site, which is also giving away copies of the single to 20 randomly selected members of the group's mailing list.

"Heathen Chemistry" features the first songwriting contributions from Oasis' newest members -- bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer. The album is the follow-up to "Standing On The Shoulder of Giants."

In advance of a planned world tour in support of the new album, Oasis has a handful of dates lined up in the United States and the U.K.

Tour dates:

April 26: Las Vegas (the Joint, w/ Cornershop)

April 28: Indio, Calif. (Empire Polo Field / Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival)

July 5-7: London (Finsbury Park, w/ Charlatans U.K.)

July 13: Kinross, Scotland (T In The Park Festival, w/ Joe Strummer, Gomez, A, etc.)

LIMP BIZKIT

NME.com reports the members of Limp Bizkit have set up shop in a house in Beverly Hills, Calif., to rehearse their new material.

Writing in his diary on the band's official Web site (limpbizkit.com), singer Fred Durst described the house as "sooooo tacky. ... I think it was owned by the man who produced 'Gone With Ther Wind.' Wild! It's a pink house that hasn't been touched since the '70s. We'll see what vibe comes of it."

The band is still without a full-time guitarist following the departure of Wes Borland last year.

THE X-ECUTIONERS

Pioneering DJ crew The X-ecutioners are hitting the road for the group's first major U.S. tour since the release of their album, "Built From Scratch." Released on Feb. 26, the CD debuted at No.15 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. The "Adrenaline Rush" tour opens April 3 at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas.

Tour dates:

4/3 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa

4/4 Dallas, TX Trees

4/6 New Orleans, LA House Of Blues

4/7 Birmingham, AL Five Points Music Hall

4/8 Jacksonville, FL The Marquee Theater

4/9 Tallahassee, FL The Moon

4/10 Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL Masquerade

4/11 Atlanta, GA Earthlink Live

4/15 New Haven, CT Toad's Place

4/16 New York, NY BB Kings

4/17 Providence-New Bedford, RI "Hell/Lupos"

4/18 Philadelphia, PA TLA

4/19 Burlington, VT Higher Ground

4/20 Boston, MA Axis

4/21 Northampton, MA Pearl Street

4/23 Cleveland, OH Agora Theater

4/24 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall

4/25 Cincinnati, OH Bogart's

4/26 Chicago, IL House Of Blues

4/27 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue

4/29 Boulder, CO Fox Theater

5/1 Seattle, WA Showbox

5/2 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom

5/3 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore

5/4 Santa Barbara-Santa Maria, The Hub -- University Center, CA UC Santa Barbara

5/5 San Diego, CA The Scene

5/6 Los Angeles, CA House Of Blues

5/7 Pomona, CA The Glass House

(Web site: x-ecutioners.net)

SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME

Stevie Wonder and country's Garth Brooks will be honored at this year's Songwriters Hall of Fame event. Allstar News reports Wonder will be presented with the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award while Brooks will be presented with the Hitmaker Award.

The event -- June 13 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers -- is also honoring Barry Manilow, Michael Jackson, Nicolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, recent Oscar winner Randy Newman and Sting.

CAROLE KING

Carole King's latest album "Love Makes The World" is the subject of NPR's syndicated program "World Cafe" this Friday and next Friday, April 12.

The daily (except Sunday) program is based in Philadelphia and airs on more that 150 stations nationwide. Host David Dye's interview with King features several songs from her new album, as well as the stories surrounding them.

King also appears on an episode of the WB's "Gilmore Girls" in May.

(Web site: worldcafe.org)

JENNIFER LOPEZ

Jennifer Lopez is becoming quite a businesswoman. She invested in the re-do of a Hollywood nightclub called the Conga Room, then decided to branch into the restaurant business.

According to the Los Angeles Daily News, Lopez's hopes of opening a new Cuban-themed eatery in Pasadena to cash-in on Oscar-night business didn't pan out when the retrofit of the restaurant fell off schedule. Now comes word that the place, the former Pinot Restaurant and Martini Bar, will be reopened in a couple of weeks.

Meanwhile, a member of the California Restaurant Association has told the publication that it's one thing to draw in customers with a famous star's name, but it will be the quality of the food that determines if the new customers come back for more.

(Thanks to UPI's Dennis Daily)