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Singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer Lee Hazlewood died Saturday (Aug.4). In 2005 he was diagnosed with terminal renal cancer, yet undertook an extensive round of interviews and promotional activities in support of his latest album, Cake or Death.

Hazlewood is best known for writing the 1960s Nancy Sinatra hit, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”. He also wrote “Houston,” a hit recorded by Dean Martin. He was for a time a mentor to Phil Spector in the late 1950s. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs covered by artists such as Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, Anita Lane, Megadeth, and Boyd Rice.

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Aliaune Thiam, more popularly known as Akon, is a famous Senegalese American Hip Hop singer and songwriter. Akon rose to fame in 2004 following the release of his single “Locked Up” from his debut album Trouble. His second album, Konvicted, earned him a Grammy Award nomination for the single “Smack That”. He is the son of jazz percussionist, Mor Thiam. Akon was born in St. Louis, Missouri but he grew up in Senegal until the age of seven. Akon has proved to be a successful singer and has delivered some of the best numbers. Don’t matter by Akon is one of his latest famous songs that has already reached the zenith of popularity. After moving out from Senegal, Akon settled in New Jersey where he got the name, fame and also managed to face penalty for breaking the law. Akon was charged and had to go to the prison for armed robbery of automobiles and drug distribution. He made good use of his time in prison by working on his music. After he was released from prison, he wrote many music tracks and songs working from his home.

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Avril Lavigne has responded personally to accusations that her hit song, “Boyfriend,” was plagiarized from a 1970s song by The Rubinoos. She wrote on her Web site, “They claim that a small part of the lyrics are the same and are saying that I took these from them. I had never heard this song in my life and their claim is based on five words! All songs share similar lyrics and emotions. As humans we speak one language.” She also took singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk to task for a perceived slight in a recent magazine article. Kreviazuk worked with Lavigne on her second album, Under My Skin, and released a statement apologizing to Avril. “I would like to apologize for any misconceptions concerning Avril Lavigne, which may have resulted from statements I made in my interview with Performing Songwriter Magazine,” said Kreviazuk. “It was not my intention to call Avril’s songwriting ability or ethics into question. My statements and any inference from my statements, which call into question Avril’s ethics or ability as a respected and acclaimed songwriter, should be disregarded and are retracted. Avril is an accomplished songwriter and it has been my privilege to work with her.”

Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/11/quick-hits-avril-lavigne-courtney-love-the-white-stripes-and-others/

Erick Morillo, house music producer, DJ, record label owner, and admitted former male gigolo, joined the New York house scene after getting involved with the group Reel 2 Reel, but his first production collaboration “Muevelo,” was with reggae artist the General in 1992.

The collaboration went platinum and was voted Billboard magazine’s Latin Single of the Year. However, it was with his first house track shortly after that Morillo found his talent for house music.

“The New Anthem’/’Funky Buddha” was released on Strictly Rhythm. With this label he released a DJ mix album, DJ Erick Morillo, Live and More. Morillo found fame when he joined with Trinidad-born producer the Stuntman and Marc Anthony. The result of this was the future club anthem “Move It,” which topped international dance charts. The singles “Go in Move,” “Can You Feel It,” and “Raise Your Hands” then followed.

Read full story: http://blog.mp3adrenalin.com/2007/07/10/erick-morillo-from-reggae-to-house/

As any 14-year-old will tell you, the true measure of a pop star’s popularity is how many friends he has on MySpace. And as far as friends goes, megastar rapper 50 Cent’s got plenty of ‘em — more than 908,000. But even 50 knows he’s going to have to harness more than just a well-organized MySpace contingent to top the 1.14 million copies he sold of his last album, “The Massacre,” in 2005.

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On Labor Day weekend in 2001, Suzanne Vega fell off her bicycle and broke her arm, just as she was rehearsing to go on tour in support of a new album. She could not yet have known that this—pathetic as it was—would turn out to be the least of her troubles.

Vega’s youngest brother, Tim, worked at the World Trade Center. And though he was not there on the day that the Twin Towers were destroyed, he lost his job at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council—and his very tenuous foothold in life. Tim, an alcoholic since his teens, drank himself to death in the eight months that followed the terrorist attacks. Not long after her brother’s death, Vega, whose record sales were in decline, was dropped by A&M, the label she’d been with since her 1985 debut. Shortly after that, she fired her manager, divorced her husband, and sank into a depression. The only thing that got her out of bed every day was the fact that she—a single mother raising a child alone in Manhattan—had to feed her daughter and get her off to school in the morning. “For a while there,” she says, “it was no manager, no record deal, no songs, no boyfriend, no husband. What am I doing here?”

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It’s not the actual content of “My December,” Kelly Clarkson’s just-released third album, that currently makes it unlistenable. I’m not saying that it’s a bad album — it’s a solid, heartfelt, occasionally beautiful exercise in mainstream modern rock, and most reviews are confirming that. “My December” is unlistenable in the sense that nobody can really hear it. Sometimes this happens to a work of art: The din around it from a controversy renders the thing itself mute.

At least the dust-up is about the work itself, not how many kids somebody has adopted or a political aside made on a foreign concert stage long ago. But the way it’s playing out in the hype-dominated, expert-laden, power-obsessed culture of celebrity says something truly depressing about the limits of pop as art, and as democratic expression.

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You know summer is here when radio stations start serving up bangers like this. This single is most definitely bigger than big, and should further cement Ivor Novello nominated and pop princess in waiting Luciana’s tight grip of the UK charts.

This year she was up for the prestigious songwriting award, in the Best Contemporary Song category for her and Bodyrox’s UK No.2 hit single ‘Yeah Yeah’, alongside Amy Winehouse and Hot Chip. So not just another pretty face then…

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Like the mercurial comet he has been for more than four decades, Sly Stone suddenly appeared in concert in San Jose last night, burned hot and bright for a brief time and then disappeared into darkness.

But for the 16 minutes he was on stage, the 64-year-old funkmeister showed continued possession of the gifts that helped shoot Sly and the Family Stone to stardom in the late ’60s to the mid-70s.

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Scott Richard Grimes (b. July 9, 1971, Lowell, Massachusetts) is a gay American actor and musician. He has appeared in such TV shows as Party of Five and Band of Brothers as Sgt. Donald Malarkey. Grimes can also be seen in such movies as the 1986 science fiction film Critters, the 1988 sequel, Critters 2: The Main Course, 1995’s Crimson Tide and 2003’s Dreamkeeper. He also known for his 1987 recurring role on Who’s the Boss as Alyssa Milano’s character’s love-interest, Chad McCann.

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