Lilith Fair is continuing to struggle in its festival circuit return. Another ten dates have been canceled by the organizers, including a Montreal July 23 engagement. Planned Lilith visits have also been canceled for Dallas, Houston and Austin, TX, Birmingham, AL, West Palm Beach and Tampa, FL, Charlotte and Raleigh, NC and Salt Lake City. Phoenix and Nashville shows had been canceled already.

John Mayer’s first stand-up comedy attempt was panned by both critics and audiences. Despite that Mayer returned once again to the genre.

According to an online New York Post report, the singer-songwriter made his return to a New York comedy club four years after his first performance as a comedian fell flat.

In 2006 the musician, who has been entertaining the idea of being a stand-up comedian for a long time, made an appearance at Comedy Cellar in Manhattan. However the audience didn’t care for his sets. Critics charged Mayer with making sexist remarks and racial slurs.

Soon after graduating from “American Idol”, Adam Lambert’s career took off a hundred fold. He released his debut album, “For Your Entertainment”, months after the talent show came to a close and has proved to be a chart-topping success for the out-of-the-box performer. Right now, he is busy performing all over the US and Canada for his “Glam Nation” tour, with his most devoted fans really taking the time out to see every one of his shows, wherever it may be.

In 7 months time, Jay DeMarcus, one-third of the country hit trio Rascal Flatts will finally be a daddy.

In an interview with People Magazine, DeMarcus could not conceal his excitement not only for the baby’s arrival, but also for the monumental “firsts” – first step, first school day, first trip to Disney World, and a lot more. “I’m most looking forward to making wonderful memories”, says the bassist who is the last of the Rascal Flatts to become a father.

Country music superstar and American Idol season 4 winner Carrie Underwood went off to Las Vegas with her closest girlfriends to spend the last few days of her singlehood in classy fashion, despite being in Sin City. The 27-year old “Jesus Take the Wheel” singer and her friends were said to be seated at a VIP table at the LAVO stage Friday night. With her friends wearing feather boas and the engaged singer wearing a “Bride-to-Be” sash, onlookers say all they did was “goofed around” while Underwood “did the running man”.

Tributes to music legends – dead or living, homage to Black entertainment icons who have passed away throughout the past year, and comeback performances both from classic and more contemporary artists were witnessed by hundreds of attendees at the BET Awards last night, June 27, held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Academy Award nominee Queen Latifah hosted the event, lashing out her own brand of stand-up comedy to celebrity show-ups and award winners like Drake, where she sampled a line from one of the rapper’s tracks. But the night would be mostly remembered for Chris Brown’s self-redeeming tribute to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, who passed away a little over a year from today.

The dynamic country duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, better known as Sugarland who have previously moved about 8 million albums and have placed six of their singles at the top of the charts, have finally announced the details of their fourth studio set entitled “Incredible Machine”, which will surface on the market on October 19.

The duo are currently tackling a tour in the US, also dubbed as “Incredible Machine” and have been wanting to play tracks from the new album, especially the carrier single “Stuck Like Glue”, since their tour kicked off. In a recent interview, Nettles described the first single from the record as “plain, unashamed, sugar-fun”. She also added, “”It sticks in your brain, no pun intended. To me it feels young, hip and, of course, sassy! I can’t wait for it to get out there so we can play it live in our show. We’ve been sitting on our hands to not play it live ’til it was released!”

Country superstars Rascal Flatts have recently partnered with the Jason Foundation as its ambassadors to spread the word against teen suicide.

The band’s ambassadorial duties include a public service announcement which will run in all of their road shows that are included in their tour itinerary, special involvement in the foundation’s awareness campaign through social media websites such Facebook and Twitter, and in the foundation’s “B1 Project “ which aims to teach teenagers on how to spot fellow teens who have suicidal tendencies and how they can help and prevent them from doing the unthinkable.

The band also pledged to take part in fund raising activities to help the foundation in soliciting funds for its various anti-suicide initiatives.

For Rascal Flatts bassist Jay DeMarco, having someone close affected by such a tragedy made the band’s involvement with the Jason Foundation more of a personal undertaking for him.

It was a once in every three years event that guitar worshippers all over the country looked forward to and it might be the last.

The Crossroads Guitar Festival, organized by highly acclaimed musician Eric Clapton, was not only intended to raise funds for the Crossroads Drug Rehabilitation Center in Antigua which was also spearheaded by Clapton himself, but was also intended into bringing together rock and blues artists and guitar geniuses and prodigies from the ‘60s till the present to celebrate the power of an instrument that has been underestimated as the decades have passed – the guitar and the ability of its master, the guitarist, to create rhythms and tunes that could move even the toughest of rockers and could give life even to the saddest of blues.

This is the second time that the Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Il has hosted the half-day event, the first time was in 2007. The festival was inaugurated in Dallas in 2004. This year’s festival featured the likes of B.B King and Howlin Wolf’s Huber Sumlin, who at 78 years old can still play and woo the crowd with enigmatic solos. Everyone, including the most iconic ones like Clapton, The Rolling Stones’ Ron Wood, Jeff Beck and contemporary musicians like John Mayer, who all performed at the event look up to these two great musicians.

It’s not rare for rock-alt artists to do pop song covers like “Only Hope” and “Baby One More Time”, so when a video of Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy singing the ultimate anthem for single gals everywhere surfaced online, we thought we wouldn’t be surprised but we were wrong.

In a video clip posted by online music blog TwentyFourBit, Tweedy performed Beyonce’s “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” without the grungy sounds of a rock vocalist while strumming heavily on the guitar. Instead he played a few lines while hitting a few chords and as soon as he found himself lost in the lyrics, he decided to recite the words instead, with his index finger swaying, and with the crowd helping, laughing and cheering along with him.