Evil Brian's Evil Thoughts...it's a MotherFucker

"A Perfect Circle has slated an Election Day release date for a new album, "eMOTIVe." Due Nov. 2 via Virgin, the set of original songs and covers is described by bandleader Maynard James Keenan as "a collection of songs about war, peace, love and greed."

In a statement on the rock act's official Web site, Keenan says APC versions of John Lennon's "Imagine," Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin On" and Fear's "Let's Have a War" will be included.

A full "eMOTIVe" track list was not available at deadline, according to a label spokesperson.

In advance of the album, the group has posted an animated video for the original track "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums." According to Keenan, who is also the frontman of Tool, the clip "pok[es] fun at our fearless leader. Hopefully, you'll find it as entertaining as we do."

In the video, U.S. President George W. Bush distributes mesmerizing televisions that turn children into sheep. The animals are eventually led off a cliff to a pounding chant of "go back to sleep.""

"The second UNKLE album, "Never, Never, Land," will arrive Oct. 26 in North America via Global Underground, following its international release last September by Island. After working with DJ Shadow on UNKLE's 1998 debut, "Psyence Fiction," producer/Mo'Wax label head James LaVelle here collaborates with new member Richard File.

As on the debut, which reached No. 1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart, the new album sports a high-profile roster of guests, including Massive Attack's 3D, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, South's Joel Cadbury and Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme. Former Stone Roses members Ian Brown and Mani appear on "Reign," marking their first collaboration since the Roses' late-'90s split.

The "Eye for an Eye" video has already caused a stir internationally, thanks to its anti-war imagery reflective of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The clip was nominated for best video at the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards."

"Handsome Boy Modeling School, an on-again/off-again project featuring Dan "The Automator" Nakamura and Prince Paul, will unleash its second album this fall. Due Nov. 9 via Atlantic, "White People" will be preceded by the single "The World's Gone Mad" featuring Franz Ferdinand vocalist Alex Kapranos, Del The Funky Homosapien and Barrington Levy.

Handsome Boy's only prior release was the 1999 Tommy Boy effort "So...How's Your Girl?," which reached No. 18 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart and has sold 117,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The new set is overflowing with guest spots, including Jack Johnson, Kid Koala, the RZA, the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams and Mike Patton, with whom Nakamura previously collaborated in the project Lovage.

Old-school hip-hop meets new rock on "Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This), featuring Linkin Park's Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda as well as Lord Finesse, Jazzy Jay and Grand Wizard Theodore.

Elsewhere, Cat Power offers breathy intonations over the languid "I've Been Thinking" and the RZA spits verse alongside the Mars Volta's Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez on "A Day in the Life."

But perhaps the strangest pairing can be found on the alternate-universe, adult contemporary-leaning "Greatest Mistake," which sports Hall & Oates' John Oates, Tarnation's Paula Frazer and up-and-coming pop artist Jaime Cullum."