Travis Barker From Hospital Bed: "Every Step's Huge" (E! Online)

E! Online - Three weeks after narrowly surviving a Learjet plane crash, Travis Barker has taken to his MySpace blog to thank fans for their support and to update them on his condition.

Vienna director sick, but good music saves opera (AP)

AP - Damnation was the dominant theme Saturday in a new Vienna State Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust. But redemption triumphed in the form of wonderful singing and a powerful orchestral performance.

ASCAP honors Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire (AP)
AP - Alan Jackson won songwriter/artist of the year honors for his hits "A Woman's Love" and "Small Town Southern Man" during the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers country awards Monday.

Stars come out to honor Pavarotti at Petra (Reuters)

Reuters - Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo and other stars of popular and classical music honored late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti at a star-studded concert in Jordan over the weekend.

Lisa Marie Presley gives birth to twins (AP)

AP - Lisa Marie Presley is a mom again. A publicist says the 40-year-old singer gave birth Tuesday to twin girls, whose names were not released. One baby weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and the other came in at 5 pounds and 2 ounces.

Please please me.. with no more mail, Ringo says (Reuters)

Reuters - Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has told fans to stop sending letters and requests for autographs, saying mail will be thrown away after October 20 because he has too much to do.

Neil Young preps "new" live set, delays "Archives" (Reuters)

Reuters - There's good news and bad news for long-suffering Neil Young fans.

With new "Black Ice," AC/DC turns off iTunes (Reuters)

Reuters - For those about to rock, AC/DC salutes you. Unless, that is, you want to buy the Australian heavy metal group's newest album, "Black Ice," on iTunes, or anywhere but Wal-Mart when it drops in record stores on October 20.

Lil' Kim Sued and Silenced (E! Online)

E! Online - Lil' Kim has a big problem on her hands.

Oscar loosens rules for music categories (Reuters)

Reuters - Reversing a year-old regulation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved the use of CDs of songs and scores in campaigns for the music Oscars.