Briefly News and Comment: Janet Jackson, 'NSync tours

plus: "O Brother" tour. Aqua doesn't feel like it. The economics of videos.

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According to Madison Square Garden's website, Janet Jackson's Aug. 21 show at the New York venue has been moved to Aug. 20.

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Deborah Gibson, once Debbie Gibson , will open six shows for 'NSync, RollingStone.com reported. The shows are in Indianapolis; Pittsburgh; Columbus, Ohio; New Orleans; Jackson, Miss.; and El Paso, Texas.

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Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and producer T-Bone Burnett will be presenting the Down from the Mountain tour--featuring music from the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"--beginning in January. Musicians on the tour will include Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Patty Loveless and Ralph Stanley, among others.

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Danish pop group Aqua is taking a break, citing a "lack of motivation," the Associated Press reported.

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From the Financial Page of the New Yorker's current issue devoted to music:

... Most videos don't cut it. Last year, more than a thousand new ones were produced; MTV played around two hundred and fifty of them. ... The average music video now costs an estimated two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to make.

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