AP - Singer-songwriter Yusuf enjoys the reaction he gets while driving his 1960s-vintage Volkswagen van though London — a vehicle he recently had custom-painted with artwork from his days as the artist known as Cat Stevens, including images depicting classic hits like "Peace Train" and "Moonshadow."

AP - Famous before age 14 for classical singing on a TV talent show. A debut album in the top 10 on British pop charts. What next?

Reuters - A number of Western musicians, most famously Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel, have embraced what is sometimes called world beat, a one-size-fits-all label that accommodates Latin, African, Arabic and even Appalachian genres. No one seems better suited to the task than Bela Fleck.

Reuters - Passion Pit's Ayad Al Adhamy knows that the speed with which his Boston-based electro-pop group has ascended from MySpace anonymity to buzz-bin ubiquity tends to make for prime backlash fodder. But the keyboardist insists that he and his bandmates aren't especially worried, thanks to one simple fact: They're not pretty boys.

We just saw Perry Farrell and his wife practically fuck onstage at Coachella. Things between members of Jane's Addiction aren't as amorous. In a Reuters interview yesterday, the band's frontman says tourmate Trent Reznor tried and failed to mediate after watching JA "explode" on each other in the studio. The silver lining, Perry says, is that at...