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In celebration of the release of Madonna’s upcoming album HARD CANDY, Control Room, MSN and Verizon Wireless will present the one and only Madonna live in New York’s famed Roseland Ballroom on Wednesday, April 30th. The show will be available live on MSN Music In Concert at music.msn.com/inconcert and will [...]

Mariah Carey has recently released a remix of her new single ‘Bye Bye’ featuring the iconic rapper Jay-Z. When I first heard the song when she performed it on American Idol, I thought of how incredibly cheesy and overall sucky the song was. But after hearing the remix with Hova on it – man! I [...]

Born in Elva, Estonia, a tiny, then-Soviet occupied town of 5,000 people in the forest, Kerli grew up with a dream to escape from her surroundings. “Little creepy girl/Oh she loves to sing/She has a little gift-an amazing thing,” Kerli declares on the autobiographical, world music beat of “Walking on Air.” The Estonian pop [...]

Madonna is featured on the cover of Vanity Fair’s third annual May 2008 Green Issue. It’s not even April yet but the Queen of Pop is looking mighty fierce as usual. Unbowed, uncowed and still taking on the world! I couldn’t have said it better myself. Madonna’s on one really big promotional move for her [...]

Madonna’s rep Liz Rosenberg recently went on the record to say that the Queen of Pop and her hubby Guy Ritchie are still happily married. Everyone knows not to believe anything until they see proof and Madonna is more than happy to give us that. She and her director husband arrived arm-in-arm at upscale [...]

If the 17-second leak of the song Madonna and Justin Timberlake did was any indication, then the Queen of Pop is going hip hop on her new album which will be out in April. The singer has changed her style numerous times over the span of her career – a few hits and misses but [...]

Celine Dion is pictured holding hands with her 7-year old son Rene Charles as they visit one of the centers of the African Children’s Feeding Scheme (ACFS) in Soweto, South Africa. The ACFS is an organization that provides meals for poor orphaned and abandoned kids. Now this is the right way to do some charity [...]

The 2008 Grammy® Nominees CD has debuted at # 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart this week! This is the 15th edition of the compilation, and this year it features the likes of Plain White T’s, Justin Timberlake, and Foo Fighters, to name a few. Be sure to tune in [...]

Word is that Britney Spears is being placed in a detoxification program to eliminate any drugs from her system. Doctors are currently trying to figure out what meds she might have been taking and then see which ones might best help her with what they believe is bipolar disorder.
Detox is a common practice before [...]

Amy Winehouse’s husband, who is locked away in Pentonville prison on GBH charges, has reportedly turned to God in his hour of need.
Blake Fielder-Civil has reportedly been receiving daily visits from the prison chaplain and also has a bible in his cell, which sources say he finds really therapeutic.
Perhaps God will help him channel his [...]

When one party ends, you just move to another one that’s still hopping. Two out of three Jonas Brothers, Kevin and Nick, were spotted entering their tour bus after leaving the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Albany, New York. The band of brothers has played their final sold out show at the Times Union Centre [...]

18-year old Joe Jonas from the Jonas Brothers was reportedly rushed to the emergency room on Saturday. Thankfully, it was nothing too serious and he’s doing fine right now.
The teen heartthrob was reportedly horsing around backstage at a concert in Atlantic City when he tripped and hit his head. A source says that the [...]

A lot of celebrities chose to party the night away in celebration of 2008 but Madonna chose to celebrate it differently. The singer has been enjoying a low-key holiday since she and her family arrived in India from the Maldives on a chartered jet on December 31.
On Thursday, Madonna and family went on a two-hour [...]

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton was the first to report that Timbaland leaked Madonna’s rumored new single ‘4 Minutes to Save the World’ and also even posted the track on the website. But it seems that the move has infuriated Madonna’s current record label Warner Bros. because Perez was told to take down the [...]