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George Strait, who had his 55th No. 1 single this year and was recently inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame, returned Thursday to the Country Music Association Awards with top nominations including entertainer and male vocalist of the year.
Strait and Brad Paisley led with five nominations each. Strait was also nominated for musical […]

R&B star Sean Kingston will play slain rap heavyweight Notorious B.I.G. in an upcoming biopic. The singer, who is dominating the charts with summer hit Beautiful Girls, has landed the lead role in the movie, which is being produced by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. This is a different issue but would the producers ever ask him […]

Avril´s performance of Girlfriend on teen choice awards 2007. She got it as the best vídeo 4 Girlfriend…
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Singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner has hit the top spot in the UK album chart, confirming him as one of this year’s hottest new artists. I feel good there are new artist who are smashing their way up to the top of the charts. Otherwise all that we see is, old and saturated artist grabbing the […]

Although a jury last week convicted Jose Padilla of supporting terrorism, rapper-actor Mos Def thinks that Padilla may not have gotten the due process the criminal justice system promises.
“We all know the history of insufficient evidence or testimony under duress — at the very least, legal circumstances that demand some sort of reinvestigation, a new […]

If this is what comes from resting up, Amy Winehouse may have been better off remaining on the road. Just three days after calling off her U.S. tour and vowing to return to a countryside “retreat” to deal with her ongoing “health issues,” the “Rehab” chanteuse was photographed in London Thursday with bloody scrapes and […]

MTV may have lost Lily Allen’s performance due to her visa issues but that wouldn’t stop the fun from spreading. MTV has announced a whole new slew of additional performer’s for this year’s Video Music Awards which would air on September 9.
Added to the existing line up of Timbaland, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Chris […]

Aaron Lewis is determined not to be what you expect. The front man of the band Staind is a bass fishing, camouflage wearing, pickup truck driving, country music and talk radio fan. And, as Lewis has often said, he’s a “musician, not an entertainer.” Yes, I heard this over and over again and each musician […]

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has admitted he battled an addiction to cocaine at the height of the band’s fame in the 1990s. Rowntree, 43, revealed his former addiction in an article urging the U.K. government to review their anti-drugs policy in British newspaper The Guardian. Firstly Dave stop blaming the government for doing little to […]

Gwen Stefani was a good girl, just like she promised. The 37-year-old pop star wowed fans in Muslim-majority Malaysia on Tuesday, performing in costumes that showed almost no skin after Islamic critics claimed that her revealing clothes could corrupt the country’s youth. You can wear clothes that cover your body tip to toe and that’s […]

The Hive’s new single Tick Tick Boom, from their brand new album The Black & White Album. In stores October 8th

Unlike recent leaks in the music industry, this is the real deal and not some unfinished and very rough demo. Kylie Minogue just leant her magical voice to the track ‘I Talk Too Much’, a song off the US release off of Just Jack’s album. This is the first new Kylie song, sort of, […]

Kanye West may be beating 50 Cent in the music polls when it comes to pre-orders but that doesn’t mean Kanye can be declared the winner in their rivalry. Proof of that would be the list that Forbes just came out with – the list of the Hip Hop Cash Kings.
Jay-Z, who took in […]

Nicole Richie’s rocker boyfriend appeared with his band Good Charlotte on “Live! With Regis and Kelly” on Thursday. Philbin was talking to Joel Madden about his pregnant socialite girlfriend and he asked if Madden had any plans to put a ring on her finger any time soon. Madden confessed that he’d hoped it would be […]

A rep for singer Amy Winehouse has announced that the plug is being pulled on the remaining August concert dates. She was hospitalized for extreme exhaustion last week and since then there have been rehab rumours surrounding her. Her spokesperson Tracey Miller said that she is taking the necessary time to deal with her health […]

Gwen Stefani says she wants more children - but not while she’s on tour and not until she’s done another No Doubt record. Her 1-year-old son, Kingston, has been traveling with the 37-year-old singer on her ”The Sweet Escape” tour.

That’s great news for us fans that she is committed to the 6th album of […]

On Monday came the big announcement that some rock n’ roll fans have been waiting two decades to hear. Classic rock band Van Halen will reunite with original lead singer David Lee Roth. It has been twenty years since the singer quit the band. Roth who is 52 years old now, spoke animatedly at the […]

Police in Indiana seized marijuana and illegal mushrooms in a raid on New Found Glory’s tour bus. The band’s roadie was arrested after the drug bust in Indianapolis on August 1 and later charged with possession - but band members were allowed to go free. The cops have held the right culprit and released the […]

Since being reported and complained against as one crappy neighbor, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus has learned to pick up after himself.
The old country dog is learning a new trick. But then again, it doesn’t take rocket science to pick up some dog poop. Future star Miley Cyrus’, AKA Hanna Montana, dad must have felt […]

Kanye West’s rival 50 Cent recently lost his cool this week. He was reportedly furious at the fact that a new video of his was leaked to the web. What’s worse? He thinks that the leak was an inside job at Interscope.
The video ‘Follow My Lead’ was intended to drop in October and it features […]

Coffee shop chain Starbucks Corp. said on Monday its new Hear Music record label will release a live album by singer-songwriter James Taylor this holiday season.
Taylor’s “One Man Band” will be the third album released by Hear Music, which was formed by Starbucks and Concord Music Group earlier this year. An album by folk singer […]

Here’s the remix of “Tambourine”, the song from the upcoming album of rapper Eve, “Here I Am” due out on September 18th.
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Country star Billy Currington has penned a vicious new tune about his alcoholic step dad after realizing how his childhood was tainted by the bully in therapy. Hang in there Billy your wonderful, you can overcome this obstacle, you’re a wonderful talented singer and I’ll be praying for you! This is what happens when you […]

Kanye is pulling a publicity stunt using the word bling, as if he invented it, to say he won’t use it any more. His album is coming out the same day as 50 cent, the guys using situations or each other to pick fights with to get attention. It’s call ‘beef” what beef he has […]

Here’s the live music video of R&B singer Kelly Rowland confirmed that her new single off “Ms. Kelly” will be “Ghetto”
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