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Irish boy band Westlife will rock Indonesia’s capital on Thursday under heavy security as police take no chances following the death of four fans in a stampede when another band toured Jakarta in March. Organizers said 2,000 security personnel including police would guard the 15,000-seat concert stadium in central Jakarta, along with 200 paramedics backed up by a number of ambulances and fire engines for the late afternoon event. Bands such as the chart-topping Westlife are hugely popular with Indonesian teenagers, but visits have become less common since the country sank into crisis in the late 1990s. The British boy… Read more »

The feud between Eminem and the Insane Clown Posse appears to have led to another violent incident, this time involving a road manager for the Clowns and an Eminem fan in Nebraska. The road manager, William Dail, allegedly choked the Eminem fan until he blacked out after the clown-faced rappers’ show in Omaha on Tuesday, May 8, police said. Dail admits to holding 23-year-old Thomas P. Goonan by his neck and throwing him against a wall but denies the fan lost consciousness. He said Goonan was disrespecting the Detroit duo by waving a T-shirt emblazed with rival rapper Eminem’s image… Read more »

The plot was spoiled well before Eric Clapton even took the stage of Dallas’ Reunion Arena for the maiden performance of his 2001 Reptile tour. Opening act Doyle Bramhall II and his band Smokestack may have kicked off Thursday night’s show with a thunderous roar reminiscent of Clapton in his Cream days, but the three chairs brought front and center before the main event was a tell-tale sign that there would be no more of that tomfoolery. Not that Clapton didn1t receive an honest-to-god, three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, guitar hero’s welcome when he walked out on… Read more »

U.S. band Backstreet Boys Thursday brushed aside a jibe by Oasis star Noel Gallagher that they “can’t sing, can’t play, can’t dance,” and said the British guitarist should “go back to London.” “His opinion doesn’t mean anything to us,” Kevin Richardson told a news conference in Caracas, where the popular Florida quintet were due to give two concerts over the weekend. Backstreet Boys were asked about scathing comments made about them by Gallagher in January, when he called their songs “rubbish” and said they “should be shot.” “He should just go back to London,” Backstreet Boys’ A.J. McLean retorted Thursday.… Read more »

Alanis Morissette is not letting a contract dispute with her label prevent her from hitting the road to try out some new songs. The Canadian pop singer will begin a 12-country tour of European festivals, arenas and clubs in Nuremberg, Germany on June 1, which also happens to be her 27th birthday. She will warm up with two shows at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater on May 25 and 26, her publicist announced Thursday. Tickets for the El Rey shows will be available exclusively at http://www.alanismorissette.com on May 13 at 10 a.m. PDT. The El Rey holds about 700 people.… Read more »

Former Beatle Paul McCartney was quoted on Thursday as saying there was a good chance he would wed his girlfriend Heather Mills. “I may get married again, but that is a decision we will make in private and only then will we make it public,” McCartney was reported by British newspapers to have said at the Cannes Film Festival in France. “It is quite embarrassing when people come up to me in the street and say congratulations. I can say here and now we are not engaged but there is a good chance I will get married in the future.”… Read more »

New subscribers to AOL Time Warner Inc.’s flagship Internet service in the United States will have the first crack at scoring tickets to pop diva Madonna’s first world tour in 8 years. In yet another cross-promotion effort to market the company’s traditional media assets, which include music artists such as Eric Clapton and Faith Hill and movies like “The Perfect Storm,” AOL said it will offer new subscribers a chance to buy tickets to Madonna’s world tour on May 6 – before tickets go on sale to the general public about a week later. Web surfers will be able to… Read more »

Embattled song-swap company Napster Inc. is talking with many technology companies, including Microsoft Corp., as part of its efforts to design a fee-charging service that pays royalties to artists and record labels, a spokeswoman said Friday. “Napster has been talking with Microsoft, along with a number of other technology companies, about how several of their products might be incorporated into the new Napster service. Those conversations are ongoing,” the spokeswoman said. She declined to elaborate but sources said that Napster has already spoken with dozens of technology firms. Microsoft officials were not immediately available. Napster has said it hopes to… Read more »

If you’ve noticed that it’s getting increasingly hard to find just about anything on Napster lately, the file-sharing service has an explanation: it’s called “overblocking.” Napster has been incrementally improving its filtering process since March, when a judge ordered it to remove copyrighted songs cited by labels, artists and publishers. But the service’s most recent improvements seem to be blocking large chunks of the English language, taking down indie-label music, concert recordings and other material that no one has asked to be removed. In a statement posted Thursday on Napster’s Web site, the company blamed the problem on its efforts… Read more »

A black satin conical bra that pop diva Madonna wore for her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour was auctioned off in London Thursday for 14,000 pounds ($20,000). The bra, which was designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier, had been expected to fetch up to 3,000 pounds ($4,000) at the pop-music sale at Christie’s auction house. The vendor had won the item in a radio competition after the tour. It was snapped up by a Chilean fashion museum. Ever-popular Beatles items also fetched high prices. A letter written by John Lennon to an Indian fan while he was studying meditation there fetched 9,400 pounds… Read more »