E! Online - There's only one pairing more natural than beer ads and buxom blondes, and that's Jessica Simpson and Texas.
AP - Dave Matthews Band saxophone player LeRoi Moore, one of the group's founding members and a key part of its eclectic jazz-infused sound, died Tuesday from sudden complications stemming from injuries he sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. He was 46.
AP - Vietnam freed British glam rocker Gary Glitter from prison Tuesday, sending the convicted child molester into an uncertain future after nearly three years of confinement.
Reuters - Neil Young has snared two of
alternative rock's biggest bands to open for his fall North
American tour.
AP - Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country star.
AP - For seminal alt-country band Blue Mountain torn apart by divorce breaking up was hard to do. Getting back together, it turned out, was pretty easy.
AP - John Lennon's killer told parole officials during his latest unsuccessful bid for release from prison that he is ashamed and sorry for gunning down the former Beatle nearly three decades ago.