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Reuters - The Kings of Leon were crowned number one in the British album charts on Sunday with their new release "Because Of The Times." More Info...  

Reuters - Former Kiss guitarist Mark St. John died Thursday from an apparent brain hemorrhage. He was 51. More Info...  

Reuters - It's taken a while, but Gretchen Wilson has come to realize that she will never top the sales of her breakthrough album, 2004's "Here for the Party." More Info...  

Reuters - The final nine of what will be the Big 86 begins. And on June 10, when HBO eighty-sixes "The Sopranos" forever, it will be remembered as the series that had the best music in the history of TV.

Reuters - British ex-rocker Gary Glitter, jailed in Vietnam for sexually molesting two young girls, plans to seek an amnesty during Vietnam's Liberation Day celebrations this month, his lawyer said.

Reuters - Jon Bon Jovi's female fans will soon be able to take the cuddly rocker to bed with them.

Reuters - Linkin Park's new midtempo rocker "What I've Done" may sound familiar when you hear it blaring from radios. More Info...  

Reuters - Patience is a virtue -- just ask 36-year-old rapper Redman. It has been six years since his last studio album, 2001's "Malpractice." More Info...  

Music News

Reuters - Two London-based writer/performers have sparked the recording return of Shirley Bassey, the70-year-old Welsh vocal powerhouse famed for singing the theme song to the James Bond movie "Goldfinger."

AP - Colin Graham, the artistic director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, died Friday. He was 75. More Info...  

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors in the Phil Spector slaying case asked a judge Friday to limit the defense from suggesting shooting victim Lana Clarkson was suicidal because of a declining career.

Music News AP - At a recent club performance, Michel Legrand decided to have a little fun by "destroying" his familiar tune — "I Will Wait For You," the theme from Jacques Demy's film which turned Catherine Deneuve into a star and earned the French pianist-composer his first Oscar nominations. More Info...  

AP - At a recent club performance, Michel Legrand decided to have a little fun by "destroying" his familiar tune — "I Will Wait For You," the theme from Jacques Demy's film which turned Catherine Deneuve into a star and earned the French pianist-composer his first Oscar nominations. More Info...  

AP - When Jack Ingram would catch up with fans after opening up for Sheryl Crow on tour last year, he'd often be greeted with the comment: "Wow, I don't really like country music but I love what you do."

AP - Tears, wild hair and unhealthy songs are banned when China's latest version of "American Idol" goes on the air next month. More Info...  

AP - As South By Southwest's annual gathering of the indie universe kicked into full swing, rock's biggest mainstream magazine ran an online piece painting it as "a festival struggling for authenticity." If you can identify any one of the half-dozen ways that statement is insanely problematic, you can probably imagine what the experience of being there was like. More Info...  

Yahoo! Music - Rock 'n' roll legend Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance at a tribute event held in his honour in New York last night (April 5). More Info...  

Yahoo! Music - Panic! At The Disco have been discussing their second album. More Info...  

Yahoo! Music - Oasis, the Killers, and Kaiser Chiefs are to cover songs from the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to mark the 40th anniversary of the classic album's release. More Info...  

AP - BEIJING (AP) — China has extended criminal penalties for music and movie piracy to people caught with smaller amounts of DVDs or CDs, a state news agency said Friday, after foreign complaints that enforcement was too lenient.