While 20-year-old Brit prodigy Joss Stone is adored by critics for her old-soul vocal imprint, she has yet to connect with stateside airwaves, simply because she hasn’t delivered a song that merits mainstream acceptance. That all changes with “Tell Me What We’re Gonna Do Now,” featuring Common. The vocal is at once cool and confident, while a summertime shuffle beat adds a contemporary air. At last, Stone graduates from engima to headliner. Ravishing. —Chuck Taylor

Joss, along with UB40, have been tapped to headline the Johannesburg leg of the Live Earth concerts, taking place on 7/7/07.

Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent series of 9 concerts taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.

For more information on Live Earth, visit www.liveearth.org.

The free, in-store series of mini concerts sponsored by radio station WQKL (107.1 FM) and the Borders store downtown has a couple more high-profile entries.

Just announced, Grammy Award winning R&B singer Joss Stone will perform at Borders, 612 E. Liberty St., at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 31. Stone won great acclaim and sales with her debut, “The Soul Sessions.” Her latest is “Introducing Joss Stone.” She plans to sign CDs after the performance.

Joss’ will be hosted by Martin Bandyke and will be broadcast live on “107one.” Information: 734-668-7652.

Today, Joss was on hand to unveil plans of a Grammy museum, which is scheduled to open next September. The museum, which will include a theater and exhibitions, is being built across the street from the Staples Center; the location for next year’s 50th annual Grammy Awards. Those awards will be broadcast live on CBS on Feb. 10, with nominees be announced on Dec. 6.

While at the ceremony, NARAS president Neil Portnow hand delivered Joss’ Grammy award for R&B performance by a duo or group. She was unable to attend the Grammy’s a few months back.

Pictures from today’s event have been added to the gallery here.

Introducing Joss Stone has been certified gold by the R.I.A.A. for half a million copies shipped in the Unite States.

The album, which was released by Virgin Records on March 20th, jumped from #25 to #16 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart this week, and is the only album in the Top 20 to enjoy a sales increase.

Congrats, Joss!

For Joss new video for “Tell Me What We’re Gonna Do Now” featuring Common, and directed by Sanaa Hamri (Prince, Mariah Carey), Joss has teamed up with Bono’s (RED) initiative, becoming the first artist to contribute 100% of her share of the proceeds from each copy of a video sold on iTunes to the Global Fund. The money (RED) raises for the Global Fund finances programs to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa, with an emphasis on women and children. (RED), which has raised over $25 million dollars in the past year, works with the world’s biggest brands to make unique (PRODUCT) RED-branded products and direct up to 50% of their gross profits to the Global Fund.

The clip, which encourages viewers to go to www.joinred.com, which received its world premiere on May 7th on VH1 Soul, VH1.com, and VH1Soul.com, will also debut on VH1′s Top 20 Countdown on May 12th at 9 a.m. In addition, the video has also been chosen as VH1 Soul’s “Soul Spotlight” and will receive more than 100 spins next week. The clip will be available for purchase on iTunes on June 6.