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Are they forgetting the Ladies Man? According to the NY Times: “Pass the Courvoisier. Everybody sing it now. Pass the Courvoisier.” So goes a refrain of the popular song, “Pass the Courvoisier Part Two” by Busta Rhymes, featuring Sean Combs, who is known these days as P. Diddy. It became …

Cool site for instrumental and ambient music reviews and resources: The Instrumental Weekly was started in 1997 as a way to expose little-known artists in the contemporary instrumental and ambient music genres. The original site was doing well until late 1999, when a server crash caused the loss of over …

Just in time to remind fans how old and decrepit the Stones are now, ABKCO has released 22 remastered albums from the ’60s in the Super Audio CD format: Patience is finally paying off for Rolling Stones fans who have been driven out of their heads over the years by …

Those Canadians are a strange lot, and they evidently love their Elton John more than seems natural: An Elton John fan collected 38,000 grasshoppers to win concert tickets for a performance Friday (August 30) in Regina, Saskatchewan. Brandy Elliot went into action after local radio station Z-99 announced the contest, …

The anti-Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, and his band of a similar name, will headline a free concert this Thursday in Times Square: The members of Bon Jovi say their upcoming performance in Times Square will not only kick off the football season but celebrate New Yorkers’ resilience after Sept. 11. …

Expanding his media reach to film, Eminem’s debut will be shown for the first time in Toronto: “8 Mile,” filmed entirely in the Detroit area, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as a work in progress, with Eminem and director Curtis Hansen expected to attend. “Detroit is an …

In an apparent dispute over noise levels, Unwritten Law (who are actually pretty good) guitarist Steve Morris was injured by an alleged bomb blast last week: The homemade device was allegedly planted by Morris’s neighbor, a security guard and local police officer, according to a statement released by the band’s …

“Posh Spice” Victoria Beckham and soccer star hubby David Beckham are the parents of a second son, whose Shakespearean name was a surprise after much speculation. Romeo was born by Caesarean section and weighed 7 lbs, 4 ounces, said David Beckham, adding that the pop singer mother and son were …

Jazz great Hampton gone: There was more than musical magic on stage that day in 1936 when Lionel Hampton joined Benny Goodman in a Manhattan ballroom — it was a breakthrough in American race relations. Hampton, a vibraphone virtuoso who died Saturday, broke a barrier that had kept black and …

Good show for a good cause: Africamix festival coordinator Augustine Kamalan, announced today the musical line up for the Africamix Festival Atlanta that will be held on October 12 – 13 from 11:00 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Grant Park. “The net proceeds from this two day alcohol free family …