Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Rhino has set an Aug. 15 release date for expanded editions of the first two albums from TV stars turned pop idols the Monkees. Both will be issued as two-disc packages including stereo and mono mixes plus rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks.
1966’s "The Monkees," which spent 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, sports previously unreleased alternate mixes of "Papa Gene’s Blues" and "The Kind of Girl I Could Love," a version of "I Don’t Think You Know Me" with Micky Dolenz on vocals, a jingle for Kellogg’s and a demo for "Propinquity (I’ve Just Begun To Care)."
The following year’s "More of the Monkees" was even more successful than its predecessor, spending 18 weeks at No. 1. Among the bonus tracks are "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" with narration by Peter Tork, the first recorded version of "Valleri," an alternate take of "Tear Drop City" and a different mix of "I’m a Believer."
Owing to a history of inter-band acrimony, the Monkees last toured with all four original members in 1997. Minus Nesmith, Dolenz, Tork and Davy Jones subsequently hit the road on several occasions but have no plans to work together in the future.
"I would not work with those guys again if my life depended on it," Jones recently told Scripps Howard News Service. "I can’t be responsible for their attitudes and the way they treat people."

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TMZ 

OMG! What a difference make-up makes on her.

The Killers will return Sept. 18 with "When You Were Young," the first single from their highly anticipated sophomore album, which is still untitled. The set is due Oct. 2 in the United Kingdom and a day later in North America via Island Def Jam. It was recorded in the band’s Las Vegas hometown with producers Flood and Alan Moulder.
Atop the band’s signature vintage keyboard sound and a thumping bass line, lead singer Brandon Flowers asks, "Can we climb this mountain / I don’t know / Higher now than ever before / I know we can make it if we take it slow."
Although the track list has yet to be revealed, other songs expected to make the final cut include "Read My Mind," "Bones," "Uncle Johnny Did Cocaine" and the title cut.
The new album is the follow-up to the Killers’ 2004 debut, "Hot Fuss," which has sold more than 3 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
"We’re trying to strip it down a little bit," lead singer Brandon Flowers previously told Billboard.com of the new material. "Not have it be so busy. Just let it breathe and let it be a great song. We wrote some great songs on the first one, but these have more of a classic feel."

Billboard 

Their first album was great and hoping to say that about the second album. 

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards said he could not wait to get back on stage after recovering from a head injury that had forced the band to delay the European leg of their world tour."Everything’s cool," the 62-year-old told a news conference on the eve of the first concert of the European leg "I’ve recovered. I can’t wait to get back on the stage," said Richards.Fellow guitarist Ronnie Wood was just as keen, saying he was ready to play after checking out of a London rehabilitation centre for alcohol abuse. "I feel great," said Wood. Mystery still surrounds the circumstances of Richards’ accident and he remained vague about it at the news conference, saying only that he fell from a small tree and not a coconut tree as had been reported.&"If you saw the tree you would understand the joke," he said. "It was a very little tree."

NZ Hearald

 Is it just me or does it sound worse when he says he fell out of a little tree?

FALL OUT BOY rocker PETE WENTZ almost quit the group and turned his back on fame after embarrassing photographs of him semi-naked, holding his erect penis were launched into cyberspace. The bassist emailed the candid mobile phone photo to a girlfriend and the naughty shot was intercepted by a third party and put on the internet. Inviting MTV cameras into his family home in Chicago, Illinois, where Wentz still lives, the rock star attempted to clear up the whole embarrassing incident. The tattooed rocker says, "In my head, I was like, ‘How am I gonna spin this on our website…?’ Then I realised it was a lot bigger than our website. "For the first 24 hours or 48 hours, it was like, ‘F**k you, no one call me, no calls returned, I’m not doing this band anymore; this is too much.’" Wentz admits he would have quit Fall Out Boy had it not been for his bandmates’ insistence the shots were no big deal: "They were the first ones who made me feel better about it. They were, like, you know, ‘Whatever.’ "I don’t really care about that anymore because it’s just like, ‘Three million people have seen me naked.’"

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Part of me is so tempted to put that picture with this post, but it just seems so mean.  

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