A Hot Performance a winner Manson's swine flu

A Hot Performance a winner Manson's swine flu

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson has come down with the Swine Flu, but doctors say he's going to be fine. Meanwhile, the potentially deadly virus hasn't killed his ongoing tour -- or his twisted sense of humor.
Manson is booked solid through December on a world tour, and on Sunday he was captured on video blowing mucus on stage in Canada, just a few feet from fans in the front row.
Manson also joked about the virus on his MySpace Celebrity blog this week.
TORONTO -- Contrary to online posts attributed to Marilyn Manson himself, the shock-rocker's reps are saying that he does not, in fact, have swine flu.
The Gillett Entertainment Group and Live Nation sent out a release on Friday denying that Manson had contracted the illness and confirming that he would play his two remaining Canadian tour dates.
"So I have officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with THE SWINE FLU," Manson had written. "Unfortunately, I am going to survive."
He crawls among us.
He spits, shrieks, stomps, writhes, dry-humps, bitches about his swine flu, professes undying love and yes, even walks among us. He is Manson, and he is not dead yet.
Two nights after Metallica shook - and packed - the Bell Centre, Marilyn Manson brought 4,000-plus into the rink's theatre setup, proving anti-heroism is trumped by thrash virtuosity. But let it be said - obviously suffering from something we hope isn't really swine flu, the devil had some good lines.
As red stage lighting was greeted with a sincere volley of devil horns from the faithful, cue the eerie. Wearing moonboots and a jacket bearing the words HELL, ETC., Manson emerged in front of a massive Star Spangled backdrop, fell to his knees and - what's the opposite of praying?

Breakthrough Colbie Caillat Fallin For Song

Colbie Caillat Fallin music

"Dude, that wasn't scary at all," she says. "I was falling from the sky and just noticing that I didn't even have butterflies in my stomach. It was actually really relaxing. I wanna do it again -- with stunts!"
It turns out there's more to Colbie Caillat than first meets the eye.
That goes for her music, as well: Last week, Caillat released "Breakthrough," the follow-up to her double-platinum 2007 debut, "Coco"; it debuted at the top of the Billboard chart with 106,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Though the new album hews closely to the vanilla-bean vibe of her first, it also reveals a quietly maturing songwriter, one capable of capturing the everyday vicissitudes of romance in language that feels talky and true to life

A Top Story This Week Top Charts-Colbie Caillat

Bubbly singer Colbie Caillat

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – "Bubbly" singer Colbie Caillat broke through to the top of the U.S. album chart for the first time on Wednesday, while Miley Cyrus made a surprise showing at No. 3.
"Breakthrough," Caillat's second album, sold 106,000 copies during the week ended August 30, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Caillat's first album, 2007's "Coco," opened at No. 5 with 51,000 and has so far sold 2 million copies in the U.S. It yielded the hit single "Bubbly," which reached the top 10 of the Hot 100.
"I wrote about me falling for this guy who I went out on a date with, and it was just so unexpected that I was going to fall for him, like all these little things about him that I ended up adoring and falling for," she said. "The instruments — I added, like, the violin and cello, but it's not overpowering, it's just tucked back in the mix. [It's] more grown up."
"You always hope for the best, but you never actually think it's going to happen," Caillat told Billboard.com from England, where she's currently touring. "I never want to get my hopes up. Everyone kept saying, 'I think it's gonna be No. 1. It's gonna be No. 1. It looks like it,' and I just kept trying to ignore it 'cause I didn't want it to not happen. And now that it is happening, I can't believe it."
When Colbie Caillat sings on her new album about being fearless, you figure she's speaking in relative terms. After all, this 24-year-old artist from Malibu has ascended to the ranks of pop's top-selling stars thanks to a series of hit singles that virtually define the absence of creative risk: "Bubbly," "Realize," "The Little Things" -- each arrives on a gentle wave of acoustic guitar and laid-back vocals, with safe-as-milk lyrics that wouldn't upset a nun.

Photos of Beaterator Galarry

Photos of Beaterator Galarry

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2009 file image originally released by Verizon Wireless, Timbaland performs at an event presented by Verizon and BlackBerry Storm at Boulevard 3, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles

Preview Timbaland Unleashes First Look Beaterator

First Look Beaterator

LOS ANGELES - Timbaland is not afraid of wannabes stealing his flow.
The producer-singer, who has collaborated with musicians ranging from Justin Timberlake to Nelly, has found a new duet partner in Rockstar Games. Timbaland is teaming up with the developer behind the "Grand Theft Auto" franchise on the handheld music-making application "Beaterator," but the hip-hop impresario doesn't think the app will put him out of a job.
"I can give you everything," he teases, "but you're not gonna think like I would think."
Australia, September 3, 2009 - Boy, this game has been a long time coming. Starting life as a Flash game on Rockstar's website in 2005, Beaterator was green lit as an internal project that very same year, with Rockstar Leeds – Rockstar's handheld gurus – heading up development. It wasn't until Timbaland came on board in 2007, however, that Beaterator's development really went into overdrive. Fast forward to late 2009 and the result of all those long years of work is something very special.
Music games are all the rage these days, with lots of plastic instruments to choose from for your Guitar Heroing, Rock Banding and Sing Starring pleasure. The difference between Beaterator and these rhythm / music games is that here you're creating music, not imitating it. There's no hackneyed storyline here about an up-and-coming music producer trying to fight his way off of the mean streets, defying all odds in his bid to make it to the big time. Think of Beaterator more like a music-making tool that you can access on the go, allowing you to craft music from a library that encompasses thousands of different sounds and loops, including 1300 or so that Timbaland made specifically for Beaterator. While I wasn't able to go through the entire audio catalog during my brief demo, I did get to check out some synthy laser sounds, which made my day.

Funk-Soul Music Cosmic Color Show

The original mission of the Zydeco Festival was to revive the culture through the music," said Lena Charles, the Zydeco Festival director and president of the Southern Development Foundation, which presents the festival. "It's a proud culture, and in the time the festival has been around, we think it's been successful in its original mission."

Coming Soon Culture of Zaydeco Soul Music

Culture of Zaydeco Soul Music

Things will get a little salty at this year's Zydeco Festival in Plaisance, as the city celebrates the music and culture of zydeco.And that's just how the festival's organizers want it.

The Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Festival, which turns 27 this year, celebrates the music of one of Louisiana's richest cultural traditions. When the festival began 27 years ago, it was a simple creation: a flatbed truck refashioned into a stage sitting in the center of a large open field in Plaisance, a community just north of Opelousas. The flatbed truck provided a platform for a lineup of old-time zydeco musicians, and the festival's original impulse was one of resuscitation.
The festival has also gotten support from the Lafayette Convention and Visitor Commission and the Louisiana Tourist Commission.

"A lot of organizations and businesses have come together to make this festival happen," Charles said. "They're showing that this community has pride in their culture and their history."
"This music comes from a people that didn't have a lot," Charles said. "And look at us now. Zydeco music is mainstream. And the new artists are all so talented.

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Slove Music Law Bob Dylam-Man

Slove Music Law Bob Dylam-Man

COUNTER-CULTURE HERO: To corporate America — that demographic once known as “the establishment” — Paul Krassner has been a pain in the butt for more than 50 years.
Krassner earned the title “father of the underground press” from People magazine as editor, publisher and writer for the free-form publication The Realist, which folded in 2001 after and on-and-off run starting in 1958. He was named to the Counter-Culture Hall of Fame a year before Bob Dylan.

Manilow Start New Project Music School

Manilow Start New Project Music School

Palm Springs resident Barry Manilow will expand the Manilow Music Project he started with Coachella Valley schools into the Los Angeles Unified School District, it was announced this week.
He’ll perform a benefit for the fund Oct. 24 at the Hollywood Bowl with a VIP reception starting at 5 p.m. and a concert beginning at 7:30 p.m.
According to Manilowfund.org, Manilow planned the benefit “in response to California’s budget crisis and the drastic cuts in music programs in public schools. ...This gala event will put instruments into the hands of students in the Los Angeles Unified School District.”
He said at the announcement of the distribution at Palm Springs High School he wanted to do more music projects in other regions and he hoped to inspire more donations of musical instruments around the country.
News of the project soon in spired a donation of instruments in Pennsylvania. Manilow followed up his donation in May by inviting Palm Springs High School music students to watch his Las Vegas show, “Ultimate Manilow: The Hits” show at the Las Vegas Hilton.
A spokesman for Manilow declined a request for an interview with the entertainer, but said, “We'll have a bigger story to tell very soon.”
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Lisa Loeb all reday pregnant she said

Singer Lisa Loeb and her husband Roey

Singer Lisa Loeb and her husband Roey Hershkovitz are going to be parents, her rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
"They're excited to welcome their first child this winter," says Loeb's manager Janet Billig Rich.
It’s like, how does your heart beat, and why do you breathe? Lisa Loeb will get to ask her new baby just that, since she’s preggers! MSNBC reportsthat the singer-songwriter who rocked nerdy-chic even before Tina Fey did is expecting her first child with husband Roey Hershkovitz.
"They're excited to welcome their first child this winter," said Loeb's manager Janet Billig Rich.
Loeb, 41, and Hershkovitz, 31, a music production supervisor for "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien," met in 2006 at a business meeting and were engaged last November.

Sam & Jason Thinking joint Alart

Sam & Jason Thinking

"I don't feel like I crossed a finish line. I don't feel like I've sweated for 70 weeks. I feel like the song is just doing its thing and it was a real gift," he said.

Jason Talkes to MTV News Interview At Outside Lands history

Jason Talkes to MTV News Interview

Following a set of loose, groovy surf music, Jason Mraz stopped by the MTV News tent at the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco to explain how a raw food restaurant inspired his album, the science behind his record-breaking smash "I'm Yours" and what he hopes his music inspires in his fans (which apparently has a lot to do with high-fives).
"The song was really born into the crowd. ... I noticed almost an immediate response to it and people really celebrated in a different way during that song," he said in a phone interview. "And then by having those three years to jam to the song, it gave us the opportunity to do something simple, yet spirited" in the studio.
I'm Yours first charted in May 2008, hit No 6 in September 2008 and has spent 71 weeks on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.
The previous record-holder, LeAnn Rimes' late-1990s hit How Do I Live, lasted 69 weeks.) Mraz's tune also nominated for Song of the Year at this year's Grammy Awards.
Though the accomplishment is one the 32-year-old is proud of, he says it does not mean he has necessarily reached a milestone in his career.