ContactMusic — Veteran producer Quincy Jones has launched a new venture to promote music throughout the Middle East and Northern Africa. The 27-time Grammy Award winner, the mastermind behind Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Marvin Gaye's commercial successes, ha... more info

Reuters — RABAT (Reuters) - After a frenetic career as producer to Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson and many other music legends, 78-year-old Quincy Jones refuses to slow down and has just signed up for a new project in the Arab world. more info

Guardian Music — The evergreen soul and gospel singer reflects on her unique career, and how she became an accidental rave divaWhat are your memories of the disco era?The fondest memory I have is hanging out at Studio 54 with friends, coming home at 4am, sleeping all... more info

Guardian Music — Stadium of Light, SunderlandThe doom-mongery about the music business is put into sobering perspective by the eyewatering statistics concerning Take That's live reunion with Robbie Williams, touring with them for the first since 1995. Progress Live, ... more info

Guardian Music — The people who helped us put together the Guardian 2011 Music Power 100 listTo help us with the Music Power 100, we recruited a panel of senior music industry figures to help in the deliberations.• Geoff Travis set up the first Rough Trade record s... more info

Guardian Music — Barry Gibb unveils 30-second clip on YouTube featuring him writing and recording a protest song with Jackson in 2002The Bee Gees' Barry Gibb has unveiled footage of him recording an unreleased track with Michael Jackson in 2002. The video shows Jacks... more info

Popeater — Filed under: Music News, Celebrity Deaths, Michael Jackson, AOL Music With the world clamoring for posthumous Michael Jackson material, most of what has been unveiled so far has been mired in controversy for one reason or another. The Bee Gees' Barry... more info

ContactMusic — Bee Gees frontman Barry Gibb has released a clip of a never-before-heard song he recorded with late pal Michael Jackson, insisting they "loved collaborating" together. Gibb teamed up with the King of Pop in December 2002 and caught their meeting o... more info

TMZ — Filed under: Katherine Jackson, Blanket Jackson, Prince Michael Jackson, Paris Jackson, Willow Smith, Jaden Smith, Kids Jaden and Willow Smith didn't just bump into MJ's kids on a movie set in L.A. yesterday --... more info

Perez Hilton — Most people never had the privilege of meeting the King of Pop, much less collaborating with him. Barry Gibbs had the extreme honor of doing both and just put up a never-before-seen video of him working with Michael Jackson in the studio to commemora... more info