Jul
28
Amy Winehouse was admitted to University College Hospital in London, after having an adverse reaction to medication. Just two months ago, Winehouse fainted in her home and this past January she was admitted into rehab. Read more at the London Telegraph!
Dec
4
PimpC, one half of the rap group UGK was found dead in his Hollywood hotel room after performing at the House of Blues with Too Short on Saturday night. Pimp C is best known for appearing in Jay-Z’s hit single “Big Pimpin” in 2000. Pimp C is a native of Houston. The story is still developing. Read more on the death of Pimp C at TMZ.
Sep
27
Bruce Springsteen will be performing a free concert for the Today Show audience at Rockefeller Center in New York City tomorrow morning. Prior to the concert, Bruce will be giving an interview at 8:20am, officially launching his new CD, “Magic”. The Today Show appearance will be a good launching pad for the upcoming Springsteen tour. If you’re having a problem getting a hold of tickets, charitybuzz is currently hosting a ticket auction for Bruce Springsteen tickets at various venues, in support of Musicians On Call and The Kristen Ann Carr Fund.
In other music world news, the Foo Fighters just released their newest CD, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, on September 25th. IGN has a pretty good review of the album. Here is a little snippet,
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace feels very much like a transitional album for the Foo Fighters. There’s traces of their past (the echoes, so to speak) in songs like “The Pretender” and there’s plenty of silence, patience, and grace in the form of songs like “Statues.”
Also, they have some recommended Foo Fighter downloads from the album:
1. “Let It Die”
2. “Stranger Things Have Happened”
3. “Summer’s End”
4. “Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners”
5. “Statues”
6. “But Honestly”
7. “Once & For All (Demo)”
PS: The Sex Pistols are back in the studio! Its the first time in 30 years … wow.
Aug
9
This week, Common beat out Korn in the Billboard charts as his album Finding Forever debuted at #1. I didn’t particularly like the album, but if you want to go be one of the 155,300 people who actually did purchase the album, go right ahead. Common, who has been doin his rap thing for over 15 years has never had a #1 album. Probably with good reason!
Check MTV for more.
Aug
6
An upcoming documentary by Producer Keya Morgan has compelling evidence that beauty Marilyn Monroe was murdered. Over 300 pages of top secret FBI and CIA intelligence files were recently declassified and released to the public, revealing new details about Monroe’s death.
The press release for the film says that Morgan interviewed FBI agents, former LAPD Police Chief Darryl Gates, Beverly Hills Police detective Lynn Franklin, first LAPD officer on the scene Jack Clemmons, Thomas Noguchi, former DA John Miner, and over 30 other government officials and police authorities for the new documentary. The press release goes on to say,
The FBI agent involved in the Marilyn Monroe murder cover-up spoke for the first time, in the new documentary. The agent is now in his late 80s, has prostate cancer and is reveling key names and information. The agent was siting in a van outside of Marilyn Monroe’s house the night she was killed. He states, “Marilyn Monroe did not commit suicide, she was murdered because she was a National security threat during the Cuban missile crises… both Robert and John F. Kennedy had given her too much information… she was labeled ‘the American Mata Hari’ by J. Edgar Hoover (then head of the FBI)… Both the FBI and CIA were recoding her every move while she was in the US and Mexico… The Attorney General Robert Kennedy was also there the night she was killed…”
I’m definitely going to have to check this one out for myself. Interesting stuff right here!
Read the complete press release here.
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