- 50 Cent has pushed the release date for his
Curtis album from next month to September; in a press release on
Interscope.com, 50 says: "I'm an international artist. My fans worldwide deserve to receive my album at the same time as my fans here in the US." But as
Billboard notes, both "Straight To The Bank" and "Amusement Park" have lagged on the singles charts, meaning that 50 will have to hunt for new locales (hardware stores? fresh-water aquariums?) within which to set his easy-to-understand sex-metaphor raps.
- Despite having nothing to do with the Cuban health-care system,
Control—the Anton Corbijn-directed biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis,
won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, where it screened outside of the main competition.
- Justin Timberlake announced
the formation of his own record label, which is expected to have sex with a string of other record labels.
- Former Casablanca Records artist Lindsay Lohan allegedly—allegedly!—upheld her ex-label's fine tradition of
cocaine and booze.
Idolator
The World Music Awards, the annual celebration of people who buy records to which none of those people are invited unless they pony up $22k on top of what they've already spent on albums, has given original host Lindsay Lohan the boot, presumably because she wasn't dignified enough to host a semi-useless awards show that airs on myNetworkTV weeks after it actually happens. Lohan's replacement: E! reality-TV star and former Wild Thing Denise Richards. (Who, it should be noted, has never put out a record. Burn!) I personally would have checked to see if the Shyguy who performed with Akon at last year's ceremony was available, but I guess the WMA organizers didn't want to get too classy in honor of its 20th anniversary.
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The "special guest" who came out during Perry Farrell's DJ set at Lollapalooza was none other than 
It's a pretty grim week for new music, with cover-tastic albums by Jimmy Buffett and Rod Stewart competing for rack space against the year's first batch of holiday releases from the likes of Wynonna and James Taylor, among others. (And don't even get us started on the soundtrack to The Biggest Loser.)
