The 42-year-old had to cancel her Montreal show after she "got suddenly ill" during her sound check, her publicists said.

Jam! reports: Britney spears' paparazzo ex Adnan Ghalib is [REPORTEDLY] attempting to cash in on his relationship with the singer by selling off a sex tape allegedly featuring the star.

The tour, the band's first US tour in 3 years, kicks off on December 3 in Oakland, CA and includes the band's triumphant return to NYC's Madison Sq. Garden on December 17th.

BBC News reports: Sir Paul McCartney is to release an album of electronic music under his pseudonym The Fireman.

"Listen, there's nothing up with the audio quality," Ulrich said in an interview. "It's 2008, and that's how we make records. (Producer) Rick Rubin's whole thing is to try and get it to sound lively, to get it sound loud, to get it to sound exciting, to get it to jump out of the speakers. Of course, I've heard that there are a few people complaining. But I've been listening to it the last couple of days in my car, and it sounds f**kin' smokin'." Fans that disagree with this assessment have suspect some smokin' had been going on in the recording studio and it has nothing to do with the sound.

Country singer Mindy McCready will surrender to Tennessee authorities on Tuesday to begin serving a 60-day jail sentence for violating probation on a previous drug-related charge, her lawyer said. more

Muse have been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of Plymouth. The band, who hail from Teignmouth, returned to Devon to collect their awards in person last week (September 25). more

English band Coldplay and Welsh soul singer Duffy lead the MTV Europe Music Awards nominations on Monday with three apiece, followed by Britney Spears who was shortlisted in the best album and best act categories. more

Nearly 20 years since his debut novel, Nick Cave will put pen to paper for a second work of fiction, "The Death of Bunny Munro." Canongate has acquired world rights for the book, due in September 2009. The book traces the fortunes of one man and his son on a road trip around the south coast of England following the suicide of his wife. more

Steve Vai is offering a one-hour private guitar lesson for auction on eBay to benefit Allen Shellenberger, the drummer for rock band Lit. more

Former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach has posted a blog, detailing his victory on CMT's Gone Country 2. First we heard of it too. Read Bach's words here.

Kaiser Chiefs have announced a UK arena tour for next year. The band, who release third album 'Off With Their Heads' on October 20, will play across Britain in February and March 2009. more

Rise Against recently released the video for "Re-Education Through Labor", the first single from their upcoming release "Appeal To Reason". They also recently released a "making of" video for the video. You can check out both on their Myspace page

Former Jawbreaker and J Church drummer Adam Pfahler has resurfaced with another new project, this one is San Francisco-based three piece, A Black Light. more

Psyopus has disclosed the recent addition of vocalist Brian Woodruff. Yes, this is the second time they've announced a new singer this year. more

Tombs is in search of a new drummer (ASRA drummer Andrew Hernandez has been filling in as of late). The band comments: "We're looking for someone who is reliable, isn't addicted to drugs or alcohol"... Ok, that eliminates 90% of the potential candidates but if you passed the test so far, see what else you need for the gig here

Canadian rock/hardcore band Means has announced their break-up. Here's a statement from the band: "On October 26th we will be packing into the van one last time for a cross-Canada headlining tour. These will be our final shows together, and Means will be disbanding after a final performance scheduled for November 29th in Regina, SK." more

Dillinger Escape Plan: "Ben Weinman has been holed up like a mad scientist blasting out the furious Dillinger Escape Plan insanity that will eventually find it's way onto our next release. When Ben says that the stuff he's been writing has actually been giving HIM a headache, you know it's gonna be pretty intense." more

The group behind hits including "Awake" and "Here & Now" will play November 8 at The Roxy in Los Angeles, then December 8 and 9 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston (where the band formed two decades ago).

Singer Will Francis will also be releasing the debut album Hate Culture from his side project William Control on 28th October, 2008.

The self-released EP via Tigre Blanco Records will be available in two formats and feature newly recorded acoustic versions of fan favorites from the Seattle quintet's prolific career and one new track entitled "Guns & Ammo."

Topics include Hades, Watchtower, Seven Witches, Jack Frost, Non-Fiction, Dan Lorenzo, All Time Low, Steppin' Out Magazine, skiing, motorcycle riding, and Autumn Hour Project.

You'll recall Brit is set to stand trial for driving without a valid California license -- a case that has dragged on for a year. Remember, the crazy version of Britney struck a car in August of last year and the cops found she was driving with a Louisiana license in Los Angeles.

The UK is no doubt going to be experiencing a great live band. The Orange County Register (don't hold this against the band) wrote in a recent review of the group's show with the Fratellis (part of their current tour): "the real excitement this night came from a first encounter with opening act the Airborne Toxic Event, a striking quintet from the Los Feliz area that has been racking up next-big-thing talk from Rolling Stone and the L.A. press all year." [OC Register and Rolling Stone? Ouch! Where is the third strike going to come from? At least PitchDork didn't praise them.]

Too Bad Son: Will had written the bulk of this song and recorded it roughly on his PC and sent it to me as an MP3, I remember burning it on to disc and playing it over and over in my car when drove somewhere , it went days without any inspiration but then suddenly one day whilst driving something happened and the melody just appeared in my head. Scared about forgetting it I pulled over straight away and started filming myself on my phone sing the melody, I am not sure where that video is now but it would be YouTube gold if someone finds it haha .

The end of the song kinda just happened whilst in practice, we were just rehearsing the parts Will had written and when it got to the end of the breakdown I just played the notes out of instinct, the words and melody just came out of my mouth (close our eyes.....don't be frightened...) at that point too and we were all like "that's really catchy" , they were the first words that I sang to that melody and they just stuck, Lionel Ritchie refers to that happening as "Gods words" apparently, its funny how sometimes that stuff happens!