James Blunt testing new material on tour
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CLEVELAND (Billboard) - After a brief European holiday last month, "You're Beautiful" singer/songwriter James Blunt has emerged with a half-dozen or so new tracks and ideas for the follow-up release to his worldwide smash debut album "Back to Bedlam."
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Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher revealed Friday his band's sixth studio set will be released internationally May 16, almost three years after its previous set, "Heathen Chemistry."
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David Cameron renews call to music industry.
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British pop star Morrissey will  begin a six week U.S. tour in Las Vegas on September 21, an  outing that includes multiple nights in San Francisco, Los  Angeles and New York.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - It's no coincidence that two new  John Lennon albums, "Acoustic" and "Rock 'N' Roll," were  released simultaneously earlier this week via Capitol.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Beck will play five North American   shows next month in support of his upcoming album, "The   Information," augmenting two previously announced festival sets   in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a September 27 opening gig   for Tom Petty in Chula Vista, Calif.
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Aerosmith will take a break from  working on a new studio album to tour Europe this summer for  the first time since 1999.
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With the release of his new album "Modern Times" this week, Bob Dylan has
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Irish rock band U2 is set to  explode on the road at the end of March, just in time for a  beleaguered concert industry desperate for a major  buzz-generating tour.
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Can't make it to Europe for the  current tour by the Rolling Stones?
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Arts & entertainment: Lead singer Richard Ashcroft and all but one of his former bandmates plan to tour this autumn.
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In what&#39;s being billed as a first,  Bon Jovi is bundling a digital iTunes copy of the band&#39;s  upcoming album, &quot;Lost Highway,&quot; with advance tickets for  October concerts in Newark, New Jersey.
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Police are investigating reports that James Blunt ran over someone's foot as he was leaving a party, then drove off, authorities said Tuesday.
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Arts & entertainment: The new rave band have let slip that they are to perform a duet with Rihanna at this year's Brit awards
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John Mellencamp will bring his "Words &amp; Music" to cities across the United States this spring on his first headlining tour in three years.
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A new Bon Jovi album due in the spring will be a "loud guitar, big rock record," Jon Bon Jovi told Billboard in a recent interview. "We're very excited about it, and I'm very confident it's going to be a big record for us."
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Updated Two pints of lager and the latest White Stripes single, please