Wilco [ tickets ] has called off its planned eight-city tour of North America, which was scheduled to get underway on April 21.

According to Wilco's official website, refunds for the band's seven canceled headlining shows are available at their point of purchase.

Wilco [ tickets ] has also dropped from the May 1 bill of Southern California's Coachella festival, but promoters aren't offering refunds for that show.

Earlier this month, it was reported that Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy had checked himself into a Chicago rehab clinic for treatment of an addiction to painkillers that he developed while battling migraine headaches.

New York prosecutors on Wednesday (4/14) charged Lil' Kim [ tickets ] with lying to a grand jury about a 2001 shootout that allegedly involved members of her entourage.

Prosecutors believe that Lil' Kim's manager Damion Butler, her bodyguard Suif Jackson and her friend Monique Dopwell all fired guns during a shootout with members of Capone-N-Noriega's entourage outside a New York radio station. One man was wounded.

The indictment claims that Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, falsely testified on three occasions last year that Butler was not present at the radio station, and that she didn't know Jackson.

Lil' Kim's lawyer told the Associated Press that the charges are "baseless."

Usher [ tickets ]'s "Confessions," which sold about 463,000 copies in the last week, holds down the No. 1 slot on The Billboard 200 album chart for the third consecutive week, according to industry sources.

At No. 2 on the latest chart is the hits compilation "NOW That's What I Call Music Vol. 15," up one slot from the previous week. Janet Jackson's "Damita Jo" falls one place to No. 3.

Jessica Simpson's "In this Skin" jumps from No. 12 to No. 4, and Evanescence's "Fallen" rises from No. 11 to No. 5.

Robert Randolph and The Family Band, which is opening the European leg of Eric Clapton [ tickets ]'s world tour, has been tapped to support on the tour's North American dates as well.