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AP - Yusuf Islam, the former Cat Stevens, has quietly returned to music with a new album and concerts. And he's sounding a lot like ... Cat Stevens.

Reuters - Whatever you say it is, their second album's not a flop.

E! Online - Larry Birkhead can finally get while the getting's good.

Music News

AP - Kelly Clarkson will be giving her voice a workout this summer. The Grammy-winning pop star and original "American Idol" will be on tour from July 7 to Sept. 28, visiting nearly 40 U.S. and Canadian cities, it was announced Thursday.

AP - The blues stage will be back when the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival opens Friday, and so will such performers as blues singer Alton "Big Al" Carson and singer-pianist Henry Butler.

AP - As he sits in the back of an SUV ferrying him from one recording studio to the next, Ne-Yo reflects on the current state of R&B — and determines that the genre is suffering from serious malaise.

E! Online - The usual tens of millions of people voted for their favorite Idols this week, but it was the war on poverty that reaped all the rewards. 

AP - Police who found actress Lana Clarkson dead in Phil Spector's mansion "had murder on their mind" and disregarded anything that was inconsistent with that conclusion, a defense lawyer told jurors at the legendary music producer's trial Thursday.

E! Online - CSI aired a few hours early in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday.

E! Online - Guess you could call it an Eve of self-destruction.

E! Online - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, the man who gave Halloween its graveyard-smash anthem, is joining his crypt-kickers in the great beyond.

AP - One look at this weekend's lineup at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and it may seem like you've traveled back in time to the early 1990s.

AP - Rapper-actress Eve was arrested for investigation of driving under the influence after she crashed a Maserati in Hollywood early Thursday.

Reuters - Calling Sheryl Crow "a high profile proponent of the destruction of innocent lives," the Roman Catholic archbishop of St. Louis resigned as head of a children's medical charity that featured the singer for a benefit concert.

Reuters - Barbra Streisand's fall tour will be chronicled on the appropriately named album "Live in Concert 2006," due May 8 via Columbia.

Reuters - U.S. rapper Kanye West and British rocker Rod Stewart have been added to the lineup of artists performing at a July 1 concert to mark the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death in a car crash.

Music News AP - Archbishop Raymond Burke denounced a Catholic charity Wednesday for scheduling a benefit-concert appearance by Sheryl Crow, who supports abortion rights. More Info...  

Reuters - Attendees at performing rights groups ASCAP's recent I Create Music Expo hoping to discover the secrets to songwriting success from special guest Randy Newman likely found inspiration and entertainment but few hard facts.

AP - Lawrence Brownlee looked at the list and it was lengthy. More than 100 family and friends will be in the audience Thursday night when the tenor makes his Metropolitan Opera debut.

Reuters - British rocker Pete Townshend on Wednesday unveiled an Internet-based software program that will help music fans compose personalized tracks at the click of a button.