- In a move that may help their uphill battle against iTunes, the Amazon music-downloads store has acquired the right to sell Warner Music’s catalog in their now 2.9 million-song-strong DRM-free MP3 shop. It’ll take more than the addition of Green Day and Madonna tracks to stop iTunes, however, as Apple’s stock posted a new high of $200.96 thanks to an insane amount of iPods under Christmas trees.
- Hip-hop’s latest trend: Showing up late for court. A week after snow delayed R. Kelly, Yung Joc was seven hours tardy for an arraignment in Cleveland on charges he attempting to board a flight with a semi-automatic weapon. An arrest warrant was issued, then rescinded after the court learned Joc was late, not skipping town. No word whether anyone managed to snap any cell phone pictures of the MC at court.
- Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn has called for the banishment of “celebrity culture,” saying “it’s creating a mindset that suggests you can get something for nothing and that it’s easy to acquire status and fame.” The first thing that needs to go, according to Albarn, is The X Factor, the U.K. equivalent of American Idol.
- One Sacramento family received a special Christmas surprise when they popped their newly-unwrapped Disney Channel Hits CD on: the expletive-laden first track from Dipset’s first group album Diplomatic Reunion (sample lyric: “I’m grinding sharing my pain, fuck, where is the fame”). The parents were obviously upset, pointing the finger at Toys R’ Us for the error.
- Billy Joel will perform live with a full orchestra for the first time on January 28th in Philadelphia. Joel and the Philadelphia Orchestra will play songs from his thirty-year catalog to celebrate the city’s 151st anniversary of their Academy of Music.
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