NEW YORK (Billboard) – When art-rock band Devo performs live at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, it will be the band's first network broadcast performance in 20 years.

Devo will be one of 15 headlining acts, including Feist, Usher and the Fray, who will each perform one night at the Whistler Victory Ceremonies between February 13 and 27. The band's show will take place February 22 during a Victory Ceremony.

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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Inspired by a young friend who died from leukemia, singer Rihanna is working to get help for those who suffer from the disease.

Rihanna was among the celebrities who submitted a request for funding to Pepsi's Refresh Project, which doles out $20 million to various causes, and was at the foundation's kickoff party Friday night during Super Bowl festivities. The singer is trying to raise money for DKMS, which

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NEW YORK – AC/DC is putting the metal in the upcoming "Iron Man 2" film.

The band announced Tuesday they will release the official soundtrack, "AC/DC: Iron Man 2" on April 19. The first video from the album, "Shoot To Thrill," was released on Tuesday.

The CD won't contain new music, but 15 classic songs, including "Let There Be Rock," "Thunderstruck," and the recent "War Machine."

The film opens in the

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Megadeth are planning to follow in the footsteps of fellow rockers Aerosmith and Metallica and develop its own Guitar Hero video game. Frontman Dave Mustaine is a big fan of the popular music simulator, and is desperate for the veteran band to land its own edition. And he reveals he's in early talks with gaming executives to sign the deal.

Mustaine writes on Megadeth's official website: "I have recently had two very important high-level meetings with the people from Activision more...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Having suffered more than 15 years of false starts, failures and musical disappointments, singer-songwriter Harper Simon admits he has hardly charted the ideal path to pop stardom like his father, Paul Simon.

The young Simon had always shown musical promise. At age 4 he sang with his dad on the "Sesame Street" children's TV show. He also attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Now, at 37,

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kurt Cobain's appearance in the latest "Guitar Hero" video game is not hitting the right notes with the surviving members of Nirvana.

Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl said in a joint statement Thursday that they were "dismayed and very disappointed" that an avatar of the late Nirvana frontman could be used to play songs by other artists.

"While we were aware of Kurt's image

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DETROIT (Billboard) – With his sixth solo studio album coming September 15, Mark Knopfler is planning a big tour in 2010.

"It'll be four, five months," the former Dire Straits frontman tells Billboard.com. "Springtime -- April, May -- in the U.S., and June and July in Europe. And I'd like a week at the Royal Albert Hall (in London). Just doing a week is nice; it's not too far from where I live, and it's a good

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