Motley Crue are back with a new album, a song that's a hit with gamers and an upcoming festival tour, but the bad-boy rockers are frustrated that a long-awaited movie about their lives is going nowhere.

Metallica's new album will be titled "Death Magnetic" and is expected in September via Warner Bros. The news was revealed over the weekend via the band's Web site.

No new material has been played live at the band's handful of recent shows, but British journalists have heard rough mixes of six untitled songs, several of which cross the seven-minute mark.

John Lennon's sons and widow, Yoko Ono, are suing the filmmakers of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" for using the song "Imagine" in the documentary without permission.

Lennon recorded the song in 1971 and in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 3 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, according to the lawsuit.

John Lennon's sons and widow, Yoko Ono, are suing the filmmakers of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" for using the song "Imagine" in the documentary without permission.

Lennon recorded the song in 1971 and in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it No. 3 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, according to the lawsuit.

50 Cent is no psychic. He just knows his friends — those close to him and estranged.

English singer James Blunt is set to expand his musicalities by entering the hip-hop realms. The British singer reportedly will do a collaboration with a French rapper, Sinik.

Annie Lennox's performance on last week's "Idol Gives Back" special has propelled the former Eurythmics singer onto the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the first time in almost 13 years.

Lennox entered the chart at No. 80 on Thursday with her version of reggae icon Jimmy Cliff's 1969 song "Many Rivers to Cross."

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July 28: Wantagh, NY @ Jones Beach Amph, with James Blunt and Toots & the Maytals

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In a nod to the ascendancy of video games, rock 'n' roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, the developer of the wildly popular game said on Monday.

The pop star was involved in a minor traffic accident late Saturday, but no one was injured and no vehicles were damaged, authorities said.

Spears was driving her 2008 Mercedes on the eastbound Ventura Freeway just east of the 405 freeway about 8:20 p.m. when the mishap occurred, said California Highway Patrol Officer Patrick Kimball.

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Coldplay lets its creative flag fly on its fourth studio album, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," due June 17 via Capitol. "We're still obsessed with making songs that can be sung to the rafters," frontman Chris Martin says. "We just wanted to present them differently."

The buildup to Leona Lewis’ stateside debut has been so great that you half expect her to be surrounded by heavenly angels when she appears.

British rock star Pete Doherty was jailed on Tuesday for 14 weeks for breaching terms of his probation, his record label said. The sentence, handed down at a west London court, forces Doherty to reschedule a performance at the Royal Albert Hall scheduled for April 26.

His appearance at Britain's high-profile Glastonbury festival at the end of June is also in doubt.

Neil Diamond's second album with producer Rick Rubin will be out next month, and features a duet with the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines on the track "Another Day (That Time Forgot)."

"Home Before Dark" is due May 6 via Columbia. The album is led by the single "Pretty Amazing Grace," a live, in-studio video for which went up today on Amazon.com.

Kelly Clarkson has shared with Billboard.com her thoughts on four unfinished songs leaking to the Internet.

The Who are planning a collection of vintage R&B covers, similar to the Motown and James Brown songs they performed early on in their career. “We’re digging through lots of material and seeing what will work,” says producer T Bone Burnett, who expects to travel to London this fall to begin recording. “There’s an incredible treasury of songs in the mode of what they used to play.

Political rock band Rage Against The Machine will headline the first day of this summer's Reading music festival, organizers said on Monday.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has spoken exclusively to Billboard about the lawsuit the band filed this week against Virgin Records for using the Pumpkins in a promotional campaign with Amazon.com and Pepsi. "I'm sure they indicated to Pepsi that they had a right to do this, full well knowing they do not have the right," he said by phone from Australia, where the band is touring.

Jason Rae, the musician-husband of soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae, was found dead Saturday in a London flat of a suspected drug overdose.
He was 31.
According to British media reports, police have arrested an unidentified 32-year-old man for allegedly "supplying controlled substances." He was subsequently released on bail.