Hotline: Michaels gets a Rocket boost

Poison’s Bret Michaels has gone from “Rock of Love” to “Rocket of Love.”
The New York Post reports that Michaels, currently experiencing an unexpected career renaissance after two successful seasons on VH1’s “Rock of Love,” has purchased a Bentley from disgraced former Sox pitcher Roger Clemens. Michaels, who hits Mohegan Sun July 29 and the Bank of America Pavilion Aug. 7, reportedly gushed about his new whip recently in Atlantic City; the Post suggests Rocket Roger sold the ride to help pay his legal bills.
What’s next? Will Flava Flav buy a $4 million diamond ring from Kobe Bryant? Score one for rock ’n’ roll.



Celtics [team stats]’ 17 soundtrack
The Celtics victory parade is Thursday. Chances are there will be a lot of standing around as folks wait for the Duck Boats to roll on by.
What people need is a championship soundtrack fit for the moment; one easily downloaded into iPods.
By now, the Dropkick Murphy’s “Shipping Up To Boston” is not only a given, but predictable. And because most songs by local punk veterans Gang Green rarely pass the 90-second mark and the Freeze’s “This is Boston, Not L.A.” (which lent its title to the famed 1982 local hardcore punk comp) clocks in at 25 seconds, we need to expand the set list.
In honor of the C’s 17th NBA title, here are some of the bands or artists that have contributed tolerable - and in some cases very good - songs titled “Seventeen”: the Sex Pistols, Rick James, Ladytron, Winger, Bobby Brown, the Stray Cats (“Sexy & 17,” just like the Cs!), Boyd Bennett & His Rockets, the Fontaine Sisters, Pizzicato Five and Forward Russia.
And if that set list doesn’t do the trick, there’s always ’80s new wave band Heaven 17, whose name fits the city’s mindset at the moment.
We’ve got concerts
Tickets to the following concerts go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster (617-931-2000; ticketmaster.com) and Live Nation (livenation.com):
Missy Higgins, July 29 at the Wilbur Theatre. Tickets: $20.
Built To Spill, with Dinosaur Jr. and the Meat Puppets, Sept. 27 at the Orpheum. Tickets: $25-$28.
Tickets to the following shows go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and Live Nation:
Dandy Warhols, Sept. 16 at the Wilbur Theatre. Tickets: $22.
The Black Crowes, with Howlin Rain, Oct. 17 at the Opera House. Tickets: $35-$55.

911 Dispatcher: Universal's On Fire, Really?

TMZ has obtained the 911 call when the Universal backlot caught fire, and the dispatcher has a little trouble wrapping her head around the fact that there's such a think as New York Street in So. Cal.





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Hudson confirms dramatic Corrie exit

'Coronation Street' star Tom Hudson has confirmed that he is leaving the soap in a dramatic storyline.
The 21-year-old actor, who plays Jack Duckworth's grandson Paul Clayton in the show, will reportedly leave Weatherfield after setting Leanne Battersby's Italian restaurant on fire.
According to reports, Paul will set the premises on fire in order to claim the insurance money for the failing restaurant.
Hudson told The Sun: "I've loved it on 'Corrie' but I've got other things planned."
"Paul's just like his dad Terry and he'll definitely return to Weatherfield to cause more trouble for his granddad."
Speaking about his exit storyline, Hudson said: "It's a great storyline - exactly the kind of exit I hoped for."

Usher Takes It Slow

He's married. He's a father. So is it any wonder R&B star Usher Raymond sounds a little more mellow on his fifth album, Here I Stand?

Thankfully, friends like Jay-Z and...

Enon

   
Artist: Enon

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
 Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 16


   
 Hocus Pocus

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 High Society

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 Believo!

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11

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Enon is the trio of John Schmersal (globe Health Organization was involved with Mastermind and King John Stuart Grind) and Hayrick Rose Louise Hovick and Steve Calhoon (both of Skeleton Key). Like groups such as Olivia Tremor Control, they're concerned in exploring that wide dominion betwixt pop/rock songs and dissonance, employing a wealth of samples, industrial sound processing, and percussion section that veers toward crockery-smashing murkiness. Not as inclined toward melodies of the sixties and '70s as groups like Olivia Earth tremor Command are, at that place ar yet a great sell pensive, eccentric person pop tunes lurking in their wrapping of profound. Enon, in the beginning the project of Schmersal exclusively, put come out a dyad of indie singles ahead Schmersal moved to New York to link up with Calhoon and Leeward. Calhoon left the band and was replaced by Toko Yasuda; the accession of Matt Charles Munroe Schulz made the pigeonholing a quartet. Their debut album, Believo!, was released in 2000, and proved that the card was a successful ace. High Society followed in 2002, with the same players simply a more poppy, uptempo auditory sensation. The pursuit class, the group issued the In This Metropolis EP and went on hitch with the Swoon. 2003 as well adage the dismission of Hocus Pocus, which launch the band moving in an electronic pour down management. The B-sides collection Trench in opinion Wits and Exploded Grounds arrived in early 2005. In 2007, Enon returned with their first alkali fresh album in quartet age, Grass Geysers, Carbon Clouds, which blended the band's electronic, pop, and stone elements even more seamlessly.

Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static

Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static

Two old age on from his find album 'In Betwixt Dreams', Jackstones Dr. Johnson, that purveyor of positive vibes and sun-soaked melodies, returns with 'Sleep Through the Static'. In what is his fourth offering, the Hawaiian singer-songwriter sticks to the lapp formula which characterised his previous iII efforts.
For fans of his, this isn't needs a badly thing. On his day, Johnson can buoy write four-minute folk/pop songs as perfect tense as any ballad maker you're in all probability to recover. Warm acoustic guitar, funky bass-lines and the odd snatch of reggae, combined with an uncanny pinna for melody, ar wholly staple ingredients of his songs and more often than not he hits the right notes.
'If I Had Eyes' is the first 1 to come from the album and ticks entirely the above boxes, a laidback, infectious numeral about losing that miss and non knowing if you'll succeed her back.
His pared fine-tune, one-man-and-a-guitar songs are about of the c. H. Best on the album. 'Angel' and in particular 'Same Girl', with its irresistible hook of a chorus, is unity of the charles Herbert Best he's ever written.
However, although Johnson's tried and tested formula isn't a badly thing, it can be excessively much of a good thing. Likewise many multiplication there's a good sense that we've been here before. The album's title-track, for example, both in melody and lyrics, is most a clon of 'Inaudible Melodies', the number one song from his debut 'Brushfire Fairytales'. 
The indorsement half of 'Sleep Through the Static' has a darker lean to it, only with no real instrumental or pacing change the differences tend to go unnoticed.
But in the end these shortcomings ar just child grumbles.
Samuel Johnson believably knows he'll never do an 'In Rainbows' or 'Blonde on Blonde'. You get the feeling he doesn't seem to mind. Anyone world Health Organization buys this book looking at to escape a rainy Irish people good afternoon and go somewhere sunnier won't intellect either.
Padraic

Lohan to work in morgue as punishment

Lohan to work in morgue as punishment

Actress Lindsay Lohan volition work at a dead room as role of her punishment for a drink-driving offensive.
The 21-year-old star volition complete the work-placement as voice of a court-ordered program, in which she must determine nearly the dangers of drink-driving.
According to reports, Arhat is due to spend deuce four-hour days at the dead room, as well as completing a stint workings in a hospital emergency room.
The actress was arrested twice end yr on charges of drive spell under the influence. In August she pleaded guilty to infringement drunken driving and cocain charges.
Arhant served 84 minutes of her 24-hour gaol judgment of conviction last Nov. She must now discharge an alcohol department of Education programme and execute 10 years of community service.