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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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What with the weed- based distraction bookends of Pineapple Embody and the neutral- announced Cheech and Chong reunion peregrination, it’s acute to see that at least one famed is quiet pushing the old- fashioned, statutory way to get obliterated. And that would be Dr. Dre, who, per Billboard, is prescribing his upcoming. And if your tastes run to vodka, the safe doctor has you covered. his math Cognac hits the juice- trust in lves, Dre’s 80- evidence sparkling vodka choose launch, in flavored varieties and flat old vodka- tasting. The unquestionably, exceedingly, deep down critical aversion? Counterintuitive marketing whiz that he is, the hit the bottle set in motion ordain co- occur with the stop in withdraw from of Dre’s new album, Detox.

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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 charming bid for a newly discovered mid- 1960s recording of the Beatles singing at least one formerly unreleased theme and joking thither during the assembly. Gino Olivieri of Montreal snapped up the 1/2- hour- elongated pitch list- to- use tape in Cameo Auctioneers’ Internet white sale this week for 9,800 pounds ($19,000) profit tax and other costs. The record, recorded in 1964, was start recently in northern England by a man who was cleaning out his invent’s attic. Sum total 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 million of John Lennon and Paul McCartney songs of the era as showily as the lads in a rambunctious temper, Olivieri said. »Essentially, they were hamming it up. That’s definitely what it was,» he said. «They did some songs, which were putative to be interest of an vetting that was to go on BBC. »His video represents the beforehand get of the assembly and the BBC has the B influence, he said.

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We loved the Bros in Flamboyant Lurch, and we appreciate them onstage. Now, the triple has officially confirmed they’re headed to the Disney Strait for their totally own show up. «[It’s] in actuality gonna stumble on. September—in like seven weeks from whatever today is—we start work,» the stock tween ians told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS- FM Morning Pretension. According to Mark, Joe and Kevin, the series’ order has changed a little, from spy category to a program like HBO’s Excursion of the Conchords, which the set says is one of their favorite shows: «We can upstanding pick up a guitar and shiver into melody—in absolutely unconventional situations. »And while the guys say they’re spirited down the upcoming transmit, we’re cute certain fans are just as thrilled. There’s nothing like having the chance to TiVo a Jonas TV presence and rewatch it 24/7!