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• EMI Fiddles, Smooches, And Wins The Hot 100 Race While Rome Burns [100 And Single] by Idolator

  "Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts: EMI is the Bear Stearns of the music industry—once mighty, now declining rapidly and ripe for takeover and obliteration. But you'd never know it looking at the..."

• Great White Station Fire Special on VH1 by isthiselevatormusic

  "Some of you may remember a pretty awful event that occurred around five years ago. Great White was playing at The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island when a pyrotechnics set up engulfed the building in flames, killing 100 people and injuring over 200 more. Well, VH1 didn't forget. Billboard..."

• George Strait - Troubador by Amber Waves of Twang

  "You know I have to admit a prejudice against mainstream Country. I tend to dismiss anything on major country label. In the 80's couontry was awful until the rise of the neo-traditionalists such as Dwight Yoakam in the the late 80's and early 90's. Then along came Garth and Faith,..."

• Lollapalooza Lineup Announced by Baby, You Got a Stew Goin'!

  "What, no Jack Johnson? I might just have to go to this.Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West, Wilco, The Raconteurs, Louis XIV, Love and Rockets, Gnarls Barkley, Bloc Party, The Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Lupe Fiasco, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Cat Power, The National, G...."

• Lollapalooza '08 by The Battering Room

  "Windy City, here I come.I was tempted last year, but this year is just overwhelming. Radiohead/The Cure (and Pixies/Flaming Lips) took me cross-country in '04. Lolla will take me 1/2 cross-country in '08. Here's the lineup, with acts I'm especially excited about highlighted:Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails,..."