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Beyonce would like to be known as "Sasha Fierce" (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 02:07 AM CDT

Beyonce performs at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles, California, February 10, 2008. (Mike Blake/Reuters)Reuters - Just like the "Seinfeld" episode where George wanted everyone to call him "T-Bone," Beyonce Knowles would like to be known by a bold new name.


Crooner John Legend goes uptempo on "Evolver" (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 02:05 AM CDT

Singer John Legend rehearses before the start of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 25, 2008. (Mike Segar/Reuters)Reuters - Sitting on a couch in the New York offices of Columbia Records, John Legend is surrounded by walls displaying framed portraits of Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday. It's an appropriate setting for Legend, whose 2004 debut, "Get Lifted," was a collection of urban-tinged midtempo songs, and whose "Once Again" in 2006 featured '60s-inspired tracks with lush instrumentation.


New Guns N' Roses single hits radio Wednesday (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 08:47 PM CDT

Axel Rose, lead singer for the band Guns N' Roses, performs during a concert in Budapest June 1, 2006. (Karoly Arvai/Reuters)Reuters - The title track from the upcoming Guns N' Roses' album "Chinese Democracy" will be available to download by U.S. radio outlets on Wednesday. Although some album tracks leaked this summer, this is the first authorized new music from the rock band in nine years.


Kenny Chesney leads pop chart as sales slide (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 06:41 PM CDT

Kenny Chesney poses with the Entertainer of the Year award at the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards show in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 18, 2008. (Richard Brian/Reuters)Reuters - Country star Kenny Chesney scored his fifth No. 1 on the U.S. pop album chart Wednesday, but with one of his worst opening tallies in years.


Bollywood's Akhtar does his bit for Bihar victims (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 04:57 PM CDT

Director Farhan Akhtar poses in this undated handout picture in Mumbai. acclaimed, young Indian director Farhan Akhtar is planning a sequel to his gangster film 'Don', which was a box office hit. To match feature INDIA-DIRECTOR/AKHTAR (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - For Indian filmmaker Farhan Akhtar, an in-flight newspaper was the catalyst for an upcoming Mumbai concert organized to raise funds for flood victims in Bihar.


Guns N' Roses to finally release `Democracy' album (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 03:09 PM CDT

In this Sept. 11, 2006, file photo, Guns N' Roses  frontman Axl Rose is seen backstage at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, file)AP - After years of delay, Guns N' Roses is finally releasing "Chinese Democracy."


Aerosmith Prepping New Album (E! Online)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 02:37 PM CDT

Aerosmith Prepping New Album(E! Online)E! Online - Aerosmith is finally getting back in the saddle, eight long years since the release of their last studio album.


Madonna & Guy Ritchie: The Split Stories Continue (E! Online)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 02:08 PM CDT

Madonna & Guy Ritchie: The Split Stories Continue(E! Online)E! Online - The actual announcement about Madonna and Guy Ritchie's split may be yesterday's news, but the obsession over the marriage's demise is anything but—with no less than three mags making it their cover stories this week. And given some of the nastier details being reported, we can certainly understand why.


Take That to perform at MTV Europe awards (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 01:44 PM CDT

Take That's (L-R) Howard Donald, Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Jason Orange perform at the Brit Awards at the Earls Court Arena in London February 14, 2007. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters)Reuters - British band Take That will perform at MTV's Europe Music Awards in Liverpool next month, 14 years after they appeared at the first edition of the annual show when it was held at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.


Shooter Jennings revives father's old recordings (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 01:26 PM CDT

In this Feb. 8, 2007 file photo, Shooter Jennings performs a song at the Grammy Foundation's 9th Annual Music Preservation Project 'The Soul Country' event celebrating the history of country music in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)AP - Back when Shooter Jennings set out to make an album with his dad, country music star Waylon Jennings, he was 16 years old and a big fan of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails.


UK Handel exhibition to explore man behind music (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 11:40 AM CDT

Reuters - London's Handel House Museum, where the German-born composer died, will host an exhibition in 2009 focusing on his passion for food and his finances to mark the 250th anniversary of his death.

Air Enrique Makes Emergency Landing (E! Online)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 10:43 AM CDT

Air Enrique Makes Emergency Landing(E! Online)E! Online - Enrique Iglesias had a hero at 30,000 feet.


NTSB: Tire rims from SC Learjet scarred runway (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 10:39 AM CDT

In this Sept. 20, 2008 file photo, investigators look over the debris left by the Learjet that was carrying former Blink 182, drummer, Travis Barker, and Adam Goldstein, also know as DJ-AM, on the outskirts of the Columbia Metropolitan Airport in Columbia, S.C.  The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday, Oct. 22, that very little rubber was left on the jet's wheels and the brakes were severely damaged when the plane crashed on takeoff just before midnight on Sept. 19.  (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick, file)AP - Federal aviation officials are saying the tires on the doomed Learjet that crashed last month in South Carolina shredded as the plane ran out of runway.


Spears' driver's license case dismissed (AP)

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 07:49 AM CDT

In this Sept. 7, 2008, file photo, Britney Spears poses with her awards backstage at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)AP - Britney Spears has a license to go free.


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