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Performing at Saturday’s taping of the MTV Movie Awards was “one of the worst feelings ever” for Kelly Osbourne, but stage fright won’t slow down her burgeoning music career. The pink-haired, 17-year-old starlet of “The Osbournes” revealed backstage after her live singing debut that she is scheduled to spend July and August in a New York studio recording a full-length album. Ozzy’s daughter said she’ll work with producer Rick Wake, whose résumé includes music by Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion, but she offered few other details. “I can not divulge my secrets,” Osbourne said seductively, before changing tones.… Read more »

Four young men accused of burglarizing Britney Spears and her former sweetie, ‘N Sync crooner Justin Timberlake, are off the hook. A Florida judge sentenced Salvador Martinez, 19, Richard Olivarez, 20, Marcus Cook, 19, and Matthew Daily, 18, each to three years’ probation Thursday after they pleaded no contest to raiding the ex-couple’s rented vacation home in the Panhandle town of Destin, Florida, the Northwest Florida Daily News reports. The four had been facing up to 20 months in jail but managed to avoid the harsh penalty. And they can literally thank their lucky stars. Circuit Court Judge G. Robert… Read more »

Kid Rock is a man with simple tastes. Cable television’s Burly Bear Network, dedicated to college audiences ages 18 to 24, asked the rock-rapper what keeps him grounded and the answer wasn’t complicated. “I don’t really have any secrets, just that some things you can’t change, and you are who you are and I just try to be that person and I guess that’s my words of wisdom, if that equals wisdom in any way,” he said. “You know, when I started I liked Big Macs and Budweiser and I still like Big Macs and Budweiser. I am happy to… Read more »

Five artistic legends sat alongside President Bush in Washington’s top theater on Sunday night, and were starry-eyed themselves as political and Hollywood heavyweights paid tribute to their glittering careers. Actress Julie Andrews, pianist Van Cliburn, music maestro Quincy Jones, actor Jack Nicholson and opera singer Luciano Pavarotti received the Kennedy Center Honors for their contributions to American culture. “The recipients for 2001 make quite a collection…. As one newspaper put it in the headline, this year’s honorees can carry a tune and then there’s Jack,” Bush told them at a White House reception before the gala. “Perhaps it’s a nice… Read more »

Three new tracks from teen pop singer Aaron Carter are featured on the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius original motion picture soundtrack, which will be the first release from Jive/Nick Records-the newly created venture between Nickelodeon’s Nick Records and Jive Records-on November 20. The three tracks include “Go Jimmy, Jimmy,” “Leave It Up To Me,” and “A.C.’s Alien Nation.” Carter revealed that the first music video to be released from the soundtrack will be “Leave It Up To Me.” “That’s the main song of the whole movie. I’m basically Jimmy Neutron in the song. He’s just kind of letting everybody know,… Read more »

Aaron Carter, brother to Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and the “Little Prince of Pop” (as dubbed by his mom), is set to release his follow-up to Aaron’s Party (Come Get It). Oh Aaron hits stores on August 7th. The first single from the album will be the title track, and the video will feature Nick Carter as well as fellow Jive Records act, No Secrets. Meanwhile footage from Aaron’s Disney In Concert special will be featured in a home video, Aaron’s Party… Live in Concert due July 10th. The video will also contain behind-the-scenes shots of Aaron in the studio… Read more »

On August 7 Jive Records will release Oh Aaron, the follow up album to Aaron Carter’s multiplatinum Aaron’s Party (Come Get It). This thirteen year old pop phenomenon’s Jive debut, Aaron’s Party (Come Get It), peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart. “Oh Aaron,” the first single from the album of the same name, features a video directed by Andrew MacNaughtan. The song and video also feature performances by Nick Carter, of Backstreet Boys, and new Jive Records artists No Secrets. A promo only version of “Oh Aaron” has been shipped to Radio Disney. A home… Read more »

Jon Bon Jovi told students at the prestigious Oxford Union debating society that the secrets of his success were “passion, perseverance and possibility.” Bon Jovi gave a 20-minute speech extolling the virtues of hard work and self belief to students of the elite 800-year-old university. “Nothing is more important than passion,” he said Friday. “Whatever you decide to do in life, just be passionate about it. Don’t be intimidated by competition, as success is sweeter and failure less bitter when you have given everything. “You have to be true to yourself – it’s your life. You are the masters of… Read more »

A group of researchers who foiled four different copyright protection technologies in a contest launched last year by the music industry is now being asked by the record companies to suppress its findings, one of the researchers said Tuesday. The research group – composed of students and professors from Princeton and Rice Universities and an employee of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center – had initially planned to present its findings Thursday at a Pittsburgh conference on information security but was then threatened with legal action by the forum, the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), a forum representing music and technology… Read more »