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Look, Axl, fool me twenty-six times, shame on you…

…but, c’mon, this has gotten so old that it’s not even funny.

From RollingStone.com:

AXL ROSE BREAKS HIS SILENCE

GUNS N’ ROSES frontman AXL ROSE says that the band’s decade-in-the-making “Chinese Democracy” album is nearing completion. “People will hear music this year,” Rose told Rolling Stone at KORN’s tour announcement party in Hollywood on Friday night. “It’s a very complex record. I’m trying to do something different. Some of the arrangements are kind of like Queen.” Rose said the band is working on thirty-two songs, twenty-six of which are finished. Of those, thirteen are slated for the final album. Among Rose’s favorites are “Better,” “There Was a Time” and “The Blues.” He also hinted that Gn’R may get back out on the road soon. “Every time there’s a big festival announced, we get rumored to be on there,” he says. “But we’ll see what happens.”

I understand the McDonald’s in Bahrain is hiring…

Since he apparently can’t get work in the States (though he can, at least, get arrested, ho, ho), Michael Jackson is reportedly looking to score a gig as a consultant with a Bahrain-based company that plans to set up theme parks and music academies in the Middle East.

(The article can be found here.)

Oh, yeah, and he claims that the single he’s been recording for the Katrina victims for, like, MONTHS – which is entitled “I Have This Dream” and features guest appearances from Keisha Cole, Ciara, Snoop Dogg, Babyface and R. Kelly – is gonna be released on a Bahranian label…eventually.

Maybe MJ should take a cue from the folks over at the War Child organization, who can get charity albums recorded and released in in a week’s time.

The Chauffeur falls asleep at wheel, misses new Scott Stapp information

RollingStone.com posted an interview with Stapp here. By the end of it, you just about feel sorry for the guy and wish him well. (Fortunately, there’s a lot of funny stuff in the middle.) Actually, Stapp comes off far better than his former Creed bandmate, Mark Tremonti, who says stupid things like, “When people from (the Creed days) get together, it’s like a convention of people who went through Nam.” Who would’ve conceived of the possibility that Stapp might actually not have been the dumbest guy in that band…?

Their purple prose just gives them away…

I don’t watch nearly as much TV as I used to, so this might well have been tackled in the past, but can I just say that I finally saw the Kraft commercial that morphs EMF‘s “Unbelievable” into a jingle for their new cheese crumbles, which are…

…wait for it…

crumb-believable.

I know, I know, it’s only EMF, and they could probably do with the money. And it’s not like they knew anything about it, really. (If you check their website, as of January 8th, they still hadn’t even seen the commercial themselves, although someone did manage to provide them with the above link to watch it online.) But, criminey, guys…crumb-believable? Ugh.

Closing note: Despite this incredibly unabashed example of selling out, EMF nonetheless continues to retain my eternal respect for having introduced me to the Stooges’ “Search and Destroy,” which I’d never heard until they covered it on their “Unexplained” EP.

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