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MTV Merging Its Digital-Music Store Into Joint Venture With RealNetworks

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that later today, MTV Networks will announce that it's merging its digital-music store into a joint venture with RealNetworks, the company that runs Rhapsody; the venture will also have mobile content, which will be distributed by Verizon Wireless. This move probably spells the end for Urge, MTV's blog-filled partnership with Microsoft that launched last year to great fanfare, only to be promptly forgotten about once Bill Gates and comapny got distracted by a shiny new toy brown turd. More »

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Morrissey Fans' Tears Are Flowing Through The Streets Of Baltimore

- Thanks to a persistent throat infection, Morrissey has canceled tonight's show in Baltimore; in a super-classy move, ticketholders for this Thursday's Atlantic City show are trying to flip their tickets to non-diehards on eBay. [morrissey-solo.com]
- This just in: Elton John may be a bit of a diva! [Herald Sun]
- Soprano Beverly Sills has passed away from cancer at the age of 78. [AP via ABC]

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Liner Notes: "Showbiz Show," Here We Come!

- Michael Jackson's publicist released a list of eight random denials, noting that he is not bedridden, and that he is not selling his Sony/ATV publishing stake. He has, however, been feverishly masturbating to a DVD screener of The Last Mimzy.[Rush & Molloy]
- Barbra Streisand received a Legion of Honour medal from French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who's clearly stepping up his efforts to alienate his country's young minorities. [Reuters]
- Eve has received probation after pleading no contest to charges that she was driving drunk when she crashed her car in April; she also admitted to not getting that Last Mimzy joke. [AP]

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Liner Notes: Usher Finally Affirms His Masculinity

- Usher's going to be a father. Expect the child to be born with a velour blazer and a six-pack, and to immediately hit on the nurse. [Rush & Molloy]
- The Used's Bert McCracken has a node on one of his vocal cords, forcing the band to cancel two months' worth of shows. [Pollstar]
- Apparently, one of Scott Storch's former collaborators just got out of jail. [CNN]

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Liner Notes: Panic In The Streets Of Beantown

- Moz's voice was mozerable during a Boston performance last night, forcing him to cancel two shows this week. [Boston Herald]
- The 2007 Fashion Rocks! concert will be hosted by Jeremy Piven, and will feature the likes of "Usher, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Hudson, Ludacris, Jennifer Lopez, Carrie Underwood, Fergie, Fall Out Boy, Santana, Aerosmith and Martina McBride." It's like the features well of Blender, only with more dance-offs. [Advertising Age]
- At a NYC nightclub Monday night, Madonna allegedly snubbed Janet Jackson, and instead chose to hang out with Shakira. In response, Jackson contorted three of her ribs into a frown.[Page Six]

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Liner Notes: The Verve Continue To Vex

- The Verve is reuniting, with a few catches: Guitarist Simon Tong will not be performing, and on select dates, Richard Ashcroft will be replaced by John Ashcroft. [NME]
- Lily Allen, Dizzee Rascal and members of both Klaxons and Arctic Monkeys have joined up to form a supergroup, tentatively named Temple Of The Snog. [MTV UK]
- "Squirrel Nut Zippers Mulling Reunion Album." Stop mulling! For God's sake, STOP MULLING! [Billboard]

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Liner Notes: America Tries To Weave Together The Latest Foxy Brown Scandal

- Amazingly, the "Foxy Brown may or may not have been assaulted by three women who were friends with Brown's alleged-pimp boyfriend" story just keeps getting more and more confusing. [New York Post]
- Christina Aguilera is hoping to start a film career, and is eagerly looking for a biopic about a hot-pantsed '40s revivalist who likes to writhe naked in a pool with guitars. [Billboard]
- Former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins—who suffered two brain hemorrhages in 2005—will return with a new album in September. [NME]

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Liner Notes: Don't Be Shocked, But David Lee Roth May Have Had Sex In The '80s

- The New York Post reprints the oldest Van Halen backstage-sleaze story known to man. [Page Six]
- Matthew Knowles fired Beyoncé's 400-pound, $500,000-a-year bodyguard, apparently because he didn't intimidate enough Oscar voters to get her a nomination for Dreamgirls. [Rush & Molloy]
- Velvet Revolver will play with Alice In Chains this summer for a jaunt called "Shop Class: The Tour." [Pollstar]

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Liner Notes: Hard Rock's Most Adrenalized, Hysterical Pyromaniac Is Back At Work

- Mutt Lange will reunite with Def Leppard to record a few songs for the group's new album. We're so happy, we don't even have a sub-par kicker joke to insert. [The Def Leppard Satellite Of Love]
- Will.I.Am is designing the Hard Rock Cafe's new uniforms, which come in size S, M and XXLame. [MTV]
- 50 Cent and Al Pacino will take their considerable garble-speak skills to the big screen in the cop thriller Righteous Kill. [Rush & Molloy]

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Liner Notes: Finally, We'll Learn If Chronic Melisma Is Hereditary

- Christina Aguilera may be pregnant. And here we thought she still had her virginity on lockdown! [Page Six]
- The Florida radio-show billboards that featured unauthorized pictures of a bald-headed Britney Spears have been taken down. In a show of protest, thousands of morning-zoo DJs across the country held a one-minute moment of slide-whistling. [AP]
- Bill and Hilary Clinton will be honored by VH1's Save The Music Foundation, where everyone will politely try to forget about time the network showed a woman pooping on Flavor Flav's rug. [AP]

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Liner Notes: Slayer's Reign Of Mud-Slinging Begins! Sort Of.

- Tour partners Marilyn Manson and Slayer are not in full-born feud phase yet, but they're getting close! [MTV]
- 50 Cent may have to ready an exciting new flavor of Glaceau water: "Child-Support Strawberry." [Page Six]
- The Killers. Panic! At The Disco and Muse will headline San Diego's Street Scene Festival in September; the line-up also features G. Love and Special Sauce, who are contractually required to show up at every single festival on the West coast. [Billboard]

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Liner Notes: Prepare To Get Blunted

- James Blunt's new album is coming out in September; on release day, expect your mom to cue it up and take a longer-than-usual bath. [NME]
- Kudos to the New York Daily News for incorporating the phrase "The Gloved One even fingered a man" into a story about Michael Jackson's dwindling finances. [NY Daily News]
- A bottle of antihistamines that once belonged to Elvis Presley was auctioned off for $2,600; the winning bid was placed by the ghost of Colonel Tom Parker, who's both evil and overly nostalgic. [TMZ]

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Liner Notes: What If This Guy Got You Pregnant?

- Good Charlotte's Joel Madden may be having a child with Nicole Richie. It's like Knocked Up, but with more [DRUG REDACTED] and Rancid jokes. [Page Six]
- Moby has just signed a deal with Mute Records for his next album, though he's mum on exactly when it will be released to general apathy. [Billboard]
- Axl Rose needs a Tivo. [Rush & Molloy, scroll down]

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Liner Notes: The Game's Drawn-Out Drama Continues

- The Game was in a Manhattan court yesterday, where he declined a deal to plead guilty for criminal impersonation, and, judging by this illustration, twisted his head halfway around his body. [TMZ]
- Prog-rock supergroup Asia is reuniting, and will release a new album—tentatively titled R U Still Downe?—next year. [Billboard]
- Boy George has canceled an entire U.K. tour, citing "scheduling conflicts" and "excessive tumbling." [NME]

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Liner Notes: Eminem Can't Shut Up About His Mini-Mimi Affair

- Eminem has allegedly written a song that goes into "really specific, intimate detail" about his brief fling with Mariah Carey, including the night they watched The Passion Of Joan of Arc and debated the global-economy ramifications of violence in the West Bank. [Gatecrasher]
- Chamillionaire's long-delayed new album, tentatively titled Chamiddling, will finally be released in September. [Billboard]
- At this year's Glastonbury festival, Madness will try to break the record for the biggest audience-wide kiss. Slow news day? More like slow news country. [NME]

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Liner Notes: Cat Power Totally Sticks It To That Band Of Horses

- Yay, Cat Power! You won the 2007 Shortlist Prize! Now you'll have to spend the rest of your life explaining what it is. [Billboard]
- After a recent gig in Wales, Velvet Revolver members Slash and Weiland may be fined for smoking on stage; they will receive only a citation, though, for sucking on stage. [NME]
- Katharine McPhee doesn't like talking about her 42-year-old boyfriend, who all evidence points to being Suge Knight. [The Scoop]

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Today In Somewhat Unexpected, Completely Alleged Pop-Star Brawls

It's been almost three years since we bore witness to the fight between Glenn Danzig and the North Side Kings—a.ka. The Tussle In Tuba City—and America' musical heroes are still getting into brawls. First off, a tipster wrote in about an alleged fight involving Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, who supposedly lashed out during a performance last night in Chicago. According to our spy, Wentz was none too plussed about comments being made an employee at the venue, and stopped the show after first few songs so he could do some pummeling. Any further details? Send them along to tips@idolator.com. More »

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Liner Notes: Joss Stone Continues International Campaign Of Terror

- Joss Stone will be among the headliners at the Live Earth concert in South Africa. Can we make sure there's some sort of pre-show disclaimer noting that she's not American? We have enough things hanging over our heads already. [Billboard]
- Morrissey wants to be buried in Hollywood Forever cemetery, where he'll finally be nestled between Pat Morita and Mothra. [NME]
- Just how broke is Michael Jackson? He's the only celeb alive who'd still take a goodie bag from Planet Hollywood. Enjoy that triple-zippered fannypack! [Page Six]