Welcome to CraveOnline's weekly music news roundup! Covering all the latest in the hits, the bombs and the trainwrecks, we sift through the headlines and bring you just what you need to know about musical current events.
Rapper
DMX has become the latest member of the elite Ten Arrests club after being picked up yesterday on an arrest warrant for driving on a suspended license. Should we be thankful that this doesn't have anything to do with crack, impersonating a cop, stealing a car or fighting dogs? Probably. But let's not be too hasty to call this progress.
In other news, DMX was recently spotted speeding in Arizona, in this awesome hooptie.
Check out the full story at MTV here:
DMX arrested for speeding (in hooptie).
Nate Dogg was arrested Tuesday morning in Los Angeles after police received a frantic 911 call from his estranged wife, claiming Nate was following her car with his and making death threats. CHP troopers stopped them both and, after interviewing the two, arrested Mr. Dogg for making terrorist threats and driving on a suspended license.
The singer, whose real name is Nathaniel Hale, is currently being booked into the medical ward of the Twin Towers jail in downtown L.A. He suffered a debilitating stroke last December, and we're guessing here, but somebody seems to have relaxed the definition of "debilitating" a bit. Then again, isn't Bin Laden on dialysis?
Anybody got a violin? Some kleenex? Soul junkie
Amy Winehouse's lungs are shot due to her love affair with the crack pipe. According to her father, the "Rehab" mess is in the early stages of emphysema and has an irregular heartbeat. If she doesn't put the pipe down soon, she'll have to wear an oxygen mask.
Being that she hasn't made news with her music in as long as memory can stretch, this will be the final mention of Winehouse in our music news updates ~ until her obituary hits. Then we'll post a commemorative memorial picture of her that you can print and roll into a joint, which you can light up while listening to the people Amy's made a career out of ripping off, like Etta James and Nina Simone. Stay tuned.
Crack open the patchouli - Rumor has it that
Phish are reuniting at some point in the near future, planning to hit the studio with producer Steve Lillywhite for thier first album since 2004's
Undermind. Trailer-rock rebel
Kid Rock is one of the last remaining big-name musical holdouts from iTunes, refusing to put his albums on the digital store because he says the artists don't get paid enough for downloads. He said it was based on "an old system, where iTunes takes the money, the record company takes the money, and they don't give it to the artists."
The resistance certainly doesn't seem to have hurt the man's sales - his latest album
Rock 'n' Roll Jesus hit No. 1 last year, despite being absent from iTunes.
Beck and
The Black Crowes are set to headline the annual
San Diego Street Scene festival. The event, scheduled for Sept. 19-20, will also feature Spoon, Cat Power, Atmosphere, Cold War Kids, Del The Funky Homosapien and more.
According to vocal producer (aka Pro-Tools makeup artist, aka magician to the rich and tonedeaf) Jim Beanz, washed up, child-neglecting, Starbucks-addicted poptrash headcase
Britney Spears is working on a new album. She's reunited with longtime manager Larry Rudolph and... wait. I'm sorry, this is supposed to be a music news piece. How easily we fall off track...
Smashing Pumpkins were good 17 years ago. Hell, they were awesome. But they're not anymore, and Billy Corgan knows that. To show it, he's repackaging an album we already have (
Gish), undoubtedly adding a bunch of nonsense to it, and charging us twice what it's worth. But he's not stopping there - business-savvy Corgan is charging the career-defibrilators all the way this time, embarking on a Gish tour to coincide with the re-issue. A tour by a band nobody cares about, who doesn't write good songs anymore. And it's named after their first record, which came out nearly two decades ago. Does he really think we're that stupid? What's done is done.
