Australian cowboy/Nicole Kidman arm candy Keith Urban
checked himself into rehab last night, canceling all appearances promoting his forthcoming album,
Love, Pain And The Whole Crazy Thing in the process. We're the first to admit that we don't know much about country music, but we're pretty sure that this news can't be good for Capitol Nashville, Urban's label. While it's poised to nab a top-five slot on next week's chart with an album by Dierks Bentley—who we thought was a Gnarls Barkley side project—
Love, which is slated to come out on Nov. 7, is its premier fourth-quarter release. (Urban's last album, 2004's
Be Here, went triple-platinum.) Urban's
battled drug problems in the past, so this news isn't likely to shock his fans. In a world where records have
less time than ever to prove their mettle, canceling appearances could result in Urban's sales sagging.
More »
Idolator
Yesterday, former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler pleaded not guilty to a felony drug possession count and a misdemeanor intoxication charge stemming from 
A witness in the Feds' trial against Fleming "Ill" Daniels, the alleged third-in-command of the Detroit-based criminal organization Black Mafia Family, has claimed that the self-proclaimed snowman Young Jeezy may have, in fact, received multiple kilos of cocaine from the BMF. Creative Loafing Atlanta reports that Ralph "Ralphie" Simms, who is testifying after receiving a plea bargain on another drug case, said under oath that part of his job involved unloading coke from secret compartments in limos; once, at an Atlanta-area mansion that was nicknamed "Space Mountain," two people stopped by to pick up a multi-kilo shipment. And one of them looked kinda familiar!
More »
Earth can they afford this?" The money the band is reaping from all those canceled shows and 
Ever wonder how middle-aged I-banker icon Jimmy Buffett always manages to keep it so chill? How he looks as though he could strum a ukelele, pilot a low-range chopper, and belly-rub a manatee—all at the same time? Well, now you know:
