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T.I. will serve out his sentence of one year and one day in the Forrest City low-security prison when he turns himself in on May 26, reports E!. According to a population report filed just yesterday by the all-male prison, located 85 miles east of Little Rock and 45 miles west of Memphis, the double-fenced facility is currently housing 2,085 inmates.more

Former American Idol winner and country star Carrie Underwood will come back home for a second time this season on Tuesday, when she performs as part of the show's two-night finale.more

Metallica frontman James Hetfield joined Machine Head on stage Saturday night at KoPi-Arena in Oberhausen, Germany to perform the song "Aethetics Of Hate", taken from MH's latest album, "The Blackening". more

Green Day knocked Bob Dylan off the top of the UK albums chart Sunday, going straight in at Number One with their new effort '21st Century Breakdown'. more

A boyish, fiddle-wielding Norwegian singer won the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow on Saturday nightmore

According to Accept's official website, the band have reunited with T.T. Quick vocalist Mark Tornillo who has taken Udo Dirkschneider's place in the group.more

Because of unspecified legal issues with EMI, "Dark Night of the Soul," a collaboration between the producer Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, The Black Keys) and psych-rock act Sparklehorse (a.k.a. Mark Linkous), official release has been either scrapped altogether or put on indefinite hiatus.more

Kaiser Chiefs have denied tabloid reports that they have been dropped by their record label.more

Blink-182 performed live for the first time in four years on Thursday night at a private Hollywood party sponsored by T-Mobile.more

Motograter is back with a new lineup, including original guitarist Nuke, motograterist Bruce, Twitch on drums, Mylon on bass, Tyler on guitar, and brand new vocalist Angel (real name: Michael E. Woodruff), formerly of Relevent.more

Nick Hoenig, guitarist for Tucson, Arizona band Blues has amicably left the band to "pursue other things in his life."more

Shiddy Deal? Yung Joc has fighting words for Diddy. The Southern rapper tells Billboard.com that he plans to file a lawsuit against Bad Boy Records and Block Entertainment for a host of contractual discrepanciesmore

Reunited Cleveland all-star brute-metal masters Years Of Fire have recruited former Pro-Pain/Spudmonsters drummer Eric Mathews.more

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Saviours will head to Los Angeles in June to begin recording a new album. The effort will be produced, engineered, and mixed by Joe Barresi (Kyuss, Isis).more

Fall To Prey have entered D.O.W Studios to record three new songs with producer Nick Goodyear. The band will return to the facility later in the year to lay down a full-length albummore - more News Quicks

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