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I can just see Chris Parnel and Chris Kattan as the DeMarco brothers heading off to this audition: Beyonce, (a.k.a. Beyonce Knowles) is looking for the hottest dancers around for her music video for “Naughty Girl” from her upcoming Columbia Records solo debut album, Dangerously In Love. Male and female …

Remember Wendy and Lisa from Purple Rain, all tarted up and ready to slam in Prince’s Revolution? They don’t look much like that anymore, and they aren’t rock stars anymore either, but they are making a good living from music, as is Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh: Talk about crossover acts. Melvoin, …

A study released yesterday by the American Psychological Association says songs with violent lyrics increase aggression related thoughts and emotions, contrary to popular myths about providing a catharsis: In a series of five experiments involving over 500 college students, researchers from Iowa State University and the Texas Department of Human …

Gilligan’s Island theme composer George Wyle dies at 87: Wyle also wrote the Christmas classic “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and more than 400 other songs. He died Friday of leukemia at the Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center in Tarzana, his son Jerry Weissman said. “The Ballad of Gilligan’s …

David Hogberg, a professional poker player, has some measured thoughts on moralist William Bennett’s gambling: …if you know anything about slot machines and video poker – the two games which Bennett says he plays – it is highly, highly improbable that one could come out “close to even” over ten …

I’m as critical of Clear Channel’s domination of commercial radio and concert promotion as anyone: homogenization of culure is a bad thing, but an instant CD of a live concert you have just attended is a great idea that benefits everyone involved: The venture, Instant Live, will enable a band’s …

We mentioned back in January that hot rap label Murder Inc., partly owned by Universal, was under investigation for “murder, money-laundering, gun charges and a variety of strong-arm tactics,” none of which is nice. Court documents into the investigation were unsealed last week: The document, filed in January in Brooklyn …

Happy Birthday James Brown: the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest Working Man in Showbiz, Soul Brother Number 1, Mr. Dynamite is 70 years young today (although some reports have him as old as 75, but who’s counting?): “It’s been seven decades alive and over five decades onstage, and I still …

Hunter S. Thompson got married: Surprise surprise, eh? It was done with fine style and secrecy in order to avoid the craziness and drunken violence that local lawmen feared would inevitably have followed the ceremony. I know nothing about planning even the simplest wedding, nothing at all, and neither does …