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Suze Orman has been touted as a 'trusted national advisor' and a sensible financial guru.

On February 23, 2010, Micro Werks will release Pick of the Litter , a 19-song disc that opens with the ZE/Antilles 12" single "Wheel Me Out" and closes with a trio of tracks from later years which featured Mel TormA©, Leonard Cohen, Kim Basinger and Ozzy Osbourne.

W as will trip through its past early next year with the Feb. 23 release of "Pick of the Litter ," a 19-song compilation which commemorates the 30th anniversary of the inventively warped dance/rock/soul/funk/jazz group's recording career.

Was to Release 3-Decade Retrospective Set, 'Pick of the Litter ' 19-song compilation features Sweet Pea Atkinson, Sir Harry Bowens, Wayne Kramer, Booker T. Jones, Iggy Pop, Al Kooper, Doug Fieger, Marcus Miller and more LOS ANGELES, Calif.

The contest between Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison is a microcosm of the Republican party's search to keep itself relevant.

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STONE TEMPLE PILOTS have postponed their previously announced December and January tour dates until next year so they can complete work on they highly anticipated new album.

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Most mornings, Rocks Off wakes up to Elizabeth Cook's country-as-cornbread drawl on her Outlaw Country satellite-radio program, "Apron Strings" . On her 2007 LP Balls - produced by the Houston Kid himself, Rodney Crowell - Cook was as frank and charming on songs like "Times Are Tough In Rock and Roll" and "Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be a Woman." ...

For the first time ever, Starr produces himself on his most personal album yet. Ringo is joined on Y Not by old and new friends including Paul McCartney, with whom Starr sings on Y Not's stunning first single, 'Walk With You,' a moving new song about the power of friendship.

Stone Temple Pilots have decided to postpone the rest of their dates this year in order to focus on 'their highly anticipated record, which will be coming out in the early spring of next year,' the group wrote on their website.

Ringo Starr has recruited a number of guests for his next studio album, Y Not . The album, the drummer's first self-produced release, will be available on January 12 via Hip-O Records/UMe. Paul McCartney sings on the album's first single, the Starr and Van Dyke Parks collaboration "Walk With You," and plays bass on "Peace Dream." Other guest ...

Berklee students are in for a treat when they gig with producer and composer Don Was .

A day after we got our hands on GQ's "Men of the Year'' cover featuring Tom Brady , we got a glimpse of the issue's other shot of everyone's all-American. Perhaps to make the gridiron god seem merely mortal, the Pats QB is pictured ironing.

Old Crow Medicine show performs at the Michigan Theater on Friday. Aaron Farrington "We're a rock 'n' roll band with fiddles and banjos." That's how Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show describes the band.

Pieta Brown 'Shimmer' EP Red House Records Presented with near-arthroscopic intimacy by legendary producer Don Was , this laid-back, whisper-in-your-ear valentine celebrates Pieta Brown's signing by indie-folk bellwether Red House.

Neil Young's contemporaries who came of age in the late '60s/early '70s -- including Jackson Browne, Crosby, Still and Nash, Emmylou Harris, John Mellencamp and James Taylor -- will join contemporary acts including Dave Matthews, Wilco, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Josh Groban and the Red Hot Chili Peppers in an all-star tribute to Young at MusiCares' ...

7 in Kinston, NC, and has lined up dates well into 2010, with a batch of nine shows in November and December representing the bulk of his current schedule.