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  • Snoop Busted

    Snoop Dogg, which is what he calls himself these days, was arrested over the weekend at Burbank Airport for weapon and drug posssession charges.

    Initial media reports said that the ground-breaking rapper originally was found to have a baton similar to the kind riot police and private security guards use, but that was actually an older incident at another airport, and Snoop was not charged.

    He was charged in Burbank, though, when police searched his car after he left it at the airport too long. Police reporting finding a gun and marijuana in the vehicle. Snoop has a long history of arrests and scrapes with the law — a self-destructive path that could eventually consume the 35 year old just like Jimi, Janis and so many others before him.

    Spinning In The CD Today:

    I’m still liking Death Cab for Cutie’s Plans, which still sounds fresh to me a year after its release. Ben Gibbard just doesn’t get the praise he deserves — critics yawn, the songs go nowhere on the charts and the band’s following is too small to influence either.

  • Keith Urban Checks Into Rehab, Will Miss CMAs

    In a year when all seemed to be going well for country superstar Keith Urban, things have fallen apart again.

    Urban, who is married to Oscar winner Nicole Kidman, checked himself into rehab for what will be a long stint. Nominated for four Country Music Awards to be made on November 3, Urban will miss the entire show and has canceled plans to support his latest release, due out early next month.

    Spinning In The CD Today:
    Ben Folds’ supersunnyspeedgraphic, a collection of his EPs plus some rare cuts. Making the grade — one of Folds’ best ballads, Learn To Live With Who You Are.

  • CBGBs Goes Bye-Bye, But Is Vegas Next?

    Legendary club CBGBs, the acknowledged home of American new wave and punk, has received massive media coverage this week as the famous nightspot closed its doors.

    The kids grooving to Blondie or The Ramones 30 years ago are now AARP-eligible and the energy and magic bestowed by the club seems somewhat tame.

    That’s why the big surprise that the club might move – intact, no less – to Las Vegas to become part of the tourist kitsch that makes up the excess of America’s wasteland.

    Some things are better left as memories. While closing the club was a shame, do we really need someone tromping through the insides where a musical genre was honed and treating it like some tourist attraction? No. Here in America, we save that for government buildings and churches.

    You know what The Ramones would say, right? That’s right. “Fuck it. When do we go on?”

    Spinning In The CD:
    Today seemed like the perfect day for Green Day’s Bullet In A Bible, mostly the American Idiot live portions. Nothing like good ole’ Billy Joe hollerin’ at England like the massive stadium was CBGBs itself. England, that’s Tre Cool!