AP - Paul McCartney's ex-wife is donating $1 million worth of soy hamburgers, soy hot dogs and soy chicken cutlets to one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Bronx. -- read full article
AP - WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Hours after performing for thousands of South Carolina college students, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash that killed four people, authorities said Saturday.
AP - Natalie Cole, who recently revealed she had hepatitis C, has been hospitalized as a result of side effects from her medication and a heavy promotional schedule, her representative said Friday.
Reuters - Mexican rock legend Jaguares
hadn't even begun U.S. promotion of "45," its first album in
three years, when it debuted at No. 11 on Billboard's Top Latin
Albums chart last week. -- read full article
Reuters - Family bluegrass band Cherryholmes
is pulling out all the stops this fall with a new album,
documentary, symphony dates and its first attempt to cross over
to country radio. -- read full article
Reuters - The ninth-best-selling comedy album
of 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan, is a 5-year-old
release by a man who has been dead for three years. -- read full article
Reuters - Five years after Beto Cuevas told
his bandmates in the wildly successful rock band La Ley that he
wanted to go solo, he's gotten his wish. -- read full article
Reuters - For a band that makes such edgy,
experimental music, TV on the Radio is almost quaint when it
comes to its business strategy. -- read full article
Reuters - Leading R&B drummer Earl Palmer,
best known for his New Orleans recording sessions with the
likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, died on Friday at his
home in Los Angeles at age 84, his family said. -- read full article