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Music: Glenn Gamboa
Amber Swift  |  by www.newsday.com. All rights reserved. 10.11 | 17:09

Diddy is a man of many talents: performer, producer, marketer, party-thrower, entrepreneur and pitch man. Rapper should be on the list, too, though not very high, considering all his other successes. He's a decent rapper, but that's often not the point.

And that becomes pretty clear on "Press Play" (Bad Boy/Atlantic), Diddy's first album in five years.

Cobra Starship is no joke band, even if it does get pretty funny.
It seems like Mat Kearney's music is everywhere these days - everywhere except, well, you know, the radio.

Janet Jackson opens her new "20 Y.O." (Virgin) album with a declaration of sorts, saying: "I want to keep it light.

I don't want to be serious. I want to have fun."

How come every time they come around, singers like Fergie always seem to let us down?

Justin Timberlake is always selling. It's probably what he does best.
When you look like Beyonc , when you dance like Beyonc and, most importantly, when you sing like Beyonc , good isn't always good enough.

Don't worry, Tom Cruise. You'll be just fine.
Like most geniuses, Bob Dylan has a brain that moves too fast.

Rick Ross' debut album, "Port of Miami" (Def Jam), is a summer blockbuster - complete with gunfights, car chases, drug dealing, Mile High Club sex, a rags-to-riches anti-hero, a grand hip-hop soundtrack and its own catch phrase: "Roussssss."
Watch out for the Killers. The quartet from Las Vegas will transform from new-new wave curiosity to serious rock band, as well as major priority for Island Def Jam Records, with the upcoming release of its sophomore album "Sam's Town.

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DMX is back - still gruff as a Harley, still subtle as a sledgehammer - and he is looking to make this, as his new album title declares, "Year of the Dog ...

Again" (Sony Urban).

For the past 20 years or so of his three-decade career, Tom Petty has been a stealth rock superstar, regularly drawing big crowds and churning out big hits without big publicity. In rock, consistency is rarely seen as a virtue.

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