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Amy Winehouse, the winner of 5 Grammy awards this year, who is in the wrong end of her personal life, has been granted a postponement of hearing of the Marijuana procession case by the Norway District Court. The singer from Britain, who is sailing in troubled waters with her marriage to Blake Fielder- Civil, is unable to appear for hearing, as her husband is currently serving his sentence in London for charges of having a brawl in a pub. According to the rules of the Norway court, all parties involved in a case should come in person before the court and special permission is needed for one party appearance.
In Amy’s case, she, her husband as well as her hair dresser, Alex Foden were arrested and fined for marijuana possession on October 18th in Bergen. They got released by paying a fine of $715 each, the next morning. But, later Winehouse complained that she was misled by the police about signing the papers for paying the fine. In Norway, paying the fine is like accepting the accusation. The Norway police are of opinion that she was given proper information with the help of a translator. Her lawyer, Ole Kvelstad, confirmed the postponement of hearing of her appeal.

The Black Eyed peas star, Fergie, has been engaged to Las Vegas actor Josh Duhamel way back in December, but the 32 year old singing sensation, who is on a steady relationship with the star for the past there years, is not thinking about marriage right now. Fergie has announced that she needs to devote more time to her family and her career at present and hence there are no thoughts of immediate wedding lurking in her mind.

The singing blonde said that she has been on tour for a long time and wants to spend sometime with her family and friends at her hometown. The popular singer has been recently signed as the new face of M-A-C’s Viva Glam cosmetics and she has said that she is very product of being the new face for the cosmetics campaign. Fergie, who is very much interested in modeling, is very serious about her role model status as she is determined in advocating the importance of practicing safe sex. Fergie is of the opinion that she can be helpful to some people by the promotion of safe sex practice and she says that she does not feel it right when some people boast of not contracting any serious diseases even though they have had unprotected sex.

Jon Bon Jovi is on a latest tour of the United States and had kick started the tour in Ohama, Nebraska on the 18th of February 2008. But the fact is that they did not get time to have a full production rehearsal for the program due to a school shoot out drama during Valentine’s Day in the Northern Illinois University. Bon Jovi and his rock band had to scrap the rehearsal sessions that they had planned to have during the Valentine’s Day weekend after hearing off the shoot out news in Dekalb, Illinois.

A former student Steve Kazmeirczak of the Northern Illinois University was on a shooting spree and had shot down five people and wounded a dozen others before shooting himself down. As soon as Bon Jovi landed in Dekalb, he was informed of the incident that has made the entire city come to a standstill. Bon Jovi was advised to catch the plane and return back home due to the grave situation there, but the stage as well as crew was already there at the contracted practice venue in the University’s Convocation Center. Bon Jovi did not find it right to practice in such a situation and had to pack all their belongings and head towards Nebraska for their concert.

The Foo Fighters, a very popular heavy metal band, was awarded the Best International Album award in the recently concluded Brit Awards 2008 ceremony. This was the second award that the Foo Fighters received at the Brit Awards and the first award they received was the Best International Group Award. The Foo Fighters have been entertaining fans worldwide since 1995 with their loud, heavy guitars synching with pretty melodies and the success of the Foo Fighters has to be attributed to the founder of the group, Dave Grohl. As the Foo Fighters were not available at the awards function, the Foo Fighters Dave Grohl thanked the Brit Awards for their second award of the evening through a video message.

Dave Grohl, in his televised message, said that it was an honor for the Foo Fighters to be recognized among great music personalities like Culture Club, MC Hammer, Kula Shaker and Huey Lewis and the News. All the mentioned personalities have won the Brit Awards before them and Grohl said that he was happy to see the band graduate to such greater heights. The Foo Fighters were nominated along with The Eagles, the Kings of Leon, Arcade fire and Kylie Minogue for the Best International Album Award.

 The sexy and very popular R&B singer Rihanna is all set to rock the forthcoming Brit Awards with her most recent smash hit single Umbrella. Rihanna has announced that she will team up with Klaxons to perform on the big stage of the Brit Awards to be held in London on the 20^th of February. She has announced that she will perform a newer version of the single Umbrella in collaboration with the Mercury Music prize winning band Klaxons at the awards ceremony. Rihanna has been nominated for the best international female award and her collaborators have been nominated for the Best Breakthrough Act as well as the Best Live Act awards.  Though Rihanna has announced to perform on the newer version of her hit song Umbrella, she has not yet practiced the song along with the band, according to the co-vocalist James Righton of Klaxons, who have done a contemporary electronic guitar version of Umbrella while including a twist of their popular number Golden Skans in it. Since Rihanna is in the U.S and the band is in U.K, there have been difficulties in rehearsing for the show and the band has made about 3 to 4 different versions of the hit song Umbrella as the Rihanna group feels that the beats are more English than being American. Anyways, the audience will be able to judge on 20^th February whether the collaboration of the two has worked or not. 

Gwen Stefani, the very popular singer and song writer, who shot to fame with her solo hit album “Love, Angel, Music, Baby” in 2004 is expecting her second child and is reported to be 13 weeks pregnant. There have been rumors of her pregnancy doing rounds in all the leading magazines, newspapers as well as the internet and as Stefani’s father in law has confirmed the same, the rumor is no more a rumor. Douglas Rossdale, the father of the popular rock star Gavin Rossdale, said that his family is eagerly waiting for their second grandchild.

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale married in 2002 and have a one and a half year old child named Kingston. Gwen Stefani attained stardom after she sang for the Rock band No Doubt in the 80’s and 90’s. There have been reports in the media that Gwen always used to say that she wanted another child. After her successful solo album hit in 2004, Gwen Stefani released another solo album “Sweet Effort” and devotes a lot of time to do charity work when she is not with her family. Stefani has described he son Kingston as a super entertainer and there will be loads of fun for her and her family once she gives birth to her second child.

British Sea Power (BSP), the indie rockers from the UK, is planning to traverse the length and breadth of North America promoting their new album “Do You like Rock Music?” The British Sea Power artists have plans to begin their North American tour on Feb 25th right after their European tour gets over. The North America promotion tour by the quartet indie rockers is to be held at San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Columbia, Nashville etc. They have a long and grinding tour of America that runs deep into the month of May 2008.  

The foursome group from UK comprises of Yan the vocalist and the guitarist, Wood, the drummer, Noble the guitar man and Hamilton the bass player. “Do You like Rock Music?” is the third album released by the British Sea Power and is making waves all over the world with its singles like “Waving flags” and “No Lucifer”. The lead guitarist Martin Noble is of the opinion that their new album is their version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Rough Trade Records founder Geoff Travis happened to witness one of BSP’s shows and signed them immediately and their previous two albums are “The Decline of British Sea Power” their debut album in 20003 and “Open Season” in 2005.

Amy Winehouse, the British pop singer, ran away with five Grammys in the recently concluded Grammy award function on Sunday. Amy was in the wrong side of the news last year when she was filmed at a private party smoking crack cocaine. Amy Winehouse took time off from her rehab center in London to perform for the Grammys via a London recording studio which was recreated as a cabaret. The performance of Amy was captured live via satellite and the audience was able to see her perform live on the big screens at the Grammy Awards function.

Amy Winehouse did not go to Los Angeles to participate in the Grammy Awards as she was on drug treatment and she also had problems acquiring a US work visa. Amy performed her hit song “Rehab” and an equally successful and personal song “You Know I’m No Good” for the Grammy Awards audience. Amy Winehouse created history at the Grammys by sweeping atop four Grammy awards. She won the Grammy Award for the Best Song of the Year for her runaway hit song “Rehab”, Best New Artist Award, Best Record of the Year, Female Pop Vocal Solo Performance and Pop Vocal Album for “Black To Black”.

Langerado music festival was started in the year 2003 as a one day festival in Ft. Lauderdale. Through the years this festival has grown as the South Florida’s major musical attraction. This year the festival will take place in the Big Cypress of Seminole Indian Reservation from March 6th to 9th. The past years witnessed the performances by many famous artists and music bands and more than 15,000 people attended the festival last year. Camping facilities and food will be available at the venue and all one has to do is to come and enjoy the music at the serene Indian reservation.

The artist or the band line up for the year 2008 includes The Roots, Beastie Boys, 311, The Wailers, Rail Road earth and many others. The latest additions to the artist list for the year 2008 are Chris Harford& The Band of Changes and Ben Jelen. Another major attraction to this festival is the opportunity for a new band to open the festival. With the long line up of talented artists, the festival is sure to attract more people this year. So, do not hesitate to grab the opportunity to see all the major bands performing at a place with out the hassle of going to different places to see them perform.

The parents of pop star Britney Spears were shocked to discover that their daughter was released from the psychiatric hospital against her doctor’s advice. They released a joint statement stating that they were very disappointed that Spears was given permission to go out when she was supposedly on a 14-day hold and not allowed to be released. Spears’ parents are concerned that their daughter’s life may be at risk and are asking the courts to remedy the situation.

Spears left the psychiatric hospital quietly, without the paparazzi around her, and was later seen driving in Los Angeles with a yet unidentified man. She then went to the Beverly Hills Hotel where the paparazzi spotted her and promptly surrounded her car. Because of the disturbance caused by this event, police officers had to be dispatched to keep the order.

Many new stories about Spears have come up lately. One of them is her having breast implants as a teenager, with her mom’s consent. Spears later on regretted the implants because her chest size was still growing, and eventually she had the implants removed. There were also stories that in her early career, her label bribed her to work around the clock. A source said that she would work straight for several days, 20 hours a day.