The Rolling Stones [ tickets ] have canceled a scheduled concert in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro, due to security concerns, according to European press reports.

The group reportedly notified promoter Komuna of the cancellation shortly after Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic was assassinated on March 12, and organizers were unable to persuade the band to reconsider its decision.

A three-judge panel of the Sixth District United States Court of Appeals in Detroit has revived a lawsuit filed against rap group OutKast [ tickets ] by civil rights figure Rosa Parks. A judge threw out the suit in 1999, claiming that the First Amendment protected the group's use of Parks' name in their song "Rosa Parks." Parks' suit claimed that OutKast's use of her name unfairly suggested that she was connected to the group.

The appeals panel decided that OutKast must show an artistic reason for using Parks' name, and sent the case back to the lower court.

Noel Redding, best known as the bass player in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, is dead at age 57, his manager announced via the Track Records website. No cause of death was given.

RollingStone.com reports that Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland will sing in a new band that features former Guns N' Roses [ tickets ] members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum. The group reportedly has recorded two songs and will be dubbed Reloaded.

Type O Negative [ tickets ] drops a new album titled "Life Is Killing Me" on June 17, according to a press release. The Brooklyn-based rockers will tour the U.K. in June and July, and a U.S. tour--the details of which haven't been announced--will follow.