Rihanna
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Rihanna, Ludacris and KT Tunstall have been added to ABC's "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2007." All three acts will perform at Nokia Theatre Times Square in New York. In the meantime, Lady Sovereign has hopped onto the roster for "MTV Goes Gold: New Year's Eve 2007," for which she'll join other performers Nas, Gwen Stefani, Ciara and more. The show airs live December 31 at 11 p.m. ET, with a tape delay on the West Coast. And last but not least, Ruben Studdard is playing a free New Year's Eve show in Hawaii. The Honolulu Symphony will join the "American Idol" winner for the event, dubbed Gospel Goes Classic. ...

Kelis hosted Trace magazine's 10-year anniversary bash Wednesday night at Room Service nightclub in Manhattan. The R&B vixen was joined by her husband Nas, "Project Runway" winner Jay McCarroll and current Miss Universe Zuleyka Rivera as they all toasted to the cultural mag reaching its diamond mark. Kelis, Snoop Dogg, supermodel Iman and Mya are set to appear in Trace's 10-year anniversary issue. ...

Harry Potter has a home in Georgia after all, The Associated Press reports. On Thursday (December 14), the state's Board of Education upheld a Gwinnett County school board decision denying a mother's request to have the volumes removed from library shelves. "It's mainstreaming witchcraft in a subtle and deceptive manner, in a children-friendly format," said Laura Mallory, the mother in question. She might challenge the board's ruling. ... Trick Daddy is hosting Christmas toy drives in Miami on the next two Saturdays in conjunction with his Trick Luvs Da Kids Foundation. Pitbull will also be in attendance. ...

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt aren't done adopting children, the actress told "Good Morning America" on Thursday, according to AP. "Now the questions are more when you have a mixed-race family, do you balance the races so there's another African person in the house for Z? So there's another Asian person in the house for Mad?" Jolie said, referencing Zahara and Maddox, two of the couple's three children. ... Katt Williams pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon and was sentenced to three years of probation on Thursday, AP reports. The Los Angeles judge also told him to pay restitution but gave him credit for the three days he spent in jail early last month. ...

Taking Back Sunday have recorded a version of "12 Days of Christmas" for AOL Sessions. A fan-made animated video is also circulating. ... Editors have released an EP of remixed tracks from The Back Room exclusively on iTunes. The U.K. rockers are currently recording their proper follow-up. ... The ultra-rare copy of The Velvet Underground & Nico that was "won" by a hoax bid last week is about to be up for auction on eBay once again. The LP, which was to be sold for $155,000, was expected to be back on the site Thursday afternoon. ...

After months of legal wrangling, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that "Alpha Dog" — a crime thriller starring Justin Timberlake — can be released in theaters January 12 despite objections from murder suspect Jesse James Hollywood, on whom the movie is based. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an attorney for Hollywood said he will file an appeal on the ruling based on his belief that releasing the film will make it impossible for his client to get a fair trial. The film, which also stars Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone, changes the characters' names, but Hollywood's attorney is concerned that the big-screen retelling of his client's alleged kidnapping and murder of California teen Nicholas Markowitz over a $1,200 drug debt could taint a jury pool. ...

According to a post written on Nine Inch Nails' Web site, not only is Trent Reznor hard at work on a new NIN album, but it's "possible" he's finished already. "We begin mixing in January," Reznor wrote on NIN.com. "Juggling fifteen all-new tracks around. Testing sequences. No leftovers from [2005's] With Teeth. Highly conceptual. Quite noisy. F---ing cool." ... Less than a week after an album's worth of demos she recorded as a gift for her pal Dave Sitek were leaked to the Internet, Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O has weighed in on the situation. Her take: "Sh-- happens." Writing on the YYYs' site, O took the high road — as opposed to Sitek, who practically wished karmic castration on those responsible for the leak of the KO at Home album. She said she felt "a little grossed out" by the idea of her song sketches hitting various file-sharing sites but shrugged the whole thing off and even ended her post with some advice for curious fans. "If you happen to get your mits on one of those old demos ... my personal favorites and the only ones I would have released for anyone to enjoy [are] 'Pumpkin' and 'Snakes and Worms,' " she wrote. "The rest I would have pitched or buried." ...

Slash and Chris Robinson were among the guests who popped up onstage with Jet at a Los Angeles club show over the weekend. Former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones also took part in the show, which ended in an all-star jam of the Faces' "Ooh La La." ... Army of Anyone will headline the 2007 installment of the annual SnoCore Tour, which kicks off in Houston on January 18. Hurt have been tapped to open. Dates are currently scheduled through February 8 in Hartford, Connecticut, with a full run of shows to be announced in the coming weeks. ... Hinder have rolled out a whole host of tour dates for the coming year. Two dozen stops have been scheduled from January 13 in Ketchum, Idaho, through February 23 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Black Stone Cherry and Finger Eleven will open on most of the dates. ...

Yoko Ono alleges that her chauffeur threatened to release private audiotapes and photographs and to kill her and her son, Sean Lennon, if she didn't give him $2 million, The New York Times reports. Koral Karsan, 50, who worked for Ono for 10 years, was arrested at his home in Amityville, New York, on Wednesday and was charged with attempted grand larceny, which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. Following his arrest, Karsan claimed that Ono had fabricated the charges to stop a sexual harassment suit. Police said the charges followed a confrontation with Ono in her apartment on Friday, in which Karsan presented Ono with a list of his complaints along with a photo of her in her pajamas and a tape that contained her "personal opinions on people and events." During a meeting on Tuesday, Karsan met with Ono's lawyer and allegedly demanded $2 million and threatened to kill Ono, Sean Lennon and himself if his demands were not met.

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Diddy and Snoop Dogg have rolled out the itinerary for their 18-city 2007 European tour. The co-headliners will open the trek with a March 12 gig in Oslo, Norway, and close it with an April 2 concert in Nottingham, England. Expect Diddy and Snoop to mine their respective new releases, Press Play and Tha Blue Carpet Treatment. ...

Dates for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' upcoming tour with openers Gnarls Barkley have been announced. The 17-date run will kick off in Oklahoma City on January 12 and wrap in Houston on March 7, with just one concert scheduled for February. The trek will make stops in Dallas (January 13); Nashville (January 17); Cincinnati (January 20); Washington, D.C. (January 25); Orlando, Florida (January 30); Des Moines, Iowa (March 2); and San Antonio (March 6). ...

There's more No Doubt on the way, Gwen Stefani tells MTV News, but she'd rather just revel in her Sweet Escape for now. "This record puts me on the yellow-brick road to the No Doubt record I might do. I can smell it. 'Sweet Escape' and some other melodies remind me of the No Doubt feeling." OK, so she can smell it, but when will we hear it? "They were in the studio earlier this year," Stefani said of her bandmates, "and I've been trying to get prepared. I didn't know creatively what kind of record we could do. I couldn't picture it, but now I have an idea in my head. But can't we just enjoy the moment? Everyone asks me what's going to happen next, but the album just came out a few days ago." ... AFI and Tenacious D are performing at Spike TV's Video Game Awards, set to air Wednesday (December 13) at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Samuel L. Jackson is hosting. ...

Daughtry will ring in 2007 from New York, performing on Fox's "New Year's Eve Live," hosted by Cat Deeley of "So You Think You Can Dance?" The band fronted by former "American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry will play their single "It's Not Over" live from a Times Square stage in New York. Toni Braxton will also perform on the special. ... Aretha Franklin is taking her life story to the stage, the Detroit Free Press reports. The Queen of Soul plans to turn her 1999 autobiography, "Aretha: From These Roots," into a touring stage production. The show will follow Franklin from her youth in Detroit through her friendships with Sam Cooke and Dinah Washington up to her status as an R&B icon. The singer said she will hold auditions to cast singers that will portray her at various stages. ...

Stephen Colbert has one regret about his controversial speech at the White House Correspondents Association dinner in April — he didn't go far enough. During "An Evening With 'The Colbert Report' " at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice Tuesday, the comedian revealed that, midway through his routine, he scrapped one joke because he thought it wouldn't go over well. "I thought, the president is always giving awards, it's time for him to get one," Colbert said, "and what's the highest award I could give him? A certificate of recognizance: 'That I, Stephen Colbert, recognize, you, George W. Bush, as the president.' I had the certificate handy and everything. I thought he could hang it on the fridge. Instead I have it hanging on my fridge, as my 'woulda, coulda, shoulda' award." ...

"Borat" has inspired yet another lawsuit — this time from a man who didn't even make it into the film. The Associated Press reported that a man claims in a suit that he was "accosted" in a South Carolina restaurant restroom by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who was posing in character as a bathroom attendant. The man, who is not named in the suit, seeks unspecified punitive damages and requests that the scene — which was featured as part of a Comedy Central movie special and made the Internet rounds — be excluded from the DVD release. ... George Clooney was in Egypt Wednesday lobbying the Egyptian government for support in helping the victims of Sudan violence, AP reports. He met with the foreign minister, as well as the son and wife of the country's president, to discuss relief options. Clooney, who visited China last week for similar discussions, is traveling with actor Don Cheadle and two former Olympians. ...

Clinic, Richard Swift, Vic Chestnutt, French Kicks, Earlimart, Autolux and Hella have entered the Noise Pop 2007 fold. The festival, celebrating its 15th anniversary, will take place in San Francisco February 27 through March 4. ... J. Robbins — who used to be in Jawbox and Burning Airlines but more recently has been producing for bands like Murder by Death and Against Me! — is asking for financial aid to help him and his wife support their newborn son, Cal. The baby is suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, and the family is facing rising medical bills. Go to DesotoRecords.com/cal/index/shtml to find out how you can help. ...

Veteran actor Peter Boyle died Tuesday in a New York hospital, CNN reports. He was 71. Best known in recent years as the cranky patriarch on the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," Boyle racked up dozens of film and TV credits over his nearly 40-year career — which he started after leaving an order of Christian monks — including the role of the monster in the Mel Brooks comedy "Young Frankenstein" (1973) and a supporting part in "Taxi Driver" (1976). Boyle's publicist said that the actor, who survived a stroke in 1990 and a heart attack in 1999, suffered from heart disease and a blood disorder. ...

It is the worst of times for rock musicals on Broadway. Just a month after the Bob Dylan musical "The Times They Are A-Changin' " folded up its tent after less than a month, the Great White Way version of "High Fidelity" has been silenced as well. Producers of the show, based on the popular 1995 hipster book by Nick Hornby (which was turned into a memorable John Cusack movie in 2000) will pull the plug on Sunday after just 10 days of playing to half-full houses, according to Variety magazine. "Fidelity" has suffered from slow advance sales and poor reviews since it began in previews on November 20, with some insiders saying the plot — about a rock snob and the girl who broke his heart — was too targeted toward young heterosexual men, the group least likely to check out a Broadway musical.

• Rihanna
• Ludacris
• Lady Sovereign
• Kelis
• Nas

Scott Weiland
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Scott Weiland tries to avoid boredom at all costs.

In addition to being a dad and a husband (he's married to model Mary Forsberg), he fronts Velvet Revolver. He's working on his forthcoming autobiography with author David Ritz, and would like to pursue acting. The self-proclaimed "fashion whore" is mulling his own clothing line, and hopes to release his second solo LP late next year. On top of all that, Weiland has just launched his own record label, Softdrive, with his manager and production partner.

It's clear the man knows how to keep busy, and recently, he's been consumed with working on Velvet Revolver's Libertad — the follow-up to 2004's Contraband — an LP the former Stone Temple Pilots leader couldn't be more, well, psyched about.

"I haven't been this excited about a rock record since 1993, when I went into the studio to record [STP's] Purple," which was recorded in just 10 days, with producer Brendan O'Brien (Incubus, Rage Against the Machine) at the helm, Weiland explained. O'Brien is also behind Libertad, which Weiland called "a really inspired rock and roll album, but it's got many textures.

"It's multidimensional, which I think is one thing Brendan brings out in artists," Weiland continued. "I think he's brought out the best in this band, and, I mean, these guys" — guitarists Dave Kushner and Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum — "are amazing players, and they're capable of anything. They've reached completely new heights, and pulled something out of themselves. Instead of doing what's completely comfortable, what they've done before, they have gone to new places, emotionally, musically and spiritually."

Weiland said the new album, which should surface this spring, "is completely colorful in a new way, but it is definitely not a concept album." The singer said he scrapped initial plans to weave a connecting concept throughout the LP because "there's been a hurricane of concept albums that have come out this year, and I really didn't want to make the concept album that made the levee break." Velvet Revolver wrote more than 18 tracks for the disc, including "Pills, Demons, Etc.," "Just 16," "Get Out the Door," and "Queen for a Day," and started tracking December 4.

"It's an album like albums were meant to be," he said. "It's not a collection of singles, but it's not some drummed-up concept album that's contrived either."

VR first enlisted producer Rick Rubin (Jay-Z, Red Hot Chili Peppers), but — for reasons Weiland wouldn't really get into — opted to instead work with O'Brien. "Obviously, Rick makes things happen with people, and that chemistry creates a certain 'spiritual combustion' in some way," the singer said. "But with us, that didn't happen. I worked with Brendan on every STP record, and we needed somebody who was more in the trenches with us. When Brendan works with a band, he becomes the fifth or sixth bandmember. He gets in there with you, and he's in the thick of it. Every song that we were working on previously had a different feel, and songs that I was completely uninspired by, within a short period of time, became inspiring. Songs that I had no ideas for, I suddenly had a lot of ideas for, and took to completely different places than I think I would have taken them."

And Weiland said he's about two-thirds of the way done with his yet-untitled solo outing, his first since 1998's 12 Bar Blues. He said the disc will most likely be out next fall, "right around the time STP takes ... uh, STP ... Freudian slip ... Velvet Revolver takes its break. So that'll give me time to go do some roadwork, and do some shows, which I really didn't have a chance to do with my last album."

He's written more than a dozen tracks for the effort, including "The Man I Didn't Know," "Beautiful Day," "I Know It's Late," "She Sold Her System," "Big Black Monster," "Killing Me Sweetly" and "Happy," a cut originally slated for Libertad.

"That's the one I wrote with Pharrell Williams," he said. "I think [Williams] is incredibly talented, and what makes him great is he is completely colorblind, musically. Where his influences lie are from all different genres of music, and I think he takes you on a sonic journey, as far as his production goes. And, so, we kind of went and sort of searched him out, talked to him, and told him the ideas we had. This track we started working on with him pertained more to me, personally, than to the band, so it became one of the songs on my solo record."

Weiland's sophomore LP will be released by Softdrive, a label he'd been trying to develop for more than six years. He said he wanted to form a label "that would release various types of music, and focuses on the great music of all the genres." One of the label's first releases, the debut disc from the Actual, In Stitches, will be issued in 2007, and the label has also signed country artist Tommy Joe Wilson. Softdrive operates out of Weiland's recording studio.

"Obviously, we don't have a massive income stream to offer major dances, but we can make records here for next to nothing," he said. "We have everything in our recording studio that every major recording studio has."

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• Stone Temple Pilots
• Army Of Anyone

Army Of Anyone
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Filter frontman Richard Patrick's life has changed considerably within the last four years. He's sober — and has been ever since September 28, 2002, when he checked himself into rehab for alcohol addiction. He's married, having tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Tina Johnson back on October 29. He's moved from Chicago to Los Angeles. He's signed to a new label, and his new band, Army of Anyone, will release its self-titled debut this week. And soon he'll be singing Stone Temple Pilots covers on the road.

For Patrick, change has been a good thing, and the singer says he's looking forward to leaving his past behind so that he can focus on his future with some clarity — something he has been unable to do for years.

"When I checked myself into rehab, I didn't know how much my life was going to change, and every single day I'm surprised," he explained. "I don't really remember my 20s. I remember doing some arena gigs, and I remember screaming a lot. Some platinum records showed up on the wall and it was nice. But everything is new for me now, so I don't have any standard."

Army of Anyone — a band that also features drummer Ray Luzier, formerly of David Lee Roth's band, and a pair of ex-Stone Temple Pilots, guitarist Dean DeLeo and bassist Robert DeLeo — represents, in many ways, a slate that has been wiped clean for Patrick (see "Army Of Anyone Want To Be Judged By Their Fifth Album, Not Their Debut"). And even though both Filter and Stone Temple Pilots — at their respective heights — were selling out arenas, he said that when his band hits the road this weekend for its first headlining run of small clubs, there won't be a major adjustment period for him. He barely remembers the times Filter played stadium shows.

"This is now the experiment, the new way that I live my life, and on every single level it's always different than I'd imagine it," he said. "Everything we do is like a new thing for us, so it's totally fresh every time you open your eyes. These club shows are going to be f---ing amazing. Filter had played some amazing shows in clubs, and everybody wants to play stadiums at some point in their lives. But we're just happy to be showing up to radio stations at 6:30 in the morning and setting up an acoustic drum kit and some acoustic guitars and screaming into their mics."

Of course, Patrick wasn't planning on starting a new band when he first met with the DeLeos to collaborate on a track for Filter's fourth album. It just sort of ended up that way (see "The Newest Supergroup: STP's DeLeo Brothers Join Filter Singer In Army Of Anyone").

"I was told Robert and Dean wanted to work with me on the record, and we were going to write a song together," called "A Better Place," which appears on Army of Anyone. "They came over, and the next thing I know, I'm in a new band. I interrupted the fourth Filter record to do this. I did not need this. Starting this band pissed off some people at my former label. But I had to make a record with these guys. That's how powerful it was."

Patrick wouldn't state one way or another whether Filter's fourth would ever surface. "[Army of Anyone] is my priority, but at the same time, I certainly wouldn't want to call something gone or dead or over," he said. Still, he says he doesn't regret his decision to put Filter on hold for Army of Anyone. And while there are some rock and roll all-star projects that come across as just an obvious unification of two distinct bands, he feels Army have a sound of their own.

"The key is to keep it fresh, to keep it new," he said. "There are one or two moments where it sounds like Richard Patrick screaming over Stone Temple Pilots, and I love those moments. 'Generation' is a song, to me, that really sounds like the perfect identifiable blend between Filter and STP. There was a very conscious effort on our part to strive for a new sound, and I think we found it."

Because working together was so effortless, Patrick said he anticipates the band's second album might not be that far away.

"We're the kind of guys that live one day at a time," he said. "It's really important that you keep churning out great music. I think it would be in our best interest to constantly come up with great music and [be] releasing great music. This is the band to do that. [The DeLeos] have 50 songs each, just in their brains, and then they have 100 more on micro-cassettes that they've kept the last 10 years. So there's no shortage of material."

The band, which will perform on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" on November 20, will kick off its inaugural headlining tour November 18 in Philadelphia. The trek will makes stops in 19 cities — including Boston, Atlanta and Miami — before wrapping up December 19 in Cleveland. Patrick said Army of Anyone will perform Stone Temple Pilots and Filter material on the tour, such as STP's "Interstate Love Song" and Filter's "Take a Picture" and "Welcome to the Fold." He also said the band plans to release a DVD, with footage captured in the studio during the recording of the album, in the coming year.

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• Filter

Game's <I>Doctor's Advocate</I>
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Coast to Coast: When Fat Joe tapped the Game to appear on "Breathe & Stop," the second single from his Me, Myself and I LP, little did Joe know that he was actually sleeping with the enemy. After all, Game's new Doctor's Advocate drops this week too, which means the two will go head-to-head for consumers' dollars. If the albums are judged by their guest stars, NYC Joe is in trouble. He enlisted Lil Wayne for two Me tracks, "The Profit" and "Make It Rain," plus Scott Storch for production purposes. But Game has him beat: Kanye, Jamie Foxx, Nas, Snoop, Xzibit and Swizz Beatz all contribute to his LP, in varying capacities. And to top it off, Weezy was one of the 20-plus artists who just participated in a remix of Game's new single, "It's Okay (One Blood)."

Name That Band: Blink-182 always said they chose the "182" randomly. But there's no doubting where Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker got the name for their follow-up band, (+44): It's the international dialing code for the U.K. Theirs isn't the most unconventional band name this week, though. That honor belongs, as it always does whenever they rear their scrawny heads, to ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, who have a new CD to share this week as well. While (+44)'s When Your Heart Stops Beating also features ex-Transplant Craig Fairbaugh and Shane Gallagher of the Nervous Return, Hoppus did all the singing, wrote all the lyrics and even played some guitar. Barker did his part by taking piano lessons and chalking up some keyboard contributions. Trail of Dead reached beyond their five-member cast and out to Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer and King Crimson's Pat Mastelotto for help with So Divided, which has some of the most gorgeous album art in recent memory and also includes a Guided by Voices cover song.

'Kon Session: Akon is a singer, not a rapper, and he grew up in Senegal, not exactly one of hip-hop's capitals. But that hasn't stopped Eminem, Snoop and Styles P. from taking him under their respective wings. All three of them lend a hand on his sophomore disc, Konvicted, a release that has bounced around from November 21 to December 12 to this date. 'Kon, who has run into his fair share of trouble with the law, repents with the anti-gangsta track "Runnin' " and branches out even more with a ballad, "Never Took the Time," and an Africa-awareness track, simply titled "Africa." Konvinced?

Tenacious D.G.: Foo Fighters just put out the concert disc Skin and Bones last week and have a DVD version dropping in two weeks, but apparently Dave Grohl is trying to make an appearance every Tuesday in November. He plays drums throughout the "Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny" soundtrack, which was produced by the Dust Brothers' John King and has a limited deluxe version with tarot cards, a guitar pick and special slipcase. Grohl crops up on another soundtrack too: "Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi," for which he contributed "Vile." That song is actually the product of his teaming with DJ C-Minus — who, incidentally, has collaborated with Grohl buds Queens of the Stone Age in the past.

You and Whose Army?: You might know Richard Patrick as the guy who kept saying, "Hey, man, nice shot," in Filter's song of the same name. But you probably won't recognize the guys joining him for Army of Anyone: They're the Stone Temple Pilots who got constantly upstaged by media darling Scott Weiland. While they're going to war with their self-titled debut, Yusuf is more apt to find a diplomatic solution. You might not recognize him either: After finding mainstream popularity as Cat Stevens, the Islam convert changed his name to Yusuf Islam, and now he's just Yusuf. Among the spiritual and romantic songs on his album An Other Cup, he finds space to set the record straight with a cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," made famous by Nina Simone.

Let the Reissues Floweth: When sales fail, and they sure have been failing lately, there's always the mighty reissue. Labels have been pumping out deluxe versions of today's biggest releases, and this week proves no different, with a collector's edition of Panic! at the Disco's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out hitting stores. The album looks to go beyond its platinum success with this limited run, enhanced with a bonus DVD (tour, live and backstage footage); phenakistoscope (one of those spindle viewer doohickeys); lyric cards; a tour program; and more.

But unlike other weeks, this one also sees a wide range of re-releases by recent but lesser-known bands. In case you've forgotten (we did), Wind-Up — home to Evanescence, Creed, etc. — was originally Grass Records, which put out more indie-friendly releases in the mid-'90s. Commander Venus, a project featuring Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, are recalled with a straight reissue of 1997's The Uneventful Vacation, and New Jersey's the Wrens find their first two LPs, Secaucus and Silver, also re-released in frill-free form. And metal fans get their fill with digipak versions of doom deacons Electric Wizard's Come My Fanatics, Dopethrone and Electric Wizard. All three come with bonuses.

A Clash Indeed: If you ever wondered what Michael Jackson might have in common with the Clash, the mystery has been solved: Both artists are being heralded with monster singles boxes. Visionary: The Video Singles has a whopping 20 DualDisc singles, each of the original tracks plus accompanying videos. The Clash's The Singles falls one CD short at 19 but has six songs never on CD plus a giveaway EP that hasn't been commercially available. Oh, and the liner notes include contributions from the Edge, Pete Townshend, Damon Albarn and more. Can you beat it?

Lovers' Row?: When Noah Georgeson produced Joanna Newsom's 2004 album, The Milk-Eyed Monster, he probably didn't think his girlfriend's follow-up would be pitted against his debut. But that's exactly what's happening this week. Georgeson, who plays guitar in Devendra Banhart's live band, wrote, produced, scored, arranged, etc. Find Shelter beginning in 1999, when he lived with Newsom. Her Ys has just five songs but includes contributions from engineer Steve Albini, egghead Jim O'Rourke of Sonic Youth, not to mention legendary arranger Van Dyke Parks.

... And That's a Fact: This one's for the books, really: Originally pressed on vinyl in 1955, Charlotte Rae Sings Songs I Taught My Mother: Silly, Sinful & Satiric Selections is seeing its first-ever release on CD some four decades later. So who is Charlotte Rae, you ask? Well, you probably know her better as Mrs. Garrett: Rae, now 80 years old, is the woman who played the mentor on "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life" — and she sang the latter show's theme song to boot. Relive the olden days as Rae hums along to "Gabor the Merrier," "When I Was a Little Cuckoo" and "The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull."

Song Title of the Week:

"The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull" from Charlotte Rae Sings Songs I Taught My Mother: Silly, Sinful & Satiric Selections

Other Notables:

The Low Frequency in Stereo's The Last Temptation of ... the Low Frequency Stereo, Vol. 1: The Norwegian groovesters invoke the Jesus and Mary Chain and other post-psych greats on their third album, which was partly crafted using an old living-room organ. Recorded on analog but mixed digitally, Last Temptation boasts "Jimmy Legs," "Bahamas" and "Red Flag."

Entrance's Prayer of Death: The fourth LP by 25-year-old wünderkind Guy Blakeslee was inspired by, in no particular order, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, LSD guru Timothy Leary and Delta blues legend Charley Patton. Co-produced by and featuring contributions from Paz Lenchantin of A Perfect Circle note, Prayer purports to be "a conceptual meditation on the urgency of life-awareness and death-awareness in a war-torn world." Far out.

Various artists' Cursed - The Head Trauma Movie Project: Ever synced up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon with "The Wizard of Oz"? It's the same deal here, except label Park the Van aligned unreleased songs by Bardo Pond, the Capitol Years and Bitter Bitter Weeks with "Head Trauma," a grisly indie horror film that appeared at the Los Angeles Film Festival earlier this year. Bet Rob Zombie wishes he had thought of this one.

New Releases: · (+44) - When Your Heart Stops Beating (Interscope) Read: "Plus-44 Address Blink Breakup On LP, Want Fans To 'Hear The Truth' " · Akon - Konvicted (Universal Motown) · Ali B - Ali B Presents ... Air Breaks (Air) · ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - So Divided (Interscope) [Buy Now] · April Wine - Roughly Speaking (April Wine) · Army of Anyone - Army of Anyone (Firm) [Buy Now] Read: "Army Of Anyone Want To Be Judged By Their Fifth Album, Not Their Debut" · Bad Astronaut - Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment (Fat Wreck Chords) · Cassettes - 'Neath the Pale Moon (Buddyhead) · Ronnie Day - The Album (Militia Group) · Disco Biscuits - Rocket 3 (limited-edition EP; Sci Fidelity) · Entombed - When in Sodom (Candlelight) · Entrance - Prayer of Death (Tee Pee) · Fat Freddys Drop - Based on a True Story (Kartel) · Fat Joe - Me, Myself and I (Virgin) [Buy Now] Read: "Fat Joe On September Release: 'Bet The Kitchen Sink On Me' " · Christine Fellows - Paper Anniversary (Six Shooter) · The Game - Doctor's Advocate (Geffen) [Buy Now] Read: "Game Says Song On New LP Makes Him 'The One-Man N.W.A' " · Noah Georgeson - Find Shelter (Plain) · Nanci Griffith - Ruby's Torch (Rounder) · Imperial - We Sail at Dawn (Pluto) · Incredible Bongo Band - Bongo Rock (Mr Bongo) · Jon B - Holiday Wishes From Me to You (Arsenal) · Kenny G - I'm in the Mood for Love ... The Most Romantic Melodies of All Time (Arista) · Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - Real Live Roadrunning (with DVD; Warner Bros.) · The Low Frequency in Stereo - The Last Temptation of ... the Low Frequency Stereo, Vol. 1 (Gigantic) · Marah - Sooner or Later in Spain (enhanced live LP; Yep Roc) [Buy Now] · Paul Michel - Quiet State of Panic (Stunning Models on Display) · Joanna Newsom - Ys (Drag City) · Nickodemus - Endangered Species (Eighteenth Street) · Joan Osborne - Pretty Little Stranger (Vanguard) [Buy Now] · Laura Pausini - Yo Canto (Warner Music Latina) · Paybacks - Love, Not Reason (Savage Jams) · Polly Panic - Painkiller (Greyday) · The PoPo - The PoPo (Buddyhead) · Damien Rice - 9 (Heffa/ Vector/ Warner Bros.) [Buy Now] · The Red Krayola - Red Gold (EP; Drag City) · Bianca Ryan - Bianca Ryan (Columbia) · Sasquatch - II (Small Stone) · Emilie Simon - The Flower Book (Milan) · Bob Sinclair - Cerrone (Recall) · Tahiti 80 - Fosbury (Militia Group) · Tamia - Between Friends (Image) · Tenacious D - "The Pick of Destiny" soundtrack (limited-edition deluxe version also available; Epic) [Buy Now] · Tralala - Is That the Tralala (Audika) · White Magic - Dat Rosa Mel Apibus (Drag City) · Winks - Birthday Party (Ache) · Yusuf - An Other Cup (limited-edition version also available; Atlantic) · Various artists - Cursed - The Head Trauma Movie Project (Park the Van) · Various artists - ESL 100 (ESL) · Various artists - Fabric 30: Rub-N-Tug (FabricLive) · Various artists - George Jones: 50 Years of Hits (available as a CD or a two-CD/two-DVD set; Rounder) · Various artists - Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba (Hip-O) · Various artists - "Bobby" soundtrack (Rhino) · Various artists - "Casino Royale" soundtrack (Sony Classics) · Various artists - "Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi" soundtrack (Image)

Notable Reissues and Archival Material: · Johnny Cash - At San Quentin: Legacy Edition (two CDs and one DVD; Columbia/Legacy) · Cee-Lo - Closet Freak: The Best of Cee-Lo Green the Soul Machine (Arista/Legacy) [Buy Now] · The Clash - The Singles (19-disc box set; Epic/Legacy) · Ornette Coleman - To Whom Keeps a Record (Water) · Commander Venus - The Uneventful Vacation (Wind-Up) · Depeche Mode - The Best Of: Volume One (also available with DVD; Sire/Reprise) · Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics, Dopethrone and Electric Wizard and (digipaks; Candlelight) · Emmylou Harris & Carl Jackson - I've Always Needed You (Music Avenue) · Michael Jackson - Visionary: The Video Singles (20-disc DualDisc box set; Epic/Legacy) [Buy Now] · Nickel Creek - Reasons Why (The Very Best) (with DVD; Sugarhill) · Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (deluxe collector's edition with DVD; Decaydance/ Fueled by Ramen) · Charlotte Rae - Charlotte Rae Sings Songs I Taught My Mother: Silly, Sinful & Satiric Selections (P.S. Classics) · Slot - The Sweet Black Bear (Small Stone) · Solange - Solo Star (Music World) · Staind - The Singles: 1996-2006 (Flip/Atlantic) [Buy Now] · String Cheese Incident - On the Road: Anchorage, AK - 07-23-06 (two CDs), On the Road: Eugene, OR - 09-06-06 (four CDs), On the Road: Redmond, VA - 08-02-06 (three CDs) and On the Road: Travelogue - Summer 06 (three CDs; Sci Fidelity) · Sublime - Everything Under the Sun (box set with three DVDs and one CD; Geffen/ UMe/ Gasoline Alley/ Skunk) [Buy Now] · Witchcraft - Witchcraft (Candlelight) · Wrens - Secaucus and Silver (Wind-Up) · Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore 1970 (with DVD; Reprise) · Various artists - Classic Country: Outlaws (Time Life) · Various artists - If I Sing: The Songwriters Album (P.S. Classics) · Various artists - Retro:Active 5: Rare & Remixed (Hi-Bias) · Various artists - So You Think You Don't Like Swing (Time Life) · Various artists - Ultimate Classical Chill Out: The Essential Masterpieces (five-CD box set; Decca)

Music DVDs: · Asleep at the Wheel - "Live From Austin TX" (New West) · Leonard Cohen - "I'm Your Man" (Lionsgate) · Dillards - "A Night in the Ozarks: An Audiolithograph - The Video Documentary" (Varèse Sarabande) · HIM - "Love Metal Archives Vol. 1" (Republic) · Takagi Masakatsu - "World Is So Beautiful" (Carpark) · Paul McCartney - "The Space Within US: A Concert Film" (A&E Home Video) · Mobb Deep - "Life of the Infamous: The Videos" (Loud/Legacy) · Staind - "The Videos" (Flip/Atlantic) · Junior Wells - "Junior Wells and Guest" (Immortal) · Widespread Panic - "Earth to Atlanta: Live at the Fox Theatre 2006" (two DVDs; Sanctuary) · Various artists - "The Best of the Jammys Volume One" (Relix) · Various artists - "Drive-Thru Records DVD Volume IV" (Drive-Thru) · Various artists - "George Jones: 50 Years of Hits" (available as a two-DVD set or a two-DVD/two-CD set; Rounder)

Coming Attractions:

November 21: · Jay-Z - Kingdom Come (Roc-A-Fella) [Preorder] Read: "Jay-Z's 'Retirement' Is Finally Over: New Album Due In November" · Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies (Roadrunner) [Preorder] Read: "Killswitch Engage Turn On The Heavy For Glass-Shattering As Daylight Dies" · U2 - U218 Singles (limited-edition; with DVD; Interscope) [Preorder]

November 28:

· Incubus - Light Grenades (Epic) [Preorder] Read: "Incubus' Mike Einziger Lends Agent Sparks A Hand Making The Best Brunch LP Ever" · Ying Yang Twins - Chemically Imbalanced (TVT) [Preorder] · Young Buck - Buck Tha World (Interscope) [Preorder]

December 5: · Ciara - The Evolution (enhanced; LaFace) [Preorder] Read: "Ciara Talks Single Life, Dreams Of Acting Like A Boy On Evolution" · Lil Scrappy - Bred 2 Die, Born 2 Live (Reprise) [Preorder] Read: "Lil Scrappy Enlists Eminem, 50, Lil Jon For 'Half Sorry, Half Party' LP" · Metallica - "The Videos: 1989-2004" (Warner Bros.) · Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape (Interscope) [Preorder] Read: "Gwen Stefani's New LP, The Sweet Escape, Set For December" · Various artists - Eminem Presents the Re-Up (Shady) [Preorder] Read: "Eminem, New Shady Artists Join 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks On The Re-Up" · Various artists - "Fast Food Nation" soundtrack (Park the Van)

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]]> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1545689/20061113/game__3_.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1545689/20061113/game__3_.jhtml 14 Nov 2006 06:01:00 EST Paris Hilton, Jared Leto, M. Shadows, Wayne Coyne also share thoughts on 'guyliner.'
By Corey Moss


The Killers' Brandon Flowers
Photo: Evan Agostini/ Getty Images

Heidi Klum might be right: In fashion, you're either in or you're out. In rock and roll fashion, though, things aren't so cut and ... sewn. Just like the music itself, some styles never really go away, while others bounce in and out of cool faster than a faux-hawked drummer's double-bass-drum pedal.

Which brings us to the latest hot-or-not accessory: guyliner (i.e. eyeliner on guys).

Some may say it's been in vogue since Bowie went glam. Others might argue My Chemical Romance are leading a black parade of a different sort, reviving eyeliner along with other theatrical-minded bands like Panic! at the Disco and 30 Seconds to Mars. And then there are the hipsters who are already claiming it's so five minutes ago.

(Judge for yourself if rock dudes are wearing eyeliner thin in this video clip.)

Which is it? We asked a few rockers and one taste-making heiress for their thoughts:

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis: "I actually dabbled with it in the much earlier '80s. I don't have any problem with eyeliner, but it's nice to have something to back it up with. Panic! at the Disco I've only ever seen in photographs, and they look like they travel with a large number of stylists. They look like they brought their girlfriends and their other friends and everyone had a dress-up party."

The Killers' Brandon Flowers: "It gives me a gypsy [feel]. I have four sisters, so it was always around."

Plus-44's Mark Hoppus: "When I was in high school back in the late '80s, I was really — and still am — into the Cure. So I used to wear eyeliner and stick my hair up, and I just remember guys walking past and going, 'What a f--!' I feel like it's a little overdone right now. Back in the day it was something that we did because you wanted to be different than everybody else. ... Now it just seems kinda commonplace. Feels a little watered down to me."

30 Seconds to Mars' Jared Leto: "What I find interesting is that in every society from the beginning of time, in every continent, whether in preparation of war, whether it was mating rituals, men have found that the use of costume, the use of makeup, the use of preparation for battle or for love, has been an important element within that society. So there's gotta be some primordial, subconscious reason that these things come up."

Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows: "I used to wear eyeliner. We used to do it because when you're a small band and you do stuff like that, people notice you and are like, 'Who do these guys think they are?' I kind of grew away from it, but the other guys still do it a lot. I'm totally cool with anyone that does it. I like our band because we have individual personalities. It's cool when a band does a uniform thing, but when it's just putting on eyeliner or having the same haircut or all wearing black, then it's just kind of lame. We were that band at one point, a lot of bands go through that, but you kind of have to evolve out of that."

The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne: "I think guys wearing makeup will become the new piercings. I think the appeal of it is not necessarily that it's androgynous, it's actually just kind of scary. There's something just sort of decadent about men putting on makeup and acting tough. However, if you look like you spend too much time in front of the mirror, people are just going to think of you as being the arrogant, self-obsessed fool that you really are. So, if anything, you should learn how to do it very quickly and in private so you just show up looking great."

Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix: "My wife digs it. It's just like a once-a-day application, and it smears and gets nasty, and then the next day when you wake up ... it almost looks cooler the night after, like down your face. It's weird, man, I almost feel naked without any of it on. You know, I'm in Alabama hanging out with my family down there and I'm like [He gestures applying eyeliner]."

Papa Roach's Tobin Esperance: "If you're gonna wear makeup, it's not about looking pretty. It's gotta look like you've been up all night doing drugs."

Army of Anyone's Richard Patrick: "The current escalation of eyeliner usage is a direct result of people being more open-minded about androgyny and its place in fashion again. Some people wear it well, while others do not."

Kasabian's Tom Meighan: "There's only two people that can get away with it, man: Keith Richards and David Bowie."

Scissor Sisters' Del Marquis: "I used to wear a lot more makeup early on, and then this Panic! at the Disco nonsense [happened and] I just wiped it all off. If you're wearing makeup, it should enhance the music. If it is totally incongruous to what the music is about, it just makes my eyes roll back."

And ... Paris Hilton: "I like when guys wear a little eyeliner. Sometimes it's cute."

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]]> http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1543900/20061024/red_hot_chili_peppers.jhtml News Article http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1543900/20061024/red_hot_chili_peppers.jhtml 24 Oct 2006 03:38:00 EDT Army Of Anyone - Goodbye

Goodbye

• Artist: Army Of Anyone
• Label: The Firm Music Inc.
• Director: Scott Speer
• Album: Army of Anyone
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