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3/11/2008 10:59:58 PM

Fans embrace, clerics condemn TV's "Afghan Star" (Reuters)
3/11/2008 9:24:40 PM
Reuters - Hundreds of fans clamored on Tuesday to catch a glimpse of their favorite finalists from the TV show "Afghan Star," Afghanistan's version of "American Idol," which is watched by millions but condemned by Islamic clerics as immoral.

Juanes sings for 'peace without borders' (AP)
3/11/2008 7:28:03 PM
Columbian Singer Juanes performs at Madison Square Garden to kick off his La Vida world tour, in this March 6, 2008 file photo, in New York. Juanes is planning a free concert at the Colombian-Venezuela border to foster peaceful resolution of the crisis embroiling both nations and Ecuador. The concert is to take place at the border between the Colombian city of Cucuta and the Venezuelan city of San Antonio de Tachira within the next three weeks, public relations firm Rogers & Cowan announced Friday, March 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)AP - Some of Latin music's biggest stars plan to join Juanes to perform a free concert atop a bridge linking Colombia and Venezuela in a show of unity among neighboring South American countries still recovering from a diplomatic crisis.

Jackson gets flu, bails from `SNL' show (AP)
3/11/2008 6:23:57 PM
Janet Jackson poses backstage during an appearance on MTV's 'Total Request Live', in this Feb. 26, 2008, file photo in New York. Jackson has dropped out of her 'Saturday Night Live' performance because she has the flu, the singer's representative said Tuesday, March 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - Janet Jackson has dropped out of her upcoming "Saturday Night Live" performance because she has the flu, the singer's representative said Tuesday.

Kid Rock causes scene at a Waffle House (AP)
3/11/2008 5:33:21 PM
Kid Rock signs an album cover for Alisha Mullen, of Point Pleasant, W. Va, at the Waffle House restaurant in Duluth, Georgia on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. The entertainer came to sling hash browns and sign autographs for hundreds of fans during a fundraiser at the suburban Atlanta diner. The event came just a week after Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, pleaded not guilty to a charge of battery from a fight last fall at another Waffle House in metro Atlanta. (AP Photo/Stanley Leary)AP - Kid Rock caused another scene at a Waffle House — this time, for charity.

The Top 5 lists (AP)
3/11/2008 4:45:46 PM
AP - 1. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox.

R&B singer India.Arie eyes Broadway bow (Reuters)
3/11/2008 4:00:29 PM
Singer India.Arie performs at the 41st Montreux Jazz festival July 8, 2007. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)Reuters - Grammy-winning R&B singer-songwriter India.Arie will star in the first Broadway revival of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf."

Britney will guest star on CBS' `Mother' (AP)
3/11/2008 2:38:38 PM
Britney Spears performs at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards in Las Vegas, September 9, 2007. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)AP - Britney Spears' upcoming appearance on the CBS show "How I Met Your Mother" could be — to borrow scene-stealer Barney's favorite word — legendary.

Britney Drawn to Perfection (E! Online)
3/11/2008 1:32:40 PM
Britney Drawn to Perfection(E! Online)E! Online - Britney Spears has gone two-dimensional.    

An almost overnight success for Shepherd (AP)
3/11/2008 1:13:21 PM
Country singer Ashton Shepherd is shown in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Dean Dixon)AP - Country singers often joke that they're a "10-year-overnight success" because no one really makes it in this business overnight, right?

Apple Inc. downplays Beatles "speculation" (Reuters)
3/11/2008 1:09:18 PM
German TV show host Thomas Gottschalk (L) and people dressed like The Beatles shake hands during the German TV show Reuters - Apple Inc has dismissed claims in the U.K. press that the Beatles catalog is about to be made available online through the computer giant's iTunes Music Store as "unsubstantiated speculation."

Janet's Hospital Escapade (E! Online)
3/11/2008 11:36:44 AM
Janet's Hospital Escapade(E! Online)E! Online - Janet Jackson is sick—but not in the good way.

Madonna, Mellencamp head to rock hall (AP)
3/11/2008 10:33:51 AM
Madonna is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York, Monday, March 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - Madonna, pop music's quick-change artist, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday and paid tribute to people who encouraged her and even critics who panned her for helping drive her career.

Robyn Hitchcock and Andy Partridge team up for album (Yahoo! Music)
3/11/2008 8:00:00 AM
Yahoo! Music - Post-punk cult legends Robyn Hitchcock and Andy Partridge are working on a collaborative album together.

Leonard Cohen announces first tour in 15 years (Reuters)
3/11/2008 9:38:50 AM
Canadian singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen poses with his award backstage after Cohen was inducted during the 23rd annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York March 10, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)Reuters - Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen unveiled plans on Tuesday for his first tour in 15 years, starting in Toronto on June 6.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Madonna, Cohen (Reuters)
3/11/2008 12:25:46 AM
Singer Madonna poses backstage after being inducted during the 23rd annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York March 10, 2008. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)Reuters - Madonna spoke of being possessed by magic as she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday along with Leonard Cohen, rocker John Mellencamp, British pop band The Dave Clark Five and instrumental group The Ventures.

Madonna, Mellencamp Rock! (E! Online)
3/11/2008 4:51:54 AM
Madonna, Mellencamp Rock!(E! Online)E! Online - It's official: Madonna's like a rocker.

Van Halen scraps more shows amid mystery ailment (Reuters)
3/11/2008 4:16:49 AM
David Lee Roth (L) and Eddie Van Halen perform during the first stop of the Van Halen tour in Charlotte, North Carolina September 27, 2007. (Robert Padgett/Reuters)Reuters - Rock band Van Halen's reunion tour fell into disarray on Monday when it announced it would postpone all shows through April 19 while guitarist Eddie Van Halen undergoes tests for an unspecified medical condition.


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