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A South Carolina judge has given the go-ahead to this Thursday's auction of James Brown's possessions. So, who wants to start passing the hat for an Idolator-reader bid on the blue cape pictured at right? (If we fall short of the $20k it's expected to command, well, there's always this mini-Casiotone. We can pass that around instead!) [AP]

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Amy Winehouse's Fame Hinders Her DJ Battle Stance

Amy Winehouse lost the DJ battle at her London local last night—perhaps because she only picked the songs and stood there, since her 30-minute set included some inarguable classics like Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up" and the Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love." But at least she won the war of, um, being famous: "[She] was just trying to do a bit of DJ-ing, but because it was quite a small venue and she's so famous instead of dancing to the music like normal fans would, everyone was crowded around the DJ box trying to take pictures of her. So it was less like a gig and more like a photo shoot or a press conference," an Evening Standard reporter told Reuters. This might explain her decision to depart the pub while cloaking herself with a lampshade and a box, as shown. [Reuters / Photo: WENN]

11:45 AM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by bcapirigi: i don't know, that lampshade is pretty distracting... more »

In case you were wondering what former butcher Tad "TAD" Doyle thinks of music these days, he thinks it's great! "There is always plenty of fresh new bands to keep a guy like me busy and listening for a lifetime," sez Tad, who's been listening to Middian, Celtic Frost, and the Christ Punchers lately. (Just don't ask him about grunge, lest you want the conversation to be directed to other subjects.) [Sub Pop via PTW]

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Amy Winehouse is on the scene at Nelson Mandela's 90th-birthday concert in London's Hyde Park, and she apparently even managed to make it through a soundcheck. During which she performed "Rehab." With a bottle of vodka by her side. Her set, of course, isn't for a few hours, so we'll just tag this story as "developing." [MTV Newsroom Blog]

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Earlier reports on Universal Music Group masters from labels like Decca being destroyed by the fire on the Universal Studios lot are, happily, false. A UMG spokesperson told Billboard: "We had no loss, thankfully. ... We moved most of what was formerly stored there earlier this year to our other facilities. Of the small amount that was still there and awaiting to be moved, it had already been digitized so the music will still be around for many years." [Billboard]

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"In response to an nearly unprecedented outpouring of concern from the Chicago music community, Ald. Eugene Schulter, chairman of the City Council License Committee, has decided that he will not present the so-called 'event promoter's ordinance' to the full council on Wednesday for a vote as scheduled—and that the committee will go back to work on fine-tuning the law." [Jim DeRogatis; HT Jon Solomon]

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A letter from VH1 lands in the mailbag: "There is no truth to the rumor that Richie Sambora will participate in Rock of Love." Aw, nuts. On the bright side, this opens up the field to any number of Rocklahoma-playing band members. (Heh, heh, I said "members.") I nominate Taime Downe, if only because his involvement will definitely cause the "rejected Suicide Girl" quotient of potential ladies to go up up up.

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An update on David Cook's album sales: "It sold 885 copies this week (all digital), or about half of what would be required to make the digital albums chart." Which means, I guess, that Cook doesn't count as a "new artist" by SoundScan standards, since he didn't appear on that 150-album chart either (No. 150, Tierra Cali's Enamorado De Ti, sold about 600 copies). And as a side note, David Cook hater Roger Friedman has moved on to mumbling about the greatness of the Carly Hennessy album, saying that she's taken an "odd route" to the Idol stage. [Earlier]

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Push Play: Pretenders To The Jonas Brothers' Throne

Two New York-area newspapers have christened Long Island quartet Push Play as next in line to cash in on the hormone-crazed tween girls of the tri-state area and beyond. The unsigned band, which is headlining a April 26 show at the 2,100-seat Nokia Theatre Times Square, is a blandish pop group who like to wear snazzy outfits on stage, but they're not the Jonas Brothers. Except they kind of are, although they're not related to each other, and their music isn't particularly catchy. So what are we even doing here? More »

3:15 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Kate Richardson
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Latest by Charles A. Hohman: Please don't tease my hopes for a Pretenders post again. more »

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The Quest To Rickroll Shea Stadium Hits A Trenchcoat-Clad Bump

I spent this afternoon at the Mets-Phillies tilt that opened Shea Stadium's final season (FYI to any Phillies fans in the audience: just don't), and the one thing I was looking forward to—aside from my thwarted hopes of a Metropolitans victory—was the eighth-inning spin of "Never Gonna Give You Up." Last week, the Internet had decided that Rick Astley's late-'80s hit was the choice for Shea's eighth-inning singalong, after learning that the Mets had opened the choice for said song to an online poll, and apparently that movement had been successful: According to statistics flashed during the eighth inning and confirmed to me by an MLB operative, more than five million people wrote in Astley's song as their singalong pick. Which would, in normal times, have made the song the winner. But the Mets, being as Internet-savvy as a Major League Baseball team could be these days, had a trick up their "Final Season At Shea"-patched sleeves! More »

8:00 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by n/a: That operative wouldn't happen to be a suave gentlemen whose namesake founded Rhode Island? Not that you don't have lots of MLB operatives, but that's probably the only one you and I both know. more »

Two weeks after being arrested on Federal weapons charges, T.I. was released to his home in Henry County, Ga., on $3 million bond today. He must stay inside the house, which is in an unspecified location, until his trial, and he's going to be monitored around-the-clock by a private surveillance service that he has to shell out the cash for. [Reuters]

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Authorities in Gateshead, England have determined that a photograph owned by Elton John that was previously thought to be indecent is not, in fact, child pornography, and is appropriate for display. From an official at the Crown Prosecution Service: "Even if the photograph was now considered to be indecent, a defendant would be able to raise a legitimate defence, given that the photograph was distributed for the purposes of display in a contemporary art gallery after having been deemed not to be indecent by the earlier investigation." Earlier investigation? Of the same piece of art? Sounds like the Crown Prosecution Service has been having a slow couple of years. [Reuters]

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Magistrate Alan Baverman declined to rule on the matter of bail in T.I.'s federal weapons case today; at the hearing, Baverman declared that T.I.'s bond hearing will resume next Friday (Oct. 26), and that the hip-hop star will remain in jail until then. [XXL]

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Gizmodo has all the details on the new Zunes, which are coming in three iterations: $249 for an 80-gig, hard drive-based Zune and $149/$199 for four-gig and eight-gig flash-based versions. The Zune Marketplace will in fact have DRM-free music, and the device's wireless capabilities will now allow for cord-free syncing with a PC, as well as no expiration date on shared songs. (They'll still expire after three plays, though.) [Gizmodo]

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The full story on Brent Hinds' head injury at the VMAs is finally out: "According to a Metro police report released Monday, the September 10 fight that landed Mastodon frontman Brent Hinds in University Medical Center's intensive care unit with brain hemorrhaging, a broken nose and two black eyes began as a skirmish between Hinds and Shavo Odadjian, bassist for multiplatinum metal band System of a Down." Drunk metal dudes are aggressive dumbasses! Surprise! [Las Vegas Weekly]

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Universal's DRM-free files on services like Rhapsody and Best Buy will be watermarked, but those watermarks won't be used to identify specific users, according to the label. Instead, the watermarks "could provide a way for the label to track which songs —in general — make it onto P2P networks." Color us interested in their studies' eventual results, yet still slightly skeptical. [Listening Post]

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The New York Post got a partial list of the "infringing songs" played by Hiro Ballroom and Fusion 215, the two New York-area bars that are being sued by ASCAP for copyright infringement. On that list? "When I See You Smile" by "either Bad English or Clay Aiken." This really isn't helping us not think that ASCAP—who, by the way, wrote us a very nice note that pretty much read like their "about" page—is selecting its lawsuit targets based on the absolute sub-bad-wedding crapitude of their DJs. [NYP]

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Alert! Last night's Rock Of Love contained actual musical content; Bret took three of the lucky ladies, including the one with "clown tits," to a session at the Jim Henson studios with Don Was. One of the women sang, another semi-orgasmically moaned, and circus-boobs rubbed her butt against Bret's groin. Also, at show's end, Bret dressed up like an extra from a Chick-Fil-A ad. [VH1 Blog]

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