azcentral.com – Madonna and Jesus Luz are planning a Kabbalah commitment ceremony.

The Brazilian model’s father Luis Heitor Pinto da Luz has revealed the couple are planning a Kabbalah ceremony to have their union recognized by the mystical Jewish faith followed by the 50-year-old singer.

However, their union will not be legally binding.

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9News Colorado – Jane’s Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell is recovering from a torn calf muscle he suffered on stage at a concert in Atlanta.

The creator of the Lollapalooza music festival hurt himself during the first song Sunday night at Lakewood Amphitheatre but was able to finish the show.

According to a statement from the band’s publicist, he was taken by ambulance to Atlanta Medical Center after the show.

Doctors told him to stay off the leg for several days, but Farrell says he still plans to perform as planned Tuesday night in Austin, Texas.

The influential alternative band, best known for its 1990 album “Ritual de lo Habitual,” broke up a year later but reunited with its original lineup last year and is touring with Nine Inch Nails.

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NY Daily News – “American Idol” judge Paula Abdul has been hiding a dark and painful secret for 12 years, she says in an upcoming issue of Ladies Home Journal.

She was an addict, straight up, she finally admits.

“I could have killed myself,” the fairy godmother of aspiring pop singers said as she revealed a dependency on powerful pain killers that she finally kicked last November.

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Cnn – On a warm night in Atlanta, the progressive bluegrass string band Trampled by Turtles quietly unloads its instruments from a modest, nondescript white touring van.

Just another night, just another town for the band from Duluth, Minnesota.

The band is opening for another group, the Hackensaw Boys, at the 300-person-capacity Smith’s Olde Bar. The band members are hoping to draw a few new fans in what’s been a challenging economic environment. After all, for lesser-known bands — especially ones that play progressive bluegrass, far from the watchful eye of the American pop charts — it’s often word of mouth that inspires music fans to come out.

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ToplessRobot.com – By now you’ve probably seen the YouTube videos in which an uncharacteristically dour Kermit the Frog covers songs by Nine Inch Nails, Elliott Smith and Radiohead. As hilarious as these unauthorized “Sad Kermit” videos are, they also bring to mind some of the more downbeat musical moments from the real Muppets’ history. Sure, everybody remembers “Mahna Mahna,” but what about the bittersweet symphonies that so often took center stage during The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock?

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AUSTIN, Texas – Invading South By Southwest, Metallica attempted to pose as one of the hundreds of smaller bands there just hoping to get a record deal.

“We’re a young band from Norway and we want to get signed,” Metallica frontman James Hetfield told the audience at the heavy metal band’s SXSW performance Friday night.

It was a widely expected but not officially announced show at a venue (Stubb’s) that for a band like Metallica is downright minuscule, holding about 2,100 people. The band played for slightly more than an hour, performing both classics and, as Hetfield called it, “new stuff” off their 2008 album “Death Magnetic” — a disc widely considered a return to form for the 28-year-old group.

But despite Hetfield’s mock camouflage (and poor Norwegian accent), Metallica stood out on the SXSW landscape Friday. With more than 50 million albums sold, Metallica has probably outsold the other 1,900-plus bands at SXSW combined.

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