MUSIC SCENE

Bobby Tinsley is an R&B artist. He wrote and performed a song for sick kids at the Children's Hospital. Tinsley said he spent time in the hospital himself as a teenager.

He's coming out of a nine-year retirement to perform intimate acoustic shows at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel.

Taylor Swift leads the AMA nominations with six, and her biggest competitor
for most wins is Michael Jackson. He's up for five awards, including
favorite pop album for "Number Ones," which came out in 2003.

T.I. didn't need to attend the BET Hip-Hop Awards to take home two trophies.

Pavement, one of the most influential indie rock bands of the '90s, will reunite.

The beloved folk trio that brought Bob Dylan's songs to the masses,
marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and sang Grammy-winning children's
songs has lost one of its voices.

Singers Darius Rucker and Lee Ann Womack will reveal the finalists for the County Music Association awards.

Word of mouth and outdoor music attracted about 700 people to a free Beach Boys concert in a bowling alley parking lot in Alaska.

A Boston University graduate student accused of illegally swapping music online has admitted downloading and sharing hundreds of songs.

The hit country duo Sugarland will miss three more concerts after a doctor ordered singer Jennifer Nettles to rest her voice for a week.

John "Marmaduke" Dawson, who co-founded the psychedelic country band
New Riders of the Purple Sage with the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia,
has died. He was 64.

Whitney Houston says the support of her daughter helped fuel her as she geared up for her comeback record.

If Jennifer Nettles doesn't give her voice a rest, she says she could "break" it.

Sen. John McCain and the Republican Party are apologizing to Jackson Browne for using one of his songs during last year's presidential campaign.

There's an old rule of thumb that says rock stars appeal mostly to guys and pop stars appeal mostly to girls. If that's the case, where do you stick an act like Daughtry, a rock band whose records don't get played on rock radio but whose 2006 debut has sold more, at 4.5 million copies, than almost any other rock album of the past three years?

Gordon Waller of the British pop duo Peter and Gordon, who had a string of hits in the 1960s including several written by Paul McCartney, has died. He was 64.

The Marseille hospital authority says a second person has died after the roof of a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed.

Paul McCartney has returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York
City, 45 years after the Beatles made their U.S. television debut
there.

The crooner, who is in the midst of a successful tour, scored his
biggest first-week album sales as BLACKsummers'night topped Billboard's
album chart.

Moby describes himself as "a 43-year-old bald guy who likes to make music in his bedroom." If people like the music, that's OK, he says. And if not, that's OK, too.