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Revisiting a sixties folk/blues classic. . .

The soundtrack for the The Hulk, will be out June 17. Danny Elfman – who is engaged to Bridget Fonda – composed the score. The soundtrack also includes “Set Me Free,” recorded by a post GN’R super group featuring Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots; vocals), Slash (Guns N’ Roses; guitar), …

Borders Books and Music reopens in Lower Manhattan next Thursday, June 12, replacing the WTC store destroyed 9/11/01: Located in the American Surety Building at 100 Broadway between Pine and Wall Streets, the new 31,200-sq.-ft. store has two full floors, a mezzanine and a cafe operated by gourmet food and …

My great friend Leo Sacks – one of the most most conscientious and prolific reissue and compilation producers in the business – had the sun shine most specially for him on his labor of love, his original production of the glorious leader-and-chorus gospel and soul of New Orleans icon Raymond …

Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the FCC’s oversight committee, gave the five Commissioners a spanking yesterday: many senators expressed disappointment, outrage and confusion over the FCC’s decision to allow broadcast networks to buy more television stations, among other changes. “It looks for all the world …

British Beagle 2 probe builders seem to think so: In six months, the British interplanetary probe Beagle 2 will touch down on Mars and announce its arrival by playing nine digitized notes of a Blur song. The song was previously released as “Beagle 2” on the B-side to “No Distance …

Wow, I guess creating an atmosphere where plagiarism and lying like Satan himself were tolerated is a pretty big deal after all: The New York Times announced today that Joseph Lelyveld, former executive editor of The Times, has been named interim executive editor, assuming the responsibilities held by Howell Raines, …

In an Esquire magazine interview published today, Phil Spector claims actress Lana Clarkson shot herself in his mansion in February: “She kissed the gun. I have no idea why — (I) never knew her, I never even saw her before that night … I have no idea who she was, …

Besdies being a cowardly murderer and indiscriminate terrorist of American men women and children, Eric Rudolph is a weak-assed peckerwood survivalist, according to a real survivalist: Accused serial bomber Eric Rudolph told his jailers that he survived five years in the wild on a diet [of] … Acorns, lizards and …

Yet another AFI film list – this one the 50 top screen heroes and villains: ATTICUS FINCH OF “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD” PROCLAIMED #1 HERO AND DR. HANNIBAL LECTER OF “THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS” DECLARED #1 VILLAIN Indiana Jones, Norman Bates, James Bond, Darth Vader, Rick Blaine, The Wicked …