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Speaking of prefab bands, the once-named Supernova of “Rock Star Supernova” fame (?) has recently changed its name to …”Rock Star Supernova.” This because a California punk band named Supernova was suing the “group” for copyright infringement regarding the name. A judge ordered the “band” to come up with something new. Hey, when all else fails, be as lazy as the TV show which you were created on and take that name. No word yet on whether the show’s creators will be taking a bigger piece of the pie now that this has occurred. Still, the band’s debut album will be released this year on my birthday. Gee thanks, guys.

Is the new version of INXS already hitting the skids? Hard to say, but the band has parted ways with its US label, Epic. The band’s album Switch has sold 375,000 units in the US. Not quite a shitload, but decently somewhat respectable, I suppose. Still, it’s hard to imagine the band going on as long as the original incarnation did. Times have changed, and any band that is “created” with the help of a phone-in audience is…well, more prefab than The Monkees ever thought about being. Certainly everyone knows that these newer kids just want the single to download and not the entire album. The labels know it, the TV execs know it…but do the bands know it?

Hoo boy, who needs some money? Perhaps Doug Fieger of The Knack does. After all, he’s now suing Run-DMC for their sampling of “My Sharona” in their 1986 hit “It’s Tricky.” And not a moment too soon, either. After all, that song has only been around since 1986. So why the delay? Apparently Fieger and co-writer/bandmate Breton Averre had never heard the song until just last year. Whaaaaaa?

Raise your hand if you’re truly surprised. Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston are finally calling it quits. However Phaedra Parks, an entertainment lawyer, says that this is only “a legal separation…not a divorce or a divorce petition.” Who’s the bigger guilty party in this relationship, anyway? Both artists have had their ups and downs with drugs numerous times. Oh and then there’s those times spent in jail…oh wait, Bobby actually hit Whitney, but perhaps he was just trying to smack her out of a drug fog. This can happen, you know. Oh, how the mighty fall. Lap it up.