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Gwyneth Paltrow will sing live at the Country Music Association Awards (CMAs) next month.

White Stripes frontman Jack White – who is also a member of bands The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather – says that moving between his multiple music projects makes him feel like a “director”.

British filmmaker Michael Apted will direct The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third instalment in the series, Disney Pictures and Walden Media announced.

The White Stripes star Jack White is still looking for answers as to why Iggy Pop shunned his efforts to produce The Stooges reunion album last year.

The White Stripes frontman Jack White fell in love with Johnny Cash's home in Nashville, Tennessee, and came close to buying it, but was too overwhelmed by the thought of living in his idol's former house.

Clearly, Jack White isn’t broken-hearted over the recent marriage of ex-girlfriend Renee Zellweger.

THE Grammy’s finally got soul this year, honouring Ray Charles with five posthumous awards and handing Dublin rock superstars U2 three gongs.

Hip-hop star Kanye West’s debut album was named the best album of 2004.

Artists who are chosen to announce the Grammy nominations typically collect a few bids themselves, so rapper Kanye West, country singer Gretchen Wilson, rock balladeers Hoobastank and The Black Eyed Peas can count themselves among the likely contenders this year.

COUNTRY singer Loretta Lynn is trying to gain the copyright to Coal Miner’s Daughter and other of her hit songs.

Van Morrison and Loretta Lynn have been chosen to receive Icon Honor awards at the upcoming BMI Country Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, in November.

Loretta Lynn, Wilco, Franz Ferdinand, The Streets and David Bowie (pictured) are five of the acts on the 70-strong nominees list for this year's Shortlist Music Prize for album of the year.

June Carter Cash, the Grammy-winning scion of one of country music’s pioneering families and the wife of country giant Johnny Cash, has died of complications from heart surgery. She was 73.

Loretta Lynn has been admitted to a Tennessee hospital suffering from pneumonia.