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• EMI has won a temporary injunction against BlueBeat, the digital-music vendor selling Beatles tracks without permission. According to Billboard, a temporary restraining order demands the company cease selling all EMI tracks, including Beatles songs. A legal Beatles release — a special edition vinyl of Abbey Road — will be available this weekend as part of Record Store Day.

• Echo and the Bunnymen have posted a Website update that explains they’ve cut their U.S. tour short due to “unreasonable” IRS demands, but not a visa problem.
• The Yeah Yeah Yeahs will perform their 2003 debut Fever to Tell in its entirety at the U.K.’s 10th anniversary ATP Festival, which goes down December 11th through 13th.
• George Michael’s first-ever live DVD hits stores Sunday. Live in London features 23 songs from a pair of shows on the singer’s final 25 Live Tour including his cover of the Police’s “Roxanne.”

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• The Dave Matthews Band will return to Saturday Night Live as the musical guest on the November 21st episode hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It’ll be the band’s fourth time on the show, and their first appearance since 2003.

• Rihanna has been added to the star-packed lineup of the American Music Awards, which air November 22nd live from Los Angeles, MTV News reports. See the rest of the performers here.
• Tom Waits has joined Twitter. His first tweet reads, “Kathleen and I came up with this idea of doing music that’s surrural– it’s surreal and it’s rural, it’s surrural.”
• Janet Jackson’s first interview since the death of her brother Michael will air November 18th on ABC, the BBC reports. Jackson will bring cameras into her home for the story.

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• Lil Wayne tells MTV News his No Ceilings mixtape, which leaked last week, was far from finished. The complete version, posted now on Young Money’s site features a handful more tracks, including an unofficial remix of Beyoncé’s “Sweet Dreams.”

• Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Julian Lennon will donate proceeds from the sale of their digital single “Give Peace a Chance” (40th anniversary version) to the United Nation’s Peacebuilding Fund. The commemorative single is on sale now at iTunes.
• Alicia Keys will debut jewelry line the Barber’s Daughters at a special two-day retail event in New York. On November 23rd and 24th, she’ll set up shop at the city’s Collette Blanchard Gallery.
• A limited-edition clothing line designed by Kings of Leon and Surface to Air will be available in the Copenhagen outlet of Paris Texas, NME reports, but fans can check out the goods at the store’s Website.

• Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas tells the NME he plans to release “I Wish It Was Christmas Today” as a holiday single 7″ in December (the song is available as a bonus track on iTunes now). The chipper little tune originated on an episode of SNL, when it was performed by Horatio Sanz, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kataan and Tracy Morgan.

• Chris Brown has revealed the cover for his December 15th album Graffiti via Twitter. He stands against a futuristic backdrop holding an electric guitar and a can of spray paint that’s aimed at a crew of cartoon characters.
• The Stone Roses’ Ian Brown has been arrested for suspected domestic abuse. The BBC reports Brown was released on bail and will return to court in December.
• On November 9th at 6 p.m., New York City’s Riverside Church will host a memorial for Peter, Paul and Mary singer Mary Travers. The event is free and open to the public, and will feature Pete Seeger, Whoopi Goldberg, Dolores Huerta and more participants.

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• Lil Wayne’s legal troubles are mounting: a man named Thomas Marasciullo is suing the MC along with Birdman, claiming the pair used lyrics from some Italian spoken-word recordings he did for them without permission. Marasciullo says his words appear on two albums, including Like Father, Like Son, the BBC reports.

• Elton John has postponed his November 4th, 7th and 10th Face 2 Face dates with Billy Joel in Seattle and Portland due to “a serious case of e-coli bacterial infection and influenza,” according to the singer’s Website.
• Spoon have confirmed the release date for their seventh album, Transference: January 26th. Pitchfork has the 11-song track list, which includes “Got Nuffin,” a song the band debuted in Austin in July.
• A Canadian man who stabbed a housemate during a disagreement over the merits of AC/DC has been sentenced to four years in jail. According to the Winnipeg Sun, James Ivison will receive credit for the two years he’s already served for the assault.

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• Lady Gaga will take over Sirius XM radio this weekend to discuss her collaboration with Beyoncé, what she’d love to do with Britney Spears and details about The Fame Monster re-release. More info at Sirius, and a guide to Gaga’s wild outfits here.

• Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind” proved lucky for the New York Yankees last night: watch the pair’s pre-game performance of the Blueprint 3 track at YouTube.
• Before his death, Heath Ledger had begun work a few music videos; his Modest Mouse-directed clip for “King Rat” debuted in August, and now a clip he did for a childhood friend, Australian MC N’fa Forster-Jones, has been released. Watch “Cause An Effect” at YouTube.
• Norah Jones has recruited the Beastie Boys, Beck and Santigold to remix songs from her November 17th album, The Fall, EW reports, adding she admires Santi’s songs because they sound “organic even though they’re electronic.”

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• Peter Gabriel’s first new album in seven years will be an orchestral spring 2010 “song swap” called Scratch My Back where he and other big-name collaborators reinterpret each others’ songs, according to the Guardian. His collaborator John Metcalfe wouldn’t name names or confirm the validity of a leaked track list that includes Radiohead, Arcade Fire and David Bowie on it.

• Universal Republic has signed We Are the Fallen, the band of former Evanescence members fronted by American Idol alum Carly Smithson, Blabbermouth reports.
• YouTube’s Webcast of U2’s Rose Bowl 360° Tour show Sunday night drew 10 million viewers, Variety reports.
• Paula Abdul is still being coy as to whether she’d join the judges table on So You Think You Can Dance, telling EW it’s “an intriguing offer” but she “might need a break from judging for awhile.”

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• The Killers’ concert film Live at the Royal Albert Hall will premiere in select movie theaters for one night only on November 5th, five days before the live DVD/CD is released. Brandon Flowers and Co. are also offering up an extremely limited edition version of the live set, so check the Killers shop for details.

• Morrissey was back on his feet and back onstage last night at the Royal Albert Hall, just three nights after collapsing during a performance. “Fasten your seatbelts it’s going to be a bumpy night,” Moz told the London crowd before jokingly feigning a faint. BBC has the live report.
• After lying dormant for 11 summers, the Lilith Fair will return in 2010. Tour dates and artists haven’t yet been announced, but 18 cities have been revealed as destinations for the roving all-female fest at the official Lilith site.
• Due to weather concerns that threaten to put the PPD on Game 1 of the World Series, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ performance of the New York Yankees’ adopted theme song “Empire State of Mind” at Yankee Stadium has been pushed to tomorrow’s Game 2.

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• Robert Plant is in talks to perform at Glastonbury. “There’s place for me there, but I have no idea who with,” he told the BBC, thereby igniting the hopes of millions of Led Zeppelin fans itching for another reunion show.

• Jay-Z, the man who bragged he “made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can” will perform that very song, “Empire State of Mind,” with Alicia Keys at tomorrow night’s Game One of the World Series between the Yankees and the Phillies.
• Tomorrow Live Nation is hosting a promotion where fans can attend special meet-and-greets with bands including Anvil, Mastodon, Taking Back Sunday and the Used at the clubs they’ll be playing in cities including Boston, Denver, Atlanta and Indianapolis. More info at Live Nation’s site.
• Eric Clapton has been forced to withdraw from Friday’s historic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden because he requires surgery to remove gallstones, Reuters reports.

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• “Wrecking Ball,” the song Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band debuted at their final gigs at New Jersey’s Giants Stadium, is now for sale at iTunes. Springsteen’s Website announced the song is bundled with a live video shot during those gigs.

• Justin Timberlake has won a restraining order against Karen McNeil, a 48-year-old stalker who broke into the star’s house three times. TMZ reports McNeil was previously sentenced to prison time for stalking Axl Rose.
• RS cover star Madonna is in Malawi to break ground on a leadership school called the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, CNN reports. “Our goal is to teach them to challenge themselves, serve their local communities and develop their country,” she said.
• Metallica are pitching in to help find the fan who went missing after their recent show in Virginia, adding $50,000 of their money to the family’s offer of $100,000 for information leading to the return of Morgan Harrington, Blabbermouth reports.

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• Sources tell the Rap-Up that Rihanna will perform at the American Music Awards on November 22nd, the day before her new album, Rated R, is released. Rihanna’s mentor Jay-Z is already booked to take the stage, along with Taylor Swift and Alicia Keys.

• Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s gig as an actress on the remake of Melrose Place is over already. The show’s executive producers tell EW that Simpson’s murder-mystery storyline was only supposed to stretch 12 episodes.
• Police are accelerating their search for a Metallica fan who vanished during the band’s Virginia concert Saturday, and the missing girl’s parents are offering a $100,000 reward for information that will help find her, Blabbermouth reports. More info at Find Morgan.
• The Spider-Man musical featuring music by U2’s Bono and the Edge has been delayed again — likely until spring 2010 — by production and financial issues, the New York Times‘ Artsbeat reports.

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• One Jersey legend closed down Giants Stadium, and another hometown hero will open the new one: Bon Jovi are hosting a special announcement at the site of the new Meadowlands Stadium today at noon at which they’re expected to confirm they’ll christen the venue when it opens, the AP reports.

• A vehicle that was part of a caravan transporting Michael Jackson’s children and their nanny to karate class was involved in a car accident yesterday when a paparazzo rear-ended the car in L.A., TMZ reports.
• Should Kiss make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year, Ace Frehley says he’s open to joining the band onstage. Blabbermouth quotes a new interview from the Artisan News Service where Frehley says, “I really had to let all the negative energy go years ago — for my own sanity and personal health.”
• Trent Reznor has contributed a reworked version of Nine Inch Nails’ “Zero-Sum” for a promo for the TV show Fringe (for free!), EW reports. The spot airs tonight during the ALC championship game.

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• Faith No More reunited in London in June, and now the band is giving U.S. fans hope by tweeting, “we yare [sic] now actively planning US dates.”

• The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s October 29th/30th concerts at Madison Square Garden have gotten more incredible: Ozzy Osbourne will perform with Metallica, Buddy Guy will join Eric Clapton, B.B. King is pairing with Stevie Wonder and Annie Lennox and Lenny Kravitz are teaming with Aretha Franklin. More info at the Rock Hall 25 site.
• Billy Corgan will perform with Kerry Brown of Ancient Chinese Secrets and Mark Tulin of the Electric Prunes as the Backwards Clock Society at a November 8th benefit at L.A.’s Echoplex to raise money for Laura Masura, the onetime head of the Smashing Pumpkins fan club, who was injured in a motorcycle crash.
• Pitchfork reminded us that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ iTunes Original Sessions EP is on sale now. The download includes interviews segments and acoustic renditions of “Maps,” “Our Time”, “Dull Life”, “Hysteric”, and “Runaway.”

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• U2 will stream their 360° Tour concert at Pasadena, California’s Rose Bowl on Sunday live on YouTube. “‘The band has wanted to do something like this for a long time,” manager Paul McGuinness said in a statement on the band’s Website. “Fans often travel long distances to come to see U2 — this time U2 can go to them, globally.”

• If you got a look at the 11-minute short film Kanye West and Spike Jonze made together yesterday, you were lucky: the video vanished from every site on the Web, including West’s, who posted he “had to take” “We Were Once a Fairy Tale” down.

• Living next to the Queen of Pop has its perils: Madonna’s New York neighbor on the Upper West Side is suing the co-op board and building’s management company, complaining the singer’s dance rehearsals and loud music are distracting, Reuters reports.
• Beyoncé has postponed her October 25th I Am … concert in Kuala Lumpur, Reuters reports. Malaysia’s Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party has previously protested the “moral issues” her show would raise in the conservative nation.

• The L.A. Times dropped a reference to the Flaming Lips re-recording Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon into a story last week, and Pitchfork has more details from the band’s MySpace show Q&A. The likely iTunes-only release was recorded with Stardeath and White Dwarfs and features Peaches and Henry Rollins.

• Def Leppard have canceled the third leg of their tour with Cheap Trick due to “unforeseen personal matters,” and added they “agonized over this decision” in a statement on their official Website. Read RS‘ review of the trek here.
• Tonight New York’s Empire State Building will be lit up in tie-dye to honor the Grateful Dead, who will be in town this week to attend the new exhibit “The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society.”
• Cyndi Lauper, Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne are likely stars of the next Celebrity Apprentice, People reports. The trio were spied on the show’s New York set, though Trump’s reps haven’t confirmed the cast yet.