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Pop-punk group Lit will take a brief detour from its headlining tour to reunite with Kid Rock for three arena shows this coming weekend, beginning Thursday (May 9) at Philadelphia’s First Union Spectrum. The Orange County band, touring in support of its latest album, Atomic, will also appear as Rock’s opening act at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Friday (May 10) and Fairfax, Virginia’s Patriot Center the following night (May 11). Lit has served as Rock’s support act for several shows in recent months, so the group knows what to expect. As to how to approach it, bassist Kevin… 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 »

AOL Time Warner Inc. said Thursday it named Michael Lynton to the newly created position of president of international efforts as well as executive vice president. Lynton, 42, will work to further develop the company’s international growth strategy through cross-divisional collaboration and the integration of international initiatives, alliances, acquisitions and investments, the New York-based media and communications company said. Lynton, currently president of AOL International, and will continue to lead the organization and its operations in Asia, Latin America and Europe. “He is the perfect choice to lead our combined international efforts and enable our divisions to more easily coordinate… Read more »

Wondering why Eminem singles out ‘NSync’s Chris Kirkpatrick and Moby in his new song, “Without Me,” from his forthcoming The Eminem Show? The rapper told MTV’s Total Request Live on Thursday (May 2) during the premiere of the video that it’s because Kirkpatrick was the only boy band member who had the guts to say something back to him, after the rapper attacked the group and boy bands in general on his last album. On why he attacks Moby in the song and video, Em sarcastically told TRL that he liked Moby, but feels bad that no one else does.… Read more »

MTV has rescheduled its Video Music Awards out of respect for the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The ceremony, which usually takes place the first Thursday in September, has been moved up a week to Aug. 29. “By bringing together artists, fans and the city’s creative community for MTV’s biggest night of the year, we hope to show our love and support for the place we truly call home every day,” the cable network’s president, Van Toffler, said in a statement Wednesday. For the fourth straight year, the Video Music Awards will take place in New York,… Read more »

Thousands of fans and friends gathered at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, Thursday morning to say good-bye to flamboyant TLC singer/rapper Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. Close to 10,000 mourners – including Lopes’ former TLC-mates Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas – made the trip to the Atlanta suburb for Thursday’s (May 2) funeral service for Lopes, who was killed in a car accident in Honduras last week at the age of 30. Usher, Arista Records CEO L.A. Reid, Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri, Babyface, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Timbaland, Mack 10, Da Brat, Raphael Saadiq and… Read more »

With those sunglasses he wears all the time, it’s sometimes hard to read Musiq. Except when he’s onstage. He can’t keep from smiling; he obviously loves what he’s doing. Wednesday night at B.B. King’s in New York City, the Soulchild held his album release party for Juslisen, which drops next Tuesday. Unlike most shindigs of this nature, Musiq didn’t just play cuts from his LP for attendees such as Jay-Z, Angie Stone, Capone and Bilal – the 24-year-old and his band played cuts. Before the main attraction came onto the stage, the Roots’ Black Thought warmed things up with his… Read more »

TLC won’t replace Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, who died last week in a car crash in Honduras. Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the Grammy-winning R&B trio will release its fourth album and plans to continue performing, but she and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins won’t add a new member. “As for Lisa being replaced – never,” Thomas said. “You can’t replace a TLC girl. The chemistry we have is something God gave us. You can’t put that together.” A private visiting for family and friends is set for Wednesday night in Atlanta, TLC manager Bill Diggins said. A funeral… Read more »

Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, the effervescent, sometimes volatile rapping member of the Grammy-winning trio TLC, was killed in a car crash in Honduras, her record company said early Friday. Lopes, who would have turned 31 next month, was in the Central American nation for a vacation, Arista Records’ senior vice president of publicity Laura Swanson told The Associated Press. Lopes was reportedly among seven people in the car Thursday night and the only fatality. “No words can possibly express the sorrow and sadness I feel for this most devastating loss,” said Arista president L.A. Reid, who helped shape the career… Read more »

Dr. Dre and others affiliated with a DVD recorded during 2000’s Up in Smoke Tour were hit with an invasion of privacy lawsuit Wednesday from several existing and former Detroit city officials who claim they were secretly filmed. Greg Bowens, former press secretary for former Mayor Dennis Archer, Detroit Recreation Department official Phillip Talbert and three Detroit Police officers allege that hidden cameras illegally captured a private conversation backstage at Joe Louis Arena about an explicit video the officials banned from Detroit and nearby Auburn Hills shows. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, names several defendants, including Dre; Magic… Read more »