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Rap group D12 does left devastated with the shot of bandmate Proof. Though so, the music act will keep going on, working on their music career.

The group, which includes Eminem, plans to continue recording a new album maybe in June once another member, Swift, is released from jail, where he's serving time for violating his probation for drunken driving.

Fans were left disappointed as music act Depeche Mode canceled its concert, scheduled to be held Thursday May 11th, 2006 in Chicago, because lead singer Dave Gahan is suffering from laryngitis. The band's publicist, Mitch Schneider, said "a doctor who examined Gahan on Thursday morning told him to rest his voice".

In a news released on the same day, Schneider said that, after three shows in Mexico, Gahan's voice was "challenged" at the Kansas City concert because of cold temperatures at the outdoor venue. And by now on, the band's management is looking into scheduling another concert in Chicago.

The preparation for her upcoming appearance at the MTV Movie Awards indeed keeps her busy. Though so, Christina Aguilera has set an August 15 release date for her first album in four years, the retro-jazz set "Back to Basics."

There in the set, the pop icon pays tribute to soul, jazz and blues from the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Furthermore, Christina will have the first single of the album, tentatively titled "Ain't No Other Man", digitally released June 12 besides performing it at the MTV Movie Awards, which will be broadcast four days earlier.

The Billboard Hot 100 for the week ended Thursday May 11th, 2006 is still being dominated by R&B singer Rihanna's "SOS". This is the second week in a row that the singer leads the charts, while Canadian singer/songwriter Daniel Powter holds strong his 2nd position with his former chart-topper, "Bad Day."

In the meantime, Sean Paul's "Temperature" and Chamillionaire's "Ridin"' both are still in the same position No. 3 and 4 subsequently. Cling at No. 5 is Fort Minor's "Where'd You Go", and at No. 6 is rapper T.I.'s "What You Know". Rounding out the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 is Nick Lachey's "What's Left of Me" at No. 7, Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Dani California" at No. 8, The Fray's "Over My Head (Cable Car)" at No. 9, and Bubba Sparxxx' "Ms. New Booty" at No. 10.

Music act Tool seemingly wants to continue their success. Not long after creating abuzz in Billboard Hot 200 with their latest album "10,000 Days", they next reveal plans to release a DVD single in the coming weeks to promote "Vicarious," the seven-minute single from the new set.

The DVD single reportedly is configured like a folding book, with one flap carrying stereoscopic lenses, and the other a booklet with sets of paintings and photographs on each page. When spied through the lenses, each set emerges as one 3-D image.

Hard rock band Tool leads the Billboard 200 charts with their latest set "10,000 Days". Their first album in five years sold 564,000 copies in its first week of release, such amount enough to bring the music act to No. 1 spot on the chart. Meanwhile, Pearl Jam's self titled album debuts at No. 2, sold more than 279,000 copies.

Debut at No. 3 is Mobb Deep's "Blood Money" which has been sold 106,000 copies, ahead of Disney's "High School Musical soundtrack" at No.4 and Rascal Flatts' "Me & My Gang" at No. 5. Securing the 6th place on the Billboard 200 is "Now That's What I Call Music! 21" by various artists, and at No. 7 is Godsmack's "IV".

Intended to take a sabbatical this year, David Bowie at last couldn't resist the temptation to create something for music. He couldn't stand doing nothing at home and so will curate the inaugural High Line Festival, which will be held next May in New York.

It is said that Bowie will first of all play a large outdoor concert, his first show in New York since 2003. He, moreover, will also select musicians and artists to appear throughout the festival, which will take place in neighborhoods underneath the High Line, a public park being created atop a long-abandoned elevated railway line on the west side of Manhattan.

Guns N' Roses lead singer, Axl Rose, made a surprise radio appearance last Friday, announcing public worldwide that he and fellow band members are ready to release "Chinese Democracy" this fall.

Rose broke the news on Eddie Trunk's syndicated radio program on WAXQ-FM after co-host Sebastian Bach of Skid Row fame phoned Rose on his cell and conducted an impromptu interview to find out what the deal was.

Aside from Jessica Alba who is slated to host this year's MTV Movie Awards, as for Christina Aguilera she's set to sing at the event.

The singer reportedly will perform and debut music from her awaited new album, "Back to Basics". In companion with her, there will also punk rock band AFI who is about to perform songs from their new album, "Decemberunderground," slated for release June 6.

The never before heard tracks of Diana Ross have been found in the Motown vaults and are due to be released later this year.

The set, which Diana recorded as a companion to her "Lady Sings The Blues" soundtrack, was shelved as she started promoting her hit pop album "Touch Me in the Morning".

Slated to perform at this year's Jazz Fest's final day on Sunday May 6th, 2006, Fats Domino has to unfortunately cancel his performance just hours before he was to take the stage. It was all because on that day he was taken to the hospital.

While organizers of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival did not disclose the nature of his ailments, festival producer Quint Davis revealed "It's more cautionary than anything else" while informed further that Fats Domino was taken to hospital by ambulance on Sunday afternoon.

The fatal shooting of his personal assistant and the wounding of three others in his entourage have pushed T.I. to resume his national tour in New Orleans next Tuesday. The rapper, in addition, will also reschedule the St. Louis performance cancelled due to the shooting.

In the accompanying feature, police in Cincinnati said they had no new leads in the gun battle that began early Wednesday at an after-hours club during a party for T.I. and fellow rapper Yung Joc.

There're changes on the Billboard Hot 100. What significant is Rihanna's success in seizing the No. 1 spot on the chart from Canadian singer Daniel Powter, whose single "Bad Day" slips to No. 2 after 5 week on the top spot. Rihanna's "SOS" amazingly leaps 33 places to be the leader of the singles chart by Thursday May 4th, 2006.

Bow at No. 3 is Sean Paul's "Temperature", while Chamillionaire's "Ridin"' holds strong at No. 4. Follow at No. 5 is rapper T.I.'s "What You Know" which slips two places from last week's position, ahead of Nick Lachey's "What's Left of Me" which rockets 27 places to No. 6. No. 7 on the chart is Bubba Sparxxx' "Ms. New Booty".

The boys in the Red Hot Chili Peppers got mad when they acknowledged that their new album titled "Stadium Arcadium" has been leaked onto the Internet despite its due on sale next week.

In a letter posted on the band's Web site, bass player Michael Balzary wrote "For people to just steal a poor sound quality version of it for free because some asshole stole it and put it on the internet is sad to me."

Music act Goo Goo Dolls was forced to cancel their concert at the Emerald Theatre Wednesday afternoon May 3rd, 2006 following a failure in an underground electrical line that caused a series of gas explosions that sent utility hole covers flying.

What a fortunate that the blast caused no injury, though it forced evacuation of part of the downtown for several hours besides caused some property damage. Speaking on the incident, a DTE Energy Co. spokesman said the day's unusually warm weather led to a spike in demand for electricity as people turned on air conditioners.