Reuters - British singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield has been chosen as the opening act for most of New Kids on the Block's upcoming reunion tour.

Reuters - A jury acquitted R&B star R. Kelly of child pornography charges on Friday, finding he did not make an explicit videotape showing him having sex with an underage girl who called him "godfather."

Reuters - What do you do after becoming the first African-American rap group to win an Academy Award for best song? If you're Three 6 Mafia, you stay focused on what brought you to the game in the first place: music.

Reuters - Atlanta may be known as the hub for R&B and hip-hop, but regional Mexican acts are finding a welcoming audience there too.

AP - Bonnaroo began in earnest Friday with the rarest of double bills: Chris Rock followed by Metallica.

AP - CHICAGO (AP) — For R. Kelly, six years of pretrial delays came down to an agonizing 10 minutes.

E! Online - If the best way to measure the growth of a band is by the tantrums thrown by its frontman, then Coldplay just reached the next plateau of their career.

E! Online - The Stone Temple Pilots are singing the legal blues.

Reuters - Alternative rock band Stone Temple Pilots said it was surprised by a lawsuit from its record label this week, and hopes to return to the studio to record a new album soon.

Reuters - Coldplay sold 125,000 copies of its new album on the first day of release in Britain, a solid tally industry experts say should be music to the band's ears and those of its ailing record label EMI.

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.

AP - The jury in the R. Kelly child pornography case has reached a verdict after less than a day of deliberations.

E! Online - Indestructible had to live up to its name this week.