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Pop veterans Steely Dan had a surprising run Wednesday night at the 43rd annual Grammy Awards, taking home three awards for “Two Against Nature” and the single “Cousin Dupree.” Steely Dan’s first album of new material in two decades earned album of the year trophy, besting Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP” and albums by Paul Simon, Radiohead and Beck. Released by the Warner-distributed Giant, it also earned prizes for pop vocal album and for best engineered album. U2, whose “Beautiful Day” single was released at the very end of the eligibility period of Oct. 1999 to Sept. 30, 2000, walked… Read more »

The skirt and top Faith Hill wore on the cover of her multiplatinum Breathe tops the list of celebrity items up for bidding on eBay as part of QVC’s auction benefiting the MusiCares Foundation, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ charity program. At press time, the white Joseph skirt and black Prada top were going for $2,550. Other items up for grabs are a copy of Rolling Stone autographed by Britney Spears, a pair of Ray Charles’ sunglasses, and guitars autographed by Pete Townshend, Sting and Les Paul. QVC will also sell top CDs by artists including ‘N… Read more »

Alt-metal act Papa Roach will hit the road in March on what the band has dubbed the Raid The Nation tour. Supporting will be Orgy and Alien Ant Farm, the later being the first signing to Papa Roach’s New Noize imprint. The tour will kick off March 17 in New Orleans. Papa Roach, which also has plans to join the mainstage line-up of this year’s Ozzfest, is nominated for a best new artist Grammy. The band’s DreamWorks album “Infest” peaked at No. 5 on The Billboard 200 last August, and has sold 2.8 million copies in the U.S., according to… Read more »

Taking a cue from their new single, The Call, the romantically inclined Backstreet Boys will reach out and touch some of their fans on Valentine’s Day… well, sort of. Folks who sign up for the group’s “Send-a-Phone-Call” program via the group’s official online store can play cupid by sending a Valentine phone message from one or all of the pop heartthrobs to any lucky BSB fan in the U.S. Senders can prearrange the prerecorded calls to be made any time on or before February 14. Sample messages posted at the store – including one from A.J. McLean beginning with a… Read more »