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 E! Online - The economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the choice of First Puppy aren't the only things President-Elect Barack Obama has to worry about these days.
 AP - Marion "Suge" Knight is facing criminal charges in Las Vegas, stemming from an incident in which police found the hip hop mogul allegedly beating his girlfriend just off a busy thoroughfare.
 AP - Sean "Diddy" Combs is becoming a prosecutor — at least on television.
 AP - When he was on "American Idol," David Cook — as cool as a cucumber for much of last season — fought back tears after performing for a studio audience that included his brother Adam, who's fighting brain cancer.
Yahoo! Music - Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has released a video in support of gay marriage.
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 AP - Michael Jackson might be too sick to travel to London to testify in a suit claiming he owes an Arab sheik $7 million, the pop star's attorney said Tuesday.
Yahoo! Music - The release date of 50 Cent's forthcoming new album, Before I Self Destruct, has been pushed back to 2009--although a final release date is yet to be confirmed.
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AP - Country singer Mindy McCready claims she broke off her relationship with Roger Clemens when the former baseball star wouldn't marry her, according to an interview to be broadcast Monday by the syndicated show "Inside Edition."
 AP - Leonard Bernstein was as much a teacher as a conductor and composer. Now, the post boomer generation — Bernstein's musical grandchildren — have taken the stage, and perhaps just in time for classical music.
 Reuters - The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White will be jamming at a theater near you next summer.
 Reuters - With Bon Jovi's latest world tour completed, guitarist Richie Sambora says the New Jersey rockers are looking ahead to plenty of new projects.
 Reuters - An unreleased, experimental track by British band The Beatles could be made public 41 years after it was recorded at London's Abbey Road studios, ex-member Paul McCartney has said.
Yahoo! Music - Convicted pedophile Gary Glitter has had his brick removed from the Cavern Club's wall in Liverpool.
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 Reuters - Bruce Springsteen will release his 24th album on January 27, a disc he and the E-Street Band hurriedly recorded during breaks on their tour last year, the veteran rocker said on Monday.
Yahoo! Music - Outkast are set to release three new albums next year.
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Rolling Stone: Features
The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time -
Our blue-ribbon panel of 179 experts ranks music's finest vocalists
1 | Aretha Franklin
by Mary J. Blige
Photo: Goodwin/Redferns/Retna
BornMarch 25th, 1942
Key Tracks"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Respect," "I...
What Makes a Great Singer? -
By Jonathan Lethem
There's something about a voice that's personal, not unlike the particular odor or shape of a given human body. Summoned through belly, hammered into form by the throat, given propulsion by bellows of lungs, teased into final form by tongue and lips, a vocal is a kind of audible kiss, a blurted confession, a soul-burp you really can't keep from issuing as you make your way through the material world. How helplessly candid! How appalling!
Contrary to anything you've heard, the ability to...
Janis Joplin by Stevie Nicks -
Janis Joplin
by Stevie Nicks
You could say that being yelled at by Janis Joplin was one of the great honors of my life. Early in my career, Lindsay Buckingham and I were in a band called Fritz. There were two gigs we played in San Francisco that changed everything for me: One was opening up for Jimi Hendrix, who was completely magical. The other was the time that we opened up for Janis at the San Jose Fairgrounds, around 1970.
It was a hot summer day, and things didn't start off well...
James Taylor by David Crosby -
James Taylor
by David Crosby
James Taylor has a tremendously rich and beautiful voice, and he controls it so well. It's easy to get fooled by his understatement: As beautiful as James' voice is, there's nothing mellow about a performance like "Fire & Rain" — it's a song of great depth sung by a man who's experienced the highs and lows of life, and has the ability to convey them directly and honestly. It also doesn't hurt that he's up there as a songwriter alongside Lennon & McCartney,...
Annie Lennox by Rob Thomas -
Annie Lennox
by Rob Thomas
Anybody my age turning on MTV and seeing Annie Lennox sing "Sweet Dreams," that was enough right there. And then when she started doing songs like "Walking on Broken Glass" or "Missionary Man," there's just something that's so soulful in those — and it's not like a put-on, blue-eyed soul kind of thing: It's just pure power, this gigantic voice. The Eurythmics was her fantastic voice mixed in with Dave Stewart and his otherworldly, ahead of its time...
Zeppelin Members Seek New Singer -
Remaining three plan possible album and tour without Robert Plant
Last year's Led Zeppelin reunion concert wasn't the end for Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Jason Bonham — but it looks like it was for Robert Plant. The three musicians have been holding rehearsals with singers including Aerosmith's Steven Tyler (it didn't go well, one source has heard) and possibly Myles Kennedy, lead singer of Alter Bridge (who has covered Zep songs onstage and has a formidable vocal range). But Page wants to make one thing clear about the new project. "Whatever this...
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