Reuters - Troubled pop star Britney Spears
has released her first new song in years on the Web, a single
called "Gimme More" that is expected to hit radio airwaves as
early as next week.

AP - It seems like forever since Britney Spears had six-pack abs and a hit song on the charts. But the fallen pop princess — tarnished by a tumultuous divorce, late-night partying and erratic behavior — is trying to get her music career back on track.

AP - Pete Seeger has the Joe Stalin blues.

Reuters - British rock band Supergrass has
cancelled a homecoming gig in Oxford, England, after its bass
player broke his back while sleepwalking .

AP - It seems like forever since Britney Spears had six-pack abs and a hit song on the charts. But the fallen pop princess — tarnished by a tumultuous divorce, late-night partying and erratic behavior — is trying to get her music career back on track.

Reuters - Colombian pop/rock star Juanes
will release the first single from his new album "La Vida Es
… Un Ratico" on September 4, ahead of the album's October 23
release.

AP - Kevin Federline’s lawyer wants Britney Spears to pay some of her ex-husband’s legal expenses in their divorce case, court documents show.

AP - Paul van Dyk seems to have struck the right balance between commercial success and underground appeal.

AP - The woman musicians wore headscarves, but that didn’t hinder them in playing Beethoven and Brahms in a rare performance by a Western classical orchestra in the capital of the Islamic Republic.

Reuters - Bertelsmann AG settled a lawsuit filed
by the National Music Publishers' Association that charged the
media company's investment in file sharing service Napster
encouraged the abuse of copyrighted content.