Meet Hana Pestle — an eighteen year old singer/songwriter that has come a long way from her hometown of Billings, Montana. Hana moved to Los Angeles about a year ago to work on her debut album with Ben Moody, co-founder of Evanescence, who has also produced records for Kelly Clarkson and Avril Lavigne. On top of the ten month recording process, Hana spent most of this year touring with an opening slot on the Blues Traveler, Live, Collective Soul Tour. She has since toured with the likes of Joshua Radin and Jon McLaughlin and is currently on the road with pop/pock band Ingram Hill.

The versatility of Hana’s vocals stands out on her current E.P with the intense single “These Two Hands” and a cover of Leonard Cohen’s classic “Hallelujah.” Hana will be able to tell more of her story on her full-length release due out next year.

Hana may be far away from home in a city she calls “much different yet wonderful,” but she explains, “I’m home wherever my guitar is.” Citing influences that range from Radiohead and Sarah McLachlan to Incubus, Feist and Jack Johnson, it is clear that Hana isn’t bound to any one genre.

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House of Heroes have just premiered their version of the holiday classic “Silent Night.” The Ohio band, whose most recent album The End Is Not The End was delivered via digital stores, has seen an incredible response with the release making it to the #6 spot on the iTunes rock chart and #42 on the overall chart, with a #1 radio hit single and over 1 million plays on their MySpace page. House of Heroes’ discography includes a 2005 self-titled debut and the re-release Say No More in 2006. Prior to signing a record deal with Mono Vs Stereo/Gotee, the band released an indie project What You Want Is Now (2002) to much critical acclaim and a large grassroots following.

The band’s lush version of “Silent Night” is now available on iTunes
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Check out this week’s episode of PCD TV straight from Melbourne, Australia. The Dolls, who represent and encourage female empowerment, send a very important message from their performance at a breast cancer awareness event. Watch them take the stage to help raise money for the cause and spread the message.

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A few days ago, I reported how Will Smith spends his spare time from his busy schedule. If he was not busy promoting his latest flick, Seven Pounds, he was happily visiting patients at Miami Children’s Hospital.
According to Perezhilton, one of his readers say that there’s even more good news.
Turns out Smith took time out yesterday to visit Case Elementary, an inner city public school in Cleveland, Ohio.
He spent time visiting with the school officials and hanging out with the kids.
See? You can do good while promoting your flick! Better this than those stupid publicity stunts, (Adrienne Bailon, anyone?)

“Spiderman gets his wife pregnant for the second time” might be an eye-catching headline for the Daily Bugle, the newspapers where Spiderman works as a photographer. However, this is real life so might as well reveal the good news. The alter ego of Spiderman, Tobey Maguire and wife Jennifer Meyer are expecting their second baby and this was confirmed by no less than Kelly Bush, Maguire’s representative.

Sources said the 33-year old Maguire and the 31-year old Meyer are so thrilled about the news and can’t wait to give their two-year old daughter Ruby Sweetheart a baby brother or sister. Tobey and Jen were married in Hawaii September of last year but can’t wait to add another little one to their growing family.

Luckily, Tobey was able to get a “family time” stipulation in his contract for the next two sequel of Spiderman—Spiderman 4 and 5 which will be filmed over a six-month period. The deal allows Tobey to spend specific hours of the day and night for his family while filming the sequels back to back. Another actor would have been given the role because Sony pictures feared that the deal would be a bad precedent but thanks to Chairman Amy Pascal the deal was signed smoothly.