Premiere Radio Networks will offer coverage of the Live Earth concerts on July 7, with radio broadcasts offered to Modern Active Rock, CHR, Top 40 and Classic Rock stations. The coverage will run from noon to 8 p.m.
ET, and feature backstage interviews from the London and New York shows. , Jack Johnson revealed that he would be performing at the Australian Live Earth concert.
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311 has announced their annual summer tour, with Matisyahu on board for the entire trek.
The tour begins in Tucson on June 21, with dates announced up to August 26 in San Francisco.
The 24th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards were handed out last night in Los Angeles. Songwriter of the Year honors were shared by Johnta Austin and Jermaine Dupri, with EMI Music Publishing named Publisher of the Year.
Special awards were given to Melissa Etheridge and The All-American Rejects. Also honored at the ceremony were Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Timbaland and Green Day.
Teen R B singer Chris Brown will release his second album, Exclusive, this September. Brown tells Billboard he collaborates with Scott Storch and the ubiquitous will.i.
am on the new material. He also said, "I'll be 18, but I'm not trying to go overboard and lose my fans. I'm trying to have a bit more mature songs, about sexuality and stuff like that.
I'm not trying to go deep into it."
Alice In Chains and Queens of the Stone Age have joined the lineup for this year's VH1 Rock Honors special, which will pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, Genesis, Heart and ZZ Top. The special will air on VH1 on May 24.
Also appearing are Nickelback, Keane and Gretchen Wilson.
Def Leppard and Styx will hit the road together for an extensive, 50-city tour this summer. The trek begins in Cincinnati on June 27 and ends up in Edmonton, Alberta on September 30.
