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Reuters - Bob Dylan, Iggy & the Stooges and Chuck Berry have joined the lineup of the third annual Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore on August 9-10.

Reuters - When well-known artists record an album in a genre different from the one for which they're known, it can often feel a bit forced. But for R&B singer Regina Belle, a pastor's wife who has long been an outspoken believer, the move seems so obvious that it begs the question, Why didn't she take this leap of faith before? More Info...  

Reuters - Seventies flashbacks aside, Donna Summer is not Rod Stewart.

AP - You're sitting at home online and suddenly you get an irresistible urge. You absolutely have to belt out R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" and share it with the world.

Reuters - New Orleans' Voodoo Music Experience festival will marks its 10th anniversary in October by hosting three of the biggest bands of the 1990s: R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots.

E! Online - Kathy Griffin sure knows how to yuk it up with her gays.

E! Online - Scott Weiland is going to rock steady in jail for awhile. The frontman for the recently reunited Stone Temple Pilots was sentenced to eight days in jail after pleading no contest to misdemeanor driving under the influence stemming from a November arrest after a minor fender bender on a Los Angeles freeway.

E! Online - Things are heating up on the Coldplay front.

E! Online - No valet, no red carpet and a Hilton sister wearing flip-flops? We must be at the T-Mobile Sidekick Tone Def after-party in Coachella Valley.

Yahoo! Music - Following months of speculation surrounding a rumored Spice Girls-esque reunion tour, '80s boy band New Kids On The Block has released its first group photo in 15 years, exclusively on Yahoo!: More Info...  

Music News

Reuters - Thirty-three years into its recording career, Canadian hard-rock trio Rush is finding it easier to make music together.

Reuters - Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile's self-titled 2005 Columbia debut had a relatively quiet rollout. Released on the label's Red Ink imprint, the album, which has sold 74,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, never made it onto the charts. More Info...  

Reuters - After 30 years with Warners-owned Word Records, Christian music pioneer Amy Grant has left the roster, signing a deal with EMI Christian Music Group's Sparrow label that will include her catalog as well as new music.

Reuters - Columbia Records is facing the prospect of having to pull the new deluxe edition of Beyonce's "B'Day" from stores amid a dispute over publishing rights.

AP - Memorable quotes by and about Mstislav Rostropovich: More Info...  

AP - CBS newsman Ed Bradley was a big fan of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. On Friday, the Jazz Fest honored his memory and his two decades of support with an opening day jazz funeral procession, complete with two brass bands.

AP - Mstislav Rostropovich played the cello with grace and verve — and lived his life offstage the same way. His death at age 80 takes away one of modern Russia's most compelling figures, admired both for his musical mastery and his defiance of Soviet repression.

AP - As Becky Stark, the ebullient lead singer of Lavender Diamond, performs "Open Your Heart," she sings a chorus of "Oh oh oh oh oh oh."

AP - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is not having an identity crisis.

AP - Lila Downs has released a DVD featuring a potpourri of video clips by artists and filmmakers set to her love songs.