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Grammy winner Aimee Mann offers up her first Christmas album which is sure to bring some holiday cheer, with renditions by Michael and Peggy Lee and more. Get this here

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WASHINGTON - President Bush said yesterday that overconfident Democrats who are already "measuring the drapes" for their move into power on Capitol Hill will have the rug pulled out from under them on Election Day. "The Democrats have made a lot of predictions. Matter of fact, I think they may be measuring the drapes," Bush said yesterday to laughs at a Sarasota, Fla., fund-raiser for GOP House hopeful Vern Buchanan. Source: NY Post I think a coffin might be more 'fitting' for the Republican Congress

Music shops across America are refusing to stock Ice-T's new album because of the raunchy image on the cover. The 48-year-old rapper poses nude with his stripper wife Coco draped over him, barely covering his usually concealed weapon. Unless his record label places stickers over the album - which is titled Gangsta Rap and is his first in seven years - the legendary rapper faces a boycott by stores. Source: UK Daily Mail

Madonna swung back with visible irritation at the media coverage of her controversial adoption this morning on "Oprah," suggesting that the media is "doing a great disservice" to all African orphans by giving her story such intense coverage. In her first interview since taking in 13-month-old David Banda, her message to the people who had taken an interest in her strange adoption saga was, "Shame on you for discouraging other people from doing the same thing." Read more at AOL Entertainment

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 — One of Hollywood’s top five talent agencies has created an online unit devoted to scouting out up-and-coming creators of Internet content — particularly video — and finding work for them in Web-based advertising and entertainment, as well as in the older media. The move by the United Talent Agency — best known as the home of comedians like Vince Vaughn and Jack Black, filmmakers like M. Night Shyamalan and television producers like Dick Wolf and David Chase — amounts to a bet, albeit a modest one, that Web video is on a growth curve similar to that of cable television a generation ago. It is also a return by Hollywood’s core talent representatives to the sort of new-media business they tested, without great success, at the peak of the dot-com boom. Read more at The NY Times

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All Americans are Trillioniares, whore!

Brandon Flowers doesn't want to be an 'American Idiot' In particular, Flowers singled out the track 'American Idiot' and the fact they filmed their DVD 'Bullet In A Bible', which features the song, in the UK. "You have Green Day and 'American Idiot'. Where do they film their DVD? In England," The Killers' frontman told The Word. "A bunch of kids screaming 'I don't want to be an American idiot' I saw it as a very negative thing towards Americans. It really lit a fire in me." Explaining he was offended by the set-up, Flowers added: "You have the right to say what you want to say and what you want to write about, and I'm sure they meant it in the same way that Bruce Springsteen meant 'Born In The USA' and it was taken wrongly, but I was really offended when I saw them do that." Read more at NME

Are you a millionaire?

This is why people serious about sobriety don’t tour in rock bands. Pete Doherty seems to have jumped off the wagon courtesy of a big bottle of vodka. The singer allegedly got into a verbal spat-match with the audience at a Babyshambles show in Rome last night. According to reports, Doherty, who was apparently drinking vodka onstage, got angry when someone in the crowd tossed an object at Babyshambles’ drummer. Doherty reportedly swung the mike stand around, and cut himself on broken glass. That was the beginning of the blood. Read more in Rolling Stone

Ive been studying these kind of statistics for years, beginning with Ferdinand Lundberg's The Rich & the Super Rich--it goes in to detail how 1% control basically everything...

That guy can bust some moves, alright ...but he could use some lessons from these folks

AOL Music is streaming My Chemical Romance's new cd, 'The Black Parade', for a short amount of time and you can check it out right here. Full track list below...

Ventilator - The Rolling Stones

Required viewing for all college students... Beer

BubbleGum ...and now you know :)

Fixin' To Live - Rock Freebase & Friends/Alabama III

Oddball songbird Imogen Heap has been pestering the lower echelons of the charts for nearly ten years. Now her fortunes have perked up, with her tracks featuring on film soundtracks, adverts and TV shows, including The OC. She's just completed a tour where her gimmick was to recruit support acts via MySpace. She plays the Roundhouse, Camden, next Tuesday. Read the full interview at the UK Metro

U.K. rock act Bloc Party will return Feb. 6 with its sophomore Vice/Atlantic album, "A Weekend in the City." First single "The Prayer" will arrive Jan. 29 internationally. The 11-track set is the follow-up to 2005's "Silent Alarm," which debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart. "One thing that we've learnt from touring over the last two years is that there are other ways to be powerful whilst making music, rather than being completely full on, 100 miles per hour," frontman Kele Okereke told Billboard.com in April. "This next record is hopefully going to be a lot more intricate and layered. We learnt so much about the power of arrangements. I know it sound cheesy, but I guess it is going to be a more grown up Bloc Party." Read more at BillBoard

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23 — Google introduced a tool Monday that allows Web sites and blogs to offer visitors a customized version of its search engine, narrowing down its vast index so the results are more relevant for users. Called the Google Custom Search Engine, the new product lets Web site owners choose which pages they want to include in their index and rank the pages as they like. Read more at the NYTimes

TMZ's Greatest 'Nip' Slips

Bad move...

Heather Mills McCartney's lawyers said Tuesday she is suing two newspapers over "false, damaging and immensely upsetting" stories surrounding her divorce from Paul McCartney. The law firm Mishcon de Reya named the Daily Mail and London's Evening Standard as the subject of legal proceedings, adding that a suit will also be filed against The Sun. Read more