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Music News AP - 1. "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox. More Info...  

Reuters - Organizers of a major California music festival are offering a $10,000 reward and four festival tickets for life in exchange for ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters' two-story inflatable pig, which was lost on Sunday night.

AP - Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix.

AP - When John Lennon gave Gail Renard the scribbled lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" in 1969, he told the teen to hold on to the piece of paper.

Reuters - Amy Winehouse might well be working on the theme song to the next installment of the James Bond series, but her record company is downplaying the move.

Reuters - As parting gifts go, Madonna's 11th studio album -- and her last before she exits long-term record label Warner Bros. -- is unusually generous, if early reviews are to be believed.

Reuters - British rock band Coldplay gave away the first single from its upcoming album to fans over the Internet on Tuesday, and also revealed plans to play a third free show, this time in Barcelona. More Info...  

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AP - Terrence Howard is having a dream season for an actor, starring in one of the summer's biggest movies with the superhero flick "Iron Man" and collecting critical acclaim for his Broadway role in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Reuters - When the last spit of Abita beer has been squeezed from a tap in the Jazz Fest 2008 food court next Sunday, New Orleans will get back to its roots -- celebrating the close of another Jazz Fest with the Neville Brothers, there to mark their 30 years as a band.

AP - Wolfgang Wagner is stepping down after 57 years as director of the Bayreuth opera festival founded by his grandfather, the composer Richard Wagner, Bavaria's culture minister said Tuesday.

AP - Bob Dylan has joined the lineup of the 3rd Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico Race Course on Aug. 9-10. More Info...  

AP - Scott Weiland has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor drunken driving charge and was sentenced to eight days in jail.

E! Online - The Iceman goeth free.

E! Online - Her name may be Hannah Montana, but Minnesota is clearly more her state.

E! Online - Is the onscreen competition between Miley Cyrus and fellow tween Disney sensation Selena Gomez about to get real?

E! Online - Roger Waters lost his pig, and would like him back, please.

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AP - Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported.

Reuters - Until Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in 2005, leaving devastation and massive flooding in its wake, the Neville Brothers had spent their whole lives living in the Crescent City. More Info...  

Reuters - New Zealand artists are flourishing at home with government support -- but international breakthroughs remain hard to come by. More Info...