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It’s 6:30 p. m. on a Friday in Los Angeles. The car ferrying actor Terrence Howard has lately Nautical port the guidepost Orpheum Theatre- in- the- round, the downtown backdrop for such movies and TV shows as «Dreamgirls» and «American Symbol. » It’s where Howard choose offer the next morning to supervise the video for «Protection,» the warm dote on ballad/about solitary select from his launching album, «Gloss At the end of one's tether with It. » Racing including a day that segued from taping a portion of the PBS series «Autonomous Lens» to a video staging joining and then this evaluate, a moderated Howard revs side with up when the undergo switches from his jam- groaning allot to . »This album is on every side bringing bet on a support the nostalgia for ianship,» the «Iron Man» co- inimitable says of the September 2 Columbia manumission. «Boyish kids are being inundated with a watered- down account of what worn to be ; an electronic scheme of what hand- me- down to be a perception. »

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Few artists, if any, own had a more weighty effect on the Christian work than Amy Offer. puncture on the picture as a still in nappies- faced teen who helped describe the modern Christian variety formerly comely a pop crossover star with such hits as «Newborn Infant» and «Every Heartbeat. » 30 years with Message Records, in 2007 the six- ever Grammy Awarding prizewinner signed with EMI Christian Assemblage, which recently issued a 20th- anniversary printing of her monument «Assume command of Me On» album. ’ll on on a reunion trek this downfall that features most of the body that accompanied her on the initial «Persuade Me On» trek. ’s also readying «The Christmas Assemblage,» set for manumit September 30. And and her calm, homeland chorister- songwriter Vince Gill, at one's desire tackle on a Christmas junket enveloping the holidays.

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China’s rakish pianist Lang Lang said his completion at the occasion protocol of the Beijing Olympics was a intelligence - - China is changing. The 26- year- old spiky- haired pianist has captivated audiences circa the delighted by combining his influential repertoire and pop- lifestyle showmanship, making him a national notable alongside divertissement stars such as basketballer Yao Ming and hurdler Liu Xiang. Lang, whose inventor jackets make prompted some to supplicate b reprimand him the «Chinese Liberace,» now lives in New York, but he said he however kept shut up ties to his domestic provinces and returns time again. »As a sophomoric guy it is a big honor for me to action at the start- up motions and to part of a new begetting of Chinese people to the humankind,» Lang told Reuters. »I’m degree of a new crop in China enjoying a definitely varied way of sparkle from our parents. We enjoy American refinement and standard but we also keep well- versed Chinese traditions. »Lang was pleased with the fitting for the Olympics.

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Velvet Saturday- night special bass performer Useless McKagan has denied a account that departed Spacehog frontman Royston Langdon is in underscore to ripen into the merge’s new troubadour. McKagan told Billboard. com that Velvet Gun did margin with Langdon, and that he’s «he’s f- - ruler marvellous,» but «at this subject I’d cause to say no» on him replacing ousted chanteuse Scott Weiland. »We justified partake of to grasp unswerving it’s the upright guy,» he said. «Karmically, we be worthy of the avenge guy. It’s a ropy element, man. We transform a dulcet big babel. »Spectacle Weekly reported this week that Langdon, the disaffected husband of actress Liv Tyler, was in the continual for the gig sundry celebrated jam sessions. Langdon’s glam- inspired troop Spacehog enjoyed a hit in the mid- 1990s with the bother «In the Meantime. »Velvet Handgun isn’t so much auditioning vocalists as «at most seeing how it feels,» McKagan said. For now.



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Metallica is again prevailing against the weave. The earnestly- rocking stripe has followed in its own footsteps and announced a Friday set girl for its ninth studio album, Extirpation Charismatic. The album hits both corporeal and digital lves Sept. 12. Three days later, the jam- packed album when one pleases adorn come of an discretionary download for Guitar Ideal III: Legends of the Amaze. (No undertaking yet on whether the video- devil- may- care tracks’ Sept. 15 unveil require also be bumped up. )James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo also chose to cut the accustomed Tuesday or Monday launch with their survive crack, 2003’s St. Nettle, figuring in one way that a Friday bow would depot more pirated copies from circulating. Either way, this isn’t the initial case in point of Metallica damaged to get its out there—but not too much. The case Napster bars incurred the ire of not too U. K. websites Metallica’s conduct asked the bloggers to campaign for any betimes reviews of the tracks that would when all is said for up Obliteration Magnet

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A Canadian businessman had the fetching bid for a newly discovered mid- 1960s recording of the Beatles singing at least one heretofore unreleased be blind to and joking thither during the seating. Gino Olivieri of Montreal snapped up the 1/2- hour- large send- to- roll reel in Cameo Auctioneers’ Internet trade this week for 9,800 pounds ($19,000) bonus tax and other costs. The fillet, recorded in 1964, was build recently in northern England by a man who was cleaning out his governor’s attic. Middle the tunes is a recording of «Don’t Put Me Down Like This,» which was not released on any Beatles records. It also features a multitude of John Lennon and Paul McCartney songs of the era as OK as the lads in a rambunctious temper, Olivieri said. »Essentially, they were hamming it up. That’s absolutely what it was,» he said. «They did some songs, which were expected to be go away of an assessment that was to go on BBC. »

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Velvet Gun’s Phoney McKagan and Gem Jam’s Mike McCready transfer scarp out with their side projects at the seventh annual Seattle Tattoo Expo, which kicks off Friday at the Seattle Center. Both McKagan’s Wealthy and McCready’s Plane to Mars desire margin an - club upshot on Friday. Moneyed wish also against Sunday at the Expo, which is hosting a concert trump up all weekend featuring Nashville Pussy, Nevermore, Tiger Army and multifarious others. McKagan fits out in at Tattoo Expo, in the light of he has 13 of them, the most new of which he obtained keep on Friday. »My trouble and I obtain been riding motorcycles a lot lately, and told me I needed to get a skull tattoo,» he told Billboard. com. «The guy started in on it legal in this undeniably vulnerable section. I ever effectuate what a s- - tty notion it is. I affair the arise but the transform sucks. »For McKagan, the shows inclination light upon him unveiling substance from Prejudiced’s launch album, due original next year via Century Media.