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For 50 Cents next movie ‘Things Fall Apart’, he plays a football player who is diagnosed with cancer. For the part, he had to lose 50 pounds. Daaaaaammmnn. Look at the photos he posted on his Facebook page.

This is freaken Awesome. Some guy in Toronto developed a program that you can get on your Firefox browser that will cover up any online reference to Justin Bieber. It’s called ‘Shaved Bieber’ and was created by Greg Leuch.

Of course Bieber fans are just besides themselves. They are now issuing death threats to the creator of the program. But he’s now getting requests to build more of these programs for other stars that people are sick and tired of seeing everywhere online.

Thats good shit right there!

Porter House Prime Vinyl is releasing the great Circle Jerks “Wonderful” and X “Under the Big Black Sun” on 180 gram 12″ vinyl. On June 8th Circle Jerks “Wonderful” will come out with the original lyric sleeve and X “Under the Big Black Sun” will also come out with original inner lyric sheet.

VH1′s Behind The Music is back again beginning on June 7 at 8:00pm. This round of musicians will include J-Lo, Jennifer Hudson, Eve, Christina Aguilera, Courtney Love, Usher and will start off with DMX. This DMX one I’m looking forward to the most. With all his crazy ass antics with drugs and the police it should be a good one.

Paul Gay, the bassist for Slipknot, was found today in an Iowa hotel early this morning. The DesMoinesRegister says they don’t see any foul play but will know more tomorrow when they do the toxicology test.

You might have already heard but Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has started a new band with his wife ‘Mariqueen Maandig’ called ‘How to Destroy Angels’. Here’s a track from their album called ‘The Space In Between’. It’s nice and dark…just how I like it.

Naughty By Nature are heading over to the Persian Gulf for a USO Tour with the original lineup of DJ Kay Gee, Vin Rock and Treach. Not only will they sing their hits ‘Hip Hop Hooray’ and ‘O.P.P.’ but they will also debut songs from their new album ‘Anthem Inc.’; their first album since 1999. Treach says “This new album is definitely gonna take you back, but just like we always did, we’ve invented a new sound, a bunch of new flows and after being without an album for so long, we’ve gotta lotta things to say.”

Los Lobos have announced their new album titled ‘Tin Can Trust’ to come out on August 3, 2010. It’s their first album of original material in 4 years and will have 11 tracks. I’m sure it will be great!

Scorpions are on their farewell tour ‘Get Your Sting and Blackout’ and they will be recording all the shows and put on MP3 USB flash drives. They are saying the tour can last up to 3 years. Some final tour huh. If you are interested you can get these shows HERE.

Mary J. Blige is going to play the great Nina Simone on an upcoming movie. The movie will focus on Simone’s relationship with her assistant Clifton Henderson. Nina was one of the greatest in my opinion. She was a songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist. She really wanted to be a pianist but in order to get jobs she was pretty much forced into singing as well.

This will be interesting to see Blige play Simone. Simone has been known to be quite feisty when on stage.

Ronnie James Dio has died due to stomach cancer on Sunday May 16th at 7:45am. He was only 67 years old but has the disease since he announced it back on November 25, 2009.

Dio was in Elf, Blackmore’s Rainbow, Black Sabbath and his own band Dio with his most recent band being Heaven & Hell. All these bands over the course of an amazing 53 years of his career. Can you believe he was the one that really popularized the ‘devil’s horns’?

RIP Dio. Best wishes to the rest of his family.

Damn the guy comes back from the dead and he’s got another reality show. He’s never going away my friends. His new show ‘Bret Michaels: Life As I know It’ was scheduled to come out this month but of course due to his appendectomy and brain hemorrhage, its getting pushed back to a later date. It’s going to be 10 half-hour episodes that will show life after the concerts and parties where he comes home to his kids Raine and Jorja.

I ain’t gonna lie, I watched Rock of Love and I kinda liked him in Celebrity Apprentice. Should be a good show.

Tool is ready to go on the road for a summer tour beginning on June 19th. Their last studio album was ’10,000 days’ back in 2006 so it’s not like they have any new music but it will be nice to see them again. They are such a great band live. If you remember Maynard James Keenan started his winery ‘Stronghold Vineyards’ a few years back so he’s been busy with that. There are hints that a new album is underway. Here are the tour dates.

June 2010
19 – New Orleans, LA – University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena
20 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
22 – Cedar Park, TX – Cedar Park Center
23 – Oklahoma City, OK – Ford Arena
25 – Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
26 – St. Charles, MO – Family Arena

July 2010
1 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Center
4 – Winnipeg, Manitoba – MTS Centre
5 – Regina, Saskatchewan – Brandt Centre
7 – Edmonton, Alberta – Rexall Place
9 – Vancouver, British Columbia – GM Place
12 – San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Rob Zombie posted some pics of him and the band backstage from their Gruesome Twosome Tour with Alice Cooper. You can see more at the Roadrunner Records site.

A 14-minute reel-to-reel tape recording of the August 17, 1996 press conference by The Beatles at the King Edward Hotel in Toronto is up for auction at Bonhams & Butterfields. This is the recording of where John Lennon said the band was more popular than Jesus. The tapes were made by a young photojournalist who attended the press conference. He tried to sell them back in 1966 but nobody cared for them so they sat in a drawer for over 40 years. It’s reported to sell between $20k to $25k at the June 13th auction in Los Angeles.