Natasha Bedingfield will release her third studio album, Strip Me, November 9, via Phonogenic/Epic Records. The title track will be released digitally September 21. Bedingfield will tour North America this fall and will support the release internationally in 2011…

LFO singer Rich Cronin died Wednesday (September after a five-year battle with acute myelogenous leukemia. He was 35. Cronin suffered a strong and died in a hospital. The group was best known for its 1999 hit single, “Summer Girls,” which reached the No. 3 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart…

KT Tunstall will hit the road in support of her forthcoming album, Tiger Suit, which hits store shelves October 5. The tour kicks off in Portland, Oregon, October 31, and runs through a December 1 performance in New York City. Hurricane Bells will provide support during the tour…

Katy Perry will be the musical guest when Saturday Night Live kicks off its 36th season on NBC, September 25. Parks and Recreation and former SNL star Amy Poehler will host the season-opener…

In conjunction with the release of Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, and the Toronto International Film Festival debut of The Promise: The Making of ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town, the publisher of the companion book, The Light In Darkness has announced that any orders shipped during the festival (September 9 – September 19) will receive a $5 shipping discount. The book can be purchased directly from the publisher at the book’s official Web site…

Rise Against will release their new DVD, Another Station, Another Mile, October 5, via DGC/Interscope Records. The DVD, will be available worldwide, and the digital release will be available via iTunes…

Sarah McLachlan, who recently completed her headlining run on the Lilith 2010 tour, has announced a fall tour, which will kick off November 1, in Dallas, Texas.

The Sarah and Friends tour will consist of two sets: One with McLachlan sitting in on songs with her guest performers, and a second set of McLachlan’s greatest hits and  new tracks from her most recent album, Laws Of Illusion.

During the shows, McLachlan will answer questions from the audience. Fans will have the opportunity to submit questions upon their arrival at the show, which McLachlan will choose from the stage.

McLachlan’s guests have not yet been announced.

The current itinerary for Sarah McLachlan’s Sarah and Friends tour follows:

November 1 – Dallas, TX (Verizon Theatre (at Grand Prairie))
November 2 – Houston, TX (Verizon Wireless Theatre)
November 3 – Austin, TX (Austin Music Hall)
November 5 – Birmingham, AL (Alabama Theatre)
November 6 – Biloxi, MS (IP Casino)
November 8 – Nashville, TN (Ryman Auditorium)
November 9 – Columbus, OH (Palace Theatre)
November 10 – Cincinnati, OH (Taft Theatre)

Rihanna sends her fans in a fenzy over her new single, “Only Girl (In The World),” from her upcoming album, Loud, produced by Stargate. The album is scheduled to be released this November in the United States.

Rihanna
“Only Girl (In The World)”
(Def Jam Records)

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“In the Dark,” the first preview from JoJo’s upcoming mixtape Can’t Take That Away From Me, premiering September 7. This is the first offering from the singer in almost four years which premiered on Rap-Up.com.

Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story, November 16.

The collection will be released in a Deluxe Package, consisting of more than six hours of film and more than two hours of audio. The three-CD/three-DVD set (also available as a three-CD/three-Blu Ray disc set), will include an 80-page notebook containing facsimiles from Springsteen’s original notebooks from the recording sessions, which include alternate lyrics, song ideas, recording details, and personal notes in addition to a new essay by Springsteen and never-before-seen photographs.

The deluxe package includes Darkness on the Edge of Town remixed digitally for the first time. as well as The Promise: The Making of Darkness on The Edge of Town, a documentary directed by Thom Zinny which will debut at the Toronto International Film Festival. Also included is more than four hours of live concert footage, including the bootleg house cut from a 1978 Springsteen show in Houston, Texas; video from the Thrill Hill Vault; and HD video of a 2009 performance at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Paramount Theater of the Darkness album performed in order.

The set will also be available as The Promise, a two-CD or four-LP collection including lyric s and the new essay from Springsteen.

The track listing for Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story follows:

CD 1: Darkness on the Edge of Town (remastered)
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

CD 2: The Promise (Disc 1)
1. Racing In The Street (’78)
2. Gotta Get That Feeling
3. Outside Looking In
4. Someday (We’ll Be Together)
5. One Way Street
6. Because The Night
7. Wrong Side Of The Street
8. The Brokenhearted
9. Rendezvous
10. Candy’s Boy

CD 3: The Promise (Disc 2)
1. Racing In The Street (’78)
2. Gotta Get That Feeling
3. Outside Looking In
4. Someday (We’ll Be Together)
5. One Way Street
6. Because The Night
7. Wrong Side Of The Street
8. The Brokenhearted
9. Rendezvous
10. Candy’s Boy

DVD 1: The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town

DVD 2: Darkness on the Edge of Town (Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ 2009)
1. Badlands
2. Adam Raised A Cain
3. Something In The Night
4. Candy’s Room
5. Racing In The Street
6. The Promised Land
7. Factory
8. Streets Of Fire
9. Prove It All Night
10. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Thrill Hill Vault (1976-1978)
1. Save My Love (Holmdel, NJ 76)
2. Candy’s Boy (Holmdel, NJ 76)
3. Something In The Night (Red Bank, NJ 76)
4. Don’t Look Back (NYC 78)
5. Ain’t Good Enough For You (NYC 78)
6. The Promise (NYC 78)
7. Candy’s Room Demo (NYC 78)
8. Badlands (Phoenix 78)
9. The Promised Land (Phoenix 78)
10. Prove It All Night (Phoenix 78)
11. Born To Run (Phoenix 78)
12. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) (Phoenix 78)

DVD 3: Houston ‘78 Bootleg House Cut
1. Badlands
2. Streets Of Fire
3. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City
4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
5. Spirit In The Night
6. Independence Day
7. The Promised Land
8. Prove It All Night
9. Racing In The Street
10. Thunder Road
11. Jungleland
12. The Ties That Bind
13. Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
14. The Fever
15. Fire
16. Candy’s Room
17. Because The Night
18. Point Blank
19. She’s The One
20. Backstreets
21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
22. Born To Run
23. Detroit Medley
24. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
25. You Can’t Sit Down
26. Quarter To Three

The Posies have announced that they will tour the United States, starting November 5, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in support of their new album, BLOOD/CANDY.

The band will co-headline the tour with Brendan Benson, and both acts will be supported by Aqueduct,.

Prior to their U.S. dates, The Posies will be on tour in Europe from September 28 through October 26.

The itinerary for The Posies tour of the United States follows:

November 5 – Milwaukee, WI (Turner Hall Ballroom)
November 6 – Chicago, IL (Bottom Lounge)
November 7 – Newport, KY (Southgate House)
November 9 – Detroit, MI (Majestic Theatre)
November 10 – Columbus, OH (Outland Live)
November 11 – Millvale, PA (Mr. Small’s Theatre)
November 12 – Rochester, NY (Water Street Music Hall)
November 13 – New York, NY (Highline Ballroom)
November 14 – Philadelphia, PA (Trocadero)
November 16 – Boston, MA (Royale)
November 17 – Washington, DC (9:30 Club)
November 18 – Carrboro, NC (Cat’s Cradle)
November 19 – Nashville, TN (Exit/In)
November 20 – Atlanta, GA (The Loft)
November 21 – Memphis, TN (Minglewood Hall)
November 24 – Dallas, TX (Granada Theater – The Posies and Aqueduct only)
November 26 – Austin, TX (La Zona Rosa)
November 27 – Houston, TX (Argentum)
December 1 – Englewood, CO (Gothic Theatre)
December 3 – Los Angeles, CA (Club Nokia at L.A. Live)
December 5 – San Francisco, CA (The Independent)
December 8 – Portland, OR (Aladdin Theater)
December 11 – Seattle, WA (Showbox at the Market)

Lifehouse will hit the road in October for a six-week tour of the United States in support of their fifth album, Smoke & Mirrors, which the band released earlier this year.

The tour will kick off October 15, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, and wrap November 24, in Portland, Oregon.

American Idol season eight winner Kris Allen has been tapped as the support act for the tour.

The itinerary for Lifehouse’s U.S. tour follows:

October 15 – Mashantucket, CT (MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods)
October 16 – Boston, MA (Orpheum Theatre)
October 17 – New York, NY (Roseland Ballroom)
October 20 – Philadelphia, PA (Electric Factory)
October 23 – Atlantic City, NJ (The Tropicana)
October 24 – Washington, DC (Constitution Hall)
October 26 – Atlanta, GA (Tabernacle)
October 29 – Springfield, MO (O’Reilly Family Event Center)
October 30 – Norman, OK (Choctaw Casino & Resort)
October 31 – Houston, TX (Verizon Wireless Theater)
November 2- Dallas, TX (Palladium Ballroom)
November 4 – Kansas City, MO (Uptown)
November 5 – Chicago, IL (Chicago Theatre)
November 8 – Detroit, MI (The Fillmore)
November 9 – St. Louis, MO (The Pageant)
November 11 – Milwaukee, WI (Eagles Ballroom)
November 12 – Des Moines, IA (Val-Air Ballroom)
November 14 – Denver, CO (Ogden Theatre)
November 15 – Salt Lake City, UT (In The Venue)
November 16 – Reno, NV (Knitting Factory)
November 18 – Los Angeles, CA (Gibson Amphitheatre)
November 19 – Las Vegas, NV (The Joint)
November 20 – Temecula, CA (Perchanga Resort & Casino)
November 21 – San Francisco, CA (Nob Hill Masonic Center)
November 23 – Seattle, WA (WaMu Theater)
November 24 – Portland, OR (Roseland Theater)

Bob Dylan will release The Witmark Demos, the ninth volume of his Bootleg Series, October 19, via Columbia Records.

The 47-track collection was recorded between 1962 and 1964. Included in the collection are early versions of Dylan classics like “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”

Also included in the set are 15 songs recorded exclusively for the collection.

Columbia/Legacy will also release Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings, a box set of his first eight albums, reproduced from their first-generation mono mixes. The October 19 release will reproduce his albums from 1962’s self-titled debut to 1967’s John Wesley Harding.

The track listing for Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series Volume 9 – The Witmark Demos follows:

Disc 1
Man On The Street (Fragment)
Hard Times In New York Town
Poor Boy Blues
Ballad For A Friend
Rambling, Gambling Willie
Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
Standing On The Highway
Man On The Street
Blowin’ In The Wind
Long Ago, Far Away
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Tomorrow Is A Long Time
The Death of Emmett Till
Let Me Die In My Footsteps
Ballad Of Hollis Brown
Quit Your Low Down Ways
Baby, I’m In The Mood For You
Bound To Lose, Bound To Win
All Over You
I’d Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day
Long Time Gone
Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues
Masters Of War
Oxford Town
Farewell

Disc 2
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
Walkin’ Down The Line
I Shall Be Free
Bob Dylan’s Blues
Bob Dylan’s Dream
Boots Of Spanish Leather
Walls of Red Wing
Girl From The North Country
Seven Curses
Hero Blues
Whatcha Gonna Do?
Gypsy Lou
Ain’t Gonna Grieve
John Brown
Only A Hobo
When The Ship Comes In
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Paths Of Victory
Guess I’m Doing Fine
Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Mama, You Been On My Mind
Mr. Tambourine Man
I’ll Keep It With Min

In an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music, to be aired Tuesday night (August 24), Fantasia Barrino admits that she was trying to commit suicide when she recently overdosed on prescription medicine.

“I didn’t have any fight in me,” she said. “I didn’t care about anything. I just wanted out. At that moment I wanted out. I wanted it to be over with — all of it, all of that s–t.”

She also admitted that the overdose was no accident.

“I just sat in the closet and looked at the mirror and took all the pills in the bottle. I wanted to go to sleep and just be at peace. I knew exactly what I was doing. You can’t accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.

When she awoke in the hospital, she remembered thinking, “It didn’t work. I’m still here in this hellhole with all this drama going on.”

The singer said that a nurse in the hospital helped to change her outlook.

“She told me what I needed to hear. And she looked at me and said, ‘You gotta get up, and you’ve gotta get out of here, ’cause you haven’t fulfilled your destiny.’

“I realized how people end up in the grave. Because that one moment of just breaking or feeling like I can’t, I can’t go on, it’s too heavy. That was somewhere I don’t ever want to go again.”

Madonna is being sued over her new fashion line, Material Girl. The latest line which is a joint venture between her and daughter Lordes Leon launched at Macy’s earlier this summer. In court documents posted on Radar, L.A. Triumph says, “Between 1997 and present day, L.A. Triumph and its predecessor have sold millions of dollars of the Material Girl brand of clothes in commerce throughout the United States and have spent large sums in its promotion and advertisement.” L.A. Triumph claims they have registered Material Girl name on its own clothing since 1997.

Entertainer Wyclef Jean is planning on fighting the decision made by the Haitian electoral board, which found him ineligible to run for president of Haiti. “After careful consideration and much soul-searching, I have made the decision to contest Haiti’s board of election’s pronouncement stating that I am ineligible to run for the presidency of the country,” he adds, “I will be seeking a solution through legal channels, and I urge my countrymen to be patient through this process. In the 36 hours since the board’s decision, I have been in constant conversation with my family, friends and advisers, and reading the comments of good people and supporters throughout the Haitian diaspora. I’ve also been closely monitoring the situation on the ground, which I am happy to report has remained peaceful and thoughtful. I, along with my supporters, am deeply disappointed that I have been denied the chance to present my candidacy to Haiti’s voters. I want to continue in my efforts to always keep Haiti top of mind for the world–I don’t want to give anyone the chance to forget the earthquake victims, or my impoverished homeland, rich only in human potential and kindness.”

R&B singer Faith Evans was arrested on Saturday after being stopped at a “drunken driving” checkpoint in Los Angeles. Officer Cleon Joseph says Evans was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor drunken driving. Her car has been impounded and she was released on bail Sunday morning. A VH1 reality series chronicling Evans’ life is currently in production, while  her new album is scheduled for release in October.