Eminem takes New Year's gig
On top: Of both the national and Detroit area weekly Nielsen SoundScan album sales chart, Nas' "Hip Hop Is Dead" collection.
Reduced: The price of the Detroit Indian Village home that current Nashville rocker Jack White is trying to unload. Detroit expatriate White purchased the historic home in 2003 and recorded the White Stripes 2005 Grammy award-winning album "Get Behind Me Satan" in the grand staircase and foyer.
The house at 1731 Seminole was offered at $930,000 but now is asking $650,000. Details at .
Collaborating: Paul McCartney, with kin on a stage show about his early life, the Daily Telegraph of London reports.
Cousin and actress Kate Robbins was quoted as saying that she and McCartney were cooperating on an adaptation of the ex-Beatle's "Liverpool Oratorio." McCartney worked with Carl Davis to produce that work in 1991. The stage version will feature a character named Shandy, based on McCartney; the Telegraph didn't say when the show might be ready to stage.
Complaining: The L.A. sheriff's deputy who arrested Mel Gibson for drunken driving six months ago.
He says his superiors have harassed him ever since a report detailing the star's anti-Semitic tirade was leaked to a celebrity news Web site. Deputy James Mee was transferred to another assignment, interrogated for several hours, and investigators seized a computer and phone records during a search of his home, his attorney told the Los Angeles Times. A sheriff's division chief denied that Mee was singled out.
Debuting: A Steve (Crocodile Hunter) Irwin action figure made by Wild Republic in conjunction with the Irwin family. It will be unveiled at the International Toy Fair, Feb. 11-14 in New York.
Irwin died Sept. 4 at 44 after a stingray attack.
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December 29, 2006
Our man Eminem is sharing. Sharing what? Twenty-five of his favorite hip-hop tracks on Sirius Satellite Radio channel, Channel 45, from 8-10 p.
m. on New Year's Eve.
According to Sirius, "The most successful artist in hip-hop history is 'stating the facts and playing the tracks' .
"
Busy from 8-10? It will be re-broadcast 10 p.m.
to midnight and again on New Year's Day, at midnight, noon, 2 p.m. and 8 p.
m.
Who'll be hot in '07? Here are some of Billboard magazine's musical picks to click:
bull; Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini, who turns 20 on Jan.
9. His album "These Streets" is due for U.S.
release Jan. 30.
bull; In 2005, Young Love (Dan Keyes), former frontman of Texas rock band Recover, was busing tables and working at American Apparel in New York.
Then Jay-Z called. His "Too Young to Fight It" album is melodic, catchy, smart.
bull; Ledisi, out of Oakland, Calif.
, mixes R B, jazz, gospel, pop and rock with flavorful scatting. .
bull; The Ponys.
The Chicago band is a regular visitor to Detroit, and its first full-length album, "Turn the Lights Out," arrives March 20.
bull; Luke Bryan is unapologetically country in his music and lifestyle.
bull; Naomi Striemer: Fans of purely melodic pop music should rejoice.
Her debut album, "Images," arrived earlier this month.
bull; Rich Boy (Maurice Richards) is catching everyone's ears with his single "Throw Some D's," which samples Switch's "I Call Your Name."
bull; K-OS is Toronto-bred MC Kheaven Brereton.
His "Atlantis: Hymns for Disco" debuts in the U.S. Feb.
20.
A white, horse-drawn carriage took the body of music legend James Brown through the streets of Harlem to the Apollo Theater on Thursday. A sea of people walked behind the caisson in the street, singing Brown's anthem, "Say It Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, Brown's close friend, raced through the night from Georgia with the remains, then followed the carriage on foot.
At least early on, Bob Seger pretty much stuck to the script Thursday night, playing the third of four sold-out shows at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
There was one notable exception before the show's intermission (and this story's deadline): After 10 years' absence from the stage, Seger showed his fans that he's "Still the Same."
The popular song, which he hadn't performed on previous nights in Detroit, drew the fans to their feet, people apparently agreeing that the silver-haired rocker hasn't changed.
"He's like a kid," someone shouted in the crowd.
"I love it!"
Seger's voice resonated deep and true through classics like "Betty Lou's Getting Out Tonight" and "Travelin'Man"/"Beautiful Loser."
"Alright, Michigan," Seger implored from the stage, "you feeling funky tonight?
" Based on the roars, the answer was undeniably yes.
See for the complete report.
Compiled from various news sources by JOHN SMYNTEK at 313-222-5169 and .
Hear him today at about 7:40 a.m. on WJR-AM (760 and wjr.
com) with Warren Pierce.
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