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News Ticker: Abbey Road, Judas Priest, Jay-Z, Frank Lucas Jr.

Mary J. Blige, Panic at the Disco and Sheryl Crow will be among the artists that will perform on the second season of Sundance Channel series Live From Abbey Road. Metal icons Judas Priest will release their sixteenth album, a double-length entitled Nostradamus, on June 17th. The band’s first concept album will tell the story of the legendary sixteenth century prophet Michel de Nostradamus. Jay-Z will join Radiohead and My Bloody Valentine as a headliner at this year’s Roskilde Festival, to be held in July 3-6 in Denmark. Rapper Frank Lucas Jr., son of American Gangster focus Frank Lucas, is suing the NYPD for $25 million, claiming the police used excessive force and racially profiled him during an arrest in March.

Published: 2008-04-16 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup

Maroon 5, Fergie Rule iTunes’ 2007 Chart, Panic! Sets Album Release Date, Lily Allen Covers ELO and More

Even though no readers voted for Maroon 5’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long in our Readers’ Top 25 Albums of 2007 list, the band still managed to top another important list: it was named iTunes’ best-selling album of 2007. Maroon 5 beat out Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and Kanye West’s Graduation for the most-purchased spot. On the singles side, Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” grabbed number one, while her “Glamorous” settled in at number five. In a ruling issued yesterday, a $3 billion invasion of privacy lawsuit against rapper/producer Dr. Dre was dismissed. The suit stems back to 2000, when a conversation between Detroit city officials regarding risqué videos shown during Dre’s concert was included on the Dre/Eminem Up in Smoke tour DVD. Panic! At the Disco will release their second album on March 25th. Panic! will also play a series of U.S. shows before the new, still-untitled album comes out. System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian will collaborate with Wu-Tang Clan’s The RZA on the “futuristic-specific” score for the upcoming sci-fi film Babylon A.D., starring Vin Diesel. After two months of distributing for free the Readers’ Number One Album of 2007, Radiohead finally closed down InRainbows.com yesterday in preparation for the album’s proper release on CD January 1st. Check out Lily Allen’s cover version of the Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mister Blue Sky.”

Published: 2007-12-12 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Afternoon News Roundup