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Funk band War tells PepsiCo they're not friends
Members of the original funk band War say they can't be friends with PepsiCo. They're suing the soft drink maker for more than $10 million, saying it did not negotiate with them to use their song "Why Can't We Be Friends?" in a new commercial. Even if ...
Appeals court sets hearing in Jackson estate case
An appeals court has scheduled a hearing for lawyers for the father of Michael Jackson to argue that he deserves a role in decisions involving his son's multimillion dollar estate. The Second District Court of Appeal said Thursday the appeal by Joe Jac...
Rapper T.I. comeback could be derailed with arrest
After finishing a sentence for weapons charges earlier this year, T.I. was poised to have the comeback of the fall. The multiplatinum rapper starred in the nation's No. 1 movie, recently married his longtime girlfriend, taped a music special for VH1 an...
Chris Brown returns to No. 1 spot with 'Deuces'
Chris Brown is back to a familiar place _ the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. The 21-year-old's latest song, the goodbye groove "Deuces," hit the top spot of Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart this week. Since Brown's February 2009 altercation wit...
Lady A's Dave Haywood looking for CMA Awards date
Lady Antebellum guitarist Dave Haywood still needs a plus-one for the CMA Awards. He tells The Associated Press that he asked his mom to go with him over Twitter, because "she loves Twitter for some reason." But it turns out she can't go. The group is ...
Axl Rose tries Dublin's patience, sends crowd home
Axl Rose, it seems, needs a little more patience _ and a much louder alarm clock. The 48-year-old singer of U.S. hard-rock band Guns N' Roses irritated thousands of his Dublin fans at the 02 Arena on Wednesday night by showing up nearly an hour late _ ...
NY ex-employee, 51, accuses 'Diddy' of age bias
A New York woman has sued rapper-producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, saying he fired her because of her age two decades after she helped launch his career. Fifty-one-year-old Francesca Spero filed the age discrimination lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in M...
Rapper Young Buck files for bankruptcy after raid
Rapper Young Buck has filed for bankruptcy after an Internal Revenue Service raid on his Hendersonville, Tenn., home. The Tennessean newspaper reports that a judge has accepted the rapper's proposal to dock his monthly pay from Cashville Records by $12...
Miranda Lambert tops CMA Awards with 9 nominations
Miranda Lambert made history Wednesday morning when she was nominated for nine CMA Awards, the most for a female country music artist. She'll be celebrating with close friends Lady Antebellum and fiance Blake Shelton. Lady A earned the second most nomi...
House of Blues Studio D moving to Nashville
Memphis' House of Blues Studio D, where artists including Isaac Hayes and Three 6 Mafia have recorded, is moving to Nashville. The Studio D building was called Sounds of Memphis when it was built in the late 1960s by MGM and Memphis label owner Gene Lu...