Method Man will release 4:21… The Day After August 22, via Def Jam Recordings. The first single, to which Eric Sermon provided the beat, is “Say” (featuring Lauryn Hill), on which the artist addresses his critics, fans, and haters for disrespecting him and his fellow members of the Wu Tang Clan…

Producer Pharrell Williams will front Louis Vuitton’s 2006 and 2007 fashion line of Italian suitcases and bags. Nationwide advertisements will feature Pharrell surrounded by Louis Vuitton suitcases, as well as the fashion house’s new Innsbruck carryall bag. He will appear alongside a number of models including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Daria Werbowy. Pharrell’s debut album, In My Mind, hits store shelves July 25, via Star Trak/Interscope Records…

Michael Jackson is moving to Europe in the hopes of revitalizing his flagging music career. According to his spokeswoman, Raymone Bain, Jackson is shopping for a home in Europe and has also severed ties with his longtime business managers as part of a “sweeping restructuring” of his affairs. “He's just decided that with all of the projects he's going to be involved with and all of the people he's beginning to work with in the music industry, it's easier (to live in Europe),” Bain said. “He'll be going back and forth to Bahrain but Europe will be his principal residence." Jackson has named Bain his general manager and hired New York City-based attorney L. Londell McMillan to handle his business and legal affairs…

The soundtrack for legendary blaxploitation film Dolemite is available in stores in North America for the first time on CD. This deluxe reissue includes the original soundtrack in full; rare and exclusive bonus tracks and radio ads from the film and its sequel, The Human Tornado; an extensive 28-page booklet with never before seen behind the scenes photos; exhaustive liner notes on the film and Dolemite star Rudy Ray Moore’s career written by his official biographer Mark Jason Murray; and more…

Rough Trade will release a collection of nine never-before-heard Babyshambles b-sides in North America, August 1. The nine b-sides will be available on iTunes as part of a deluxe edition of Down in Albion for no additional cost, and will also be available for sale individually…

Five for Fighting will release its new album, Two Lights, August 1 via Sony/Columbia. Frontman John Ondrasik and his band are currently finishing the disc, whose first single will be “The Riddle.” The track has already impacted radio and is available as part of The Riddle EP on iTunes…

Former Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft frontman Jeremy Enigk will release his second solo album, World Waits, October 17 on his own label, Lewis Hollow Records, which will be distributed by Reincarnate Records through SONY BMG. In support of the release of the disc, Enigk will kick off an 18-date club tour of North America, July 31, in Denver, Colorado. He will wrap the first leg of his tour of North America September 12, perform five shows in Europe from September 17 through September 22, and then return to California for shows in San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in late September. Jim Noir will open for many of Enigk’s North American tour dates…

Reggaeton great Tego Calderon has been added to the bill for Heineken’s Amsterjam, which will take place August 19, on New York City’s Randall’s Island. The festival, which features headlining artists performing solo sets and mash-ups with other headliners, already has confirmed that Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Foo Fighters, and LL Cool Jay will perform on the main stage and Yerba Buena will perform on the second stage…

Drive-Thru Records recording artist HELLOGOODBYE will release its full-length debut, Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs, August 8. The first single, “Here (In Your Arms)” will be accompanied by a video for the track directed by Fred Savage (The Wonder Years).

Los Angeles, California nightlife staples Los Abandoned will release Mix Tape, the group’s debut album, via download July 11 and compact disc September 12, via Vapor/Sanctuary…

California independent rockers Army of Freshmen will support Bowling for Soup on the Get Happy Tour, which kicked off in Austin, Texas, June 22, and will wrap in Denver, Colorado, August 27. The band, is touring in support of its new album,Under the Radar, which will be available for purchase during the tour, on iTunes, and directly from the band’s Web site, but which will not be available at traditional brick-and-mortar retailers until the fall…