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Celine Dion is pictured holding hands with her 7-year old son Rene Charles as they visit one of the centers of the African Children’s Feeding Scheme (ACFS) in Soweto, South Africa. The ACFS is an organization that provides meals for poor orphaned and abandoned kids. Now this is the right way to do some charity and not adopting a kid suddenly. The 39-year old Canadian singer was in Africa as she kicked off her world tour in Johannesburg, South Africa last week. Celine in the highest-selling female artist in South Africa of all time so it’s great to see that she’s using her name to do some good for the country.

Apparently, according to Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, you can only be a true fan if you cry, or even better, pass out. In a video that was filmed just after her arrival in Japan to begin the Spice Girls reunion world tour; she says “When the paramedics are called I think that is a good sign, it shows real determination as a fan.”

The video has been released on her website for those that don’t believe me – check it out for yourselves.

So, if you are made of stronger stuff that passing out because you have met your idol, or crying because you are on the same planet as someone famous; then I am sorry but you do not class as a dedicated fan and you may as well give up now.

Really Victoria, did anyone ever tell you to think before you speak?

The alternative band Incubus is auctioning off a boatload of their stuff on eBay. It’s not because they’re broke. It’s all for the benefit of the Make Yourself Foundation, a charity founded by the band which gives to a host of other charities.

This past year, the band raised over $600,000 to support the foundation via their tours in the US and Europe. They are now looking to add to that number via the eBay auctions. There are over 50 items on sale including lead singer Brandon Boyd’s 2006 Mini Cooper, their custom Xbox, a pool cue and a lot of sneakers.

The Hives are the featured artist on Myspace! The Hives have also launched an exclusive listening party for their brand new album The Black & White Album on their Myspace page. Fans now have the chance to listen to The Black & White Album in it’s entirety before the album is released on November 13th.Please visit
Here, for assets.

Get a behind the scenes look at the making of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ video for “Your Guardian Angel.” Follow Ronnie, Duke, Elias, Joey, and Jon as they shoot their video, talk about the concept and bring their passion to life.

Check it
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In an unprecedented move, Billboard has decided to revise their charts by allowing records sold at only one retailer to appear on the lists. As a result, Britney Spears did not take the top spot on the albums’ chart but rather surrendered it to the Eagles.

Britney’s ‘Blackout’ was expected to sell 350,000 copies based on projections. However, it only sold 290,000 copies since its release last week. By contrast, Carrie Underwood’s latest CD sold 527,000 copies on its debut week. The Eagles’ double disc, their first album of original material in 28 years which is only available at Wal-Mart, sold over 700,000 copies.

Australian country music star Keith Urban is on the cover of the upcoming issue of People magazine. In the interview that accompanies the cover, Keith admits that he “wouldn’t be here without [wife Nicole Kidman]. He apparently credits his music and Nicole for getting him through the roughest year of his life.

Keith also just turned 40 this past Friday. Wife Nicole threw a party at their favorite Bondi restaurant, Icebergs. A guest list of 45 family and friends included the likes of Hugh Jackman and his wife and director Bas Luhrmann.

This past Sunday also saw Keith dedicate his ARIA award to Nicole during his acceptance speech.

As its title suggests, this balls-to-the-wall album finds Kid Rock latching onto the verities of sex, drugs and rock & roll as a path to redemption — both his and the country’s. He’d never admit it, but hurt over losing Pamela Anderson fuels his appetite for salvation. She’s the target of the hilarious country romp “Half Your Age,” which proclaims Rock’s new girlfriend to be “half your age and twice as hot.”

Rock shows his wistful side, too. “All Summer Long” takes its inspiration from “Night Moves,” by Bob Seger (Kid’s Michigan idol), mashing up the piano lick from “Werewolves of London” with bits of “Sweet Home Alabama” for a story of sexual awakening. It’s stirring stuff. And “Amen” imports a gospel choir to denounce religious hypocrisy, racism and pointless soldiers’ deaths in Iraq. There’s straight country, hard-edged rock, big soul balladry and rhymes declaimed over metal guitar. Throughout, Kid Rock extends the Seger-Mellencamp tradition of heartland rock — its swagger as well as its vulnerability — into a new era.

Kid Rock is the first to admit that he’s “no saint” — his immortal couplet (from “So Hott”), “I don’t want to be your friend/ I want to fuck you like I’m never gonna see you again,” amply makes that point. But his good-hearted faith in rock & roll delivers a powerful kick. As he well knows — and Rock N Roll Jesus proves — roaring guitars, truckloads of attitude and an unquenchable lust for life make up for a multitude of sins.

Paul McCartney has boasted of his “decadent” womanizing years in The Beatles, during a candid interview with troubled rocker Pete Doherty. McCartney requested Doherty interview him for a British newspaper, after watching his band Babyshambles perform on TV. You go Paul; you deserve the best that the world has to offer. You have given so much to mankind you should get a little in return. I only wish the women in your life were as awesome as the band you were in. Some the women in your life have just entered your life to turn you into some trash that you certainly are not and rob you of your money that you have earned because of your sheer talent. Just look at how Heather Mills is trying and maybe succeeding at getting a large chuck of your fortune and you haven’t been able to kick aside these gold diggers from your life. Life is certainly to have fun and when you have the money there’s nothing to stop you too, but old guy act wisely or else you’d be like that tennis player Borg who left with nothing despite winning millions.

Avril Lavigne just released another hot new music video. Ironically, it’s for a song that’s appropriately titled ‘Hot’.

The video has a 1920 burlesque theme which was shot at the Beacon, Jersey City last month. It’s quite interesting to see a ‘punk’ dress up as a cabaret girl of some sort. Christina Aguilera never had much trouble. But then again, Christina has always been more believable and tolerable than Avril. I mean, the song even sounds like any Shakira song and Eve 6’s ‘Inside Out (Heart in a Blender)’. Copyright lawsuit anyone?

Also, a source from the set of the video has leaked that Avril is really in over her head. She had two personal masseuses tending to her during the shoot.

Heidi Montag celebrated her 21st birthday on Saturday night by performing her new single ‘Higher’ during her party at LAX nightclub at the Luxor hotel in Las Vegas. If you recall, that’s the same day that her arch rival Lauren Conrad launched her fashion collection online.

The reality show star turned wannabe singer and her boyfriend Spencer Pratt had dinner with friends at Sin City’s Social House inside the Treasure Island hotel before her big singing debut. Spencer even acted as Heidi’s publicity when he was spotted wearing a ‘Team Heidi’ shirt earlier in the day.

She is not fat. I’m getting tire of the media calling people who are slim fat that’s crazy. What is happening it something that the terminology of the dictionary ‘fat’ is totally being changed to being something like obese. Can’t a person have some skin and flesh on her body, come on man this is completely insane, the media and those people who have such thought, I have one simple word that best describes your pathetic state of mind – you all SUCK! We want are stars not to enjoy life by eating the normal things that we all are so found off ourselves. WE like Burgers, and Coke and other fast food dishes but we like our stars to munch on salads and diet coke and juices. Aren’t we being to harsh with them, when they cannot have these thing then they start jumping on to drugs and alcohol and then again we come out in numbers to bash them up for their habits. Let them have life for heaven’s sake.

Britney Spears’ lawyer wants to seal all court papers in her custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline over their two small sons.

Attorney Laura A. Wasser filed a motion Friday asking a Superior Court commissioner to make permanent a conditional order to seal all documents dealing with custody. It was filed in response to a motion by People magazine and TV station seeking to unseal some of the papers.

“This is the perfect instance to stop the madness,” Wasser said in court. Federline’s attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan agreed with Wasser’s motion.

Commissioner Scott Gordon heard arguments Friday, but put off ruling on the issue until a hearing set for Monday on Federline’s request to gain a bigger share of custody.

Representing People and KNBC-TV, lawyer Alonzo Wickers cited a pair of cases that he said show family law documents, even those involving custody, need not be kept entirely private.

“No statute says custody-related documents should be broadly sealed,” Wickers said.

The singer married Federline in October 2004. She filed for divorce last November and the divorce became official July 30. The two have joint custody of sons Sean Preston, who turned 2 on Friday, and Jayden James, who turned 1 on Wednesday.

She is as big a piece of crap as Britney and Lindsay, and Fergie it seems cannot make up her mind whether she wants to take a stand against the two or support them in some way. Day she comes out with comments blasting two of Hollywood’s most erratic celebrities and once she knows that she’s said something bad which in the first case she shouldn’t said, she tries to make up for the glitch by saying she feels for them. Maybe she the one who needs some therapy to help her make up her make on her decision making abilities. Actually, I feel bad for Britney but not Lindsay. I think Lindsay’s just a punk who thinks her fame will get her out of anything. They oughta lock her ass up and throw away the key! “They’re young. I was young when I went through my stuff. Leave them alone. If they want to get better, they’re going to get better on their own. If somebody is going to change, they have to want to do it themselves,” she says.

Kid Rock has appeared on morning radio talking about the major stories from Sunday’s MTV’s Video Music Awards, including Britney Spears, Kanye West, and of course his brawl with Tommy Lee.

Perezhilton.com reports that Rock appeared on San Diego radio station Rock 105.3 this morning and responded to Tommy Lee’s Internet post about the tussle at Sunday night’s awards in which he called Kid Rock “Kid Pebble” and says Rock “bitch-slapped” him.

Pointing out that he did not respond online to Lee, Rock said “I don’t talk. And he’s doing what he does best, he’s talking. And I really can’t say a lot about it–my attorneys told me not to, obviously–but I think there’s enough eyewitnesses there to say what happened. And of course he has a different story, which makes perfect sense.”

He then reportedly questioned why Lee was even at the ceremony.

“I was trying to figure out why is this whatever, 45-year-old man, who’s not involved with the show, who doesn’t have an album coming out, who has nothing to promote, even sitting through this garbage? I go to those things because I have my album coming out October 9th, and I think it’s the best record I’ve done so I’m trying to promote that. Other than that I don’t want to go sit through Britney Spears lip-synching and some kid dancing.”

Rock commented on Britney’s now-infamous failed comeback and her appearance, saying:

“How does MTV do that, with like, is there some sort of special editing or camera filters they use, how do they make like Britney Spears look overweight and like she’s lip-synching like that? That was incredible.”

And despite accusing MTV of racism against Kayne West, Rock also suggested that West’s outburst was unnecessary.

“Obviously with Kanye West not winning the award, we know Bush doesn’t like black people–apparently MTV doesn’t, either. I was walking through the press line you know and he came storming through like Norman, like it was D-Day or something. I’m like, ‘Calm down, man, it’s just a kind of corny award show.’”

The song won the prize for Best Original Music and Lyrics for the program Saturday Night Live at the 59th Creative Arts Emmy Awards on the September 8 in Los Angeles.

Timberlake teamed up with comic Andy Samberg to make the song, which spoofed early-’90s R&B/pop acts like Color Me Badd.

Samberg told the audience : “Justin, if you’re out there, congrats to you, kid.”

The video beat two songs from a musical version of Scrubs to win the award.

Samberg said : “I think it’s safe to say that when we first set out to make this song, we were all thinking, ‘Emmy!’

“The other thing we were thinking was, ‘Hey! There’s this young up-and-comer, Justin Timberlake, who is clearly very talented and could really use a break.”

Although Timberlake was not present at the ceremony Samberg said he would be willing to perform the song with the singer at the main Primetime Emmys ceremony, to be held in Los Angeles on September 16.

Harry Connick Jr. walked through the Bourbon Street jazz club where he performed as a child, saying repeatedly how amazed he is that so little has changed.

“It’s exactly the same,” the singer-pianist said Wednesday at the Maison Bourbon, where more than 30 years ago he performed on piano with the Dixieland jazz band. “I remember the smell of Irish coffee in here. That’s what people liked to drink in here back then.”

Connick was elated to see the painting of a group of musicians marching through the French Quarter still hanging on the wall. He said he has a deep appreciation for much of what has remained intact in New Orleans since Katrina struck on Aug. 29, 2005, flooding 80 percent of his hometown.

Connick’s childhood home in the Lake view neighborhood was badly damaged by floodwater when the city’s levee system failed during Katrina. On Tuesday, he discovered the house had been demolished.

“It’s just an empty lot,” he said. “It’s sad because for me there’s a lot of sentimental value, but it’s good too because it means progress. It means that things are going to change.”

On Wednesday, the Maison Bourbon served as a gathering place for Connick, who turned 40 Tuesday, and a handful of residents from the Musicians Village — the project Connick launched with saxophonist Branford Marsalis after Hurricane Katrina to help displaced musicians.

Connick said the city’s recovery from Katrina has been painstakingly slow, but he is trying to stay positive.

“I try to focus on the good more than anything else, because there’s not much I can do about all the bad stuff,” he said. “The thing I think I can do better than anything else is keep the awareness in front of people and remind people how much work still needs to be done.”

Connick and members of Habitat for Humanity break ground Thursday on the multi-million-dollar Ellis Marsalis Music Center, named for the jazz pianist and patriarch of the Marsalis family. The center will include a performance hall and practice rooms and serve as a place for musicians of different ages and genres to mingle.

“It will ensure there will be a physical place where young musicians can go to learn from older musicians,” Connick said.

Emmy Rossum has a boyfriend and it’s someone in the music business. Emmy and her man Justin Siegel were spotted holding hands on the way to a parking garage after their lunch date at Beverly Hills hot spot Kate Mantilini on Tuesday.

Justin works in the A&R division of a record label responsible for scouting and artist development. He works for Interscope Records, a division of Interscope-Geffen-A&M. Geffen happens to be Emmy’s label.

Justin has also been romantically involved with Kimberly Wyatt of the Pussycat Dolls. He reportedly dumped her for Emmy. Ooh, burn.

Emmy’s album ‘Inside Out’ will be released on October 23.

Britney Spears VMA 2007 “Gimme More”
I couldn’t stop laughing, She was like out the space!

Justin Timberlake fans in Sacramento and San Jose will have to wait a bit longer to get “Lovestoned.”Justin’s “FutureSex/LoveShow” concerts scheduled for last night and tomorrow in the California cities have been postponed, due to vocal strain suffered by the “SexyBack” singer.

A rep for Timberlake issued a statement to Access Hollywood assuring fans that the shows will go on…and soon:

“Tour promoter, AEG Live, has rescheduled Justin Timberlake’s concerts in Sacramento and San Jose. The shows were rescheduled following a doctor mandated several day vocal rest prescribed to the artist to repair vocal strain inflicted during his MTV VMA performance and months of rigorous touring.

The FutureSex/LoveShows will go on. The Sacramento concert, originally scheduled for Monday, September 10th, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 25th and the San Jose concert, originally scheduled for Wednesday, September 12th, has been moved to Sunday, September 23rd.

Fans should retain their tickets as they will be honored at the rescheduled concerts.”Justin was a major presence at Sunday’s Video Music Awards, winning multiple trophies and performing both at his party suite with Timbaland and 50 Cent, as well in the show’s big closing performance.

He has been on the “FutureSex/LoveShow” tour since January, performing over 50 shows in the U.S. and Canada, along with over 40 dates throughout Europe. He is currently in the midst of the second leg of his U.S. tour before moving on to dates in Australia and New Zealand next month.