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The Eagles Joe Walsh Answers Fans Calls Tonight was a top story. The Eagles Joe Walsh is opening the airwaves to the fans with his first call-in special on the A.P.E. Radio station, "Eagles Radio Hosted by Joe Walsh." The special will air for two hours beginning at 5 pm EDT on August 25, followed by an hour-long version repeating during the coming weeks. The Eagles will headline the Bryce Jordan Center at Penn State’s University Park campus at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, as part of the band’s fall 2010 tour. The Eagles Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit will perform hits from their more than 35-year career that include “Hotel California,” “Desperado,” “Life in The Fast Lane,” “How Long” and many more. The world’s best band Eagles have sold over 120 million albums worldwide, earning five No. 1 U.S. singles and six Grammy awards. Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 is the best-selling album of all time, exceeding sales of 29 million units. The band’s Hotel California and Their Greatest Hits Volume 2 have sold more than 16 and 11 million albums respectively. The Eagles were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
The Eagles have occupied the music charts since the 1970's. Now it is time for them to conquer State College. A Grammy award-winning band and a staple in the classic rock scene, the band will play at 8 p.m. on Oct. 22 at the Bryce Jordan Center for the first time since June 1996."This is pretty major," Bryce Jordan Center Director of Sales and Marketing Bernie Punt said. "We get concerts every year, but this is huge."Punt said the Eagles are only choosing to play in major cities, making their stop in State College a "unique" one. The Eagles will also be playing songs from each of the member's solo careers in addition to classics. They are also scheduling on mixing an acoustic set in with the rest of the concert. Do not wait get The Eagles concert tickets now and enjoy the breathtaking concert live on stage.Get your cheap the eagles tickets before they sold out.]]> Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:23:11 +0000 http://forums.hiphopselite.com/topic/33639-the-great-news-about-the-eagles/ http://forums.hiphopselite.com/topic/33647-timbaland/
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View the full article]]> Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:46:00 +0000 http://forums.hiphopselite.com/topic/33605-another-guard-on-rikers-accused-of-favoring-rapper-lil-wayne/ http://forums.hiphopselite.com/topic/33586-ifa-2010-wrap-up/ IFA 2010 isn’t quite finished yet – the show continues through until midway next week – but it’s had its stab at the major headlines. Would-be iPad “killers” and 3D were this year’s themes, with Panasonic, Sony, Sharp and others all trying to convince us that the 1080p HDTV we bought a couple of years ago should really be traded in for a new, 3D-capable set. Product of the show, though, has to be the Samsung Galaxy Tab, with the Korean company delivering a slate that we consistently heard people say was significantly more appealing than they expected.

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With no shortage of Android tablets shown over the past six months (though a relatively small number actually making a commercial debut) it was easy to sideline the Galaxy Tab in the run-up to IFA as just another Froyo slate. If anything, though, Samsung has demonstrated that it’s not enough to slap Google’s fashionable OS onto some multitouch-capable hardware and call it a day; their third-party software message still needs to be fleshed out, but the company does at least have the research to justify the design, hardware and functionality decisions they’ve made. More than once we heard from iPad owners frustrated at being unable to make voice calls using the slate’s optional 3G connection, something backed up by Samsung’s numbers and offered on the Tab.

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They’re not just dipping a toe, either, instead pushing ahead full-throttle with what Samsung told us will be a range of tablets. Variously sized, and with intra-segment differentiation for media consumers, creators and others, the Galaxy Tab’s broad launch this month and next will only be the start of a number of models to be released in 2011. This first may have taken them roughly twelve months of development from conception, but we’re guessing future examples will come thick and fast as they refine their design approach. Software aside, the biggest challenge is price: Samsung insists they’ve not finalised the numbers, and that any publicly mentioned prices right now are simply speculation, but the inevitability is that, if they’re to position the Galaxy Tab alongside their Galaxy S family smartphones (which retail unlocked for around $400) then it will undoubtedly command a significant premium over cheaper rival slates. Whether consumers are willing to stomach a data plan in return for a subsidised upfront price remains to be seen.

3D‘s future is, if not quite so niche as that of the Galaxy Tab, still with its fair share of doubters and confusion – both among consumers and industry alike. Billed as the next step in HDTV, most manufacturers had some degree of answers to questions over crosstalk, glasses technology and even health concerns of longer-term 3D viewing. They’re also supremely confident about 3D adoption: one company exec predicted 3D-capable sets would account for 40- to 50-percent of new sales within the next couple of years.

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Nonetheless, there’s still plenty of confusion still to be addressed. 3D glasses standardisation, for instance, is on the table but nobody could give us a firm guesstimate as to when it might be decided upon: until then, consumers buying 3D HDTVs today (or indeed for what looks like the next twelve months at least) can’t necessarily expect to use the expensive shutter glasses from the first set with whatever they later upgrade to. The early-adopter premium is definitely evident, too; talk of practically weightless 3D glasses hitting the sub-$40 range was widespread, but right now they’re clunky, relatively heavy – especially if you already wear prescription glasses – and are around $150 a set.

The biggest drawback, though, is the lack of content, and that’s something the industry only has partial answers to. As they highlight, you need a tipping point of hardware adoption before media producers take notice in a significant way, but the 3D entertainment on offer right now is underwhelming in both quantity and, more concerning, quality. At keynote presentations for Sony, Panasonic and others – times when you’d expect the most convincing of demonstrations – the content felt formulaic. Philip Berne has written before about 3D film gimmicks such as characters or objects being flung out of the screen at the viewer, and these were in full effect this week.

Most footage had the staggered, layered quality of a cardboard theatre playset; ironically, some of the best video to avoid the effect came from Panasonic’s consumer-centric 3D camcorder (which pairs a 2D HD camcorder with a detachable 3D lens), though the 3D effect in that leaned heavily on the subtle side. Avatar was regularly highlighted as a best-of-breed example of what the 3D industry is capable of, generously skirting the huge investment in time and money the film demanded. Even sports, suggested by some as the “killer app” for 3D, was underwhelming in practice, with fast-moving balls blurrier and more difficult to track in 3D than they were in 2D.

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According to the industry, would be 3D HDTV buyers will – when faced with a few hundred dollars premium over a regular 2D set – likely opt to “future proof their investment”, even if they don’t expect to make much use of the 3D functionality. “Try it and experience the content” is the message, though it skirts the fact that so far there’s not much content to try, and even less so if you limit yourself to 3D “done right”. Panasonic and ViewSonic both showed 3D capable camcorders, offering consumers the chance to bypass the entertainment industry and fuel their own content creation, but right now it feels more gimmick than anything else. Better technology was promised in the pipeline, but that’s unlikely to reassure anyone who’s picking up a new TV today.

If IFA 2010 had a third theme, it was competition with its most significant US counterpart, CES. On this 50th anniversary of IFA, the organisers were bullish about the scale and success of their expo in comparison to the perennial Las Vegas show. It’s an approach that courted criticism; IFA’s claims to floor space sold, exhibitors involved and visitors through the door were all widely argued, and we imagine CES will be preparing some glowing numbers of their own in response.

What’s interesting about IFA, though, is that it’s a press, trade and public event: an opportunity for the tech-curious to rub shoulders with journalists and bloggers as everybody hunts out the latest and greatest in not only HDTVs, laptops and tablets, but washing machines, irons and SodaStreams. It can make for a frustrating time when you’re trying to dash between tightly-scheduled keynotes, meetings and presentations, dodging groups clutching swag-bags of t-shirts, USB sticks and branded lanyards, but it’s also a barometer of what has public appeal among the shininess on offer.

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3D held its fair share of attention, with plenty of people crowding the gaming stations, though while new technologies such as OLED – LG’s 31-incher stands out in particular – were eye-catching, it was clear that size still came before panel technology. The wedge-shaped groups in front of larger glasses-free 3D screens were telling indicators of their narrow sweet-spots and, more broadly, unsuitability for the average living room. Ereaders and netbooks – until relatively recently a tradeshow staple – had a minimal presence, overshadowed by numerous iPad rivals (such as the Toshiba Folio 100, ViewSonic ViewPad 7, Archos 70 and 101, E-Noa Interpad and Huawei Ideos S7), while Samsung’s expansive Galaxy Tab display was generally several people deep. We expected more iPad-compatible speaker docks, though, pretty much making do with Philips’ Fidelio.

We also thought we’d see more of Google TV, though several companies had rival systems, such as LG, Philips and Loewe’s collaboration on NetTV. Rumors of an LG Google TV set-top box announcement failed to pan out, and while 3D-capable Blu-ray players were common, there were also some high-profile content-on-demand announcements by Panasonic and others. The Apple TV launch, thousands of miles away in San Francisco, managed to overshadow much of the early IFA news, though the concept of streamed rather than physical media was the same.

There’s certainly more of a European flavour at IFA than you’d get at CES, though much of the truly attention-grabbing stuff is the same: big TVs and expensive home theatre kit. What’s interesting this year is that both key technologies from the show – 3D and tablets – feel on somewhat unsteady footing. 3D has the success of High Definition to follow, while tablets are yet to demonstrate whether the iPad is a segment opener or a sales aberration. As products from both niches filter out in force into the market over the next couple of quarters, it’ll be interesting to see whether consumer reception matches IFA booth hype.

IFA covered our travel costs for the trip, and we took part in panel discussions while at the show. As always, no requests for preferential or specific coverage were made or accommodated. You can find all of our show coverage by following the IFA 2010 tag.

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Xbox 360 online gamers got some bad news early in the week when word of a price increase surfaced. Starting this November the price for a yearlong Xbox LIVE gold membership moving up by $10 to $59.99. A new feature for Gmail surfaced called Priority Inbox that will look at your email and put messages that are important to you in a different box so you don’t have to wade through so much to find the really good stuff. The feature will be rolled out to all Gmail users in the coming weeks.

The Aluratek Libre and Kobo eReaders finally for a price cut thanks to Borders. The new readers are selling for $130 for the Kobo and $100 for the Libre. That Sena Keyboard Folio for the iPad went official this week with its Bluetooth keyboard on one side. The case surfaced last week at the FCC.

The Viewsonic ViewPad 7 went official early in the week. The device will run Android 2.2 and sell in the UK for the equivalent of $541. Several Archos Android tablets were unveiled early in the week in different screen sizes. The new tablets include the Archos 28, 32, 43, 70 & 101.

The big news of the week was the announcements from Apple. One of the big unveilings was iOS 4.2 that will come to the iPad later this year. The new version of the Apple TV was shown off and the new version doesn’t suck nearly as bad as the old version did.

Apple iTunes 10 was announced at the Apple event Wednesday. One of the key new features was the Ping social Network feature. A new Apple iPod touch was unveiled at the event mid-week with the Retina display from the iPhone 4 and a new A4 processor. The new touch starts at $229.

Apple also refreshed the iPod nano with the promise of 24 hour battery life and compatibility with Nike+. The new nano gets a square shape and a touchscreen. The Samsung Galaxy Tab was made official this week with a ship date in September. The device has a 7-inch screen and a 1GHz processor.

We went hands on at the Apple event with the new iPod Shuffle. The little Shuffle is a square device with easy to use controls in a smaller and lighter chassis. We also spent some hands on time with the fourth generation iPod touch. The new device is thinner than before at 0.28-inches thick with the iPhone 4 retina displays.

We also got hands on with the Toshiba Folio and put the process on video. The Folio runs Android 2.2 and has NVIDIA Tegra 2 inside. We found out late in the week that Sony had beat Apple in number of MP3 players sold with its Walkman. Sony was only able to beat Apple for one month and the feat was done a year ago so it wasn’t tied to the anticipated new gear launched this week.

Toshiba issued a recall on some of its T series notebooks Friday. The recall was due to a burn hazard with machines overheating where the AC adapter plugs in. A really cool and very thin Native Union Moshi MM04 Bluetooth speaker turned up late in the week. The speaker is crazy thin and makes me think of honeybees.

Facebook has blocked one of the new and major features of iTunes 10, the Ping social network. The reason for the blocking of the API was that Apple didn’t have permission to use the feature. Apple removed the feature altogether. We spent some hands on time with the Archos 70 and Archos 101 tablets this week. The tablets went official at IFA 2010.

Hands-on time was spent with the ViewPad 100 that dual boots Android and Windows 7. The tablet is more like a netbook than most tablets. LG offered up a sexy new 31-inch OLED TV at IFA and I want one really bad. The set is only 2.9mm thick. That’s it for this week and have a good holiday weekend!

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What you do get is a note-taking app that works with the thin pull-out stylus in the top right hand side, a straightforward four-way navigation control (suited to left- or right-handed users, since the Cover Story has an accelerometer for page rotation) and a fast enough processor to make sure the only lag involved is the e-ink’s inherent pauses.  There’s the usual, slightly cutesy UI too, with the added bonus of some swipes and taps thanks to the touchscreen.

iriver does have a WiFi model coming, which will apparently get basic browsing functionality (though probably not the same sort of Webkit browser as the third-gen Kindle totes) though there’s no mention of pricing for that.  It seems they’re looking more at Sony as their rivals: the 6-inch Cover Story lines up against the similarly wireless-free PRS-650, which is €229.  It’s nice enough, but unlikely to lure Amazon users away from the more well-rounded Kindle.

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Wyclef Jean may not be president but he's got some high-profile critics.

When the singer and musician launched a highly-publicized bid for president of Haiti in August he had a lot of support, but also some very vocal detractors — namely actor and fellow activist Sean Penn and Jean's former Fugees bandmate Pras. Both stars publicly questioned 'Clef's political credentials and at a New York City on Friday, Jean lashed out against the critics.

"I got a message for Sean Penn: Maybe he ain't see me in Haiti because he was too busy sniffing cocaine," Jean sang at Hot 97's On The Reggae Tip concert, switching up the lyrics to his 2004 song "President." "I got a message for Praswell, even though you don't want to support me, I got love for you, even though you only kicked 8 bars in the Fugees." A few weeks after announcing his plans for the presidency, Jean was declared ineligible to run by Haitian electoral officials.

Wyclef's lyrics are the latest swipes in a series of public comments between the musician and Penn and Pras. When Jean spoke about his plans to run for Haiti's head of state on CNN, Penn, who was also a guest on the show, expressed his concerns about the singer's motivations for seeking political office.

"Right now, I worry that this is a campaign that is more about a vision of flying around the world, talking to people. It's certainly not one of the youth drafting him. I would be quite sure that this is an influence of corporations here in the United States and private individuals that may well have capitalized on his will to see himself flying around the world," Penn said. The actor also wrote in a Huffington Post column that despite Jean's public support for the island nation, the MC wasn't around during critical moments after Haiti's devastating January earthquake.

"I was there for those six months after the earthquake and so many of us on the ground wondered where he was when that kind of attention was so necessary and absent, and why he was NOT helping to keep this desperate situation in the news," he wrote. "None among us felt or expressed anger toward it, but rather a universal sadness for his silence, as he is America's most admired cultural link to Haiti."

Pras questioned 'Clef proposed strategy -- or lack thereof -- for revitalizing the country after the distaster.

"He talks about health care, he talks about education, he talks about infrastructure," Pras told MTV News last month. "But that's in any society. That's right here in America, we need that. But how are you gonna get to that point? There's a short-term goal that needs to be addressed and there's a long-term goal. To be honest with you, the short term is probably more important than the long term. And he didn't even mention the short term."

What do you think about Wyclef Jean's comments about Sean Penn and Pras? Let us know!



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At this year’s AMAs 50 Cent posed for a legendary photo with Jay-Z. He spoke to MTV about it and also about squashing his beef with Diddy.



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T.I. and his wife, Tameka Cottle, were arrested on possession of Methamphetamines and Ecstasy. Los Angeles police pulled over Tip’s Maybach on Sunset Booulevard because of a U-Turn and the smell of Marijuana coming from the car. Law enforcement sources told TMZ that both were booked on felony possession.

The Ecstasy was being tested and is unknown at this point but still suspected. Props to TMZ for this information. Mr. Harris is in big trouble if this all goes down as it would be a huge parole violation and would see him back behind bars. We’ll update you as soon as more on this developing story becomes available.



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http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/movies/a/american_the/281x211.jpgGeorge Clooney in "The American"Photo: Focus Features

The Box-Office Top Five

#1 "The American" ($12.9 million)
#2 "Takers" ($11.4 million)
#3"Machete" ($11.3 million)
#4 "The Last Exorcism" ($7.5 million)
#5 "Going the Distance" ($6.9 million)


"The American" staged a last-minute takeover of the weekend box office after sliding into second place on Friday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, George Clooney's turn as a hitman dodging danger in Italy to carry out one last mission, raked in an estimated $12.9 million, besting "Machete" at the close of its first weekend in theaters.

After landing in third place on the Friday kickoff of Labor Day weekend, last week's #1 movie, "Takers" also toppled Robert Rodriguez's graphic Mexploitation pic. Featuring hip-hop and Hollywood names like Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and T.I., the action flick about a smash-and-grab job by suave crew of thieves, snatched up $11.4 million in ticket sales for second place.

After barely edging past "The American" on Friday, "Machete" will wrap up its debut weekend right behind "Takers" with a third-place finish. Featuring Jessica Alba and Danny Trejo, and boasting a much-hyped appearance from Lindsay Lohan, the film pulled in $11.3 million.

"The Last Exorcism" held steady in the top five with $7.5 million. The fourth-place picture, which follows a film crew charged with documenting the creepy developments at a rural exorcism, has made a total of $32.3 million since hitting theaters last week.

Drew Barrymore and Justin Long's date-night pic, "Going the Distance," lagged behind stronger debuts like "The American" and "Machete." The rom-com, featuring the two real-life, off-and-on lovers playing a couple working to keep a long-distance romance afloat, rang up $6.9 million in ticket sales to land in fifth place during its opening weekend.

Check out everything we've got on "The American" and "Machete"

For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit <a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/">MTVMoviesBlog.com.



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http://www.mtv.com/shared/promoimages/bands/l/lady_gaga/gaga_090510/281x211.jpgLady Gaga performs at the 2009 MTV Video Music AwardsPhoto: Getty Images

After the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Lady Gaga was no longer just another face in the pantheon of rising pop stars who occasionally hit the red carpet in a zany getup. She became, undeniably, a star.





In an evening packed with an all-star tribute to Michael Jackson, an elaborate Taylor Swift performance in a New York City subway station and headline-hogging stage-crashing moments, Gaga still stood out. It wasn't just her blood-smeared rendition of "Paparazzi" that scored fans' attention; it was her eye-popping, show-topping, OMG-inducing style. In the MTV special "The VMAs: Revealed - Presented by New 5 React Gum," VMA insiders broke down exactly how her inventive fashion made for one of the most legendary debuts in the show's history.

Ultimately, five game-changing Gaga looks were broadcast to viewers that evening, but the pop star and her team came ready to rock a bunch of outfits. "She showed up with racks and racks of clothes," dressing room production assistant Katie Meath said. "We had five P.A.s carry everything up and we went back for another round."

"I remember one thing. It looked like a black dominatrix outfit but there were spikes. There was a lot going on," dressing room production assistant Anthony Deleo added.

Dealing with a gaggle of style choices, Gaga didn't have the time to get tripped up by the backstage mayhem, and show organizers had to figure out a way for the star to hop in and out of her complex outfits with ease.

"The day before the show we had rehearsals. We actually had a stopwatch just timing ourselves. We really didn't have enough time to take her to her second-floor dressing room," said Ernesto Elias of MTV Music & Talent. "We created a quick-change room right off the side of the stage."

Gaga took home the Moonman for Best New Artist but by wriggling in and out of her fashion-forward costumes within minutes and hustling back to her seat in time to make a series of unforgettable cutaways, she also nabbed the honor of staging one of the most memorable VMA debuts ever.

"We've seen it all, we've done it all," VMA director Hamish Hamilton said. "There we all were ... kind of mesmerized in Gaga-dom."

The 27th annual MTV Video Music Awards will be broadcast live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on September 12 at 9 p.m. ET. Fans can go to VMA.MTV.com (or text VMA to 97979 if they are Verizon subscribers) to vote for the winners from now through September 12.



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