In The News

A London concert venue received a warning after the Rolling Stones breached an indoor smoking band. Keith Richards and Ron Wood were pictured holding lit cigarettes during the show at the O2 Arena... Rhonda Vincent & the Rage have 12 nominations for the International Bluegrass Music Association awards; Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver follows with nine and Alison Krauss & Union Station, the Del McCoury Band and Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder tied with seven apiece...

Gwen Stefani says she wants to do another No Doubt record... Dolly Parton is selling her new single, "Better Get to Living'" exclusively through iTunes. It is from her first mainstream country album in 17 years, Backwoods Barbie, which is due out in 2008. She also has launched her first authorized music Web site, www.DollyPartonMusic.net... Happy 25th birthday to the compact disc. Sony sold the first CD player in Japan on Oct. 1, 1982... Bruce Springsteen is back with the E Street Band for a new 11-song album, Magic, his first collaboration with his longtime New Jersey mates since the Sept. 11-inspired The Rising in 2002... Gloria Estefan gave her first live performance of songs from her new album, 90 Millas, in Key West, Fla. The location was picked because the distance from Key West to Cuba is 90 miles...Tenor Luciano Pavarotti, 71, who has pancreatic cancer, has been released from an Italian hospital following a two-week stay... Guitar legend "Magic Sam" Maghett has been honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker in Grenada County, near his birthplace. Maghett died in 1969... The Police continue to patrol the #1 spot on the Top 20 list of concert tours, according to Pollstar rankings. Rounding out the top 15 are (in order): Kenny Chesney; Tim McGraw-Faith Hill; Roger Waters; Nickelback; Gwen Stefani; Rush; Michael Buble; Tool; John Mayer; Vans Warped Tour; Stevie Nicks-Chris Isaak; Brad Paisley; Steely Dan and The Fray... Knockoff music acts that impersonate the real performers can face fines up to $15,000 under the new Arts and Cultural Affairs Law in New York. Dubbed the "Bowzer Bill" for Jon "Bowzer" Bauman of the band Sha Na Na, who lobbied lawmakers nationwide, the measure was inspired when well-known recording artists like the Platters, the Coasters and the Drifters suffered financial losses when their acts and routines were copied without permission... DNA testing has confirmed another child fathered by the late James Brown. The woman is the third of about a dozen people were tested after Brown's death to be confirmed as his child... A 9 mm Smith and Wesson pistol owned by Elvis Presley that was stolen Aug. 14 from a Graceland exhibit has been recovered from a portable toilet... Wal-Mart's online music store has started selling songs free of copy-protection technology for 94 cents per tune. The songs from the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and Maroon 5, among others, will play on most portable media devices, including Apple Inc.'s iPod... A British court has ruled that Diane Duffin, 36, must refrain from playing country classics such as Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" and Tammy Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m following complaints from neighbors that she played those songs repeatedly... Sirius Satellite Radio has added a new channel devoted entirely to the Grateful Dead. The channel was set to debut Sept. 7, beginning with the broadcast of a rare 1974 performance by the band at the Hollywood Bowl. Sirius already has stations dedicated entirely to Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, and has in the past broadcast programming devoted solely to the music of Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, George Strait and The Who... In a strong push to challenge rivals, including Apple's iTunes and iPod, Nokia Corp. has unveiled new Internet services and gadgets to help customers download music on mobile handsets... John Mellencamp will kick off his fall tour with a performance at a Farm Aid concert in New York with Willie Nelson and the Dave Matthews Band. Other states on the Heartland rocker's tour route include Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska... Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bo Diddley is listed in stable condition at a Florida hospital following a heart attack, his publicist said. In May, Diddley was hospitalized after suffering a stroke... Singer Amy Winehouse's father-in-law, Giles Fielder-Civil, is urging fans to stop buying her records to force Winehouse to seek help for drug addiction. Winehouse recently canceled a series of British concerts and an MTV Video Awards performance, and she postponed a tour of the U.S. and Canada... Jazz drummer Art Blakey has been honored with a historical marker that will be placed at his boyhood home in the Pittsburgh's Hill District... George Strait and Brad Paisley lead nominees for Country Music Association Awards with five each. The awards will be presented Nov. 7... Faith Hill will sing the opening theme to NBC's "Sunday Night Football" - "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" - this season... R&B singer El DeBarge, 45, has been arrested in California for investigation of domestic violence, authorities said. Details surrounding the arrest were not released... Natalie Dessay, Anna Netrebko and Nathan Gunn will perform at a Sept. 16 tribute to the late Beverly Sills at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York... Shock rocker Alice Cooper mingled with more than 150 fans Sept. 1 at the Homer Mill, a haunted house-themed restaurant in Michigan...