Country star Merle Haggard home from hospital (Reuters)
 
Reuters - Country music singer Merle Haggard was resting at home in Northern California on Friday after a long stint in a Georgia hospital, his publicist Tresa Redburn said.

After 45 years, Paul Plishka says goodbye to Met (AP)
 

AP - Paul Plishka thought back to Sept. 21, 1967, when he made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Monk in Ponchielli's "La Gioconda" alongside Renata Tebaldi, Sherrill Milnes and Rosalind Elias.

Stars cover Dylan songs for Amnesty International (AP)
 

AP - Anyone who ever doubted the transformative power of Bob Dylan's music need only look to Ke$ha.

APNewsBreak: Jackson enters fray over Grammy cuts (AP)
 

AP - The Rev. Jesse Jackson is entering the fray over The Recording Academy's cuts to its Grammy categories: He's asking to meet with the president of the organization and has raised the possibility of protests with the awards less than two weeks away.

Jesse Jackson adds voice to Grammy protest (Reuters)
 
Reuters - Civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse James on Friday urged Grammy organizers to reinstate 31 ethnic and minority musical categories that have been cut from the music industry's top awards.

Loved and loathed, Lana Del Rey set to face the music (Reuters)
 
Reuters - Rarely has a pop star just starting out been so loved and loathed as Lana Del Rey, the 25-year-old who has filled acres of newspaper column inches even before her debut album "Born to Die" hits shelves next week.

Peter, Paul and Mary bassist Dick Kniss dies at 74 (AP)
 
AP - Dick Kniss, a bassist who performed for five decades with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders," has died. He was 74.

Unreleased ABBA track on new album (AP)
 

AP - Mamma Mia, here they go again.

AP Interview: Chris Isaak makes Memphis album (AP)
 

AP - Chris Isaak is returning to the roots of rock 'n' roll and doing it old-school: All in one take.

McGraw's 'Emotional Traffic' finally hits streets (AP)
 

AP - Tim McGraw's long-delayed album "Emotional Traffic" has the attention of Music Row this week as it finally hits the streets.

Costume designer Eiko Ishioka has died at 73 (AP)
 

AP - Eiko Ishioka, a bold, Academy Award-winning visual artist whose surreal and sensual costumes were worn by Broadway actors, Olympic athletes, Cirque du Soleil performers and movie stars like Jennifer Lopez, has died in Tokyo. She was 73.

Michael Jackson's legacy cemented by children (Reuters)
 
Reuters - Late pop star Michael Jackson was immortalized in cement on Thursday when his three children stamped the "Thriller" singer's glove and shoe prints in the hallowed concrete courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Leonard Cohen's new take on "Old Ideas" (Reuters)
 
Reuters - Sitting in a dimly lit New York City bar wearing a trilby hat and a dark suit, no tie, singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen pauses before responding to a question about how his ideas have changed over his lengthy career.

Kenny Chesney leads Academy of Country Music nominees (Reuters)
 
Reuters - Kenny Chesney grabbed the lead with nine award nominations on Thursday from the Academy of Country Music, which hands out its prizes on April 1 in Las Vegas.

Adele reigns Billboard chart in slow week (Reuters)
 
Reuters - British singer Adele continued her reign atop the Billboard 200 album chart and the Hot 100 songs chart on Wednesday, in a week of low album sales and a lack of new releases, music industry analysts said.

ABBA to launch revamped final album, with new track (Reuters)
 
Reuters - Swedish pop group ABBA are to release a new version of their last album, featuring a previously unreleased track for the first time since 1994, the group's website said on Wednesday.

Top 20 Concert Tours from Pollstar (AP)
 
AP - The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

Simon Cowell to launch DJ talent show (Reuters)
 
Reuters - TV personality and music producer Simon Cowell is launching a new talent competition to find the world's best DJs.

Kenny Chesney leads ACM Awards nominations with 9 (AP)
 

AP - Kenny Chesney's steamy duet, "You and Tequila" with Grace Potter, continues to radiate heat.

Man jailed for false claim against X factor's Walsh (Reuters)
 
Reuters - An Irish man who falsely accused television star and pop impresario Louis Walsh of groping him in a Dublin night club was jailed for six months on Wednesday.

 
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