Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis join CMA fest

NASHVILLE -- Trace Adkins, Bucky Covington, Billy Ray Cyrus, Sara
Evans, Little Big Town, Montgomery Gentry, Craig Morgan, James
Otto, Kenny Rogers and Randy Travis join the lineup for the nightly
concerts at the CMA Music Festival, which takes place June 5-8 in
downtown Nashville.

Travis will be making his first performance at CMA Music Festival
in 10 years. Adkins is enjoying his first three-week No. 1 on the
Billboard Hot Country Songs chart with "You're Gonna Miss
This."

As previously reported, Rodney Atkins, Faith Hill, Alan Jackson,
Jewel, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Kellie Pickler, Sugarland,
Taylor Swift, Josh Turner, Carrie Underwood and Dwight Yoakam will
also perform.

REM to headline Oxegen

REM have been confirmed as one of the headliners at this year's Oxegen Festival.
Michael Stipe and Co join Kings of Leon for the extended three day event which takes place from 11 to 13 July at Punchestown Racecourse, Naas, Co Kildare.
Stipe attended the festival last year during recordings for the band's forthcoming album 'Accelerate'. The album is set for release on 1 April and was recorded in Co Westmeath.
'Supernatural Superserious' is the first single to be taken from the new album, and is now available digitally.  
Tickets for Oxegen will go on pre-sale to those registered on the festival's website from Monday 3 March at 8am until 8pm on Thursday 6 March, limited to four tickets per person. Tickets go on general sale on Friday 7 March at 8am.
With the event extended to three days, the campsite will open on the Thursday night for fans wishing to get an early spot. However, promoters MCD will be charging an additional €20 for the privilege of getting there early.

Jon Mark and Johnnie Almond

   
Artist: Jon Mark and Johnnie Almond

   Genre(s): 
Celtic
   

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Discography:


   
 The Best Of Mark Almond

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 17


   
 Nightmusic

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 7

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To My Boy

   
Artist: To My Boy

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Messages

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11

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Winehouse's mother says she's recovering

Winehouse's mother says she's recovering

Amy Winehouse's mother Janis has spoken about her daughter's Grammy success, saying that she believes the vocaliser is on "the road to recovery".
Winehouse picked up five-spot Grammy awards merely could non attend the ceremony in Los Angeles because of visa problems. She performed at the event via satellite from Greater London.
Speech production on 'GMTV', Janis Winehouse said: "Good, as you saw, she looks good and it's a event of she's on the road, and that's what it's about, she's on the road to retrieval."
"I think it would hold been also much for her because entirely of the travelling and flying thither, I stand for sightedness what the Grammys was like... we could watch it subsist from thither and I thought if Amy were on that point, she'd be lost in it, she'd be a little fille doomed in it."
Speech production around her daughter's Grammys performance, she said: "Easily, it's Amy coming back, she's in spades on the fashion back."
The star's mother also rung more or less her fears for her daughter's health before she entered rehab, saying: "She was sorting of with it but non with it, and that's the thing where I think fortuitously, thank goodness in our kinsfolk, she's got a solid kin and we're entirely there for her."

BB Celebrity Hijackers are revealed

BB Celebrity Hijackers are revealed

'Little Britain' adept Matt Lucas, Gender Pistols director Malcolm McLaren and comedienne Joan Rivers have signed up to take party in 'Big Brother: Renown Hijack'.
Too enlisted to move as Boastfully Comrade to the housemates ar 'Match of the Day' initiate Ian Wright, comedian Jimmy Carr, artists Jake and Dinos Chapman, 'Bo' Selecta!' grapheme Keith Maize and artistic production critic Brian Sewell.
The celebrities volition set the tasks, make the rules, hand out punishments and talk to the housemates in the diary room during their stint as Big Brother on the by-product serial.
The contestants on the demo will be talented thomas Young people, with the grouping including scientists, acrobats and athletes.
A 'Big Brother' representative said: "Simply what they testament be getting up to as they film ascendency of the theater and world Health Organization else will unite them as famous person hijackers remains a closely guarded mystery."
Dermot O'Leary will present the series, which is due to begin on E4 on 3 Jan.

Dirty Projectors for New York's Citysol festival

Dirty Projectors for New York's Citysol festival

Dirty Projectors and Care Bears On Fire are rig to take part in this year�??s Citysol festival in New York City.

The bands join a diverse line up including Ecstatic Cheerfulness, No Surrender, Shilpa Ray (ex Beat the Satan), Burkina Electric car, So Percussion section, Selan and Blitzkrieg the Embassador, and totally testament do at the free event on a 100% solar-powered stagecoach.

Located at Solar One's Due east Riverside venue in Petrus Stuyvesant Cove Parking lot, the fete will extend June 26-29 and attempts to �??provide a new venue for creative artistic collaborations, patch engaging danton True Young Newly Yorkers in an advocacy campaign to bring around stronger policies in documentation of scavenge, renewable solar force in Newly York State.�?�

Previous performers at Citysol have included Les Savy Fav, Deer Tick, Japanther, the members of Antibalas, OCDJ, Menomena and more.

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Mother alleging Spears was drugged

Mother alleging Spears was drugged

Britney Spears' mother has alleged that the 26-year-old singer was "drugged" by her self-styled handler, SAM Lufti, in holy Order to carry control of her life, home and money.
Reuters reports that Lynne Spears' allegations were contained in a sworn declaration submitted to the court in fiat to obtain a temporary worker restraining order against Lufti.
The restraining order of magnitude against Lufti forbids him from contacting Spears in any way.
In the declaration, Lynne Spears alleged: "Mr Lutfi drugged Britney. He has cut Britney's home speech sound line and removed her cell chargers. He yells at her. He claims to control everything - Britney's business sector manager, her attorneys and security guards at the gate."
Lynne Spears describes arriving at her daughter's home on 28 January and determination her in a confused state.
She said: "Britney... became very agitated and could non stoppage moving. She cleaned the home. She changed her apparel many times. She likewise changed her dogs' apparel many times. Britney rundle to me in a tone and with the level of discernment of a very young lady friend."
The singer's mother claims that Lufti told her and a ally that he gave the 26-year-old tablets ground up in her food to celebrate her quiet and told the troubled entertainer that she had to drive "10 pills a day" if she wanted to see her deuce young sons.
Britney Spears' sire Jamie and attorney St. Andrew Wallete let been granted temporary worker control of the star's assets, pending further legal proceeding.
A judge has ruled that Spears must be examined by a court-appointed psychiatrist to square up if she understands the legal proceeding.