• Chart Roundup: T-Pain’s sophomore album Epiphany debuted atop this week’s Billboard charts with 171,000 copies sold. Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad came in at the #2 spot, selling 162,000 copies and edging Sir Paul McCartney’s Memory Almost Full by only 1,000 copies. If T-Pain and Rihanna outselling Paul McCartney proves anything, it’s that we need to open more Starbucks. Despite the debut-heavy top three, combined album sales were still down 8.3 percent compared to the same week last year.
• Best news ever: Radiohead are “nearly there” with “there” being the completion of the band’s new album.
• Only Lollapalooza would be cruel enough to schedule Regina Spektor, The Hold Steady, Roky Erickson, and CSS sets all at the same time on four different stages.
• Tony Soprano is not dead, according to Journey’s Steve Perry, who refused to let “Don’t Stop Believin’” soundtrack a Soprano family massacre.
• Watch Justin Timberlake’s new video for “Lovestoned,” which clocks in at a modest, un-“What Goes Around…”-like 4 minutes and 54 seconds.
• Shh… The White Stripes are supposedly playing a secret show in NYC at the venue formerly known as Irving Plaza (and now known as the Fillmore East) on June 19th.

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• It’s looking doubtful that Jane’s Addiction will ever reform again, based on the ongoing war of words between Perry Farrell and Dave Navarro. Navarro has taken issue with a comment Farrell made stating that Navarro’s ill-fated turn on the ‘Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave TV show led to the demise of Jane’s. Navarro instead blames Farrell for the band’s demise. Either way, at least we’ll be spared from another Strays.
• Speaking of rock feuds, the impending Kate Moss vs. Amy Winehouse battle is off the charts in tabloid appeal.
• We were wondering why our grandmas like Neon Bible: Watch two members of the Arcade Fire subliminally promote their new-ish album on The Price Is Right.
• Keith Richards claims he’ll perform in a wheelchair if he has to, rendering all future Rolling Stones Farewell Tour rumors meaningless.
• Is Christina Aguilera pregnant?
• Check out the M.I.A.’s MS Paint-happy video for “Boyz.”

• “The Boy Who Heard Music,” the new musical by The Who’s Pete Townshend, is set to premiere under the bright lights of Poughkeepsie, NY, on July 13th. The piece is connected thematically to previous Townshend works Lifehouse Elements and Psychoderelict.
• Michael Moore is back, and he’s learned how to use YouTube. In anticipation of Sicko, his scathing look at the U.S. health care system, Moore is recruiting people to tell their own health care war stories, which he’ll post on his very own YouTube page. So instead of posting videos like this, break out the camcorders and get to work.
• In what is either really good bad news or really bad good news, Fergie says the Black Eyed Peas are not going away.
• Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gives George Bush yet another lesson on how a mature leader is supposed to behave. Harper makes Dubya look like a U2 groupie.
• The Fiery Furnaces, the most loquacious and prolific band this side of the Atlantic, are back with a new album (Widow City, out Oct. 23) for a new label (Thrill Jockey).
• We smell lawsuit: Remember that the kid that Akon bodyslammed into the audience? He’s alright, but the woman he landed on isn’t.

• Yesterday at the G-8 summit, President Bush made a point of seeking out U2’s Bono, allegedly shouting to his aide: “Where’s Bono? Bono for President!” (The aide then calmly explained to Bush that Bono isn’t a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore can’t run for President). Bono and Bob Geldof were at the German conference to lobby for funding to poorer countries. Word from the Deutchland indicates Bono and The Edge performed “Sunday Bloody Sunday” at the Voices Against Poverty concert.
• The mystery of the Rage Against the Machine countdown clock has been solved. Supposedly, by setting your computer clock to the estimated time the countdown was to end, you’ll discover the big revelation is that Rage will be playing a concert in East Troy, Wisconsin.
• Listen to “Sober,” the second single from Kelly Clarkson’s new album My December.
• Be the coolest hipster on New York’s Lower East Side by wearing a couple of the T-shirts found in Justice’s awesome “D.A.N.C.E.” video.
• Check out M.I.A.’s “Boyz,” the first official single from her upcoming Kala.
• Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Ben Harper, and The Roots’ ?uestlove will come together at Bonnaroo to form this year’s Superjam.

• Chart Roundup: R. Kelly shot straight to the top of the Billboard charts as his new album Double Up sold 386,000 copies in its first week. Fellow big sellers Maroon 5 and Linkin Park came in at #2 and #3, respectively. This week’s most impressive climber was Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black, which jumped from #11 to #6 on the strength of her Rolling Stone cover … and her appearance at the MTV Movie Awards, and the fact that Best Buy sold her album for $7.99 last week, and the fact that said album is awesome. As is the norm these days, total sales were down 10.6 percent compared to the same week last year.
• Watch those Arctic Monkeys monkey around with clowns in their new video for “Fluorescent Adolescent.”
• New Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo agrees with Kirk Hammett’s assertion that the new, Rick Rubin-produced Metallica album will be much, much better than Reload. We’ll all find out when the album comes out in early 2008.
• Listen to Velvet Revolver butcher the Talking Heads then listen to Queens of the Stone Age do justice to Tom Waits.
• Remember that Bob Marley USB stick we told you about? Images from the actual Exodus USB are up. They should’ve hired our photo editor to design it.

• Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy will guest-star, fittingly, as The Voice of God in an upcoming episode of the Comedy Central cartoon Lil’ Bush. Other rockers getting in on the animated, Bush-bashing fun are Frank Black, who will talk on behalf of Satan, Dave Grohl, and members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Iggy Pop lends his larynx to the reoccurring role of Lil’ Donald Rumsfield.
• Katherine McPhee, already the black sheep of American Idol, will make her big screen debut by starring in an independent film, The Last Caller.” Are you surprised by her secret hipster coolness? She thought you might be. “It’s something that a lot of people wouldn’t expect me doing,” the almost Idol said of the role.
• Download Ziggy Marley’s new single “Into the Groove” from his sophomore solo album “Love is My Religion” here, where you can also check out an interview with the artist.
• What would happen if someone shot over 70,000 still photographs and made them into a music video? Find out by watching the new video for The Polyphonic Spree’s “Running Away.”
• According to reports, Jay-Z and Beyonce are rumored to be engaged for the 748th time since April.
• Watch this incredible a cappella interpretation of Grizzly Bear’s “Knife” by some collegiate barbershop octet.

• Green Day has shifted their focus from American idiocy to Darfurian genocide with the release of their version of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero.” The song is the first single taken from the Instant Karma – Save Darfur compilation, which also has U2, The Flaming Lips, R.E.M. and many more covering Lennon’s solo tunes. Ninety percent of the single’s proceeds go toward the Save Darfur-Amnesty International Program.
• Check out Franz Ferdinand’s video for their rendition of LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends”
• The bachelorettes of Emo nation have something new to be depressed about: Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance is engaged.
• Listen to Kanye West’s new, Daft Punk-flavored song “Stronger,” the first single from West’s impending Graduation.
• We’ll never understand that strange UK Hype Machine. First it was that Crazy Frog and Kasabian. Now it’s The Zimmers — a band comprised of forty geriatric men — that have taken that nation by storm.
• Legally download a live EP from your friends the Black Keys.

• In an effort to exact revenge against the city of Chicago and their disc jockeys, the White Stripes have rescheduled several autumn tour dates from early September to early October. Jack White hopes it interferes with Cubs playoff games.
• Prince and Verizon are teaming up to sneak preview the Purple One’s new single “Guitar.”
• Kirk Hammett of Metallica claims their new, Rick Rubin-produced album will be their “best album in 15 years.” Way to set the bar high, Kirk. Does this mean we won’t be getting The Unforgiven III?
• The Police are set to play Madison Square Garden on Halloween, if they’re still together at that point.
• Untitled is the title of Korn’s “experimental” new album.
• Watch Courtney Love performing her new song “Pacific Coast Highway.”

• Prince has declined an invitation from Michael Jackson to rule arenas the world over on a joint tour. We imagine that after complaining about Prince’s snub at the Sultan of Brunei’s son’s birthday party (which netted The King of Pop $10 million just for showing up), a vindictive Jackson swore he’d spend the appearance fee on buying the rights to Prince’s music.
• Graduation is coming a half-semester early as Kanye West has pushed the release date for his forthcoming album up to late August.
• Listen to clips from Clive Davis’ favorite album of 2007, Kelly Clarkson’s My December.
• Marilyn Manson has been reading way too much UsWeekly (which is a good thing…) When he’s not out gallivanting with his 18-year old girlfriend and carrying around pictures of Justin Timberlake, Manson likes to discuss that time Lindsay Lohan showed him her “fire crotch.”
• MTV Unplugged is being reborn. The concert series that brought us iconic acoustic performances by Nirvana and Bob Dylan back when MTV still showed music programming is back with acts like… Bon Jovi and Kenny Chesney. As mentioned earlier, The Police will tape one as well.
• Just in case you didn’t hear him the first million times, Johnny Marr reiterates that there is no way The Smiths are reuniting.

• As promised, here’s Amy Winehouse gracing the cover of the next issue of Rolling Stone, on stands nationwide this Friday. Come back tomorrow to get all the smoking details from our definitive profile.
• Billboard Roundup: Linkin Park’s one week reign has ended at the hands of Maroon 5’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, which debuted at #1 with 429,000 copies sold. Linkin Park came in at #2 despite a 68 percent sales decline for their album Minutes to Midnight. Three more debuts made the Top 5: Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Rain, U.S.D.A.’s Cold Summer and The Used’s Lies For The Liars. Maroon 5 also set the record with most digital album sales in one week with 102,000, beating the record Linkin Park set last week. Despite the big debuts, album sales were still down 16.7 percent over the same week last year.
• Not satisfied with already owning The Beatles, Michael Jackson has staked his claim in both Shakira and Eminem.
• Katherine McPhee feels she’s not being allowed American Idol visitation rights.
• Check out this video of the Arcade Fire covering indie-favorites Clinic’s “Distortions.”
• Babyshambles are hard at work in a London studio, working on their next album. Maybe that’s why Pete Doherty didn’t show up for a DJ gig last night.

• The British diva who’s making major waves in the U.S. will be on the next cover of Rolling Stone. An in-depth profile on the songstress thus far, our story follows her to Florida for her shotgun wedding and reveals which music legends motivate Winehouse to sing. Check back tomorrow for a peek at the exclusive photos.
• Who wants new music? Check out leaked songs from Ryan Adams (“Everybody Knows”), the White Stripes (“Conquest” & “You Don’t Know What Love Is”), Lauryn Hill (“Lose Myself”), and The New Pornographers (“My Rights Versus Yours”)
• Justin Timberlake is launching his own record label, dubbed Tennman Records, to be a joint venture with Interscope Records. Although no artists have been signed yet, it’s safe to assume Marilyn Manson wants in.
• Check out this video of vertigo-stricken Sufjan Stevens performing atop a steep roof in Cincinnati.
• Britney Spears opens up to her fans in a long, grammatically-imperfect letter posted on her website. Spears pulls at heartstrings as she discusses rehab, her children, and her anxiousness to meet God. So much sincerity, you almost forget the letter resides next to a glamour shot of a topless Britney.

• Yesterday at the Phil Spector trial, details of infamous missing “fingernail” finally emerged. The gunpowder-stained fingernail, alleged to have been shot off of Lana Clarkson’s hand as she defended herself against Spector, was confiscated by forensic expert/Court TV star Dr. Henry Lee. Lee not only has yet to turn over the fingernail to authorities, he denies even finding the fingernail, rendering a valuable piece of evidence for the prosecution missing. Also on Wednesday, jurors were treated to gory crime scene photographs of the Clarkson’s death, as well as testimony from the paramedic who declared the former actress DOA. The trial is in recess until next week.
• We don’t know what provoked Marilyn Manson to cover Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around” but we assume it has something to do with the strange influence dating a 19 year old has had on his iPod.
• Ex-Soundgarden/Audioslave singer Chris Cornell and Snoop Dogg are set to headline the Hamburg, Germany portion of Live Earth. Insert “If they let Snoop Dogg in the country” joke here.
• Paul Simon briefly reunited with Art Garfunkel in Washington DC to commemorate Simon winning the inaugural Library of Congress Gershwin Award.
• The Strokes are taking 2007 off in an effort to avoid releasing another First Impressions Of Earth

• As expected, Linkin Park dominated the Billboard charts, selling 623,000 copies of their new album Minutes to Midnight, which easily became the best-selling debut of 2007. Last week’s champ Michael Buble fell to #3, where he just edged Wilco’s new, Rob Sheffield-approved album Sky Blue Sky. Talking to RS this morning about Linkin Park’s mammoth debut, Mike Shinoda said “Honestly, I’ve been staying extra-focused on this summer’s Projekt Revolution Tour so I wouldn’t think about the first week sales number! Whenever we create something new, there’s always suspense before its release–at this point all I can say is a huge, humble ‘thank-you.’” Despite the big week though, this week’s total album sales were seven percent less than that of the same week last year.
• The Polyphonic Spree is bringing The Fragile Army out on the road with a barrage of tour dates.
• Sonic Youth is celebrating the 19th anniversary of their classic Daydream Nation by releasing a deluxe version of the album, full of live renditions and cover songs. They’re also playing the album, which we declared the 329th best album of all time, live in its entirety this summer.
• Michael Jackson is set to be paid 5 million pounds to perform at the Sultan of Brunei’s birthday party.
• The trailer for the fourth film in the epic Rambo saga is now online. Word of caution: The trailer is extremely gory.
• Ben Weisman, who wrote over 60 songs for Elvis Presley as well as songs for The Beatles and Barbra Streisand, died at the age of 85.

• Check out this video of a pre-smack Pete Doherty being interviewed by UK MTV while waiting in queue for Oasis tickets. If Babyshambles doesn’t work out, he could totally host TRL.
• At the Phil Spector trial yesterday, the defense cross-examined chauffeur Adriano de Souza, who told jurors last Thursday he heard Spector admit “I think I killed somebody” the night of the murder. The defense centered on Brazilian-born de Souza’s comprehension of the English language. They also focused on how de Souza changed his testimony from Phil saying “I think I killed somebody” to “I think I shot somebody.”
• Yesterday, we reported Jessica Simpson and John Mayer had broken up. Today we report they’re back together. Maybe it has something to do with Mayer’s sense of humor.
• Rock is coming to Red Rocks, Colorado, with the announcement of the Monolith Festival, set for Sept. 14th and 15th. Flaming Lips, Decemberists and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah headline the bill.
• If you’re in Central Park and desperately need to use a restroom, be on the lookout for Amy Winehouse and Mika.
• Watch the new video for The Killers’ “For Reasons Unknown.”

• Ryan Adams appeared at a Louisville concert this weekend wearing a shower cap, white plastic sunglasses and a hoodie. Adams reportedly kept the stage banter to a minimum, but during the 20-minute show, the Easy Tiger material he played was reportedly “excellent.”
• Faux-metal band Spinal Tap wants The Office mastermind Ricky Gervais to join them onstage at Live Earth. On a comedic scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.
• The Killers’ Brandon Flowers has bronchitis, forcing the band to cancel shows in Denver, Seattle and the KROQ Weenie Roast. Make-up dates have been announced.
• Wu-Tang’s Method Man was pulled over in NYC and charged with unlawful possession of 28 grams.
• Nelly is set to pimp both Pimp My Ride and energy drink Pimp Juice in South Africa.
• The John Mayer/Jessica Simpson relationship is reportedlyover.
• The Strokes and challengers-to-the-Youtube-throne IMEEM are teaming up by showcasing an alternate video for the song “You Only Live Once.” It will be directed by Star Wars art director Wayne Fu, who channels Kubrick’s 2001 for the new video.
• The wait is over: Ween will release a brand new EP on June 8th, followed by a new album later this year.