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Aerosmith Drummer Defends 'Guitar Hero'

Aerosmith is currently on tour with ZZ Top throughout the summer, and drummer Joey Kramer says fans should expect a new album of "old, homegrown Aerosmith" by the end of the year, beginning of 2010. But these days, the band is seeing even more young faces in the audience, and that can be partly attributed to the success of their 'Guitar Hero' game. ...

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Aerosmith Drummer Pens 'Hard'-Hitting Memoir

Joey Kramer's memoir, 'Hit Hard,' has many of the decadent stories of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll (and more drugs) you'd come to expect from a member of Aerosmith, a band that for a time was known as much for their party habits than their music. Only Kramer, the group's drummer, didn't set out to make your typical rock bio. His struggles with abuse ...

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Coldplay Might Get Served More Than Drinks at Grammys

When Chris Martin and his Coldplay mates show up at the Grammys this weekend, they'll have fiercer predators to contend with than the normal cadre of paparazzi: process servers. Back in December, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the British hitmakers, claiming they lifted a melody line from one of his ...

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Influential Saxophonist Hank Crawford Dies at 74

Hank Crawford, a member of a distinguished-but-dwindling group of Ray Charles saxophonists, who went on to his own successful career as a leader in jazz and blues soul, died Jan. 29 at his home in Memphis. The altoist had been in dwindling health since suffering a stroke in 2000, his sister Delores said. He was 74. Crawford is best known for his ...

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Guitarist Joe Satriani Sues Coldplay

Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has accused the members of Coldplay of lifting "substantial original portions" from one of his songs and using it in the band's recent hit, 'Viva La Vida.' With his copyright infringement suit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles, the 52-year-old shredder is seeking damages and "any and all profits" from the group for ...

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Nirvana Baby Gets Back in the Pool, Again

Back in the early '90s, an infant boy was dropped into a swimming pool and photographed underwater in his birthday onesie. That surreal image went on to become the cover art for arguably the most influential album of the whole decade, Nirvana's breakthrough LP, 'Nevermind.' Now, the all-growed-up cover boy has gone back to the original pool in ...

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Frampton Comes Alive With Anger Over Stolen Obama Signs

Peter Frampton is fired up over the repeated theft of Barack Obama yard signs on his suburban Cincinnati property. The rocker blasted the culprits for "breaking the law" because his presidential pick "bugs them so much." "They are frustrating my attempt to use my First Amendment right to speech, and political speech is supposedly the most ...

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