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MSTRKRFT, Mobb Deep among additions to Cypress Hill Smokeout

Cypress Hill's Smokeout Festival just got a bit more crowded with several new additions to the already packed lineup, including electro-punk duo MSTRKRFT, old school rappers Mobb Deep and house music <i>wunderkind</i> Wolfgang Gartner, among others. Cypress Hill's Smokeout Festival just got a bit more crowded with several new additions to the already packed lineup, including electro-punk duo MSTRKRFT, old school rappers Mobb Deep and house music wunderkind Wolfgang Gartner, among others.

Briefly: Tool, Pearl Jam, Great White, Ne-Yo

With sales of about 550,000 copies, rockers Tool top the latest Billboard 200 album chart with "10,000 Days," their first new album since 2001's chart-topping set "Lateralus."

Briefly: Beastie Boys, Ashlee Simpson, SoulFest Atlanta, country voters

Austin, TX, is the latest confirmed stop on the upcoming Beastie Boys tour, which gets underway on Sept. 9 in Colorado.

CD Review: Mobb Deep, "Amerikaz Nightmare" (Jive)

It's arguable that Mobb Deep's Prodigy and Havoc have been making the same record over the course of their 10-year-plus career, that they're the Northeast's answer to Too Short or the gangsta-rap Smithereens. It's arguable that Mobb Deep's Prodigy and Havoc have been making the same record over the course of their 10-year-plus career, that they're the Northeast's answer to Too Short or the gangsta-rap Smithereens.