In this photo provided by the Grand Ole Opry, Carrie Underwood inducted as the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry by fellow Opry member Garth Brooks on Saturday, May 10, 2008 in Nashville.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Carrie Underwood is the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry. The singer joined the cast of the long-running country music show Saturday. Garth Brooks handled her formal induction and Vince Gill sang a duet with her.
Bluesman David "Honeyboy" Edwards compares playing styles of some of his contemporaries including Elvis Presley, Friday, May 9, 2008 in Jackson, Miss., as he waits for a Blues awards banquet to begin. At 92, Edwards is the last living Blues artist to play with the legendary Robert Johnson.
JACKSON, Miss. With his 93rd birthday a month away, David "Honeyboy" Edwards admits it's getting hard to walk long distances.
"American Idol" finalist Syesha Mercado, of Sarasota, Fla., smiles as she signs an autograph before the Los Angeles Angels-Tampa Bay Rays baseball game Friday night, May 9, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Everywhere they go, "American Idol" contestants attract a crowd of admirers, well-wishers, gushy handmade signs and screams fit for a vintage Beatle. But when it comes to feting finalists, home is where the "I (heart) you" is.
LAS VEGAS Toni Braxton's return to the stage on the Las Vegas strip has been pushed back for at least another month.
NEWARK, N.J. In a May 5 story about a violin accidentally left in a taxi, The Associated Press misstated the date of violinist Philippe Quint's next New York performance. It is May 19 with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, not his Sept. 23 concert at Carnegie Hall.
In this Jan 14, 1998 file photo country singer Trace Adkins poses during an interview in Nashville, Tenn. Adkins, a former oil roughneck, has written and recorded a song called "Black Gold" that will open an upcoming truTV series of the same name.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Trace Adkins, a former oil roughneck, has written and recorded a song called "Black Gold" that will open an upcoming truTV series of the same name.
Carly Simon is photographed in New York on April 24, 2008.
NEW YORK Carly Simon was worried about preserving her voice as she rehearsed for her first public performance of tunes from her new CD, but she couldn't restrain herself as she got swept away singing the sexy title song, "This Kind of Love."
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Sharon Jones performs with Galactic at the seventh annual Jammy awards at the Theater at Madison Square Garden Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in New York.
NEW YORK Though the Jammy Awards were able to bring together the members of Phish for the first time since they broke up four years ago, the reunion may not have been everything Phish-heads had hoped for.
This undated photo provided by Saulius Paukstys, shows a cast used to create a replica of a bust of musician Frank Zappa in an art studio in Vilnius, Lithuania. The original bust, which typically sits in a public square in Vilnius, can be seen in the background. Paukstys, longtime president of a Zappa fan club, was in Baltimore Wednesday May 7, 2008, to pitch the Zappa bust to the city's public art commission.
BALTIMORE Frank Zappa's widow is on board with plans for a bust of the eccentric rocker in his hometown of Baltimore.
This picture provided by Christie's Images Ltd., shows a detail of John Lennon's iconic lyrics for "Give Peace a Chance," handwritten during the legendary 1969 Bed-in protest for peace. The document will be auctioned in London on July 10, 2008 and is expected to bring $400,000 to $600,000. In the meantime, fans can view it at Christie's New York auction house through Saturday, May 10.
NEW YORK A document containing John Lennon's lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance," written during the legendary 1969 Bed-in protest for peace, will be auctioned in London this summer.
ST. LOUIS Ward Stare will serve as resident conductor for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and music director of the symphony's youth orchestra.
In this July 13, 2006 file photo, Chris Martin from Coldplay speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong.
BRISTOL, Conn. Coldplay and ESPN are teaming up on a soccer marketing campaign.
Beth Gibbons, left, Adrian Utley, center, and Geoff Barrow of Portishead pose backstage during the second day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., Saturday, April 26, 2008. The early 90s trip-hop trio have reconvened for a brief tour and their much-awaited third album, the aptly named "Third."
INDIO, Calif. As Portishead finished its meticulously sparse evening performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the typically reticent Beth Gibbons suddenly leapt off the stage and ran a 100-yard dash along the fenced-in crowd, exuberantly shaking their hands.
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Chinese conductor Yu Long looks on during an interview with the Associated Press at a hotel in Rome, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Long says he feels honored to lead the China Philharmonic Orchestra in a landmark concert at the Vatican for Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday evening. Ties between the Vatican and China's communist government have been strained for decades and the concert is a possible indication of warming relations.
VATICAN CITY The China Philharmonic Orchestra performed for Pope Benedict XVI in a landmark concert Wednesday that could indicate warming relations between Beijing and the Vatican.
In this Jan. 8, 2007 file photo, tenor saxophonist and jazz great Sonny Rollins is shown at his home in Germantown, N.Y., Rollins will headline this year's jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island. The JVC Jazz Festival Newport will be held August 8 through August 10 at Fort Adams State Park and at the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
NEWPORT, R.I. Saxophonist Sonny Rollins will headline this year's jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
CLEVELAND The Cleveland Orchestra's summer tour of Europe will include festivals in Austria and Switzerland and first-time appearances in Milan and Turin, Italy.
Musician Neil Young, left, shakes hands with Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, left, with a picture of Young in background at Sun's JavaOne Conference in San Francisco, Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs that can be updated over the Internet, a sign that Blu-ray's mega-storage capabilities, Web connectivity and picture and sound quality are appealing not only to movie studios but music artists as well.
SAN FRANCISCO Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios.
NEW YORK The Police will cap their reunion tour with a final concert this summer in New York, where they started out 30 years ago.
Drivers assemble for a violin concert by Philippe Quint in the taxi holding area at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Violinist Philippe Quint left his violin, a 1723 Stradivari valued at $4 million, in the taxi of a Newark-based driver and the instrument was returned after several hours.
NEWARK, N.J. New Jersey cabbies are tapping their feet as the exquisite tones of a Grammy-nominated violinist fill the air at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Singer Madonna celebrates the release of her new CD "Hard Candy" with a performance at Roseland Ballroom, Wednesday, April 30, 2008 in New York.
NEW YORK Timbaland and the Neptunes are so dominant as producers, they can sometimes upstage the artist they're working with ... unless that artist is Madonna.
In this March 5, 2008 file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela at a news conference in Johannesburg. Mandela plans to travel to London next month to attend a special birthday concert in London's Hyde Park, organizers said Tuesday, May 6, 2008.
LONDON Nelson Mandela plans to travel to London next month to attend a special birthday concert in London's Hyde Park, organizers said Tuesday.
In this Aug. 3, 2005 file photo, City Councilwoman and former Motown singer Martha Reeves is shown on Belle Isle, Mich. Detroit City Council member and ex-Motown star Martha Reeves says thieves broke into her childhood home and stole about $1 million worth of uninsured recording equipment.
DETROIT Detroit City Council member and ex-Motown star Martha Reeves says thieves broke into her childhood home and stole about $1 million worth of uninsured recording equipment.
In this photo released by Marvel Entertainment, Iron Man is shown in his Mark III armor in a scene from "Iron Man." The film is the first movie Marvel financed itself and has culminated a five-year plan to break from its strategy of licensing its top comic book heroes to other studios.
LOS ANGELES This weekend was just the beginning of Hollywood's Iron age.
In this Dec. 14, 2007 file photo, Avril Lavigne performs at the Z100 Jingle Ball 2007 Christmas concert at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lavigne has postponed shows on her national tour this week because she has larygitis.
LOS ANGELES Avril Lavigne has laryngitis and has postponed shows on her national tour this week.
In this Jan. 10, 2008, file photo, Clay Aiken is shown in New York. Aiken embraces his pop-lite sensibility in "On My Way Here," his first album of all-new material in more than four years.
NEW YORK Clay Aiken is realistic about his niche in the musical landscape.
In this May. 4, 2006 file photo, Italian Maestro Riccardo Muti speaks during a news conference on the upcoming Salzburg Pentecost festival 2008, in Salzburg, Austria. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has named maestro Riccardo Muti as the next music director of the CSO, Monday May, 5, 2008. He's the tenth conductor to hold that post.
CHICAGO The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association named maestro Riccardo Muti on Monday as the next music director of the CSO, the 10th conductor to hold the prestigious post.
In this Feb. 20, 2008, file photo, Amy Winehouse performs at the Brit Awards 2008 in London. Producer Mark Ronson says he and Amy Winehouse have abandoned recording the theme to the latest James Bond film because the singer is not ready to work.
LONDON Producer Mark Ronson says he and Amy Winehouse have abandoned recording the theme to the latest James Bond film because the singer is not ready to work.
BEIJING The China Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform this week for Pope Benedict XVI, state media reported Monday, the latest indication that the often-strained ties between Beijing and the Vatican are improving.
Aaron Neville of the Neville Brothers performs with the Wild Magnolia Tchoupatoulis Mardi Gras Indians during the 2008 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the New Orleans Fairgrounds Racetrack in New Orleans, Sunday, May 4, 2008.
NEW ORLEANS The Neville Brothers, who traditionally help close out the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, returned to the big stage Sunday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flooded and wrecked their homes, along with 80 percent of the city.
In this April 14, 2008 file photo, co-hosts Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus pose in the press room at the 2008 CMT Awards in Nashville, Tenn.
ORLANDO, Fla. Miley Cyrus returned to the stage for a concert in Orlando, Fla., but did not say anything about the recent controversy over her Vanity Fair portrait.
In this Feb. 20, 2008, file photo, Amy Winehouse performs at the Brit Awards 2008 in London. The soul diva has abandoned recording the theme to the latest James Bond film because she is not ready to work, her producer said Friday.
LONDON Amy Winehouse has abandoned recording the theme to the latest James Bond film because the singer is not ready to work, her producer said Friday.
In this 2002 photo released by Bryan Wayne Perry, country music songwriter Darrell "Wayne" Perry is shown. The children of a hit country music songwriter Friday May 2, 2008 dropped a wrongful death lawsuit accusing their evangelist aunt of promising to use her healing powers to cure the cancer that killed their father and then stealing an inheritance that could be worth millions.
HAMILTON, Ohio The children of a hit country music songwriter have dropped a wrongful death lawsuit accusing their evangelist aunt of promising to use her healing powers to cure the cancer that killed their father and then stealing an inheritance that could be worth millions.
In this April 26, 2008 file photo, Mariah Carey attends the premiere of "Tennessee" at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
NEW YORK Nick Cannon is cast as Mariah Carey's lover in her new video - but has the superstar diva given the young actor a considerably bigger role in real life?
Young blues musician Sean Costello was found dead in his Atlanta hotel room late Tuesday.
Régine Chassagne and Tim Kingsbury of Arcade Fire perform on May 2, 2008, in Carrboro, N.C. The band played a free concert as a part of the Barack Obama-supported "Change Rocks" campaign to encourage one-stop early voting.
CARRBORO, N.C. Except for the signs, speechifying and time of day, it could've been any other rock show. Arcade Fire and Superchunk played a get-out-the-vote rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama today, drawing several thousand people to Carrboro Town Commons on an unseasonably warm afternoon.
CLEVELAND The Cleveland Institute of Music has appointed Juilliard String Quartet first violinist Joel Smirnoff as president.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic When a musician from the southern Czech Republic stumbled upon an anonymous score, he knew it was the long-lost opera "Argippo" by Italian baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi.
In this undated photo released by Capitol Records, Jim Hager, left, is shown with his brother, Jon Hager. Jim Hager died Thursday, May 1, 2008, in Nashville, Tenn. He was 66. The Hager Twins were regulars on the country music and variety show "Hee Haw."
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jim Hager, one of the Hager Twins who satirized country life with cornball one-liners on TV's "Hee Haw," died in Nashville, the show's producer said Friday. He was 66.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Country music fans can begin voting online for the Academy of Country Music's entertainer of the year award, with voting continuing through the last hour of the ACM's May 18 awards show.
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A giant inflatable pig scrawled with the words "Don't Be Led To the Slaughter" floats over the crowd during Roger Waters' headlining set on the third day of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., Sunday, April 27, 2008.
INDIO, Calif. A giant helium-filled pig didn't drift off to hog heaven after it was released into the night sky during Roger Waters' performance at the Coachella music festival. It's been found - in pieces.
It's no use trying to pigeonhole an outlaw. Not when he's Merle Haggard.
On this 1970 file photo, Jimi Hendrix performs on the Isle of Wight in England. Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix. The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the footage of the music legend shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago from a memorabilia collector.
LOS ANGELES Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix. The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the sex tape from a memorabilia collector.
This undated file photo shows John Lennon. When John Lennon gave teenager Gail Renard the scribbled lyrics to "Give Peace A Chance" in 1969, he told her to hold on to the piece of paper. She did, and it is. Christie's plans to auction the lyric sheet in July as the centerpiece in its rock and pop memorabilia sale. The words to the enduring peace anthem are expected to fetch more than 200,000 pounds (US$400,000; €254,000).
LONDON When John Lennon gave Gail Renard the scribbled lyrics to "Give Peace a Chance" in 1969, he told the teen to hold on to the piece of paper.
Recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Madonna goes old-school on her eleventh studio album "Hard Candy" (2 stars, Warner Bros.), a collection of retro-style dance songs.
BALTIMORE Bob Dylan has joined the lineup of the 3rd Virgin Mobile Festival at Pimlico Race Course on Aug. 9-10.
In this July 25, 2007 file photo, Wolfgang Wagner, grandson of German composer Richard Wagner, is seen prior to the Wagner Festival opening in front of the Festspielhaus building in Bayreuth, Germany. Wagner, the longtime director of the annual festival of Richard Wagner's operas, will step down after 57 years leading the event, Bavarian Culture Minister Thomas Goppel said Tuesday, April 29, 2008. He has suggested that his daughters, Eva Wagner-Pasquier and her half-sister Katharina Wagner, replace him.
BAYREUTH, Germany Wolfgang Wagner is stepping down after 57 years as director of the Bayreuth opera festival founded by his grandfather, the composer Richard Wagner, Bavaria's culture minister said Tuesday.
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