By Pocholo Concepcion
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines–On the first of its two-night concert at the Araneta Coliseum, Fall Out Boy (from left: Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman, Pete Wentz and Andy Hurley) played a short but sensational set — sending some 10,000 fans swooning and singing along from start to finish.

This was an audience that would have looked out of place in a rock concert. There were college and high school kids all right, but we weren’t prepared to see grade school children, too.

Surely they didn’t recognize the band’s opening gimmick — a canned recording of The Foundations’ “Build Me Up, Buttercup” blaring on the house speakers — which, we assumed, was FOB’s way of saying, “We’ve got loads of surprises coming your way!”

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I WAS a big Nirvana fan, and Kurt Cobain’s tragic death was a huge shock to me.

AJ Schnack’s “Kurt Cobain: About A Son” is a documentary that eschews soundbites and instead gives a quiet, intimate look at the man behind the music. Listen to the story of Kurt’s life in his own voice, in these interviews conducted by Michael Azerrad for his 1993 book “Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana.”

Interestingly enough, the documentary supposedly doesn’t feature any song performed by Nirvana. Instead, the soundtrack includes the music of different bands that influenced Kurt, such as Queen, Black Sabbath, David Bowie and Mudhoney. The film’s original score is composed by Steve Fisk and Death Cab for Cutie lead singer Ben Gibbard.

Here’s the official trailer on MySpaceTV.

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By Marinel Cruz
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines–Bossa nova singer Sitti was feeling much better when she sat down with Inquirer Entertainment for this interview. In fact, she was deep in rehearsals for her show at the Captain’s Bar of the Mandarin Hotel.

Sitti had to cancel her Sept. 7 gig at the same venue due to pneumonia and laryngitis brought about by fatigue and lack of sleep.

“My doctor advised me not to talk for several days,” Sitti said. But now she’s good and ready.

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HOURS after the judge in her custody case ordered Britney Spears to undergo random drug and alcohol testing, what does she decide to do? Why, go club hopping, of course.

Check out this video from CelebTV.com.

And another one from TMZ.com.

By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net

THERE is no better way to end it all than to have everyone in the audience scream our lungs out (And you can have it all/My empire of dirt). When he was done singing, perched on his keyboard in the middle of the stage, no one dared clamor for one more song. That would have ruined it all. Listening to Trent Reznor sing “Hurt” live was something else, really.

Here’s a video I took with my mobile of Nine Inch Nails performing “Terrible Lie” at Asia World Expo in Hong Kong.

Me and my fellow Nine Inch Nail-heads — including fellow journalist Jing Garcia from the Manila Times, who I never saw act as giddy before until finally seeing his idol; Raymund and Myrene of Sandwich; and Kris, lead singer for Fatal Posporos — soaked it all up.

In the end, burning some serious cash to go to Hong Kong and buy those concert tickets was well worth it. For NIN-heads, it was definitely something not to be missed. Unless you plan on burning more serious cash watching their gigs somewhere farther and more expensive than HK