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Briefly: Bruce Springsteen, Gorillaz, Robert Cray, Notorious B.I.G.

New Jersey's Asbury Park Press reports that Bruce Springsteen was rehearsing at Asbury Park's Paramount Theater on Thursday (3/10) in preparation for a tour supporting his forthcoming album, "Devils & Dust."

After a four-hour rehearsal that reportedly included E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren, Springsteen signed some autographs.

Dates for the tour--which Springsteen is expected to embark upon without the E Street Band--are still being finalized, but the new album is due April 26.

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Gorillaz --the Grammy-winning, cartoon-band invention of Blur frontman Damon Albarn and "Tank Girl" creator Jamie Hewlett--are set to release their sophomore album, "Demon Days," on May 24.

The first single, "Feel Good Inc.," features hip-hop veterans De La Soul.

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The Robert Cray Band has completed work on a new album titled "Twenty," which is due in stores May 24.

"What I like most about the album is the variety of songs," Cray said in a statement. "We covered a lot of bases on the record--from a touch of jazz with 'My Last Regret' and 'Two Steps from the End' to 'Does It Really Matter,' which has a rock feel to it. We have a straight-up blues thing with 'It Doesn’t Show' and the song 'Poor Johnny' even has an early reggae or ska kind of beat to it."

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The Los Angeles Times reports that the FBI's Los Angeles office has closed its investigation into the 1997 slaying of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. , whose real name was Christopher Wallace.

According to the newspaper, the FBI was looking into whether or not a rogue police officer was involved in the shooting, but failed to turn up enough evidence.