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Music News for January 9, 2009

MTV holds its first African music awards (AP)

AP - Two Nigerian singers won top awards Saturday as MTV held its first-ever music award program for Africa, with acts from across the world's poorest continent being nominated for prizes.

Guns N' Roses not bringing "Democracy" to China (Reuters)

Reuters - Guns N' Roses fans in China will have to go underground to get their hands on a copy of the band's first album in 17 years, "Chinese Democracy," which will be released worldwide on Sunday.

Rob Zombie assembles box for "Corpses" (Reuters)

Reuters - Assembling the White Zombie boxed set "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" was "weird" and somewhat bittersweet for band founder Rob Zombie.

Britney Shows Up in Court to Talk Touring (E! Online)

Britney Shows Up in Court to Talk Touring(E! Online)E! Online - Maybe Britney Spears was just waiting for the madness to die downand the music to get turned up.


Slash releases video supporting gay marriage (Yahoo! Music)

Yahoo! Music - Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has released a video in support of gay marriage.

New Guns N' Roses album hits stores, a little late (Reuters)

Axel Rose, lead singer for the band Guns N' Roses, performs during a concert in Budapest in this file photo from June 1, 2006. (Karoly Arvai/Reuters)Reuters - The day many rock fans never expected to see in their lifetimes is nigh.


Spears makes unexpected appearance in court (AP)

In this Nov. 6, 2008, file photo, Britney Spears performs during Madonna's Sticky and Sweet tour at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)AP - Britney Spears made another cameo in the midst of her comeback — this time at a Los Angeles courtroom.


Duo Xtreme helps fuel rise of urban bachata (Reuters)

Reuters - Every once in a while, urban bachata duo Xtreme will dial up the fans that leave their phone numbers on the group's MySpace page.

U.K. band Franz Ferdinand "swings" on 3rd album (Reuters)

Reuters - Franz Ferdinand's 2005 album may have promised "You Could Have It So Much Better," but the sales figures begged to differ -- the band's second album failed to match the transatlantic success of its self-titled predecessor.

Screen Actors Guild to seek strike authorization (AP)

Actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, Alan Rosenberg, poses for a portrait in this March 17, 2003, file photo taken in Los Angeles. The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday Nov. 22, 2008 that contract talks with Hollywood studios has failed despite the help of a federal mediator and it will now ask its members to authorize a strike. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)AP - The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator.