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About 200 people shut down traffic, chanted through megaphones and sang anti-war songs Thursday in a suburban Vancouver protest against former U.S. president George W. Bush. More...

LOS ANGELES - Singer Nate Dogg, whose near monotone crooning anchored some of rap's most seminal songs and helped define the sound of West coast hip-hop, has died at age 41.

Mumford & Sons, "Sigh No More" (Glass Note) Mumford & Sons released "Sigh No More" last February to little fanfare. By the end of the year, it was hard to escape the London quartet and it's angry little hit, "Little Lion Man." Who could blame anyone for overlooking "Sigh No More"? The album...

41 songs qualify for Oscar consideration LOS ANGELES, -- Forty-one songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for nomination in the Original Song category for Hollywood's 83rd Academy Awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the song titles...

Another Weezer CD on its way LOS ANGELES, -- The U.S. rock band Weezer is set to release the CD "Death to False Metal," its follow-up to "Hurley," Universal Music Enterprises said Tuesday. The new album is to go on sale Nov. 2. "Hurley" was released last month. "'Death to False Metal' is...

Usher to release 8-song set next month NEW YORK, (UPI) -- U.S. recording star Usher is following up his album "Raymond V. Raymond" with "Versus," a collection of eight new songs, Jive Records said. The set is to drop Aug. 24. On that day, Usher fans will also have the opportunity to purchase...

Lyle Lovett takes friends' songs on tour KLEIN, Texas, (UPI) -- Texas singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett says his Large Band brings new dimensions to the songs from his latest album, "Natural Forces." "The arrangements on the record allow us to be all out there at some points and really stripped...

Spector named producer on wife's CD LOS ANGELES, (UPI) -- Music icon Phil Spector, who is serving a prison sentence for homicide in California, is listed as a producer on his wife's new CD, Rolling Stone reported. Spector, 70, was convicted in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson...