Nicole Scherzinger Casting Call

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Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls is shooting a television commercial and music video featuring her new track. Would you like to be there in the front row and get on screen!?
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Oldstand: Rolling Stone, March 10, 1988

Bob sends us:
Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like.
Not sure why it took Rolling Stone until March 10th, 1988 to release the results of the 1987 Music Poll when basically all they had to do […]

Cartoonists With Theramins, Teenage Symphonies, Bawdy Brits, And Simpsons Scratching [Singles Again]

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Being a professional rock critic means you wind up accumulating a lot of records—some of which you even keep! In Singles Again, Chuck Eddy will…well, actually we’ll just let him explain it…

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Not Dead Yet

Ben wrote to us about:
“The music starts, the singer screams,
there’s feedback all to hell.
I think I’ve played this gig before…”

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Itinerant Bruce Springsteen Eludes A Collabo-Hungry Nelly [Or Perhaps A Song-by-song Recreation Of ‘nebraska’]

Brian emailed us this:
Bruce Springsteen, not unlike Carmen SanDiego, is hopping from continent to continent, always one step ahead of Nelly, who still dreams of finding the wily rocker and forcing him to collaborate on a…

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Ticketmaster, Dave Matthews Band Team Up For Digital LP

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The Dave Matthews Band and Ticketmaster have announced the release of a digital record tied into their 40-date North American summer tour. To get the album early—in mid-September to be exact—all

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Get Ready For David Cook To Rip Off Jack White On Tomorrow’s “American Idol” [Idolator’s American Idolatry]

Just came across this:
This week’s American Idol will be devoted to the songs of Dolly Parton, a theme that will allow for lots of Dolly facetime on the broadcast and Kristy Lee Cook saving herself for another week with a…

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B-52’s Get Remixed, Confirm ‘True Colors’ Dates

Sam sends us:
Fresh off the release of Funplex, their first album in 16 years, the B-52’s have announced a trio of title track remixes from the

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Universal Music Group And Wal-Mart Present World With Another Reason To Bury Its CDs [Push Th’ Little Daisies]

Heather wrote to us about:
“The insert in more than 20 Universal Music Group (UMG) titles available now at Wal-Mart as a part of Wal-Mart’s “Earth Month” promotion is so earth-friendly that, when properly planted, the special…

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Mick Jagger Will Never Write An Autobiography

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Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has warned fans he will never write an autobiography because he hates thinking about the past. The singer famously sent back a $4 million advance to a publishing house after changing his mind about a memoir.
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