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• Yesterday a Los Angeles judge said Chris Brown is complying with the terms of his probation. The singer’s next legal check-in is February 18th, the L.A. Times reports, and there’s no worries about Brown running into Rihanna at Sunday’s American Music Awards — he’ll be out on tour. Rolling Stone will have a full report from the big awards show.

• Britain’s Got Talent breakout star Susan Boyle’s November 24th debut album I Dreamed a Dream has set the record for most global pre-orders in Amazon’s history, Reuters reports.
• Roger Daltrey is considering writing an autobiography. The Who frontman told the Rock Radio, “The only trouble is, the people usually want the salacious crap and I don’t know if I’m prepared to dig that, y’know?”
• Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino tells Paste the band’s next album will hit stores in early 2010, and it will hearken back to their debut, Turn on the Bright Lights.

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• From now until December 14th, you can bid on more than 800 pairs of sneakers from DJ AM’s collection on eBay. Proceeds from the auction will benefit the DJ AM Memorial Fund, which strives to help people struggling with addiction, the L.A. Times reports.

• John Mayer’s Battle Studies is expected to top next week’s Billboard 200 with sales between 275,000 and 300,000, Billboard reports.
• MySpace has reportedly reached a deal to purchase ad-supported music site Imeem for approximately $8 million, CNET reports.
• Lil Wayne has become a father — again. The rapper’s fourth child, a son with singer Nivea, was born over the weekend, Perez Hilton reports.

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• Maroons 5 have announced they’ll be performing a New Year’s Eve show at Las Vegas’ the Pearl that will also feature a set from actor Jason Segel, who promises to perform “Dracula’s Lament” from Forgetting Sarah Marshall and more original tunes.

• Jennifer Hudson has been cast to play Nelson Mandela’s wife Winnie in a film about the complex wife of the South African president, Variety reports. Hudson is expected to sing in the biopic.
• Bono and Wyclef Jean will be recognized for their work fighting global poverty and human rights violations tonight when they receive the 2009 Ripple of Hope Award at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights dinner in New York.
• The Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed, Mo Tucker and Doug Yule are coming togethear for a conversation at New York’s Public Library hosted by our own David Fricke. More info on the event, which takes place December 8th, is available at the library’s Website.

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• Paul McCartney will receive the Library of Congress’ third annual Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The AP reports an all-star tribute — all the stars TBA — will honor the Beatle in 2010.

• Jay-Z and Will & Jada Pinkett Smith have joined the producing team of Fela!, the musical about the life of Africa legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. The show opens at Broadway’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre on November 23rd.
• John Lydon tells the BBC that if Public Image Limited’s upcoming tour — the band’s first in 17 years — is successful, he’ll record new music with the band.
• Ken Ober, who hosted five seasons of the MTV pop-culture quiz show Remote Control starting in 1987, has died at age 52. MTV News reports cause of death is still unclear, but police don’t suspect foul play.

• Katy Perry’s Unplugged hits stores tomorrow, but the show is streaming early on MTV’s Website. Head on over to watch her cover of Fountains of Wayne’s “Hackensack” and perform new tune “Brick By Brick.”

• Usher will return with a new album titled Raymond vs. Raymond in time for the holidays, an official press release confirms. The disc hits stores December 21st, the same week as Mary J. Blige’s Stronger.
• Janet Jackson made an appearance at a Los Angeles flashmob over the weekend (watch footage on YouTube). As Rolling Stone reported, the events drew attention to the singer’s Number Ones collection, out tomorrow.
• As we inch closer to what would have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday, King-mania continues worldwide. The BBC reports that a strand of Presley’s hair sold for £1,055 at auction.

• The official cover for Lil Wayne’s Rebirth was revealed yesterday, indicating the oft-delayed rap-rock album might actually stick to its December 15th due date. Disappointingly, the image isn’t new to fans — a similar shot of Weezy, guitar in hand sitting on the same couch, originally appeared as the potential Rebirth cover this summer before the album was delayed. The above image was also used for Wayne’s “Hot Revolver” digital single.

• In celebration of her upcoming greatest hits compilation, Number Ones, Janet Jackson is inviting fans to participate in three flash mob dances in Los Angeles, this Saturday, November 14th. Jackson herself is rumored to be making an appearance. To get involved with the “Rhythm Nation,” check out the Flash Mob America Twitter.
• Sting will perform the greatest hits from both the Police and his solo career with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music 153rd Anniversary concert on January 30th, 2010. The concert will help benefit the restoration of the Academy of Music, the National Historic Landmark venue.
• The Pixies have been added as a headliner at 2010’s Primavera Sound festival, joining another cornerstone band in alternative music, Pavement. Primavera will take place May 27th-29th in Spain.

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• Janet Jackson and Whitney Houston are set to join an impressive roster of performers at this year’s American Music Awards on November 22nd. The AMA Twitter reveals Jackson will begin the show with a “special opening medley” while Houston will perform “I Didn’t Know My Own Strength.” Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert, Rihanna, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, Eminem, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and many more will also hit the stage at the AMAs.

• Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was divorced yesterday by Jo, his wife of 24 years, on the grounds of adultery. the Huffington Post reports. Sixty-two-year-old Ronnie Wood’s affair with 20-year-old Ekaterina Ivanova is rumored to be the reason for the split, which will reportedly cost Wood a settlement of £6.5 million.
• While compact discs sales continued to slump in 2009, both digital music and vinyl, two mediums at complete opposite ends of the spectrum, set record sales this year. According to Billboard.biz, four artists will pass the 10 million year-to-date track downloads barrier by year’s end: Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and the Black Eyed Peas. Vinyl sales will also surpass two million units this year after topping out at 1.9 million in 2008.
• The Fab Four documentary The Beatles on Record will debut on the History Channel November 25th. The new doc, which charts the group’s musical journey from “Please Please Me” to Abbey Road, will feature more than 60 Beatles songs, rarely seen footage and images and narration courtesy of the band themselves and producer George Martin.
  

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• Rihanna and Chris Brown may have split up but it seems like they’re still doing things in tandem: Just one week after the former couple separately sat down for intimate interviews, word broke that Rihanna’s “Russian Roulette” video will debut this Friday, the same day Brown premieres his “Crawl” clip, MTV reports.

• The Black Eyed Peas and Maxwell will be among the performers at this year’s Grammy Nominations Concert, airing live on CBS on December 2nd. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2010 nominee LL Cool J will serve as host and producer of the Nominations Concert, the Grammy Twitter revealed. More performers will be announced shortly.
• American Idol’s Simon Cowell was named Forbes’ Top-Earning Man in Primetime after the sardonic judge raked in roughly $75 million from June 2008 to June 2009 from music publishing, judging, producing and more. Idol host Ryan Seacrest placed third on the list with $38 million.
• Bon Jovi’s “I Love This Town,” featured during ads for the 2007 Major League Baseball playoffs, is at the middle of a $400 billion lawsuit after a man claimed The Circle rockers stole the track from his Boston Red Sox ode “(Man I Really) Love this Team.” A judge threw out the initial lawsuit, but that decision is being appealed, Reuters reports.

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• After eight months of delays, Lil Wayne’s rap-rock crossover album Rebirth finally appears to have cemented a release date: December 15th. The album’s first single “Prom Queen” debuted in late January, followed by tracks like “Fix My Hat” and “Hot Revolver.” According to Reuters, guests on Rebirth include Drake, Lenny Kravitz, Travis Barker and Fall Out Boy.

• My Morning Jacket provided their voices and likenesses to the November 22nd episode of American Dad, appropriately titled “My Morning Straitjacket.” Jim James and the rest of MMJ figure into the plot after the show’s main character becomes obsessed with the band, TwentyFourBit writes.
• Not only is Joe Jackson seeking a monthly allowance from his son Michael’s estate, the Jackson patriarch is also reportedly trying to oust the co-executors named in Michael’s 2002 will, CNN reports. Joe Jackson’s lawyer contends that Michael’s signature on the will is questionable. The will reads it was signed July 7th, 2002 in Los Angeles, but family members claim Michael was in New York that day.
• Justin Timberlake was granted a permanent restraining order against a woman who trespassed on the singer’s property claiming she was destined to marry him. Karen McNeil, an “obsessed and mentally unstable stalker” according to JT’s legal team, took a taxi filled with her own possessions to Timberlake’s home with the intention of moving in, despite never having actually met the star, the BBC writes.

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• The reunited Pavement will headline 2010’s Sasquatch! Music Festival at Quincy, Washington’s the Gorge on Memorial Day weekend, May 29-31. As of now, this will be the band’s first reunion show in the U.S. after playing gigs in Australia and the U.K. The entire Sasquatch! lineup will be revealed February 16th.

• Michael Jackson’s father Joe has filed court papers seeking a monthly allowance from his son’s estate, CNN reports. While Michael’s 2002 will named his mother Katherine and his three children among its beneficiaries, Joe Jackson was not included among the heirs. No word on how much Joe Jackson is seeking, but the court will hear his argument tomorrow, November 10th.
• Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark has found its Peter Parker, casting actor Reeve Carney to play the teenage webslinger. Carney will share the stage with the previously cast Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming, Variety reports. The show’s producers also announced they’ve reached their full financing and are back on track to bring the show to Broadway after a temporary shutdown.
• Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin, two of the stars at the Rock Hall 25th anniversary concerts, will next celebrate the 50th anniversary of Motown Records at a November 21st gala in Detroit. The concert will feature tributes to Michael Jackson, the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs and founder Berry Gordy Jr., the BBC writes.

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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.