Briefly: Bruce Springsteen, Jamie Foxx, Jerome Dillon, Cassidy
"Hammersmith Odeon, London '75," a Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band concert that first turned up on DVD last year, will be issued as a two-CD audio set on Feb. 28.
The album will mark the first live set to chronicle a Springsteen concert from beginning to end.
Jamie Foxx 's "Unpredictable" has once again staked out the No. 1 spot on The Billboard 200 album chart, reclaiming the position from Mary J. Blige 's "The Breakthrough." Blige returns to No. 2 after ousting Foxx from the top post a week ago.
Eminem's best-of set "Curtain Call: The Hits" rises one slot to No. 3, while Carrie Underwood's "Some Hearts" dips one place to No. 4. The Johnny Cash retrospective "The Legend of Johnny Cash" rounds out the Top 5.
Former Nine Inch Nails drummer Jerome Dillon , will issue "Reminder," the first album from his band nearLY, on April 11.
Dillon was the primary writer, producer, performer and arranger on the album, on which he's accompanied by Claudiea Sarne (12 Rounds), Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers), violinist Petra Haden and engineer/co-producer Brett Pierce.
The album is billed in a press release as a musical document of a recurring dream Dillon had over a six-year period. "I kept getting a bit further along the path every time I had the dream, so I thought that it must be trying to tell me something," Dillon said in a statement. "And for about the last year of it, the dream ended with me accepting an invitation to drown myself in a very serene and calm body of water. Without sounding too bleak or depressing, the name 'nearLY' just seemed to represent where we're ALL heading: to the end of our time here."
Cassidy --who was recently convicted of two aggravated assault charges, misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter, and a weapons count--reportedly was sentenced Tuesday (1/24) to a prison sentence of 11-and-a-half months to 23 months.
Prosecutors claimed that the 23-year-old rapper, whose real name is Barry Reese, was involved with the planned ambush of a man he'd argued with.
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