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Pop icon’s Drowned World Tour, kicking off June 5, is her first outing in eight years. Madonna announced on Monday (April 16) the 18 dates of an international outing that will launch June 5 in Cologne, Germany, and end September 9 in Los Angeles. Dubbed the Drowned World Tour, the trek will be the most extravagant stage spectacle of the singer’s illustrious career, according to Madonna’s spokesperson. Madonna will be promoting last year’s neo-cowgirl endeavor Music, which includes the title track and the current single, “What It Feels Like for a Girl” , though organizers promise plenty of past hits,… Read more »

London’s huge Party In The Park, a free show held in London’s Hyde Park already has an amazing lineup, but today rumors abound that Madonna will play the free show. It seems Madonna’s European tour will find her reasonably close to London at approximately the time of Party in the Park on July 8. In other free-gig-in-London news, REM has been confirmed for the free show at Trafalgar Square celebrating the 7th anniversary of democracy in South Africa. Also playing at that one will be Mel B and The Corrs.

It’s not much, but it’s a start. Madonna’s camp has announced that she will begin an extensive international tour in early June in Europe, with the U.S. leg beginning in late July. This will be the Material Girl’s first tour since 1993’s The Girlie Show. Tour dates and venues, which will go through September, are expected to be revealed within the next few weeks.

The pop icon’s latest video, for the song “What It Feels Like for a Girl,” which was directed in a handheld style by her husband, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels director Guy Ritchie, has been deemed too violent to make its way into regular rotation on MTV or VH1. The networks have opted to air the video, which features the Material Girl as an angry woman on a crime spree and ends in a car crash that may or may not be fatal, just one time, a decision they say is irrevocable. MTV News will air the four-and-a-half-minute video… Read more »

Who among us has not fallen into a reverie involving being part of the elite dance troupe that would accompany the world’s most famous woman across the globe, striking poses and getting into the groove in front of tens of thousands of fans every night? Well, perhaps this is not the stuff of everyone’s dreams, but for hundreds of young women waiting in line for an open call for Madonna’s Music world tour in Manhattan, it most certainly is. On Wednesday (March 13), aspiring dancers – some professional, some that merely dabbled – braved a gusty afternoon to audition for… Read more »

Fellow artists rally behind controversial rapper, as gay-rights leader decries bisexual John’s planned duet with him on ‘Stan.’ “Evil” is how one leading gay-rights activist described Elton John’s decision to perform with Eminem at Wednesday night’s Grammy awards. But artists from Madonna to Stevie Wonder stood up in support of the controversial rapper on the eve of the music industry’s biggest night. “Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular?” Madonna wrote in a note signed “Mrs. Ritchie.” “I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He’s… Read more »

The latest on the on-again, off-again pairing, which sent media outlets worldwide into a tizzy when word broke on January 4, varies depending on whom you ask. Spears’ spokesperson at Jive Records maintains that a duet is still being discussed; Liz Rosenberg, Madonna’s longtime publicist, says all talks are off because of scheduling conflicts. Smart money says go with the duet happening, as Rosenberg was denying that Madonna had plans to marry Guy Ritchie only one month before the nuptials took place.