Indie Acts Gear Up For Festival Season (Yahoo! Music)
Yahoo! Music - Rock festival season is underway, with Coachella and Bonnaroo already over, the Warped and Ozzfest tours traveling from coast to coast, and Chicago's Lollapalooza and New Jersey's All Points West events around the corner in early August.

ABBA foursome makes rare appearance (Reuters)

Reuters - All four members of supergroup ABBA appeared together on Friday at the Swedish premiere of the film "Mamma Mia!," delighting fans with their first public showing for years.

Former Whitesnake guitarist dies (Reuters)

Reuters - Fellow musicians have paid tribute to Mel Galley, former guitarist in British hard rock band Whitesnake who died of cancer this week aged 60.

Springsteen Remembers Madam Marie (E! Online)

E! Online - It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that Bruce Springsteen fans are in mourning.

Eminem Sued for Bathroom Brawl (E! Online)

E! Online - He might be MIA, but that doesn't stop trouble from finding Eminem.

Rock musician Natasha Shneider dies of cancer (Reuters)

Reuters - Singer/songwriter Natasha Shneider, who collaborated with former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and rock band Queens of the Stone Age, died Tuesday of cancer.

Hizzoner, the Mayer of Fibbington (E! Online)

E! Online - With rumors spreading like wildfire, perhaps the best thing to do is spread some more...kinda like firemen setting a backfire to sap a blaze's energy. Maybe that's John Mayer's strategy, because he told the crowd at his St. Louis show last night:

Gospel singer Wright hurt in Pa. car accident (AP)
AP - Gospel singer Timothy Wright was critically injured in a crash in central Pennsylvania that killed his wife and a wrong-way driver who hit their vehicle, police said.

Kylie Minogue receives OBE (Reuters)

Reuters - Kylie Minogue, the former soap actress who become one of the world's most famous female recording artists, was honored for her services to music on Thursday.

Barbershop faces a discord among members (AP)

AP - As thousands of singers converge on Nashville for an international convention of barbershop harmony music, the old-fashioned music style is facing discord among its fans.