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ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan C6 CALGARY HERALD Thursday, August 2, 2007 Hard Rock This week National Last week This week National Artist Last week 1 4 2 Country Alternative Current This Last This Last This, Las' week National Artist week week National Artist week week National Artist week 1 1 Carrie Underwood 2 1 2 1 4 Some Hearts The Con The Con 2 3 BradPaisley 1 2 1 Sum41 2 1 wST41u 5th Gear Underclass Hero Underclass Hero 3 2 Various Artists 3 3 6 Smashing Pumpkins 1 3 6 3 Country Hits 2007 V.2 Zeitgeist Timbaland Presents Shock Value 4 4 Taylor Swift 4 4 7 White Stripes 23 BonJovi 1 Taylor Swift Icky Thump Lost Highway 5 7 Toby Keith 6 5 8 Daughtry 9 5 2 Rihanna 4 Big Dog Daddy Daughtry Good Girt Gone Bad 6 5 Rascal Flatts 8 6 4 LinkinPark 4 6 14 Smashing Pumpkins 2 Me My Gang Minutes To Midnight Zeitgeist 7 9 Big Rich 7 7 5 AmyWinehouse 3 7 5 Soundtrack 19 Between Raising Hell Amazing Back To Black Hairspray The Motion Picture 8 11 Keith Urban 8 23 Silverstein 8 16 White Stripes 5 Love Pain The Whole Crazy Thing Arrivals Departure Icky Thump 9 6 Dixie Chicks 10 9 3 AvrllLavigne 5 9 23 Daughtry 17 Taking The Long Way Best Damn Thing Daughtry 10 12 Johnny Reid 9 i 10 9 Maroon 5 8 1 LinkinPark 9 Kicking Stones It Won't Be Soon Before Long Minutes To Midnight Artist Smashing Pumpkins Zeitgeist Daughtry Daughtry Linkin Park Minutes To Midnight Silverstein Arrivals Departure Velvet Revolver Libertad Nickelback All The Right Reasons Finger Eleven Them Vs. You Vs. Me Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain Three Days Grace One-X Billy Talent Billy Talent II 2 Timbaland 1 Timbaland Presents Shock Value 1 Rihanna 2 Good Girl Gone Bad 3 Amy Winehouse 3 Back To Black 4 T. I. 4 T.

I. Vs. Tip 5 Prince Planet Earth 6 Justin Timberlake 5 FuturesexAove Sounds 7 Akon 6 Konvicted 8- Robin Thicke Evolution Of Robin 9 T-Pain 8 Epiphany 17 BoneThugs-N-Harmony 9 Strength Loyalty 3 7 5 6 10 12 10 10 'Great Band' to debut in October Stray Cats will strut again Brian Setzer's rockabilly act reunite to rock towns around the world into its regular hour-long format beginning the next week. Hundreds of bands from around the country auditioned for the show, with applicants ranging from hip-hop ensembles to country groups. A set of judges will narrow the hopefuls down to 10 semifinalists, at which point the American people will take on voting responsibilities, just as they do on Idol.

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Just how much rehearsal would the Stray Cats need for their first U.S. tour in 15 years? "A good solid week," drummer Phantom said last month from his home in Los Angeles before rehearsals started. "Just two days to pull a set list together," said singerguitarist Setzer from his home in Minneapolis. "This doesn't need all the rehearsal. It's still the three of us in the garage." Well, at least they agreed on one thing: They are glad to be back on tour, especially with Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers ZZ Top and the Pretenders.

Most of the shows on the six-week tour, which started last week, are sponsored by JACK radio stations a format that plays an unpredictable mix of oldies and newer music. Both Setzer and Phantom admit tuning in to JACK. "I listen to JACK and then all the satellite stations; I'm on a blues kick," said Setzer, 48, who moved to Minneapolis a couple of years ago with his new Minnesota-bred wife, Julie. Phantom, 46, thinks JACK Fest is a great formula for a tour. "There's got to be 30 songs there that everyone knows off the top of their heads," he said, sounding like he'd buy a ticket himself if he weren't playing.

"These are bands that have stood the test of time." Always big in England where they got their start, the Stray Cats reunited in 2004 for a month-long European tour. "We realized this band is great," Setzer said. But the rockabilly revivalists needed the right offer for a U.S. reunion trek "not a rinky-dink club tour." Setzer didn't hesitate about this summer's package. When asked about pecking order, he told the organizers: "Let ZZ Top close and let Chrissie (Hynde and the Pretenders) go in the middle.

We'll open the show. That's fine. I don't have a problem with any of that." It turns out that the Stray Cats "have a history" with the Pretenders, as Phantom put it. "Chrissie Hynde and the original guys were one of the first people to ever come and see Stray Cats in little pubs when we started out in London," said Phantom, noting that Hynde also was an American making music in England. "She brought Ray Davies (of the Kinks) down to see us.

And we opened up some shows for the Pretenders before we even had a record deal" Phantom has a shorter history with ZZ Top front man Billy Gibbons, who sometimes hangs out at the Cat Club, the Hollywood nightclub that Phantom owns and operates. Formed in the late 1970s by Long Island school buddies Jim McDonnell (Slim Jim Phantom) and Leon Drucker (aka Lee Rocker) with guitarist Setzer, the Stray Cats struggled on the New York scene. So they moved to London, where producer Dave Edmonds discovered them and helmed their 1981 U.K. debut featuring the hits Rock This Town and Stray Cat Strut. But neither that album nor the ensuing Gonna Ball caught on in the U.S.

After the trio returned to New York in 1982 and released Built for Speed (a compilation of its first two discs), MTV gave a major push to Rock This Town and Stray Cat Strut, now considered rock classics. In 1984 Stray Cats broke up because Setzer didn't want to move to California. "It was just silly childish stuff," he said. In '86 the Long Island boys with the pompadours regrouped for a cover-dominated disc, Rock Therapy, which fizzled. The trio did three more albums plus an additional collection of covers before calling it quits in 1996.

All three Cats work in other bands. Bassist Rocker, who released his first solo album in 1994, tours with his own quartet His next solo CD, Black Cat Bone, is set for Aug. 14. Phantom drums with three other combos his eponymous trio; the Head Cat (with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister), and Dead Man Walking (with the Alarm's Mike Peters). Setzer's main gig is the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

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