LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Johnny Cash's voice comes in with a rumble, singing that there "ain't no grave that can hold my body down." A shuffling beat that sounds like heavy chains being carried back and forth accompanies him.

It sounds both reassuring and, let's be honest, a little creepy.

He's been dead for six years now. Even a voice that iconic can't speak from the Great Beyond, can it?

No, it's

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LOS ANGELES – Johnny Cash's voice comes in with a rumble, singing that there "ain't no grave that can hold my body down." A shuffling beat that sounds like heavy chains being carried back and forth accompanies him.

It sounds both reassuring and, let's be honest, a little creepy.

He's been dead for six years now. Even a voice that iconic can't speak from the Great Beyond, can it?

No, it's what he left behind

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Guy Laliberte, the Canadian billionaire circus entrepreneur, flew into space with a clown nose and an idea that was literally out of this world.

His concept is set to come to fruition on Friday when Laliberte hosts a global performance event from the International Space Station involving singers, dancers and celebrities in 14 cities around the world to highlight the scarcity of clean water for people

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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – When the members of AFI began work on their 2006 album, "Decemberunderground," they "tried really hard not to think about it as the follow-up to a big successful record," guitarist Jade Puget says.

Of course, that's precisely what it was: "Decemberunderground" came three years after "Sing the Sorrow," the band's major-label debut and the album that introduced AFI to a mainstream audience 12

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Echo & The Bunnymen are set to launch a copy of their 1984 album Ocean Rain into space.

NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra is set to take a copy of the classic album, his favorite record, with him when he blasts off to the International Space Station on June 13.

The mission ties in with a boxed-set reissue of the album, set for release on May 30. The set will include a live version of the album recorded in the

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Los Angeles (E! Online) – They may be Hollywood's biggest and brightest, but the new class of Oscar nominees aren't necessarily the most effusive.

Take Brad Pitt, who, while quick to express his gratitude for both his Best Actor nomination and the leading 13 nods nabbed by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, kept his thanks short and sweet.

"This is a great honor for the movie, and I'm especially

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London's Guardian newspaper tackles an important, though often overlooked, question with digital download purchases: just what the heck are you paying for? They look at the issue from a technological and fidelity point of view, comparing different download sites and the quality of the sound you're getting with each purchase. They compare three sites: iTunes, Napster and Bleep.com (the latter being a label run site rather than a general more...