Ziggy Marley released a children's cd called Family Time because he wants to be able to reach the future leaders of the world. Ziggy says kids are sponges ready to absorb new ideas. Take a look:
There's an text version of the interview with Ziggy Marley here.
Three time Grammy nominee Jewel talks about her new album, Lullaby. The 15-track album features 10 songs that Jewel wrote as well as a few standards including "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Jewel said when she wrote the album she hoped her future kids would listen to it. She said the album is mostly acoustic and more like her debut album, Pieces of You.
American Idol's Anoop Desai talks about the artists he wants to team up with artists like Ne-Yo. He doesn't plan on going back to grad school. He also talks about what he said to Allison before being voted off which was basically "whatever happens, happens."
Styx's Tommy Shaw and REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin performed their new song, "Keep On Rockin'." on the CBS Early Show. The two bands will tour together this summer.
Billboard reports that Prince is planning three back-to-back concerts at three separate venues in Los Angeles on March 28th to promote the three albums he plans to release. Billboard also says that Prince is releasing a $77 subscription service for the lotusflow3r.com website.
Prince is hoping the live appearances will help build anticipation for the March 29 release of his two new albums, "LOtUSFLOW3R" and "MPLSoUND." Both CDs, along with a third by new artist Bria Valente, will be available as a three disc set exclusively through Target for a price of $11.98.
Prince is also launching a fan subscription service called Lotusflow3r.com. For $77 a year, subscribers will get an as yet not fully outlined set of content that will include exclusive music, video, lyrics, artwork and photos.
On March 28, Prince is scheduled to perform three full-length concerts at Los Angeles' $2.5 billion L.A. Live sports and entertainment project, which is owned and being developed by AEG. Doors for the first show at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live will open at 5:30 p.m.; doors at the Conga Room open at 8 p.m.; and doors at Club Nokia will open at 11:30 p.m.
Prince has also teamed up with Target for the release of his three albums. One of the albums is by Prince's protege, singer Bria Valente.
Taylor Swift posted this video about her life on the road. She has some great footage from Saturday Night Live and celebrating New Year's Eve in New York. There's also a footage of her on the set of CSI.
The Jonas Brothers talk about their upcoming movie, Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. The film promises and inside look at some of the band's live performances. The Jonas Brother says the film shows what the live stage performances are like from their pespective.
Girls Aloud won the Best British Single award at the 2009 Brit Awards for their song "The Promise." You can see a music video for "The Promise" here. It is a great song and a fun music video too. You can see a list of the winners here. Katy Perry also won an award and showed up in a Hello Kitty outfit - see here.
Joanna Pacitti Sent Declared Ineligible For American Idol
Peoplereports that contestant Joanna Pacitti has been replaced by Felicia Barton. Joanna was deemed ineligible to continue in the competition by Fox.
On Wednesday’s episode of American Idol, Paula Abdul — and the rest of the judges — told tearful contestant Joanna Pacitti (pictured left) that she deserved another chance at stardom, sending her to the next round of the competition. But by Thursday morning, Joanna had been disqualified and replaced by Felicia Barton.
"It has been determined that Joanna Pacitti is ineligible to continue in the competition," FOX said in a statement released Wednesday night. "American Idol contestant Felicia Barton has replaced Ms. Pacitti as part of the Top 36."
Joanna had previous record deals which disqualified her. The intent of American Idol is to find previously undiscovered talent. (via Newser)
Garth Brooks was one of the many performers at the We are One Inaugural celebration in Washington D.C. Mary J. Blige was also performing (see photo here as well as Bono, Bruce Springsteen and Sheryl Crow. The event has been streaming live on HBO here.
American Idol contestant Katrina Darrell, 20, created a stir when she tried out for the show in her teeny bikini. She's become known as Bikini Girl. USsays new judge Kara DioGuardi didn't like bikini girl's performance.
After her rendition of Mariah Carey's "Vision of Love," judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson sent her through - but DioGuardi didn't think she had "swing."
So DioGuardi re-sang the song for Darrell, telling her how she should have done it. Darrell then snapped, "your demonstration wasn't any better."
"We just know you as top and bottom," DioGuardi cracked after Darrell was eventually sent through. "Next time, come naked!"
The show could use a boost - it's ratings have fallen 15% this year. Although it still has 30 million viewers so maybe Fox isn't worried.
Katy Perry wants you to sing along with her at the Grammys. You can upload your own video or just laugh at a lot of other people's videos here. Selected videos will be seen at the Grammys and the winning video will get $5,000.
Reuters reports that Leona Lewis has signed a deal with publishing house Hodder & Stoughton to write her autobiography. She seems very young to have an autiobiography but these kinds of books do sell well. The book will be out an October - just ahead of her second album - and contain lots of pictures.
The book, which will include more than 100 new photographs, will hit the shelves in October, shortly before the scheduled release of Lewis' second album, the publisher said on Monday.
"The last two years have been an unbelievable experience for me," said the 23-year-old Londoner, who debuted at No.1 in the key U.S. album chart last year, the first British woman to achieve the feat.
"Spirit" has sold an estimated five million copies around the world since its release in 2007.
Hodder & Stoughton, which did not disclose the financial details of the deal, said photographs for the autobiography would be taken by Dean Freeman, who also worked on the publisher's collaboration with soccer star David Beckham.
Leona Lewis is also one of the names that popped when a musical based on Mariah Carey's life was reported earlier this week.
This mashup from DJ Earworm contains the 25 top hits of 2008 (according to Billboard) all in one five minute video. It's surprisingly not incredibly awful to listen to. (via Lifehacker)
Billboard 
Reuters 