AP - A federal appeals court late Friday upheld the music industry's $22,500 judgment against a Chicago mother caught illegally distributing songs over the Internet. The court rejected her defense that she was innocently sampling music to find songs she might buy later and compared her downloading and distributing the songs to shoplifting.
E! Online - Mariah Carey soared with eight Grammy nominations Thursday, including an Album of the Year nod for her comeback statement, The Emancipation of Mimi.
Rolling Stone - Trent Reznor will get back on the road in February. Having survived some bad fortune on their fall tour, Nine Inch Nails will continue to tour in support of their chart-topping album With Teeth well into 2006. Beginning with a February 10th stop in Champaign, Illinois, twenty-two dates have been added with more being announced in the coming weeks.
Music Is My Weapon - Being slapped is the new hot thing. Jay-Z got slapped by pro wrestler Diamond Dallas and Santana got slapped by rock artist Michelle Branch. Beautiful.
AP - Former British rocker Gary Glitter admitted to police that an 11-year-old girl slept in his bed, but denied sexually abusing her, his attorney said Thursday. Yikes
Yahoo! Music - Ashlee Simpson is still trying. She's the new badass bad girl in the video for her new single "L. Does doing a ho-down count as being bad?
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