Reuters - Seventy-year-old superstar Kenny Rogers is celebrating 50 years in the music business and has invited Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores along for the fun.

AP - Like the NFL teams beginning their new seasons, Usher is hoping to go all the way to the Super Bowl.

AP - Fuel prices have grounded an unexpected frequent-flyer: Diddy.

Reuters - A Cuban punk rocker whose songs have ridiculed the Cuban government was fined for public disorder on Friday after prosecutors reduced a more serious "social dangerousness" charge that could have sent him to prison for four years.

Reuters - British soul singer Amy Winehouse pulled out of a Paris concert at short notice on Friday after falling ill at home in London, her spokesman has said.

AP - Michael Jackson marked a personal milestone Friday: his 50th birthday.

E! Online - The FBI is gunning for the Guns N' Roses leaker.

E! Online - UPDATE: Knight was released late Wednesday after posting $19,000 bail. He's due to appear Sept. 26 in Las Vegas Justice Court .

E! Online - House arrest has paid off big time for T.I.

AP - Rapper DMX has pleaded out a Miami drug case and now awaits extradition to face more charges in Arizona.

AP - This fall is full of questions for the topsy-turvy music world:

AP - Colored wristbands run halfway up Stephen Brackett's arm, each one marking a show he and his band, the Flobots, have played the last several days.

AP - Trisha Yearwood had a harrowing experience on a recent flight to Oklahoma when her plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Baltimore because of a cracked windshield.