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Jennifer Lopez may have parted ways with Sony Music Epic Records but the singer has already found a new label to work with. In a statement released to one of her fan sites, JLo said “I know my fans have been wondering what’s been going on with my album. I have been in the process of a transition and now I am happy that all the issues have been resolved and I have found a new home. I have fulfilled my contractual obligations to Sony/Epic and felt it was time to move on. It was an amicable split not as the media will paint it out to be. I have been with Sony for many years and we achieved great success together. During this period I never stopped the creative process and my album ‘Love?’ will still be released in the summer of 2010 as planned.”

Since Justin Timberlake is probably laying low for a while and Matt Kemp is not such a sure bet, it looks like there’s nothing left for Rihanna to do but work. And she has good reason to do so as her last album, “Rated R”, didn’t do so well. So it’s off to the recording studio with Rihanna once more to work on an album that will apparently get released somewhere this Summer. Rihanna assures her fans that this time the music will be less heavy and more fun and cheerful. It looks like Rihanna got tired of playing artist pretty quickly and is going back to making music for the industry. Well, she has to make a living out of something!

Good Charlotte have gone back to the drawing board on their latest album.

Benji Madden said the decision was tough to scrap the band’s new album. But when he and his brother Joel returned from Australia, they were not happy with the final product.

Madden on the band’s website explains, “When we got back from the last trip to Australia, we had pretty much finished recording the record. I went into the studio to hear some roughs and it just wasn’t right. I couldn’t figure it out. I was so lost. I love the songs, I love the lyrics, so what was the problem. I was just so bewildered. Devastated actually. This had never happened. I felt crazy. Like this. I told our manager to just PAUSE everything and I need time to think. I called all the boys immediately and called an emergency meeting. Everyone sat down. And I just said ‘Guys, we gotta start over’.”

The album was to be titled Cardiology. Madden added: “I was expecting everyone to freak on me and say ‘What?!’ But Billy (Martin) was the first to speak, and right away he said ‘I knew you were gonna say that. My gut is telling me the same thing. Let’s do it.’ Everyone agreed.”

Mariah Carey’s new album ‘Angels Advocate’ has been pushed back from its original release date of February 23rd to March 9th. Does no one have faith in the diva and her music anymore? What’s the hold up anyway? Actually, scratch that. I didn’t even know that she was making a new album much less that it was about to get released. And frankly, I don’t really care. Honestly, I think she should just give up now while she still has even the tiniest bit of dignity left in her. But then again, even that is beginning to look questionable. The only good thing to happen to her this past year is being in the movie ‘Precious’.

It seems the rapper’s conscience finally caught up with him… literally speaking. After pleading guilty for possession of weapons charges, Lil’ Wayne will be getting ready to go to jail to serve his one year sentence, and this will happen beginning with the 15th of February. This must be why his album got delayed until February. This way Lil’ Wayne gets the chance to play a launch concert and then it’s off to the long wait while the revenues just roll in… and he’ll even be cutting down on spending during this time. Quite the neat deal he made for himself.

Although he requested for his child support payment to be decreased, Nas will be paying quite the hefty sum to his ex Kelis and their baby boy Knight. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered the rapper to increase his month child and spousal payments from $40,000 to $52,101, which totals to over $600,000 a year. His lawyer claims that Nas came out ahead because although he will have to give up the extra 10 grand per month, he no longer has to pay expenses on the couple’s former LA home. Kelis will also be getting some money of her own as the singer signed a new record deal with Interscope and is working on a new album.

‘Gossip Girl’ actress Leighton Meester has been dabbling here and there with her music career. Both her duets with Cobra Starship and Robin Thicke have been decent but everyone’s eager to hear what kind of singer she’s going to be on her debut album. We have to wait though as Leighton reveals she hasn’t even finished writing her album. She said “You know, it’s weird — I’m still writing. I’m about to start a movie that’s all about country music, so I’m definitely trying to keep them separated ’cause I really am starting to grasp a hold of that and I really love it…I’m thinking maybe sometime in February or March just so that I have a really good time doing the movie and finishing up ‘Gossip Girl’, and then I’ll have a little bit of time to tour and really get into it and do a live show.”

OneRepublic recently performed an exclusive show at The Palms in Las Vegas for Walmart Soundcheck. The band rocked songs from their new album Waking Up, including their current single, “All The Right Moves.” The Colorado quintet also sat down for an intimate interview where they weigh in on critics, Coldplay and the story behind their sophomore release. Check out a preview of the footage and come back to Soundcheck on December 15th to see the full performance.

The soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: New Moon has shot to the top of the US album charts in further testiment to Twilight fever.

The Twilight soundtrack, which is indie-rock in flavour, is expected to keep selling robustly as Michael Jackson’s This Is It soundtrack eventually gains force.

After debuting on the charts at number two last week, the soundtrack sold more than 155,000 copies in three days.

The bands Death Cab For Cutie, The Killers, Grizzly Bear are featured on the album, which does not include anything by series heart-throb Robert Pattinson.

Tameka Foster says her divorce with singer Usher is yet to be finalised.

Usher filed for divorce from Foster in June and demanded joint custody of their sons, Usher Raymond V, 22 months, and Naviyd, 10 months.

The star declared he was single after signing divorce papers in August and media reports suggested the divorce had been finalised after court files were marked as “disposed”.

However, close reading of reports about Usher seemed to avoid declaring his divorce was final. The release of a new song titled Papers and some buzz that the title was about the couple’s divorce only stoked the story. Papers has since been clarified by its composer as a song about the breakdown of Usher’s relationship with his mother.

Foster’s representatives, meanwhile, blasted reports the divorce was final and said the news was a publicity stunt to promote Usher’s new album.

“The divorce is definitely not finalised yet; this is just another publicity stunt to promote his new album. We have seen it all before,” said Foster’s spokeswoman on her website.

On November 2 at 11 p.m. ET, Fuse, the national music network, will televise the worldwide premiere of Nirvana Live at Reading, the band’s legendary, never-before-released 1992 Reading concert. The show, marking the first time that Nirvana fans will experience the epochal August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at UK’s Reading Festival, will debut as an hour long broadcast the night before the limited edition 90 minute CD+DVD Deluxe Edition is by Geffen/UMe.
Featuring 25 songs including “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “All Apologies” and “Come As You Are,” Nirvana’s performance at Reading ranked No. 1 in Kerrang Magazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” chart and was voted as “Nirvana’s No. 1 Greatest Moment” by fans in a recent NME poll.
“Fuse is excited to provide Nirvana fans with the first opportunity to witness this historic music event since the concert 17 years ago,” said David Weier, vice president, programming, Fuse. “Not only are we airing a highly anticipated, never-before-seen concert in more than 65 million homes, we are providing Nirvana’s loyal fan base with companion programming for a comprehensive and unique viewing experience.”
Leading up to the premiere of Nirvana Live at Reading, Fuse will air “Loaded: Nirvana,” a half-hour of Nirvana’s greatest music videos at 10 p.m. ET, followed by “Videos That Rocked the World: Smells Like Teen Spirit,” a celebration of the legendary music video which was a breakthrough for music, entertainment, culture and society.
While the show’s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn’t be released until 2 years later on In Utero: “All Apologies,” “Dumb,” and in its first ever public performance, “Tourettes.” The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band’s 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and first single “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-’80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound– “The Money Will Roll Right In” by Fang and “D-7″ by The Wipers.

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Tune in to The Ellen DeGeneres Show on October 20th to catch a performance from OneRepublic. The band will play their current single “All The Right Moves” which appears on their forthcoming album Waking Up due out on November 17th.

OneRepublic recently premiered the Wayne Isham (Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Metallica) directed video for the track which can be seen here.

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As you know, the upcoming re-release of Lady Gaga’s ‘The Fame’, ‘The Fame Monster’, is going to include eight brand new tracks from the Princess of Pop. Those eight new songs from the singer can now be revealed! ‘The Fame Monster’ will include the new tracks ‘Bad Romance’, ‘Alejandro’, ‘Monster’, ‘So Happy I Could Die’, ‘Speechless’, ‘Dance in the Dark’, ‘Telephone’ and ‘Teeth’. The re-release of Lady Gaga’s album will be available in stores on November 23rd. I can’t wait to hear the new music from her. I’m sure all you other Lady Gaga fans are on the edge of your seats.

Breaking Benjamin lead singer Ben Burnley is going to be part of Xbox Live’s “Game With Fame” series tonight (10/15)! Ben will be playing “Call of Duty 4″ with the gamertag “BreakBen GwF” (make sure you put the space between BreakBen and GwF!) between the hours of 7pm-9pm EST. Anyone can play so all you need to do is log into XBox live and play “Call of Duty 4″. Make sure to bring your “A” game!

Breaking Benjamin have also just released their new album Dear Agony on September 29th. The album made a big splash at iTunes, debuting at Number 1 on the album chart.

Breaking Benjamin are also about to embark on a fall tour with Rev Theory, Sick Puppies (select dates), The Veer Union (select dates), and Adelitas Way.

Tour dates are as follows:

11/29/09 Sunken Garden Amphitheatre, San Antonio, TX

12/2/09 The Pavilion, Lubbock, TX

12/5/09 The Cotillion, Wichita, KS

12/6/09 Shrine Mosque, Springfield, MO

12/8/09 Val Air Ballroom, West Des Moines, IA

12/9/09 Sioux Falls Convention Center, Sioux Falls, SD

12/14/09 Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO

12/16/09 The Egyptian Room at Murat Centre, Indianapolis, IN

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If there was ever a question of what would come of Wolfmother after the departure of two founding members then now is the time to stop asking and start listening. Wolfmother has just unveiled their entire forthcoming album, Cosmic Egg, on MySpace and with each track a nail in the coffin of the past is hammered further in resulting in a full blown rock explosion into the present. When describing the new Wolfmother Kerrang! said the band, “have exceeded expectation, proving themselves modern masters of riff-centered, bass-heavy bong rock alchemy. Almost every track contains something fresh and off kilter while remaining immediate and throat-grabbing at the same time.”

Cosmic Egg arrives October 27th, and features the single “New Moon Rising.” For more information on Wolfmother, and where you can catch them on tour, visit www.Wolfmother.com and listen to Cosmic Egg now at MySpace.com

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