Courtesy of NME.com -- Massive Attack also gets cyclist Chris Hoy in a sporting mood

Sir Chris Hoy has revealed that he has listens to Foo Fighters to psych himself up before races.

The 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year after claiming three gold medals in the summer Olympics in Beijing that year, said that he has a playlist of songs to help him to get in a certain mental state.

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NEW YORK (AP) - Yet another band is complaining about John McCain's use of their song to promote his campaign. This time, it's the Foo Fighters.

The rockers sent out a missive telling the Republican presidential candidate to stop using "My Hero." They said they learned it was being use through news reports. "The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential," the band said in a statement. "To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song."

Mythical rockers Led Zeppelin are place to reunite in the vicinity of a in the second place interval from end to end of impinging the Foo Fighters possible phase in vogue London, according to reports.

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has reportedly been fashionable talks and the Unabridged Lotta Passion hit-makers in the vicinity of a cooperation in that they announced their one-off conciliation gig modern London at the end best.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lil Wayne has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty in a New York City gun case.

The Grammy Award-winning rapper was taken away in handcuffs Monday to start serving his term immediately after his sentencing. He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and admitted having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007.

He'll serve his sentence in city

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.

In an extremely detailed 148-page brief filed Wednesday, the attorneys cited multiple reasons they believe Spector was denied his right to a fair trial. They asked the California Second District Court of Appeal

NEW YORK – Jennifer Lopez is off of Sony's block.

The singing and acting diva has confirmed she has split from Sony Music after more than a decade. Sony's Epic Records put out her first CD, "On The 6," in 1999. Since then, she's sold millions, but also had a couple of CDs with disappointing sales.

A new album called "Love?" was due to be released by the label this spring. But in a statement released Tuesday night,

NEW YORK – A Florida woman has sued rapper 50 Cent in Manhattan, claiming he unlawfully distributed her homemade sex tape over the Internet after editing himself into it as a wig-wearing narrator.

Lastonia Leviston filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan claiming unauthorized use of her name or image as well as emotional distress caused by the public release of the tape she made with a lover in 2008.

The lawsuit