Slash promises that Velvet Revolver will record a third album, with or (please please please) without Weiland. "We don't know how or when but the core four guys will continue," he was quoted as saying. It's a heartwarming response to the
bitchfits his estranged compatriot has been issuing to the world, as there's no reason The Band Formerly Known As Guns N' Roses should back a grating, obnoxious hack who can't get his pipes around anything on
Appetite For Destruction except "It's So Easy," making him more of a rock dodo than a rock dinosaur. But now that The Big Empty might be out of the picture, which grating, obnoxious hack (with more vocal range) should replace him?
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It's not reciting the words to "How Will I Know" 20 times and "I Will Always Love You" 30 times, but Kelly Clarkson is going to perform a penance of sorts later this month, when she'll perform what could be seen as the ultimate diva jam: Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria," which she'll perform for Pope Benedict XVI before he gives a speech in Yonkers, N.Y., on April 19. She's calling this opportunity a "blessing," even though she's Baptist and the oh-so-conservative Benny 16 will probably be thinking that she's a fake Christian during her entire performance.
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