AP - A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" on his Web site was arrested Wednesday and appeared in court, where his bail was set at $10,000.




AP - Cuba has ordered jailed punk rocker Gorki Aguila, an outspoken critic of Fidel Castro and the communist government, to stand trail on Friday for "social dangerousness," a charge that could carry up to four years in prison.

Francisco Oliveira Jr. takes the stand Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008, during his attempted murder trial in Miami. Oliveira is accused of trying to kill Colombian songwriter Estefano.  (AP Photo/Miami Herald, Pool)AP - A jury acquitted a former handyman of attempted murder charges Wednesday in last year's near-fatal shooting of Latin songwriter Estefano, who had positively identified the man in court as his assailant.




Paul McCartney performs at the Liverpool Sound concert at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, northern England, June 1, 2008. (Nigel Roddis/Reuters)Reuters - Paul McCartney will perform for the first time ever in Israel next month -- more than 40 years after the Beatles were blocked from giving a concert in the country, the singer announced on Wednesday.




Hip Hop star T.I. talks during the nominations news conference for the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, in this July 31, 2006 file photograph. (Brendan McDermid/Files/Reuters)Reuters - Rapper T.I. establishes the mark for biggest jump to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 as his single "Whatever You Like" soars from No. 71 to No. 1 in its third week on the list.




Disappointed Neil Diamond fans will get a refund after attending a concert at Ohio State University in which the 67-year-old singer's voice sounded raspy.



Reuters - Steve Foley, who played drums with the Replacements at the tail end of the alternative rock band's career, died during the weekend of August 23 in Minneapolis. He was 49. According to local media reports, Foley died after accidentally overdosing on prescription medication.

A member of Brickheadz break dances at Kidzapalooza, an entire area devoted to kids, at the Lollapalloza music festival on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)AP - Moms push strollers through throngs of bare-chested, tattooed twenty-somethings. Dads in khakis dole out fruit drinks while guys sporting mohawks and ripped jeans sip beer. And the grade-schoolers cheer as loudly as the hard-core metalheads.




In this June 24, 2003 file photo, rap producer Marion 'Suge' Knight watches the 3rd annual BET Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, file)AP - Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight was jailed Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend while brandishing a knife, police said.




AP - An anti-war concert headlined by the reunited Rage Against the Machine drew thousands of fans to the Denver Coliseum, many with tattoos, body piercings or "Iraq Veterans Against the War" T-shirts.

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