AP - A man has sued Eminem, claiming the rapper punched him two years ago while they were in the bathroom of a Detroit strip club.
AP - NEW YORK (AP) A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world each a chatty bunch buzzing with questions about the two "friends."
AP - Wish "Yankee Doodle" a happy 250th birthday. Maybe.
E! Online - It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that Bruce Springsteen fans are in mourning.
AP - Brad Paisley says he got to mark a biggie off his wish list when Andy Griffith agreed to be in the video for his new single, "Waitin' On a Woman."
AP - Jason Priestley says he got a crash course on the Nashville music industry while directing a reality series about the Canadian band the Road Hammers.
E! Online - Ian Curtis wasn't around long but he left quite an impression.
AP - Donna Summer says she approached her summer tour like a chocolate-chip cookie.
Reuters - An opera-loving dentist is ready to swap
his drill for a microphone after winning a four-album recording
contract worth about $2 million.
AP - Ask his fellow musicians about Alejandro Escovedo, and you'll hear nothing but praise. Yet he's never been a household name, and even among rock fans, his work, though influential, is not widely known: He's been more of an aficionado's musician.