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Reuters - A revenge-themed song by "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood scored a double video win on Monday in the 2007 Country Music Television Awards.

E! Online - The people have spoken. The Dixie Chicks it ain't.

Yahoo! Music - The Rolling Stones' former bassist Bill Wyman is launching his own metal detector. More Info...  

Yahoo! Music - Sum 41 have named their new album Underclass Hero. More Info...  

Yahoo! Music - Fall Out Boy have set to competition for new bands to support them on their U.S. tour. More Info...  

Music News

AP - Teen newcomer Taylor Swift captured breakthrough video of the year honors Monday at the fan-voted CMT Music Awards with her hit "Tim McGraw."

AP - Phil Spector on Monday faced a panel of prospective jurors who were warned by the judge that the murder trial of the music legend is not an opportunity for them to have their "15 minutes of fame."

Reuters - Some of the biggest names in rock music, including Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, will attend a private memorial in New York on Tuesday for their late boss, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

AP - Barry Gibb, the former Bee Gee who bought the house that Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in for decades before their deaths in 2003, said on Monday he plans to build a new home near where the house stood before burning down last week.

AP - Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. announced a new ad campaign on Monday as part of its effort to make the rock legend's former home Graceland a tourist destination on par with larger theme parks. More Info...  

AP - Madonna flew to Malawi on a silver jet Monday to continue her charity work in the impoverished southern African country, bringing along the Malawian boy she is in the process of adopting.

AP - Jennifer Lopez and her husband, Marc Anthony, are suing the National Enquirer in European courts over the tabloid's claims they were linked to a drug scandal, their Belfast lawyer said Monday.

AP - "Vacancy" is the kind of movie that leaves you feeling icky all over afterward — grimy and sickened and desperately in need of a shower. More Info...  

AP - Prosecutors have decided not to pursue charges against Victor Willis, the original policeman in '70s disco band The Village People, who was arrested last month after his girlfriend accused him of choking and threatening her.

E! Online - Victor Willis has admitted to abusing drugs.

Reuters - British singer Bryan Ferry apologized on Monday for remarks he made in an interview with a German newspaper in which he praised Nazi iconography as "just amazing" and "really beautiful."

E! Online - Jenny's attorney is taking a block of European courts by storm.

Reuters - Spanish singer/songwriter Miguel Bose has drafted 15 fellow Latin artists as well as R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe for an ambitious duets album celebrating his 30-year career.

Yahoo! Music - Arcade Fire's Win Butler has undergone surgery to rid himself of the health problems that saw the band cancel a string of European shows recently. More Info...  

Yahoo! Music - Slash has admitted that he wants his band Velvet Revolver to stop playing songs by Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, and would instead like the two groups to reunite. More Info...