Music - Reuters

NEW YORK (Billboard) - British band Oasis gets back to its stripped-down rock roots on its upcoming album, "Dig Out Your Soul."

BEIJING (Reuters) - South Korean pop sensation Rain has vowed to keep acting and trying to break into the U.S. market despite his debut Hollywood movie, "Speed Racer," crashing at the box office.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican entertainment firm CIE said it has signed a five-year deal with concert promoter Live Nation Inc, which has Madonna and U2 among its clients, to bring international artists to Latin American arenas.

DETROIT (Billboard) - The Verve considers its upcoming album, "Forth," the reunited British group's first new set in 11 years, to be the beginning of its new era -- and the continuation of a career that's been interrupted by two previous breakups.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Saxophonist LeRoi Moore, a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band, died on Tuesday of complications from a vehicle accident in June.

LONDON (Billboard) - American heavy metal band Metallica will launch its album "Death Magnetic" with two budget-priced shows in Europe, including the first show at the new 17,000-capacity O2 World arena in Berlin.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pink, the Grammy-winning rock/R&B artist, has christened her new album "Funhouse" and will release it October 28.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Boy-band rock trio the Jonas Brothers have landed atop the U.S. album chart for the first time with their third full-length release, "A Little Bit Longer."

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's government has told promoters of a concert by Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne to postpone the show because it could mar the country's independence day celebrations, an official said on Wednesday.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Rock stars may have to rein in their taste for loud music after a fan overheard U2 frontman Bono listening to tracks from the group's forthcoming album and recorded them before posting the songs on the Internet.

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Rosanne Cash is tired of people using her late father's name to further their own political agendas.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Neil Young has snared two of alternative rock's biggest bands to open for his fall North American tour.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Country superstar Brad Paisley is putting the focus back on his guitar skills with "Play," a mostly instrumental album due November 4.

SAVANNAH, Georgia (Billboard) - It's a big month for Tegan Quin of the Canadian sibling rock duo Tegan and Sara.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rock band AC/DC's first studio album in eight years, "Black Ice," will be sold exclusively in the U.S. via Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and the band's Web site, beginning October 20. First single "Rock 'n' Roll Train" will hit U.S. radio on August 28.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rock band Wilco hopes to have its seventh studio album out by spring 2009, frontman Jeff Tweedy told Albany, N.Y., radio station WAMC recently.

DETROIT (Billboard) - Huey Lewis says that coming up with the title song for the hit stoner movie "Pineapple Express" was not necessarily a huge stretch for him and his band, the News.

DETROIT (Billboard) - Although Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, the principals of English pop-rock band Squeeze, have reunited and will soon embark on a U.S. tour, they have no plans for a new Squeeze album.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Billboard) - The recording studio of Daddy Yankee is in a modest house that looks just like any other in Carolina, a town on the outskirts of San Juan, Puerto Rico, that is home to the reggaeton movement. Inside, it's a different story.

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - To write about the top of this week's sales charts, only the first two letters of the alphabet are necessary, because thanks to the film "Mamma Mia!," everything's ABBA.

ARTIST: GLEN CAMPBELL

ALBUM: MEET GLEN CAMPBELL

NEW YORK (Billboard) - There are more examples of cover albums gone wrong than gone right.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian singer-songwriter Dorival Caymmi, who rose to fame in the 1930s by writing a hit song for Carmen Miranda and became known as the grandfather of bossa nova, died on Saturday. He was 94.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Rapper-actor LL Cool J finished his last album under a contract with Def Jam Records that spanned two decades, but told Reuters it was not likely to be his final music project.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A year after her calamitous comeback performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears has garnered a third nomination for this year's show, but it remained unclear whether she would dare a repeat appearance.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pioneering music executive Jerry Wexler, who helped build Atlantic Records into a rhythm and blues powerhouse in the 1950s and 1960s with artists like Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, died in Florida on Friday at age 91, Atlantic Records said.

NEW YORK (Billboard) - The June leak of nine allegedly "mastered, finished" tracks from Guns N' Roses' long-delayed "Chinese Democracy" spurred a renewed round of speculation about whether the Axl Rose-led band will finally release the 14-years-in-the-making album.

DETROIT (Billboard) - David Gilmour's upcoming concert album, "Live in Gdansk," turned out a little different than the Pink Floyd guitarist planned.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock star Jackson Browne has sued U.S. presidential candidate John McCain for copyright infringement, accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of using the singer's 1977 hit "Running on Empty" in a campaign ad without permission.