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."