Def Jam artist DJ Clue has completed his latest album, "The Professional Part 2," which is due for a Feb. 27 release. The set comes on the heels of "DJ Clue Presents: Backstage-Mixtape (Music Inspired By The Film)," the Roc-A-Fella soundtrack to the Miramax "Backstage" documentary that chronicles behind-the-scenes happenings during the 1999 Hard Knock Life tour. It debuted at No. 6 on The Billboard 200 last September.

Soul diva Erykah Badu has finalized more than month's worth of tour dates in support of her sophomore Motown album "Mama's Gun," which debuted at No. 11 last November. The set spawned the single "Bag Lady," which spent several weeks atop Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. The trek will get underway Feb. 10 in Cleveland and wrap March 18 in Dallas.

R.E.M.'s forthcoming Warner Bros. album will be titled "Reveal," and is set for a May release, according to a posting on the pioneering modern rock act's official Web site. After deliberating over the album's sequence in December, the group reconvened this week for "final stages of completing the record." R.E.M. will play its first full-length shows since fall 1999 at the Rock In Rio festival Saturday (Jan. 13) and in Buenos Aires on Wednesday (Jan. 17).

There's good news and bad news this week for Britney Spears. The good news is that the teen pop sensation has signed to star in a feature film. The bad news is that she has the dubious honor of topping Mr. Blackwell's annual "worst dressed" list.

One listen reveals Honeydogs' "Here's Luck" (due Jan. 30 on Palm) as a richly textured album with solid rock songs, atmospheric instrumentation, fluid melodies, and haunting lyrics. But the chances

News on David Bowie and Moby joining the Tibet House Lineup, new Red House Painters album, death of James Carr, and Kristin Hersh/Rosenbergs at Washington, D.C. music summit..