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Muse have released details about their fifth album.

The TV series Battlestar Galactica has been honored with awards for acting, visual effects and sound design. But the unsung character of the series has been its music — until now. Composer Bear McCreary is conducting a series of summer concerts featuring the show's music — and the performances are selling out.

Martin Talbot, managing director of the Official Charts Company, which compiles the official UK singles and albums charts, has said that free online music streaming plays are set to be taken into account in terms of chart positions.

Green Day has put a system in place to combat ticket scalping for their upcoming Australian tour.

It's one of those days you just want to hang out and watch movies or music videos, is it not? In that spirit, I offer some of the rainy or cloudy music videos, or videos that somehow involve rain, I can think of off the top of my head.

An American soprano and a pianist from Ukraine have taken the top prizes in an American Idol-like contest for classical singers and pianists.

Madonna and Guy Ritchie reunited in London on Saturday - to welcome the singer's newly adopted daughter Mercy James into the family. Read more!

Journey, India. Arie, Missy Elliott, Styx...

Franz Ferdinand release their dub album this week.

Max Weinberg, longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and bandleader for the Tonight Show, recently got one of the best Father's Day gifts a dad could receive. When he couldn't make some of Springsteen's gigs, the Boss suggested that Weinberg's 18-year-old son Jay sit in this summer.

Jack White's band The Dead Weather have announced that they will play an intimate club show at the Boston Music Room in Tufnell Park, London on Tuesday (June 23).

German pop star Nena is about to become a grandmother at the age of 49.

As Chamber Music at the Barn prepares to launch its 13th summer concert series this week at the Barn at Prairie Pines, its organizers are working to preserve the music even as economic troubles cause cuts elsewhere in the organization.

Legendary country crooner Charley Pride was honoured during his concert at Edmonton's Jubilee Auditorium on Saturday for his generosity toward a longtime fan.

Gwen Stefani is finding it hard to juggle her No Doubt touring commitments with motherhood - she's "exhausted" from overworking herself. Read more!

Marvin Gaye, The Whispers, R. Kelly...

U. K. musician Natasha Khan, better known as Bat For Lashes, uses a fusion of keyboards and harps to generate tribal beats and electronica. She speaks on the uncommon sounds and ideas behind her acclaimed new album, Two Suns.

Amy Winehouse has supposedly filed a residency application to live in St Lucia permanently.

Popkomm, the annual music conference held in Berlin, Germany, is going to sit out 2009.

Jannus Landing, 16 Second St. N, St. Petersburg. $16. 50-$20. 896-2276. When they're not creating menus for Denny's, designing apparel for Kohl's or licensing songs for ABC Family, the Plain White T's still find time to make some pretty catchy music.

Simon Cowell, host of Britain's Got Talent, admitted in an article that appeared on Saturday in the Daily Mail that he didn't handle Susan Boyle as well as he could have.

Tyrese Gibson is a real gentleman. Dressed dapper in a classy suit, he walks around a suite of the Four Seasons exuding palpable excitement. He's got every reason to be excited. He's starring in one of the summer's best action films, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and he's in the midst of...

Augie March can now count actor Johnny Depp as a fan.

TORONTO - The medical condition known as trench foot should never be uttered at a rock concert.

Atlanta's annual concert also features Gucci Mane, Plies, Rick Ross, Fabolous and Soulja Boy Tell'em.
By Shaheem Reid
Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne, Atlanta, GA, 06. 21. 2009
Photo: MTV News ATLANTA — On Saturday, there was definitely a little tension in the air, mixed with excitement and anticipation for the city's annual super show, radio station Hot 107. 9's Birthday Bash at the Philips Arena. For a decade and a half the station has brought together the best of the bes...

Kanye West has sparked rumors he has rekindled his romance with ex-girlfriend Amber Rose, just a week after announcing their split. Read more!

With Phase 2 of The JD Set now underway, here are the bands you can vote for to tour with Faker.

Madonna's new daughter has flown out of her native Malawi on a private jet headed for London, an airport employee and a person familiar with Madonna's adoption proceedings in this southern African country said Saturday.

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Today is a significant day for trailblazing women. On June 18, 1873, Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote in the previous year’s election. Women wouldn’t get the right to vote in this country until 1920, though the court battle gave Anthony the widest audience she had ever had. She never did ...

Brothers Ed and Matt Anderson and drummer Tim Kramp are at the core of the Bloomington, Ill. , band. Backyard Tire Fire performs songs from its breakthrough release, The Places We Lived, and previews material from an upcoming album.

Bob Bogle, whose lead-guitar work with '60s surf-rock pioneers influenced countless bands to come, has died at the age of 75.
Bogle died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Vancouver, WA, according to his longtime bandmate, Don Wilson.
Wilson and Bogle founded the group in 1958 after both learned to play guitar while they worked as construction workers in their native Tacoma, WA. "We had a lot of time on our hands after work, so we'd get together and play," Wilson told CNN. "A year and a h...

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Who will tour Australia for round 2 of The JD Set with Faker? Well, that’s up to you. Maybe it will be Cameras.

Japan’s upper house has unanimously approved a revision to the Copyright Law making downloading of pirated content illegal. The revision will go into effect on Jan. 1. From variety. com.

Trace Adkins can gloat about his two nominations at the Country Music Television awards.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel rolled back the years Wednesday night on the opening date of their Australian tour, with a set carrying all the old favorites, and a few surprises.
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With her Us Weekly cover story, Spencer's sister hoped to help parents determine whether their kids had the same issues.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Lisa Gonzalez
Stephanie Pratt
Photo: Miranda Penn Turin When the new issue of Us Weekly hits newsstands this week, it will feature a cover story about star Stephanie Pratt's struggle with bulimia. And Pratt wants people to know that she was battling an eating disorder long before she joined the MTV show's cast. "This wa...

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Former Danity Kane singer Aubrey O'Day was mugged in Los Angeles on Tuesday as she made her way to a photo shoot. The singer was walking to a venue in the city to pose for TV Guide Read more!