On April 29, an album of Johnny Clegg tunes covered by international artists will be available in iTunes.

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Australia WOMADELAIDE headline act Cesaria Evora has been forced to cancel her appearance after suffering a stroke in Sydney.

The 66-year-old singer from Cape Verde was due to star at Womadelaide tonight and tomorrow following Sydney Opera House performances earlier this week.

She was admitted to hospital for tests after feeling unwell for a few days.

A few days ago while browsing iTunes Music Store I found Vampire Weekend as one of my recommendations and I was hooked immediately. They have a unique sound blending Soukous guitars and other African styles with western classical and Ska-influenced indie rock. Their self titled debut album is my favorite album since Neon Bible.

Church musicians will mark Autism Sunday 2008 - the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger's Syndrome, on Sunday 10th February 2008. Churches of all denominations have bee asked to remember over 60 million people with autism around the world, in prayer.

'Nothing Works Twice' is the first official release from Projekt A-Ko's forthcoming debut album.

Lucky Dube, a reggae star who launched his career with criticism of the former apartheid government, was shot to death in an apparent carjacking attempt as he was dropping off his children, police and his Web site said Friday.

The 43-year-old singer was shot Thursday night after two men approached his car in Johannesburg's southern Rosettenville suburb, police spokesman Eugene Opperman said.

Joe Zawinul, the jazz keyboardist who soared to fame as one of the creators of jazz-rock fusion with the band Weather Report, has died early Tuesday. He was 75.

I spent the week at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, since I'm a Mac developer in real life. The hilight of the conference is the Thursday night Bash, which is traditionally held at Apple's campus in Cupertino and it usually featured a semi-well-known indie band.

Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz has three words to describe the New York via Ukraine punk rock on his band's forthcoming effort, "Super Taranta."

Jimi Mbaye