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Phil Spector Appealing

Dennis Riordan, attorney for Spector, notes that Judge Larry Fidler became a witness for the prosecution by giving his opinion on an expert testimony. What? The act of giving opinion is subjective to begin with and is rather difficult to prove.

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Scott Weiland At City Winery

The sold out show in NYC had Weiland fans lined up and chomping to see the performer in an intimate venue. A cheesey crooner act, in white jacket and shmarmy moves. Well that was the first set. Scott brought in his Christmas and from all reports the audience toughed it out.

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Heavy Drinking and Loud Music Linked

Pretty simplistic finding but it may just be the reason for all the ‘WOOHOO”ing you hear at most concerts. We have all encounterd a drunk stumbling idiot at a gig- well now they have legit explanation.

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David Bowie 1973 Footage Found

“I just couldn’t believe that I was the only one with it. I just thought you wouldn’t be mad enough to wipe a tape like that.” he continued with, “I didn’t realise that it had been wiped by the BBC.”

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Common, Maya Angelou And the "N" Word

Of course, he was singing the line of least resistance and Angelou hadn’t done her homework. Given the circumstance, she can blame herself if she finds it offensice. As for Commin, what a plank. He should have know better, it is as simple as that.

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New Edition 30 Year Anniversary Plan

“2012 is going to be an incredible year for us…. we just feel like our road to the 30th is going to be special because all of these different things that are in front of us. It’s just gonna be an incredible ride.”

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Barry Manilow Hospitalized

Before you go all ‘yuckin it up’ over Barry you have to consider some things. First off this guy has been around forever and although spray tanned and buffed up now he really was quite cool.

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Jimi Hendrix All Star Tribute Tour 2012

The lineup is unique to say the least- Robert Randolph, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, David Hidalgo and Caesar Rosas of Los Lobos? Keb’ Mo, Eric Johnson,Living Colour, Chris Layton and… Dweezil Zappa? An interesting group of performers to take on an enormous task of lending tribute to a rock and roll God.

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Paris Jackson To Star In Movie

What I still don’t understand is that how could these children go from never appearing in public without wearing burqa and veils to playing in movies? How did they manage to adapt so fast?

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Anthoney Raneri Flying Solo

“I’m doing a really cool solo tour in January and February.I promise it rules. It’s almost a full US tour, which I haven’t done solo wise. It’s a pretty extensive solo tour though with four guys from other bands.”

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New Years Rockin' Eve 2012

It’s on and on and huddled masses in Times Square and the dumb hats and well.. its just stupid. Those of you who have stood in those animal pens can attest to it- that aint fun its just cool to say you’ve done it

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JayZ At Carnegie Hall

The rappers foundation has been in process since 2003 with a mission of helping individuals facing economic hardships further his or her education at institutions of higher learning

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Fit Wit Fitty

Mr Cent certainly appears prison yard buff- what type of regime he will mentor should be interesting, but bet theres no trip to the “Candy Shop”

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Bon Iver And The Grammys

I kinda felt like going up there and being like: ‘Everyone should go home, this is ridiculous. You should not be doing this. We should not be gathering in a big room and looking at each other and pretending that this is important’

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Yusuf Islam's "Moonshadow" Musical in Melbourne

For those of you unfamiliar with Cat Stevens or Yusef Islam, its time to school yourself. One of the most soothing voices and most graphical lyrcists of all time. Islam has faced some opposition and rough press upon his religious conversion. He had made some controversial statements

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Lady Gaga Wants To Break Some Records

She wants to beat out U2 for the “highest grossing and most attended” tour … ever. Considering her cancelation schedule perhaps the most canceled date tour would work better? She has a target of 450 dates. It has never been done before, but she doesn’t think that’s a reason not to try it.”

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Jose Gonzalez Needs Your Villa

So José is looking for a quiet place to compose his music? And he thinks he could disturb the neighbors? He looks like a very quiet person himself, and his music is peaceful and comforting. So, José, my place is far from being a villa, but California is general really sunny

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PiL, Spring 2012

Now PiL, as well as a modified Sex Pistols have toured as of late. Actually its more like Johnny has stayed in the spot light as best as you can with no new material.

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Viva La Britney

“I want to return some of that love so I’ve decided to give my fans in Mexico a special night and perform my Femme Fatale show for free.”

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Ace Frehley, Broken

Ace Frehley legendary KISS guitarist has fallen at his home (this is sorta where I would go on a Life Alert tangent) and broken his wrist.

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David Bowie Denies Musical

The show, called ‘Heroes: The Musical’ was described as a futuristic fantasy, featuring various Bowie-esque characters like Major Tom, the starman and a ‘young dude’ called David

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