- Thanks to the Website-crashing demand for Led Zeppelin reunion tickets, organizers behind the Tribute to Ahmet Ertegun concert will extend the application process to Wednesday, September 17th. So far, over 25 million people filled out ballots with hopes of securing one of the 20,000 £125 tickets for the November 26th show. Meanwhile, Hugh Manson, who has worked with members of Led Zep for over twenty-five years, calls the bands top-secret rehearsals “hard work but a lot of fun.”
- Limp Bizkits Fred Durst found a way to infiltrate Rock Daily after pleading guilty to seven misdemeanors, including assault, battery and reckless driving. The charges stem from an October 2006 incident when Durst deliberately tried to hit two people with his car in LA. Durst was given a 120-day suspended jail sentence, ordered to perform 120 hours of community service and fined $1,500.
- Common and Q-Tip will co-headline this years 2K Sports Bounce tour, which is one-half rap concert, one-half video game tournament. Q-Tip will use the fifteen-city tour as an opportunity to road-test songs from his new album The Renaissance, due out in early 2008.
- Unbeknownst to her professor, Shakira was secretly attending classes at UCLA under the guise of a Colombian student. Following her Oral Fixation tour, Shakira enrolled in “Introduction to Western Civilization: Ancient Civilizations from Prehistory to Circa A.D. 843.” Class began August 6th and ended yesterday.
- Pete Doherty and Babyshambles are back in the studio, recording B-sides for their upcoming, Fall Music Previewed album Shotters Nation. Among the new song titles are “Jumping Bean,” “I Don’t Know That Man” and “Velvet Untitled.”
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