Briefly: Springsteen, Bon Jovi to perform at New Jersey benefit

plus: Lineup for McCartney-led benefit grows. Erick Sermon update. Alice Cooper's haunted house. Elastica breaks up. Joe Henderson tribute. Ticket sales dip, then recover.

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Bruce Springsteen , Jon Bon Jovi , Joan Jett, Phoebe Snow and Sonny Burgess will be among the artists who will join former Elvis Presley sidemen Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana for benefit concerts on Oct. 18 and 19, the Newark Star-Ledger reported. The sold-out concerts, which will take place at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, N.J., will benefit Monmouth County victims of the World Trade Center attacks.

The concerts--which will also feature E Street Band members Garry Tallent and Max Weinberg--were initially planned as tributes to Sun Records, Presley's first label.

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Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Billy Joel, Marc Anthony, Five for Fighting and India.Arie have been added to the bill of the Oct. 20 Concert for New York at Madison Square Garden. Click here for more information about the event.

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Police in Patterson, N.J., report that rapper Erick Sermon was critically injured in a fall from a third-story window, and are investigating the incident as a possible suicide attempt, according to the Associated Press. A spokesperson for J Records initially told the AP that Sermon was injured in a Sept. 25 auto accident. Sermon's condition has been upgraded to fair, but he remained hospitalized on Tuesday (10/2).

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Alice Cooper's haunted house, in Phoenix's Valley area, will be open on Thursday (10/4), and operate through Nov. 4, with proceeds going to Sept. 11 relief funds.

According to a press release, many of the house's effects were created by the same firm that creates Cooper's stage-show effects.

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The often dormant U.K. rock group Elastica has broken up, Billboard.com reported, citing "an expected announcement to the media by the group's frontwoman, Justine Frischmann."

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A number of jazz musicians--including Kenny Barron, Gary Bartz, Al Foster, Charlie Haden, Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano, Nicholas Payton and John Scofield--will perform during a tribute to the late saxophonist Joe Henderson on Oct. 22 at St. Peter's Church in New York. Henderson died in June.

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Ticketmaster, the parent company of this publication, said in a filing with the Security and Exchange Commission that its revenues from ticket sales will be lower than forecast in the third quarter of 2001 due to event cancellations in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Though sales fell off significantly in the days following the attacks, the company claims that sales have since rebounde

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