Music Notes: Slash, Daft Punk, Frank Ocean And More
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Slash will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame on July 10th. In other news, Slash isn’t already on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame?! [Noisecreep] .
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter is reportedly scoring the new Lindsay Lohan film First Point. Hopefully this project won’t distract him from making the next Daft Punk disc. [Billboard]
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Frank Ocean has premiered an epic new 10-minute long track called “Pyramids” online. We can’t wait to see him perform this one live. [NME]
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Rick Ross has gone on the record about letting Young Money artists “handle their business” by dropping out of Summer Jam. What, you want to question him? [MTV News]
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Beastie Boys’ Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz will make his first public performance since the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch at a benefit concert tonight in Brooklyn for members of a jailed Russian punk band. [Rolling Stone]
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Japan’s new most pop sensation is AKB48, a group over 60 girls and young women who are split into four teams and have made over $200 million in CD sales… although keep in mind they do have to split that money 60 ways. [Huffington Post]
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Mark Wahlberg recently told David Letterman that he was almost a member of New Kids On The Block but while they were blowing up he was a teenager stuck behind bars. [Radar Online]
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