- The final details have finally emerged for Michael Jackson’s twenty-fifth-anniversary reissue of Thriller, out February 12th, 2008. In addition to the original album, the disc will feature rarities like “Someone in the Dark,” “Carousel” and the previously unreleased “For All Time.” The bonus remixes include Kanye West appearing on “Billie Jean 2008,” Akon showing up on “Wanna Be Startin’ Something 2008,” and Will.i.am contributing to “The Girl Is Mine 2008″ and “P.Y.T. 2008.” 2008, by the way, is actually the twenty-sixth anniversary of Thriller, but who’s counting.
- Ghostface Killah, whose solo The Big Doe Rehab drops December 4th, says the new Wu-Tang Clan album 8 Diagrams “ain’t come out right” because RZA wanted to produce the entire thing by himself and not open the door to other producers like Kanye West and Pharrell Williams.
- To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Billy Joel’s “Allentown,” a Lehigh Valley newspaper interviewed the Piano Man only to find out that the song was originally about Levittown, a suburb on Long Island, NY. Luckily for Allentown, the “Levittown” lyrics probably consisted of hanging out in 7-11 parking lots and going to the Roosevelt Field Mall, so Joel changed the lyrics to examine the Rust Belt crisis in Pennsylvania. (”Allentown,” in reality, is about Bethlehem, PA).
- Filter will make a comeback next year with their fourth album, Anthems of the Damned. Mastermind Richard Patrick will take a time-out from working with Army of Anyone to recast his original band, which will now feature Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland and mercenary drummer Josh Freese.
- Godsmack’s lead singer Sully Erna and guitarist Gary Hoey were questioned by police regarding the slaying of a woman they partied with near Boston after the woman was slain by her estranged husband later that week.
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