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A concert in Antigua by Grammy Award winning rhythm and blues singer Alicia Keys was canceled because the concert’s promoters didn’t pay her appearance fees, her agent said. The concert, scheduled for Friday night, was advertised as the first of a Caribbean tour. The amount of the contract was reported to be $60,000. “The promoters… did not live up to their contractual obligations,” said Keys’ agent, Rob Light of the Beverly Hill-based Creative Artists Agency, in a letter sent to Antigua Junior Finance Minister Asot Michael. “Their total disregard for the agreement left us great concern as to the viability… Read more »

Within hours of surrendering to Chicago authorities, R. Kelly may have violated terms of his bond by associating with minors, a matter which could cost the singer his freedom before his impending trial on child pornography charges. On Friday morning, Kelly surrendered himself to authorities in Cook County, Illinois (see “R. Kelly Back In Chicago; June 26 Court Date Set”). After he was processed and posted a $750,000 bond, Kelly went with his lawyer Edward Genson and his spiritual advisor, Reverend James Meeks, to attend a ceremony held at the Salem Baptist Church, where Meeks is a pastor. The event… Read more »

From their earliest days in the ’80s, when radio refused to play them and they had to rely mainly on word of mouth to sell records, Metallica have always been keenly attentive to their fans. That may explain why – while the band routinely turns down press interview requests – it continues to pop online for Web chats at the Metallica Club Web site. Wednesday, following their first concert performance as a band since frontman James Hetfield exited rehab, Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich and guitarist Kirk Hammett logged on unannounced and fielded questions from about 20 club members for nearly… Read more »

Madonna’s family needs to start signing non-disclosure forms-her father Tony Ciccone has said that the music icon is pregnant again. Not surprisingly, Madonna’s publicity machine is denying the story. “It’s completely not true,” a rep from Liz Rosenberg Public Relations revealed. However, during an interview with the U.K. tabloid The People, Mr. Ciccone let slip, “We are very excited that she is expecting again. It is always exciting when your children have children.” However, the 70-year-old father of the “Material Mom” also commented, “I don’t know if Madonna’s child is a boy or a girl yet, we just want it… Read more »

The dog that has been missing from Ozzy Osbourne’s house for more than a month has been returned. Kelly Ripa broke the news today when she got a huge bouquet of roses from Osbourne and his wife, Sharon, during “Live With Regis and Kelly.” Ripa had been asking viewers for help in finding Pipi the Pomeranian, who has been featured on the smash hit MTV reality series that follows the family’s life, “The Osbournes.” The card that came with the flowers read, “Because of you we got our Pipi back. A million thanks. Love, the Osbournes.” The Osbournes and “Live… Read more »

If C-Murder had any hope of ever posting bond in his second-degree murder trial, it’s gone now, as a Gretna, Louisiana, judge revoked his $2 million bond on Monday because of witness safety concerns. Prosecutors accused the rapper, whose real name is Corey Miller, of having smuggled into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center a cell phone, which may have been used to call friends and have them “harm or influence” witnesses. “We don’t really know what the purpose of [the phone] was,” said Conn Reagan, the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, district attorney’s office’s chief of trials, “but the state’s position is… Read more »

Four years ago the record industry and some technology companies banded together to match wits in a combined effort to stamp out Internet music piracy. Their goal: to usher in an age of secure digital songs wrapped in unbreakable code. The Secure Digital Music Initiative was supposed to be just the medicine to marginalize the Napster phenomenon. Soon, there would be SDMI protected CDs and SDMI digital music downloads playing only on SDMI-compliant devices. Failure would mean “the Internet will simply become a world where nothing happens – where nothing has value,” SDMI’s director, Leonardo Chiariglione, said at the time.… Read more »

A body was removed tonight (4/19) from the University District residence of Layne Staley, lead singer and guitarist for the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains. KOMO-TV, citing an unidentified source, said the body was that of Staley, 34. A King County medical-examiner’s investigator said his office removed a body from the Staley address and planned an autopsy today, but he refused to confirm the identity of the person. He said it appeared the person had been dead for some time and would have to be identified scientifically. Staley had a history of substance abuse, and in the early 1990s… Read more »

The German media giant Bertelsmann has confirmed publicly that it intends to buy Napster, the music-swapping service that was ruled illegal last year in federal court. “Our solution now is to completely take over Napster,” Thomas Middelhoff, Bertelsmann’s chief executive, said in an interview published yesterday in the German newspaper Die Welt. “We want to buy out the original shareholders. We have made them an offer, because we believe that our strategy is the right one for the future of the company.” However, Middelhoff added that negotiations are “at a standstill” because of a legal dispute between Napster’s major shareholders… Read more »

The inspiration for “She Loves Me Not,” the first single from Papa Roach’s upcoming album, Lovehatetragedy, didn’t come easy to frontman Jacoby Shaddix. The track is about his sometimes-turbulent relationship with his wife, Kelly, who recently gave birth to their first child, Makaile Cielo Shaddix. The chorus, which includes the lines, “I don’t know if I care/ I’m the jerk/ Life’s not fair/ Fighting all the time/ This is out of line/ She loves me not,” illustrates the stress of trying to juggle your relationship and your band. “I feel like anything I do is just not enough,” Shaddix, formerly… Read more »