• Fan site Drowned Madonna slipped a source into the star’s record-company listening party earlier this week and reports that Madge plans to call her next album Give It to Me after one of its thirteen tracks. In a conference room decorated like a candy shop in honor of the song Madonna recorded with Pharrell, she previewed ten tracks and said she had completed recording just a few days prior. The album includes Kanye West on “The Beat Goes On” and a reinvention of an unreleased older song, “The Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You.” According to Madonna, the album is scheduled to come out the last week of April 2008.
• Bauhaus will formally retire after releasing Going Away White next March, their first studio record since 1983. “We were getting along really well, but there was an incident that occurred,” drummer Kevin Haskins said. Haskins says the band will not tour for White, but “it’s something we’re very proud of.”
• The child custody battle between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline has taken another turn for the ugly. Court documents released yesterday show child welfare investigators are now exploring “multiple child abuse and neglect” allegations with regard to care for toddlers Sean Preston and Jayden James.
• Bruce Springsteen fans have submitted their memories and photos for inclusion in a new book, For You, by Lawrence Kirsch. The stories chronicle Springsteen’s career from its conception, and incorporate images from all eras — including shots of Springsteen with the E Street Band, Bono, Neil Young and more. Only 2,000 copies are being printed.
• Bonnaroo organizers are squashing rumors that Led Zeppelin and Metallica will play next year’s fest: “The rumors that are out there about the Bonnaroo 2008 headliners are innaccurate … We’ll be announcing the confirmed lineup toward the end of January/beginning of February.”

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