October 17th, 2008 | 7:30 am | Stephen Eddins
The All Music classical editors periodically take a look at some of the brightest young composers on the horizon, who may not yet be on the radar screens of most music lovers. For this installment, Stephen Eddins highlights four young Americans who are rising stars in the music world, and whose work deserves broader attention. 
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October 28th, 2008 | 11:45 am | AMG Staff
Fueled by the popularity of High School Musical 3, Paramount Pictures has ramped up its preparations for a revised version of "Footloose." The film will star HSM veteran Zac Effron, while both Craig Zadan and Neil Meron -- the creative team behind "Chicago" and "Hairspray" -- will also lend their help. [Variety.com]This morning, DJ Mick Boogie released his anticipated Jay-Z/Coldplay mash-up, "Viva La Hova." Boogie, who worked alongside collaborator Terry Urban, credits Danger Mouse "for making projects like this appreciated by the mainstream." [VivaLaHova.com]
Led Zeppelin will reunite, but not with their iconic frontman on board. The band is currently holding auditions to replace Robert Plant, who has refused to take part in the group's official reformation. [NME.com]
October 17th, 2008 | 10:00 am | AMG Staff
1987 was bad (ask Michael Jackson), but somewhere between all of the gated drums, punk icons morphing into sleazy, populist lounge singers (Buster Poindexter), and vanity albums from Don Johnson and Bruce Willis, something was happening. Reagan and Gorbachev's Cold War had been replaced by a lesser feud between Roger Waters (Radio K.A.O.S.) and David Gilmour's version of Pink Floyd (A Momentary Lapse of Reason), and hair metal had peaked (both literally and figuratively) with huge albums from Europe, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Aerosmith, Whitesnake, and Guns N' Roses. 
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