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In case your headline-skimming today led you to believe that Deftones lead singer Chino Moreno was spending today in the hospital, there's good news and much worse news. The good news is that Moreno is actually fine. The bad news is that there is a member of the stoner-rock outfit in the hospital: Bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car accident Monday night, and he's currently in serious, but stable condition at a Northern California hospital. There are rumors that Cheng is in a coma; Moreno told the Sacramento Bee, "I don't know everything that's going on—I just know it's very serious... I'm on my way to be with his family, I'm pretty freaked out about it." Here's hoping for a speedy recovery. [Sacramento Bee / Deftones' MySpace Blog]

The Wu-Tang Clan song "The Heart Gently Weeps"—which you can listen to at Oh Word—was, according to a post on the hip-hop group's blog earlier this week, the first-ever song to use a cleared Beatles sample, a fact of such epic import that the release date of the Clan's forthcoming 8 Diagrams had to be pushed back from Nov. 13 to Dec. 4. The only snag? If you look at the details of the "first-ever sample" claim, it kind of falls apart: More »

From this week's normally-quite-savvy Approval Matrix. We're not one to object to running pictures of Messrs. Hall and Oates—and we have plenty of humdinger mistakes ourselves—but really, you only need to listen to the first twenty seconds of "Maneater" to figure out that it's a cover of Nelly Furtado.