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It feels like Ja Rule is just starting to make his mark on hip-hop, but the husky-voiced MC is already talking about calling it quits. “I’m going to retire after two more albums,” Ja said at Tuesday’s BET Awards press conference, where at least a few reporters thought he was joking. “I’m serious!” he insisted. The “Always on Time” rapper said he’ll deliver The Last Temptation and then a fifth and final album before leaving music to “do a lot of films.” Minutes later, however, Ja revealed that one of his biggest inspirations is basketball legend Michael Jordan, who “retired”… Read more »

Even after your favorite band has entered the studio, anxiously waiting for its next album is a lot like waiting for water to boil – the closer you watch, the longer it seems to take. But if you’re eagerly anticipating the next Radiohead disc, maybe you should hold your breath. In a May 11 Web chat on fan site ateaseweb.com, frontman Thom Yorke said the band is currently working on its next record, and making good progress. “It’ll be [ready] sooner than you think,” Yorke wrote. “We are working bloody hard on it. We are trying to be a bit… Read more »

Few albums have been as closely guarded as Eminem’s The Eminem Show. No one at Interscope Records has a personal copy, and journalists who want to review it have to go to special listening sessions where representatives from the rapper’s management deliver the disc, sit through the sessions and then take the record back to keep it out of enemy hands. Despite such precautions, all 20 songs were leaked to the Internet by May 11, a full three weeks before the disc’s release date. The tracks are available on various file-sharing services. Plus, bootleg vendors began selling the CD on… Read more »

Quarashi, the radical hip-hop/punk quartet that’s smashing the musical stereotypes of the group’s native Iceland, embark on the band’s first major American tour as part of the hotly-anticipated Van’s Warped Tour ’02, kicking at the Idaho Center in Boise on June 21 (full itinerary follows). Picked as one of Spin’s “Bands to Watch in 2002,” Quarashi is currently enjoying the breakout success of “Stick ‘Em Up,” the first single to be released from the group’s debut U.S. album Jinx. A #1 Most Added record at Alternative Radio, “Stick ‘Em Up” can be seen and heard scorching the airwaves on MTV… Read more »

Rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs says his relationship with Jennifer Lopez was under stress even before his trial on gun charges but he was surprised that she married so quickly after their breakup. “Yeah, I was surprised,” Combs told Newsweek in an interview in the issue on newsstands Monday. “I mean, I didn’t know it was coming, but if getting married made her happy, then I’m happy she’s married.” Combs was acquitted last year by a jury that found him and his bodyguard, Anthony “Wolf” Jones, innocent of gun possession and bribery charges. The charges stemmed from a Dec. 27,… Read more »

Britney Spears is the star of the new PlayStation 2 videogame Britney’s Dance Beat, which is now available nationwide. The THQ-brand game capitalizes on the multimedia capabilities of the PlayStation 2 computer-entertainment system, placing Spears music videos in the background during game play, and featuring bonus DVD content that is unlocked as players progress through the game. “It is so cool that I have my very own videogame,” said Spears. “THQ totally captured my dance moves perfectly. I was blown away by how realistic everything looks!” In Britney’s Dance Beat, players audition to be a backup dancer on Spears’s virtual… Read more »

Rocker Eddie Van Halen says he’s gotten a clean bill of health from his doctors, after a two-year battle with tongue cancer. In a statement on his band’s official Web site, www.van-halen.com, he said, “I wanted to let you all know that I’ve just gotten a 100 percent clean bill of health – from head to toe. I wanted to share the good news with you immediately. And of course, I thank you all for all your good wishes and prayers along the way. Now it’s time to really get back to the music and fun…..so party on and you’ll… Read more »

“Let me take you to a place nice and quiet,” Usher sang on “Nice and Slow” halfway through an hour-and-a-half headlining set at Key Arena Wednesday night. “Nice” was all taken care of – and “nasty” got equal time, with Usher playing the roles of both sweet lover and triple-X seducer – but the Key was the furthest thing from quiet. The screams of thousands of lust-crazed female fans surged at every hip thrust and low croon, shaking the arena’s foundations in a way even last year’s 6.8 magnitude quake couldn’t touch. Boasting more outfit changes than Cher, the R&B… Read more »

Considering their last album was released in 1993, you’d think the Breeders could have come up with an album title in that time. Instead, they named their new release Title TK, which in journalism jargon means “title to come” – used when information is still forthcoming. As coolly detached as she is, frontwoman Kim Deal wasn’t being a slacker. This title was conceived even before this album, due May 21, was. “I always thought Title TK sounded cool. Even when Last Splash didn’t have a name, I thought I’d call it Title TK, but I didn’t use it then. And… Read more »

“The Osbournes” have not only captivated you, your bleeping grandma and your bleeping hairdresser, but probably your favorite bleeping rock star as well. The most popular series in MTV history, with nearly 8 million viewers a week, has acquired a particularly loyal audience in perhaps the only people who can truly relate to the madness – other musicians. Incubus, for example, fell so hard for the show they asked their management to record it when they are on the road and send them copies for tour bus screenings. Singer Brandon Boyd said when “The Osbournes” is on, his eyes are… Read more »