The Eagles will play what’s being touted as their first awards show performance on November’s Country Music Association Awards (their forthcoming Long Road Out of Eden hits stores October 30th). Though Don Henley performed with Trisha Yearwood in 1993 and the Eagles won the CMA prize for album of the year in 1994, the band hasn’t played together on the show before. Evidently everyone is still talking about the VMAs. In the latest issue of US Weekly, Sarah Silverman says calling Britney Spears’ children “adorable mistakes” during her opening monologue was “an innocuous joke” and that she’s embarrassed the drama escalated to the height that it did. Clear Channel Communications, Inc. has reached an agreement to sell the nation’s largest radio broadcasting company to a combination of equity firms for $19.5 billion, CMJ reports. The agreement comes almost a year after negotiations began, and Clear Channel also indicated it will sell off all of its television stations and 448 of its smaller radio stations. Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay has filed charges against the Swedish branches of several major labels, including Sony and Universal, claiming the labels used illegal tactics such as paying professional hackers in an attempt to shut it down. During an appearance on the Howard Stern Show yesterday, Nikki Sixx spoke on Tommy Lee’s recent departure from Mötley Crüe, insisting that since Kid Rock’s slap-fest partner isn’t the band’s singer or songwriter, the Crüe should be fine without him. Sixx added that he harbors no ill will toward Lee.
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