• Our question here is: where was Axl Rose going to get $2.36 million in the first place? [Y!]
• Finally, the ancient order of senior citizens who are way too old be rocking out on stage have come to the U.S. [AP]
• Looks like Janet Jackson won???t be letting Justin Timberlake bring any sort of sexy back around her anymore. [NME]
• Beck just wanted to remind everyone that he???s still batshit crazy. Again. [Pitchfork Media]
• Uhhh, Pink is the New Nips, anyone? [PITNB]
Have Axl Rose and Tommy Hilfiger made amends since their well-publicized May altercation? The MTV VMAs – always the bastion of resolution – seem to have brought the twosome together in harmony. Files a club-going operative:
I was a vip guest at the vmas last night and was brought to the grammercy hotel bar for an afterparty. Axel rose was sitting right next to us and tommy hilfiger came to his table and appologized and they hugged eachother and shook hands.
we then went to Bungalow 8 and we saw the olson twins and fergie from Blackeyed peas and axelrose with sebastian bach, sarah mills, ron jeremy, and others. when we were leaving the police were coming into shut the club and diddy with paris hilton and brandon davis were turned away at the door beacuse the police were there.
We only had so much time to guzzle free booze, so it’s likely y’all hit events we didn’t make it to. Surely you’ve got more stories to share?
• Although the rest of the band knows that Axl Rose is a huge douche, Guns N’ Roses are still upset with the Swedish police. [NME]
• Break out the champage! Lil’ Kim is being released from prison. She’ll head into 30 days of house arrest, or as we like to call it, another season of her reality show. [Billboard]
• Black Eyed Peas – aka the least intimidating group of rappers since Will Smith – actually got into a brawl. You’ve got no idea what this will do to their street cred. [R&M]
• Pretty much the most bizarre thing we’ve heard all day: President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Graceland, singing Elvis songs. Nope, no sleep for us tonight. [AP]
• Was Jennifer Lopez‘ wedding video really worth that much? And what about her ex-husband’s tell-all book? [MuchMusic, TMZ]
• It pains us to think how awkward it’s going to be when someone tells Heather Mills she’s not important enough to have stalkers. [Page Six]
• The BET Awards are so B-List, even Jamie Foxx wins. [AP]
• Brandon Flowers is one to talk … like he’s the prototype of good old masculine rock-n-roll. The guy wears more eye make-up than RuPaul! [NME]
• Though we’ll miss the absolute randomness of Michael Jackson living Bahrain, France is still better than here. [R&M]
• Axl Rose is back on the streets. So, uh, be careful of leaving your ankles exposed. [MTV]
• Sting will spend $30 million moving out of his Billy Joel’s sloppy 2nd floor seconds to a real apartment. Though, it’s right down the street from where he lives now, so the neighbors can hang onto their celeb attractig property value. [NYP]
• David Furnish shouldn’t be too mad at Pharrell for throwing him out of a club … at least the rapper didn’t look at him and say there wasn’t enough sausage. [R&M]
• It takes a Swede with a set to accomplish what Americans have tried to do for years — jail Axl Rose. [NME]
• Ok, somewhere between being a former crack dealer and now pretending to hang his enemies, 50 Cent has to have crossed the line of decency already. [HipHopGame]
• Was Kanye West wrong? Does George Bush care about black people. [Jam!]
• Maybe we’re too picky, but “Fat Joe potato salad?” Sounds worse than eating freckled fire crotch. [HipHopGame]
• First Bob Dylan, now Dee Snyder? Satellite radio djs are all going to be washed up musicians. [NYDN]
• Kevin Aviance is back with a vengeance, and a fabulous new get-up, just in time for the parade. Watch out for an upcoming gangsta rap album. [Page Six]
• Just so we’re clear, Slash still hates Axl Rose as much as we do. [MTV]
• With all these court payments on tap, Seal may have to ask Heidi Klum to cash in that insurance bond on her legs. [Jam!]
• Because Axl Rose has not yet become a living joke in the UK, when Guns N Roses performs, people show up. [NME]
• Does anyone else think that coupling Ludacris with a girl’s high school basketball team is a bad idea? [MTV]
• As much as radio listeners want to hate Paris Hilton’s new song, they just can’t. We don’t feel so alone now … but this is the most Paris affection we’ve had to repress since we found ourselves liking her perfume. [NYDN]
• When a Wailer joins a Marley on tour, we expect nothing but good things, great music, and a whole ton of weed. [Billboard]
• Pondering the fate of musicals? That sounds so fun and fabulous. [AP]
• Even with Tom Hanks‘ disgusto hair, the Da Vinci Code manages to break box office records … proving that Ron Howard indeed has more power than the church. [ET]
• According to reliable source Joe Francis, Brandon Davis called Lindsay Lohan to apologize for talking about her vagina on tape. But, since he’s covering up his “Suck My Dick” t-shirt with a blazer like a pansy, we have a little trouble believing him. [Page Six]
• Tommy Hilfiger lost his mind, Axl Rose lost his street cred, and Rosario Dawson had the best birthday ever. [NYP]
• So glad Naomi Campbell can watch her boyfriend try on jeans without causing an incident. [Page Six]
• Yale kids are super smart. They analyze Showgirls and write sticky love letters to Elizabeth Berkley. [Gatecrasher]
• After the death of his friend, T.I. is re-evaluating his life. That’s fine — we just hope he doesn’t go and turn to God like Mase did. That just makes for bad music. [MTV]
• Axl Rose promises the “new” Guns N’ Roses album will be out by the end of the year. And since nobody except that weird kid from 8th grade science cares about this band, all they hype becomes pretty pointless. [Billboard]
• David Bowie doing something? This harkens back to the good old days of Labyrinth when he helped children question their gender identity. [Billboard]
• Alex Kapranos, the lead singer of Franz Ferdinand’s, is to have a book published. And here’s the best part — it’s a compilation of food columns that he wrote for The Guardian. We are so sold. [NME]