Reuters - James Taylor will release a covers collection through Starbucks' Hear Music label on September 30.

E! Online - The charts have a new sugar daddy.

AP - Snoop Dogg's done Hollywood. Now he's moving on to Bollywood.

AP - A rental truck containing Iggy Pop and the Stooges' equipment has been recovered empty after being stolen in Montreal.

Reuters - British singer Sarah Brightman and China's Liu Huan will sing at Friday's opening ceremony for the Olympic Games, organizers said on Wednesday.

Reuters - Hip-hop mogul Dr. Dre's cognac and vodka brands will hit liquor stores in the next 60 days, according to celebrity booze marketer Drinks America Holdings Ltd.

Reuters - Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder relied on little more than his voice and guitar during the third show of his summer solo tour in New York on Monday.

Reuters - Ian Brown was lead singer of Manchester-based indie band the Stone Roses, which formed in 1984 and are considered one of the pioneers of the northern English city's "Madchester" music scene.

AP - Play it again, Sam. The whole album, please — and in order.

E! Online - Looks like the next Iggy and the Stooges gig may be seriously unplugged. Maybe even a capella.

E! Online - Marc Indelicato would have loved to have gotten to know Lindsay Lohan when she shot her Ugly Betty episodes, but it was kinda impossible.

E! Online - Metallica is again going against the grain.

Reuters - Dave Stewart was half the musical duo Eurythmics in the 1980s, but when his partnership with singer Annie Lennox faded the British artist found other outlets for his creativity.

AP - It's showtime in Studio E. A short, balding man with a thick black mustache pops on headphones in the radio booth and leans toward the microphone as a bouncy tune — one of his compositions — plays in the background.