Reuters - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are hoping to turn their platinum-certified, Grammy Award-winning "Raising Sand" into a going concern.

Reuters - Blood-splattered videos for R&B singer-songwriter Ashanti's single "The Way That I Love You" sparked a protest by demonstrators in Los Angeles, prompting the artist and Universal Records to remove the clips from the Internet.

Reuters - R&B star R. Kelly's child pornography trial went to the jury on Thursday with prosecutors calling him a sexual predator and his attorneys saying he is wrongly accused and possibly the victim of an extortion plot.

AP - Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin will headline the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival.

AP - Prosecutors wrapped up their child pornography case Thursday against R. Kelly the same way they began it a month ago: by playing for jurors the entire graphic sex tape at the center of the trial.

Reuters - Grammy-winning musician Peter Gabriel believes the Internet has drowned users with too much choice, failed to democratize the pop industry as much as was hoped and eroded the quality of what people listen to.

E! Online - One hundred acts on 700 acres can mean only one thing.

E! Online - Is Madonna a wee bit nervous about her brother Christopher Ciccone's about-to-be-released memoir?

E! Online - Amy Winehouse's beloved Blake may be getting some incarcerated company.

AP - A total of 34 prosecution and defense witnesses have testified in R. Kelly's child pornography trial. As the case comes to a close, someone won't be taking the stand: The man on trial himself.

AP - Police have charged a man and a woman in London with supplying drugs to Amy Winehouse.

E! Online - R. Kelly stepped it up and danced. Now his self-proclaimed moves mentor wants the R&B star to step it up and pay.

AP - The excessive leaks and bootlegging of Lil Wayne's new album haven't prevented it from being a hot seller: The rapper's "Tha Carter III" sold 423,000 copies in its first day of release, according to Billboard magazine, citing figures from Nielsen SoundScan.