LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Carrie Underwood was the top honoree at Wednesday night's fan-voted CMT Music Awards, winning the climactic video of the year honor as well as female video of the year for "Drinking Alone."

LONDON (Reuters) - British punk band The Damned has reformed in its original line-up after more than three decades and the members, all now in their mid-60s, will hit the road for a one-off tour next July.

LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - British punk band The Damned has reformed in its original line-up after more than three decades and the members, all now in their mid-60s, will hit the road for a one-off tour next July.

LONDON (Reuters) - Paul McCartney will release "McCartney III" in December, a new collection of stripped-back songs all written, performed and produced by the ex-Beatle, 50 years after his first solo album.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Top Latin recording artist J Balvin will headline this year's Halloween-night party in Epic Games' "Fortnite," which will be simulcast on the Epic-owned Houseparty social app.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Flora Villareal, 67, part of a cohort of Cubans who graduated from an experimental piano tuning program for the blind and visually impaired in 1970, is still plying her trade half a century later.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - In one of the first big-scale livestreams by a major artist since the pandemic began, Billie Eilish will perform a reconfigured version of the set from her postponed "Where Do We Go?" tour this weekend.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Spencer Davis, the veteran British rock musician renowned for hits that bore his name but he did not sing, died in a hospital Monday while being treated for pneumonia, his agent told the BBC.

LONDON, Oct 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forbidden by her global superstar mother Gloria Estefan from coming out as a lesbian to her grandmother, singer Emily Estefan said she contemplated suicide.