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Quiz: How much is Barbra Streisand's stuff worth?Do you think Barbra Streisand's stuff is worth that much?
USATODAY Thursday, October 08, 2009People who need Streisand stuff can bid in charity auctionThe Collection of Barbra Streisand, from gowns to wigs to furniture to jewelry, will be up for bid come Oct. 17.
USATODAY Thursday, October 08, 2009Tom Morello and Steve Earle at the TroubadourOne plays guitar in the agit-prop metal-funk band Rage Against the Machine; the other is a hardscrabble folk singer who spent years raging against his own liver. But now Tom Morello and Steve Earle (above with Alison Moorer), two of the finest revivalists of the union song ethic, are teaming up to perform minimalist working-class acoustic tunes. Expect lots of cuts from Earle's new tribute to Townes Van Zandt, "Townes." Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West
hollywood. 8 p.m. Fri. $35. www.troubadour.com .
LA Times Thursday, October 08, 2009Warner Music Group names producer Rob Cavallo chief creative officerWarner Music Group, in a sign that the struggling recorded music
company is seeking to bolster its ranks of artists, has tapped producer Rob Cavallo for the newly created position of chief creative officer.
LA Times Thursday, October 08, 2009Brian Wilson to finish some George Gershwin songsWilson plans to finish and record at least two songs on an album of Gershwin music that could be
released next year. In a surprise union of two quintessentially
american composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of "Good Vibrations," the other the Jazz Age creator of "Rhapsody in Blue,"
former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of George Gershwin to complete unfinished songs Gershwin left behind when he died in 1937.
LA Times Thursday, October 08, 2009Slacker Radio Announces Integration With Twitter Micro-Blogging ServiceSAN DIEGO, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Slacker, Inc. today
announced the Personal Radio
service has Twitter integration to provide listeners with a new way to share their favorite stations. Slacker listeners with Twitter accounts can set preferences to automatically tweet their favorite music from their PCs, Macs, smartphones and everywhere else they listen to Slacker Radio in real time.
prnewswire.com Thursday, October 08, 2009BREAKING BENJAMIN Announces Much-Anticipated Tour Dates: 4th CD Release 'Dear Agony' Debuts # 4 on Billboard Top 200BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Multi-platinum rockers BREAKING BENJAMIN (Ben Burnley, vocals/guitar; Aaron Fink, guitar; Mark James, bass; Chad Szeliga, drums)
announced the initial dates for their highly-anticipated tour today as they celebrate a Top 5 debut for their 4th CD release Dear Agony, which debuted # 4 this week on Billboard's Top 200. Selling 134,489 copies in its first week (a first-week sales
career high), Dear Agony also debuted # 1 on iTunes album chart upon release September 29th -- no small feat on a day many in the
industry declared the busiest release date of the year.
prnewswire.com Thursday, October 08, 2009Beastie Boys' Yauch ''hopeful'' he has beaten cancer
(Reuters)Reuters - Adam Yauch is feeling "healthy, strong and hopeful" that he has beaten cancer, the Beastie Boys member shared in a message to fans this week.
yahoo.com Thursday, October 08, 2009Rufus Wainwright channels Puccini for new opera
(Reuters)Reuters - Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright is known for navigating the border between classical and pop. Now his longtime obsession with opera has led him to write one of his own.
yahoo.com Thursday, October 08, 2009Wale Joins Jay-Z's North American College Arena TourSANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- After being hailed as "the greatest new rapper since Jay-Z" (GQ, June 2009), Wale will be featured on hip-hop giant Jay-Z's new tour North
american College Arena Tour. The tour will make 24 stops at a mix of college campus arenas and traditional venues across North America kicking off at Penn State University on October 9th. To coincide with that exposure, Attention Deficit (Allido/Interscope), the much-anticipated debut album from Wale--the first D.C. rapper to gain national attention in more than a decade--will be
released November 10, 2009. Wale, who most recently performed as the house band with legendary go-go band UCB at the VMAs, has been catapulted onto hip-hop's center stage.
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