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Michael Keith, formerly one-fourth of R&B man-band 112, has released a solo album. (He's not the guy that you're thinking of, that's Slim. And Slim rocks tits.) We don't plan on buying Keith's album because we were never particularly attached to him - matter of fact, after "Peaches and Cream" was releas
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Timbaland, who produced Chris Cornell's new album Scream, has been making the promotional rounds telling the media he thinks it could make Cornell "the first rock star in the club." Judging by Cornell's prodigious set at Warehouse Live Sunday night - onstage around 10:15 p.m., off sometime around 1 a.m., no break - he could easily be the first (and last) rock star in the bomb shelter.
Scream has so far garnered mixed to malicious reviews - Aftermath hasn't hea
In a late and welcome addition to the Big Top Lounge's calendar, tomorrow night finds the New Orleans Hustlers Brass Band making their Main Street debut. Fans of the Rebirth, Dirty Dozen or Hot 8 brass bands will dig these guys, most of whom settled here after Katrina but have played out more in New Orleans than in their new hometown.
Now they are looking to blast Houston with funky, ass-shaking Crescent City second-line parades, stage shows, jazz funerals, weddings and parties, start
