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AP - WASHINGTON (AP) — Their college tour ended, Sheryl Crow and Laurie David describe their efforts to stop global warming as part of the "most important mission" of the times. That's the hope of Grammy-winning rocker Crow and David, who produced "An Inconvenient Truth," the global warming movie that won the Oscar for best documentary.

Reuters - Pop queens Beyonce and Shakira beat off a challenge from the Arctic Monkeys to crown the British singles chart with their duet "Beautiful Liar," the Official UK Charts Company said on Sunday.

AP - For more than 10 years, the Pantages, a restored movie and vaudeville house on a shabby block of Yonge Street, was home to "The Phantom of the Opera," the wildly popular Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. More Info...  

Reuters - Thousands of returned tickets for the Glastonbury Festival sold out in hours after going on sale at 9 a.m. on Sunday.

Reuters - The beloved Gibson Les Paul guitar of U2's The Edge fetched $240,000 and Bono's sunglasses pulled in $20,000 at an auction on Saturday to benefit musicians who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.

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AP - Audiences are in for a triple treat at the Metropolitan Opera, where the season is winding down just as it began — with an exciting new production of a Giacomo Puccini masterpiece.

Reuters - In 1992, Venezuelan singer-songwriter Ricardo Montaner was an established star and a top-selling artist. More Info...  

Reuters - He's a singer. A composer. An actor. A producer. A designer. A writer. Spaniard Miguel Bose is recognized as one of the most enduring and internationally renowned icons in Spanish-language music, an artist whose music embodies everything versatile and creative in Latin pop. More Info...  

Reuters - With its distinctive and catchy mix of hip-hop, reggaeton and tropical and electronica beats, Calle 13 was one of the biggest breakout stories in the Latin world last year. More Info...  

Reuters - The untimely death in 1996 of 33-year-old pop/jazz singer Eva Cassidy struck a deep chord with Chuck Brown. Washington, D.C.'s godfather of go-go had teamed with Cassidy on the 1995 release "The Other Side." More Info...  

Reuters - "After six months of always pulling back, you just want to slam your fist through a wall," according to Black Rebel Motorcyle Club's Robert Levon Been. More Info...  

Music News Reuters - "You get to a point in your career where you do get tired of vying for the dollars and attention of your label," said country artist Pam Tillis, who has stopped recording for majors and taken matters into her own hands. More Info...  

Reuters - "You get to a point in your career where you do get tired of vying for the dollars and attention of your label," said country artist Pam Tillis, who has stopped recording for majors and taken matters into her own hands. More Info...  

AP - Lil' Romeo says he's bound for the University of Southern California, where, if all goes according to plan, the teenage hip-hop star would become Romeo Miller, basketball player. More Info...  

Reuters - After two years of touring in support of her 2004 album, "Let It Die," Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist realized she had really just been making "baby steps toward an undetermined future."

Reuters - By now the practice has become old hat: an eagerly anticipated album gets distributed and devoured by MP3 bloggers before it ever hits stores. But when Columbia Records released Beyonce's "B'Day Anthology Video Album" on April 3, it marked a rare instance of a similar phenomenon happening with a music DVD. More Info...  

Reuters - "This is for my MySpace people and everybody who voted."

Reuters - Chocolate. Marshmallows. Graham crackers. Brad Paisley. In what may be the sweetest deal of the country artist's eight-year career, Paisley has partnered with Hershey's for a national media and retail campaign.

Reuters - Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne's third studio album will top the U.S. charts when sales data are issued Wednesday, while rock combo Nine Inch Nails will be the runner-up, industry experts predict. More Info...  

AP - More than a decade after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Clay Walker's voice sounds stronger than ever on his first new studio album in four years.