
- It’s Friday afternoon – we are all looking forward to the weekend, making plans to watch the Super Bowl (or rage against the fact that everyone else will be watching the Super Bowl). But what is Prince doing? How does Prince gear up for his halftime show performance? Is he meditating? Planning what to wear? Discussing lighting concepts with National Anthem singer Billy Joel? Who knows. To live in Prince-land must be a wonderful thing.
- We plan to hate the forthcoming KCRW Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project on principle alone (it’s being sold at Starbucks) but we have to admit the track listing sounds pretty cool. It includes special live versions of a bunch of cool covers, including, apparently, Paul Weller’s take on Rose Royce’s “Wishing on a Star,” The Flaming Lips’s version of Radiohead’s “Knives Out,” and R.E.M.’s cover of John Hartford’s “Gentle on My Mind.”
- Robert Santangelo = our personal hero. This 16-year-old is currently being sued by five record companies who have accused him of online music piracy. Santangelo’s response? To file a countersuit accusing the recording industry of antitrust law violation, conspiracy to defraud the courts and extortion. Note: Santangelo has rebel blood — his mother is Patti Santangelo, the 42-year-old who was sued by the record companies in 2005, refused to settle out of court and eventually got the label’s to drop their suit.
- This whole Beach Boys name dispute is getting crazy. Yesterday it inspired us to write Rolling Stone’s Rules for the Fair Use of Important Band Names, today we hear that the lawsuit brought by Mike Love against former bandmate Al Jardine will go to trial.
- If this package of Madonna condoms isn’t a spoof then that means there’s a very old box of seemingly Madonna-endorsed condoms lying around. Thrilling news.
- Dear God: Can we please stop speculating about which producers Britney is maybe, possible, potentially working with? The new rumor — that Brit has recruited Lukasz Gottwald to work on her new tunes — is the third this week! Britney is starting to seem like a producer slut.

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