BONO and his wife, Ali Hewson, have launched a new clothing line, Edun ("nude" spelled backward). As part of the U2 frontman's ongoing campaign to improve economic conditions in the third world, the organic casual duds will be manufactured in countries ranging from Peru to Tanzania . . . SWITCHFOOT will debut their Bro-Am Surf Contest on May 14th in Encinitas, California. The competition will benefit Care House Kids, which helps homeless teens in the rockers' hometown of San Diego . . . The CURE will reissue three early albums, Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography, on April 26th. The re-mastered CDs will feature studio demos and live versions of the tracks . . . MISSY ELLIOTT has bumped the release of her follow-up to 2003's This Is Not a Test! to June 28th. The rapper is still in the studio recording . . .
The FBI has closed its investigation of the 1997 murder of New York rap legend NOTORIOUS B.I.G. after dismissing the lead that the rapper was killed by a Los Angeles police officer working for rap mogul Suge Knight due to a lack of evidence . . . The SHINS will launch a spring tour April 11th in Minneapolis. The three-week trek wraps April 30th in Asheville, North Carolina . . . The CHARLATANS will release The Charlatans -- Live At Last, a DVD filmed at London's Brixton Academy, on April 11th . . . MICHAEL FRANTI is in the studio working on the follow-up to 2004's acoustic collection Songs From the Front Porch. CHRIS BLACKWELL is executive producing the album, which is due in the fall . . . MOLLY HATCHET'S lead singer DANNY JOE BROWN, 54, died March 10th. He had been recovering from a 1998 stroke . . . The JOHN POPPER PROJECT, featuring the BLUES TRAVELER frontman, will hit the road April 14th in Charlotte, North Carolina . . . Industrial vets PSYCHIC TV have recorded a remix of YEAH YEAH YEAHS' "Y Control" for their as-yet-untitled upcoming album . . .