Snoop Dogg's new "country" music video, an ode to Johnny Cash, is a team up with Willie Nelson. The song is called "My Medicine," and you do not need to stretch your imagination to know what Snoop is referring to. Watch the video here.
• In a strange reverse Jessica Simpson/Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, dumps her hair dresser, but manages to hang on to her husband. [Page Six]
• The Arctic Monkeys may be at Stage Four of Internet popularity, but that doesn't mean that anyone outside of New York has ever heard of them. [Stereogum]
• How to tell you've officially become less cool and more douchey: when you're playing your SXSW show at the Austin Urban Outfitters. [Brooklyn Vegan]
• Meet Tony DiSanto, the man behind TRL and Laguna Beach, or, as we like to call them, "why we never actually leave our apartments". [NYT]
• The Johnny Cash musical is not quite as good as the Johnny Cash biopic. Why don't they just throw some money at Joaquin Phoenix, he's seems pretty eager to get back into the role. [Reuters]
• Clearly if a group of rappers got their hands on an Oscar, they must have "stolen" it. [AP]
• CD's performed by and marketed to kids are selling better than ever, thanks in part to the inexpensive nature of child labor. Shouldn't their showbiz parents be on top of this? [NYT]
• An America's Next Top Model winner finally got a job! To be fair, it's appearing in a Jamie Foxx music video. [MTV]
• Frankly, we have a hard time seeing Paula Abdul as any sort of threat, unless you're trying to protect an open bar. [People]
• Supposedly an entire trove of unreleased Johnny Cash recordings is ready to be released, though we're not entirely convinced it's not going to be Joaquin Phoenix wailing instead. [Rolling Stone]
• Jay-Z is planning yet another Fade From Black, this time produced by Dr. Dre. Needless to say, it's causing a few ruffled feathers over at Def Jam, so, everyone watch your back on the video shoot. [Page Six]
• Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips trashes pop stars who sing about life experiences they've never actually had. All good — until he talks about Beyonce getting a bikini wax. [FMBQ]
• Need a new conversation piece in your apartment? Check out this one of a kind Johnny Cash portrait. We don't love it, but, that's probably because it's not Joaquin Phoenix enough. [EBay]
• Eminem's posse tried to beat up Tommy Lee for talkin' trash about Kid Rock. So, maybe we should just keep all the aging rockers out of Detroit. [Page Six]
• Neil Young switches tunes from singing about heroin use to releasing a "family film." And then, Courtney Love will open a daycare center. [Reuters]
• The plot of CBS's new record industry-inspired show, Love Monkey, is believable. About as beleivable as the possibly that it will relaunch Jason Priestly's career. [NYT]
• Jay-Z and Nas bury the hatchet. In the name of money, of course. [MTV]
• Oh, will Johnny Cash's daughter shut the f up already? She's like the only person in the world who didn't like this movie. Plus, didn't we learn anything this year about "memoirs?" They don't really have to be true. [People]
• Time prints a list of the "5 Voices You Need To Hear." And if that's not weird enough, Ryan Adams makes the list. (Just don't call him Bryan Adams … we hear he gets real testy about that.) [Time]
• The more we see of old artists' unreleased material, remastered albums, and outtakes, the less alluring they become. Hear that, Tupac crew? [PopMatters]
• Barry Gibb decides to re-hash the good old days by purchasing Johnny Cash's house. [AP News]
• Now celebs you haven't heard from in years are jumping on the divorce trend. [AP]
• You've already downloaded it, but Arctic Monkeys tired to stop you by rushing out their album a week early. [NME]
• IPods might hurt your ears, but at least you can't catch mad cow disease from them. Unless you bought your iPod at a Wal-Mart in Honolulu. [Local 6 News]
• And, here comes the New York Times, two weeks later, asking now irrelevant questions. [NYT]
• We all want to take Jamie Foxx seiously, but, unfortunately we can't just erase Booty Call.
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• Snoop Dogg is planning to attend a rally at a prison to protest the execution of former gang leader, Stanley Tookie Williams. Snoop also requested a visit with Williams but got denied entrance into the facility, thus securing his place as the first black man trying to get in to prison. [NME]
• Irv and Christopherr Gotti's Murder Inc. money laundering trial started yesterday in Brooklyn — and Ja Rule and Ashanti were on hand to show their support of the Gottti's. And, of course, to get their names in the news for the first time in years. [VH1]
• The Kaiser Chiefs have cancelled upcoming shows after contracting a "highly contagious and rare virus." The band hasn't released any details about their mystery disease, but if its this bird flu everyone's talking about, they should probably keep out of the States for a while. [Aversion]
• Walk the Line director James Mangold just remembered that Johnny Cash was "thrilled" to be played by Joaquin Phoenix. It seems likely that in his final weeks, soon after losing the love of his life, these are the sorts of things that were on Cash's mind. [MTV]
• Stateside success is no longer "in Robbie Williams' schedule." Yes, and enjoying your music certainly isn't in ours. [Billboard]
• Aaron Carter is shopping around for a new record label, after "getting screwed" by the one he has been with since he was 7. Ugh, is this even music news? [Lowdown]
