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MUSIC BITS: Peoples, Jurassic in benefit jam; Elektra missing Prince; Dupri, Austin inducted; 'Moan' has the blues.

(April 14, 2006)

*Dilated Peoples, DJ Shadow, Jurassic 5, Cut Chemist, Money Mark and Madlib are on the performance bill for a three-day benefit concert and art auction in Los Angeles for Keith Tamashiro, a graphic designer who recently suffered a brain aneurysm. The performers are friends of Tamashiro, who has designed album covers for those artists as well as Damian Marley, Herbie Hancock and Jay Dee, reports MTV. The event will be held May 24-26.

*Once you go purple… Former Baywatch star Carmen Elektra says she’s having a difficult time trying to find a producer as good as Prince to revive her singing career. "Prince produced my first album. The hardest part is finding someone to work with once you've worked with someone as good as him,” she told Contact Music. "I've been talking to different producers recently and recorded a track with Damon Dash and Sizzla. It was fun but I don't know what's going to come of it."

*Jermaine Dupri and Dallas Austin are among the artists selected to join this year’s Georgia Music Hall. The Atlanta talents will be inducted in the songwriter and producer categories respectively during the Hall’s 28th annual awards banquet, to be held September 16 in Atlanta. R.E.M. will be inducted in the group category, while Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers will be recognized in the performer category. Previously inducted artists include TLC, Ray Charles, James Brown and the B-52's.

*“Hustle & Flow” director Craig Brewer has recruited a number of blues legends to perform on the soundtrack of his new film “Black Snake Moan," including Memphis blues legend Charlie Musselwhite on harmonica; Jim Dickinson on keyboards; Dickinson's sons and North Mississippi Allstars members Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson on guitar and drums; and Scott Bomar on bass. "I have to figure out a way to show how raunchy blues music can be a religious experience," Brewer told AP of his film, which stars Christina Ricci as a young nymphomaniac whose demons are chased away by the blues via a musician played by Samuel L. Jackson. "Exorcisms aren't easy," Brewer said. "Part of getting to a place of peace is exhausting yourself."

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