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If you missed Madonna's record-breaking Sticky & Sweet Tour (its $408 million gross is the highest for a solo artist), check out the new premium channel Epix tomorrow -- available on Verizon FiOS -- for its debut with a Madonna concert culled from her multinight stand in Buenos Aires. A DVD is reportedly in the works for release by the end of the year. . . . Lilith Fair is returning in 2010, and D.C., Philadelphia and New York are among the first cities announced as tour stops. The all-female fest, which was a huge success in the late-'90s, also has a new Web site, http://www.lilithfair.com. . . . On Monday at 11 p.m., the Fuse network will premiere "Nirvana Live at Reading," a 1992 concert that's finally getting its official release. Then on Tuesday, a CD-DVD set of the show, featuring 25 songs, arrives. . . . Also Monday, Ozzy Osbourne and his wife, Sharon, will be the celebrity guest hosts on WWE's "Monday Night RAW." The Ozz has a biography, "I Am Ozzy," coming Jan. 25. . . . Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band debuted the tune "Wrecking Ball" when they played the last-ever shows at Giants Stadium this month. Now, an audio single and video bundle are available at iTunes. On TV

Today: Tim McGraw visits Ellen DeGeneres; Weezer plays for David Letterman; The Swell Season comes to Conan O'Brien; Rod Stewart performs for Jimmy Kimmel.

Tomorrow: Rick Springfield hangs with Ellen; Andrew Bird is on Jimmy Fallon; Slipknot rocks Kimmel. Album news

A 45-track collection, "Kenny Rogers: The First 50 Years," is now available. The collection includes three new songs -- one a collaboration with Dolly Parton. . . . Fall Out Boy releases a best-of set, "Believers Never Die," on Nov. 17. The set includes a new song, bonus tracks and a DVD collection of the band's videos. . . . Also Nov. 17 comes the debut from Them Crooked Vultures (Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones), as well as Leona Lewis' sophomore effort, "Echo." . . . Lifehouse's fifth studio album, "Smoke & Mirrors," will arrive Dec. 8. The first single is called "Halfway Gone." . . . On Feb. 16, Juliana Hatfield brings "Peace and Love," which she produced and engineered herself and on which she played all the instruments. -- Melissa Ruggieri From Staff, Internet and Wire Reports

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