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Rewind: The Week in Rock Daily

3/28/08, 6:30 pm EST

If Chinese Democracy does ever appear, we’ll all have Dr. Pepper to thank. The soda company offered free pop if Axl Rose ever released his long-awaited epic, which prompted a “thank you” from the reclusive Rose. Then, Axl signed with an elite management team, and even Slash was talking reunion. Next week, we hope Pizza Hut endorses a new Talking Heads tour.
Speaking of soda, the Smashing Pumpkins sued Virgin Records over a Pepsi promotion, giving Billy Corgan the perfect podium to lash out at record labels and talk the future of music. Billy Bragg also spoke to RS about the industry’s future and Body of War.
That whole “Diddy was responsible for shooting Tupac in ‘94″ story turned out to be a farce as the L.A. Times got rick-rolled by an imprisoned con artist with mad forgery skills. At least the Times apologized.
We weren’t chained to our cubicles this week as we went backstage with Justice, sat front row at the Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige tour opener, hung out with Hawthorne Heights and prognosticated with Def Leppard.
Over in the Capri Lounge, the Rolling Stone editors talked about the possible reunion of the comedy troupe The State, compared Isiah Thomas’ Knicks to George Bush’s presidency, tried to bring Tag Team back again and got an inside look at the glamourous day-to-day life of a Rolling Stone intern.