The Strokes to make UK festival comeback with Jay-Z (Yahoo! Music)

Record labels seeking profits in T-shirts, tours (Reuters)

Carly Simon rebounds by revisiting old songs (AP)

AP - Carly Simon felt like quitting the music business last year after a once-promising relationship with a record label ended in a messy breakup. But she now feels reinvigorated after her son, Ben Taylor, pushed her to make an indie album, "Never Been Gone," on which she revisits her most famous songs.

"Idol" creator launches new multimedia show (Reuters)

Reuters - Entertainment mogul Simon Fuller, the creator of TV contest "American Idol", on Wednesday announced a new, multimedia reality show distributed on the Internet, radio and social networking sites.