San Diegos's Street Scene migrates again

For 23 years, Street Scene has gathered the diverse musical interests of Southern California on the streets and open spaces of San Diego.

Exactly which streets, however, has been the question.

Originally the festival was held in the then-seedy downtown Gaslamp District.

Founder Rob Hagey helped define the event as an destination festival, bringing in bands such as R.E.M., Ben Harper, Wilco, Wyclef Jean and Black Eyed Peas, to name just a few.

This year, Hagey teamed with the Los Angeles-based Live Nation to help promote the show. Street Scene was originally scheduled for the Del Mar Fairgrounds, but failure to book a big-time headliner and sluggish ticket sales pushed the festival south, to Coors Amphitheatre in Chula Vista. Live Nation owns the 20,000-capacity venue. Street Scene this year will feature more than 60 artists on five stages, with headliners Muse anchoring Saturday's lineup and the Killers holding down Sunday.

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Retooled Van Halen hitting the Road

It's been 22 years since David Lee Roth was on stage with Eddie and Alex Van Halen, but after a summer of confirmations and denials, it looks like the Van Halen reunion is definitely going to happen.

It's not the truest form of the original lineup, though, because the band didn't invite original bassist Michael Anthony along the ride. Instead, Eddie Van Halen's son, Wolfgang, has stepped in on bass duties. OC Register..Niyaz Pirani

Nelly

Nelly has never been one of the most innovative artists, but his new single could be one of the thinnest, most derivative songs in recent history. It consists of a sped-up version of the piano riff from K-Ci & Joo's "All My Life," with the St. Louis MC shouting flirty near-nonsense that seems to proceed directly from Biggie's "Big Poppa." Of course, those songs were both huge hits, so look for this to break big-Nelly's no innovator, but he also ain't dumb. 'Evan Serpick'

Diddley Ailing

Three months after he was hospitalized for a stroke, Bo Diddley suffered a heart attack on August 24th. The singer,78 underwent emergency surgery in Gainesville, Florida, after falling ill during a routine checkup at his doctor's office. Diddley was listed in stable condition at press time. "He hasn't traveled or played [since the stroke],"says his spokes-woman. "He's been doing speech therapy and been at home with his family, living his life." "Rolling Stone"

ALICIA KEYS

Last year, says Alicia Keys, "I had a hell of a lot of personal experiences that knocked me off my feet." But a rejuvenating trip to Egypt helped turn things around: When she got back to the United States in October, she hooked up with a dream team of fellow songwriters-Linda Perry, John Mayer and Mark Batson-and experimented by distorting her keyboards to create "a whole'nother tapestry of music and sounds." A standout track, "Go Ahead,"sums up the disc's spirit."It hs this hard-ass beat, and the flow is crazy, and it's got a lot of aggression in there," she says. "I needed to get that off my chest." (Rolling Stone)

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey's last album, "The emancipation of Miami," was the breakout hit of 2005, selling more than 5 million copies. For the follow-up, she's hewing close to Mimi's glossy, club-ready sound, with beats from Jermaine Dupri, Stargate,Bryan Michael Cox and Will.i.am."Seriously, I can't wait to put this record out," says Carey."I'm in the studio day and night trying ti cook it to perfection. If the last album was dinner, treat this as dessert."--Rolling Stone

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Duran Duran

Simon Le Bon knows exactly what he wants from the new Duran Duran album:"We're not aiming for indie-rock radio or some niche," Le Bon says. "We want Top Forty." So when founding guitarist Andy Taylor quit, the group jettisoned the tracks it had been working on and brought in hitmaking producer Timbaland-who crafted tracks like the Justin Timberlake duet"Nite Runner." "The original sessions were more 'white rock,' "Le Bon says. "What we got now is something taht is much more funky, much more rhythmic and much more black-but it still sounds like Duran Duran." 'Rolling Stone'

Going Solo "Nicole Scherzinger"

"I'm Psyched. I'm jumping out of my skin," says Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger about her solo debut, which is packed with A-list collaborators:Guest vocalist include Sting and Akon, and Scherzinger got beats from Timbland, Pharrell and Will.i.am. As Scherzinger worked on the disc she kept racking up big-name guests: A chance encounter with Ne Yo led him to give Scherzinger the ballad "Happily Never After," which he'd originally written for Britney Spears, and some-thing similarhappened when she ran into Kayne West in L.A. "He said. 'So when are we soing a song?" she says. "The next night, I made him go in the studio before he forgot." (Rolling Stone)

Springsteen and the E Street Band Prepare 'Magic' Tour

Bruce Springsteen will kick off his first full tour with the E Street Band in four years on October 2nd at the Hartford Civic Center-the same day his new album Magic, hits shelves. Dates currently run through December 19th in London, though the tour is widely expected into nextyear. Springsteen recently told Backstreets.com that he's psyched to play the new material live. As on the Rising tour, it looks like the entire floor will be general admission. The tickets which went on sale September 8th, topped off at ninety-five dollars. Rehearsals begin in September, but Springsteen has not started planning the set list.(Rolling Stone)

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VAN HALEN TOUR NEARLY SOLD OUT

Less than a month before Van Halen kicks off its tour with David Lee Roth in twenty-three years, all of the dates have nearly sold out. "In most of the major markets we put one date on sale and immediately ran into another date," says a spokesman for the tour's promoter, Live Nation. The band has stepped up rehearsals in anticipation of the September27th tour kickoff in Charlotte, North Carolina, moving into a space large enough to accommodate their elaborate, arena size stage - which features a catwalk that extends ontothe audience. In another Van Halen news, former bassist Michael Anthony vents to Rolling Stone abut being replaced by Eddie's sixteen-year -old-son, Wolfgang. "I found about it on the Internet," says Anthony, who says he hasn't spoken to Eddie in nearly three years. " I'm a littlemiffed that they're calling it a Van Halen reunion. If I was dead and they needed someone to play , that's one thing, but to me this is not a reunion."

Petty's $ 3000 Show

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers didn't tour this summer. But if you happened to be in Eats Hampton, New York the week before Labor Day-and had $ 3,000 for a ticket-you could have seen them wrap up the Hampton Social, a super-deluxe series of summer shows that included Prince, Billy Joel and Dave Matthews. Rocking a beard and a blazer, Petty tore through his hits for a crowd packed with models (Christy Turlington), moguls (Mort Zuckerman), actors(Richard Gere) and even a Beatle (Paul McCartney, seen grooving near the front of the crowd to the set-closing"American Girl")

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iTunes Top Ten Singles

These are ITunes Top Ten Singles for Sept 6 according to Rolling Stones

Sean Kingston "Beautiful Girls"
Kayne West "Stronger"
Timbaland "The Way I Are"
Fergie "Big Girls Don't Cry"
Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah"
Sean Kingston "Me Love"
Rihanna "Shut Up and Drive"
50 Cent "Ayo Technology"
Hurricane Chris " A Bay Bay"
Akon "Sorry, Blame It on Me"

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Paul McCartney

McCartney continues the charm offensive for his Memory Almost Full album with a six-song digital EP, recorded at the London stop of his short, intimate-venue tour this summer. These shows were the kind of small, heated gigs he once envisioned for the Beatles, during the Get Back sessions, and the strong, simple electricity I felt at McCartney's New York show comes through here in the garage-spirit thrashings of"Coming Up,""Jet" and Memory's""Only Mama Knows."Unfortunately, you don't get any Beatles songs on this EP, even though there were plenty in the set lists. The closest McCartney comes is the coy look back over his shoulder, "That Was Me." But that will do until he puts out of those shows in full. (David Fricke)

Patti Scialfa

Stop me if you've heard this one before: So there's this singer from New Jersey who writes songs about ordinary lives and fast cars... OK, so Patti Scialfa shares more than just an address with her illustrious husband. But what makes her third album, Play IT AS IT Lays, much more tahn another Springsteen-wanna-be project is the insightful female perspective she brings to these ten songs. With a crack rhythm section (including a dude named Bruce playing on almost half the tracks), Play It As It Lays reveals a woman on the other side of the tunnel of love-confused, a little scared and ready for another spin. (Alan Light)

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Pearl Jam : Censored

Three-fourths of the way through Pearl Jam's Lollapalooza set, Eddie Vedder began singing. "George Bush, leave this world alone!" - but all fans watching via the online stream on AT&T's Blue Room Web site got was sixteen seconds of silence. AT&T eventually admitted that Davie Brown Entertainment, the subcontractor AT&T hired to Webcast the festival, pulled the audio when Vedder got political. " We regret that it happened," says AT&T spokesman. Pearl Jam have since posted the unedited clip on their Web site, " I don't believe that a capitalist corporation....has the right to subvert the First Amendment if the Constitution, " guitarist Mike McCready wrote in a statement. "When one person or a company decides what others can hear, that is a totalitarian thinking!"

Van Halen Return

Six months after an announced Van Halen reunion tour was canceled due to band infighting and Eddie's return to rehab, the group seemed happy to be onstage together-the famously fractious Eddie and Roth even embraced. The twenty-five-date tour kicks off September 27th in Charlotte, North Carolina; the band already has more than twenty songs worked up. (Eddie's sixteen-year-old son, Wolfgang, who replaces founding bassist Michael Anthony, is in charge of the set list.) So what will they play? Said Roth, All the favorites you've been hearing tearing out of the back of a pickup truck at the Burger King drive-through."

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Novak Djokovic talks about Federer, Rafa

Check out tennis sensation Novak Djokovic as he impersonates tennis greats.

Click here http://www.u-tube-tv.com/video/9312/novak-djokovic-talks-about-federer-rafa-very-funny

That's The Ticket-Ticketmaster-Live Nation

Concert promotion behemoth Live Nation is contemplating ditching Barry Diller's Ticketmaster to start its own rival ticketing service, and the idea is registering positively with Wall Street.
Live Nation is in the midst of renegotiating its contract with Ticketmaster. The company , which is investing heavily in new digital technologies, is said to be kicking the tires on the notion of launching its own ticketing service in a bid to capture great profits from tickets and related sponsorships and marketing.
Talk of Live Nation striking out on its own comes as a growing number of tours, including Ozzfest, Bonnaroo and Lollapalloza, are bypassing deals with Ticketmaster.
Live Nation produced over 10,000 live music events last year including concerts by the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Barbara Streisand, Dave Matthews Band and Toby Keith and generated over $2.7 billion global live music revenues.
The move would come as a blow to Ticketmaster. Live Nation is its biggest client and its events account for a reported 17 percent of Ticketmaster's revenues. Ticketmaster generated over $1 billion in total revenue in 2006. (Article by Brian Garrity)

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