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Aguilera has been taped by NBAType: Internet Article

In Brief: Clay, Sigur RosJan 23, 2004

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One of Rolling Stone's In Brief News mentions Christina:

OUTKAST, CHRISTINA AGUILERA and NELLY FURTADO have been tapped by the National Basketball Association to perform during the 2004 All-Star Game. OutKast will sing during the player introductions, while Aguilera and Canadian Furtado will sing their respective national anthems. The game is scheduled for February 15th in Los Angeles . . .

Clay drops in on "Ed," Sigur Ros in the studio and more

CLAY AIKEN will make a guest appearance playing himself on NBC's Ed tonight . . . ELVIS Ultimate Gospel will be released on March 23rd . . . SIGUR ROS have begun work on their next album, with plans to complete it by fall . . . The documentary Nine Hundred Nights follows the brief life of JANIS JOPLIN's band BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY. The film will be released on DVD on February 24th . . . Jazz pianist BRAD MEHLDAU puts his stamp on songs by RADIOHEAD, PAUL SIMON and THELONIOUS MONK on his new album Anything Goes, due February 24th . . . SHELBY LYNNE and LIZ PHAIR will be featured in an exclusive Music Choice Concert to air on DirecTV between January 26th and February 15th . . .
TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS plan to enter the studio in May to record a new album due in the fall . . . TONY BENNETT received the 2004 Arts Legacy Award by the United States Conference of Mayors on January 22nd in Washington, D.C. . . . BLACK 47 begin a seventeen-date tour on February 5th in Annapolis, Maryland. The Irish rockers are plugging their new album, New York Town, due February 10th . . . Illinois has adopted DOLLY PARTON's Imagination Library reading program, which provides a book each month to children from birth until age five . . .

BRITNEY SPEARS, BEYONCE and PINK donned gladiator gear for a new Pepsi commercial in which the trio cover QUEEN's "We Will Rock You," backed by the surviving members of the band . . . AVRIL LAVIGNE has been writing songs for her second album with Canadian singer-songwriter CHANTAL KREVIAZUK . . . ART GARFUNKEL was charged with marijuana possession in upstate New York after being pulled over on Saturday night . . . A Bentley owned by MICHAEL JACKSON will be go under the hammer at the Barrett-Jackson car auction this weekend . . . CAM'RON is also auctioning off a vehicle, his pink Range Rover, through eBay. The auction ends January 29th . . .

ELVIS COSTELLO and ELTON JOHN will perform at DIANA KRALL's fifth annual fundraiser for Vancouver General Hospital's Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplantation Program on March 5th . . . EMINEM's ex-wife, KIM MATHERS, was sentenced to two-years probation for a June 2003 cocaine possession charge . . . The law firm Cappello and McCann has filed suit against COURTNEY LOVE claiming she failed to pay for their services for her own lawsuit against Universal . . . Three MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL CULT albums will be reissued by Ryko on February 3rd . . . TONY TOUCH will release his second album, The Piece Maker 2, on February 24th . . .

The CURE have joined the lineup for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, set for May 1st and 2nd in Indio, California. The PIXIES will play a reunion show at the fest, along with RADIOHEAD, the FLAMING LIPS and KRAFTWERK . . . McFarlane Toys will release a '68 Comeback Special-era ELVIS PRESLEY action figure in May . . . MASTER P has signed his No Limits label with Koch and will release the two-CD Good Side/Bad Side on March 23rd . . . PAUL VAN DYK will headline the DJs Rock the Vote concert on February 5th in Los Angeles . . . The twenty-four-track Classic Puppets will compile the MEAT PUPPETS' best-known songs along with live and rare material. The set is due February 3rd . . .

GRANDADDY launch a forty-three-date tour on March 1st in Santa Cruz, California . . . WARREN ZEVON's The Wind will be released in a limited edition vinyl format on March 9th . . . WILL OLDHAM will dust off some of his PALACE-era songs on BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY Sings Greatest Palace Music, due March 23rd . . . The WHO will perform Tommy during the Teenage Cancer Trust's series of benefit shows in London on March 29th . . . LUCINDA WILLIAMS will begin a twelve-date tour on February 20th in Sparks, Nevada . . . WILLIE NELSON and TOBY KEITH have joined the lineup for Super Bowl XXXVIII's pre-game show on February 1st in Houston . . .

BONO, who wrote "Pride (In the Name of Love)" for the REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, was honored by the King Center (founded by King's widow) on Monday in Atlanta . . . 311 will cover the CURE's "Love Song" for the soundtrack to 50 First Dates, and for the band's hits collection, due June 8th. 311 will begin a nine-date tour on February 29th in Anaheim, California . . . JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and LIONEL RICHIE will host a Motown celebration to be taped on April 4th and air later on ABC . . . EVANESCENCE have replaced departed guitarist BEN MOODY with former COLD guitarist TERRY BALSAMO . . . JOHNNY ROTTEN has agreed to appear in the next season of the U.K.'s I'm a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! reality show . . .

OUTKAST, CHRISTINA AGUILERA and NELLY FURTADO have been tapped by the National Basketball Association to perform during the 2004 All-Star Game. OutKast will sing during the player introductions, while Aguilera and Canadian Furtado will sing their respective national anthems. The game is scheduled for February 15th in Los Angeles . . .

The dispute between the estate of GEORGE HARRISON and the doctor they claim coerced him into autographing a guitar on his death bed has been settled out of court . . . The Best of the FUNK BROTHERS will collect instrumentals by the legendary Motown house band. The set is due February 3rd . . . JANE CARTER, mother of NICK and AARON, was arrested and charged with battery after she allegedly attacked her ex-husband's girlfriend on January 13th . . . OASIS have fired drummer ALAN WHITE in the middle of sessions for their next album . . . MC LYTE and NAOMI JUDD will serve as judges for the 2004 season of Star Search which begins this month.

Source: Rolling Stone
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Posted: 2004-01-23 08:49PM by awesomegenie



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