Reuters - Britney Spears is to star at this year's MTV Video Music Awards, a year after a calamitous comeback performance at the same award ceremony. But this time the pop singer won't be performing.

E! Online - Looks like Akon may get Konvicted after all.

AP - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a concert promoter to pay R&B singer-songwriter Ne-Yo $700,000 stemming from A lawsuit filed earlier this year.

AP - Solange Knowles turns out to be a little sensitive about using a certain b-word.

AP - Akon is headed to trial on criminal charges he tossed a fan offstage at an upstate concert last summer.

Reuters - A Paris music festival will offer discounts to disappointed Amy Winehouse fans after the troubled British soul singer cancelled a gig at the last minute, organizers said on Wednesday.

E! Online - Because of some backstage machinations, Ne-Yo is a little bit richer.

E! Online - Great White is hoping to make peace with the past—and put their legal problems behind them.

E! Online - For Bob Dylan fans, the answers these days are blowin' in the keys of C, G, D, F, A, B and E.

E! Online - Jessica Simpson has returned to her Southern roots. If ya haven't heard by now, the former pop-singing, reality-television star is about to release her first country album, Do You Know.

AP - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will pay tribute to the "father of the electric guitar" this fall.

AP - Starting in 2005, life took a hairpin turn for Patty Loveless.

AP - Usher is preparing a tour for ladies only.

AP - Members of the 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims' relatives, according to court papers filed Tuesday.