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Richard Gehr | May 11, 2007

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  • Inspired by Frank Sinatra, Prince, and probably one or two others, Bette Midler signs a two-year deal to be resident artist at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas beginning in February.

  • Barbra Streisand trades in Il Divo in favor of four Broadway heavyweights—Michael Arden, Peter Lockyer, Sean McDermott, and Hugh Panaro—for a European tour that begins June 21 in Vienna.

  • The Beatles were no less manufactured than the Monkees, according to Davy Jones. The former Monkee adds that, "I used to be a heartthrob. Now I'm a coronary."

  • Is country music alive or dead this week? CMT editor Chet Flippo considers the recent Stagecoach festival in California and the Country Music Hall of Fame medallion ceremony in Nashville and wonders.

  • Bob Dylan, Bjork, Wilco, the White Stripes, My Morning Jacket, the Arcade Fire Joss Stone, Lucinda Williams, and Crowded House will play the Austin City Limits Festival, which takes place September 14-16 in the Texas town's Zilker Park.

  • Jethro Tull's mostly acoustic, four-month North American tour begins September 24 in Calgary, Alberta. Singer-flutist Ian Anderson tells Live Daily that "his 'old ears have been ringing for most of the 39 years of Tull touring' and the lower volume means 'I can enjoy performing so much more'." With guitarist Martin Barre's still in the band, any volume should suffice.

  • The Boston Phoenix's Ted Drozdowski deems Wilco's new Sky Blue Sky "an outright masterpiece" and speaks with bandleader Jeff Tweedy about it.

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