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No Doubt has no time to wait while preggers Gwen Stefani does her motherly thing. Yet Tony Kanal says “I wouldn’t even say this album is in its infancy. It’s conception, if anything. It’s so super-early on.” Yes, that’s called playing it safe. Who else would front the band? I smell a 10,000 Maniacs type of post-popular frontwoman syndrome slide coming on. And besdies, does Stefani even need No Doubt anymore? After Tragic Kingdom, the band kept pushing farther away from the ska-pop infested sound they started with and moved ever closer to the pop rocks that rocked Rock Steady as well as the groove of Stefani’s solo album. But then again, Stefani basically is No Doubt in the eyes of many a fan. It’s her voice, her bod, and her ever-changing fashion styles that are always at the front. No one gives a crap if the drummer wears a new loincloth. She’ll have a solid career with or without ’em.

And not in the good way, either. Perhaps Britney really does dig him and thinks he’s got something going on musically as Spears is going to rap on her next album. She’s hooked up with Destiny’s Child producer Jonathan Rotem, who says

“”Not rap rap, but talk rap. It’s definitely Britney, but the next level. With songs like Toxic she was very innovative, and we’re trying to top it. Push it to the next thing.”

OK, so “rap” as in the old ’60s meaning of the word. Pushing it to the next level. She’s gonna pull a Dylan or a Reed. Walk on the wild side, you know. The new album is supposedly going to be “edgy” too. I don’t know what that means. Maybe it’ll be like when Jewel rcorded herself reading her bad poetry and maiing a bunch of moolah. I expect you can get really edgy from a Chee-tohs diet, however.

Thom Yorke will be releasing an album called The Eraser soonish. He doesn’t want it to be called a “solo” album, however. OK, so, what do you want us to call it, Thom? just some shit that floated through the ether with you singing and playing on it? All the Radiohead fanboys and girls will be able to continue pointing out Yorke’s “genius” while non-fans like myself will keep on saying what a fucking bore he is.

Everyone’s least favorite snaggletoothed folkie bizzo Jewel is going to appear on an episode of “The Young and The Restless. Aww yeah, she’s doing it to help push her new pooper Alice in Blunderland. What? Excuse me, make that Goodbye Alice in Wonderland.

“On the show, Jewel will perform at a fundraiser hosted by characters Nick and Sharon Newman to mark the first anniversary of their teenage daughter’s death in a drunk-driving accident.”

Ooh, that’s sweet. At the end of the show, Jewel will also be doing a PSA for Muthas Against Drunk Driving. Should be a good time for all. All those mothers sitting at home, cigarette in one hand, glass of cheap whiskey in the other, all boozed up with their hair in rollers and donning their bathrobes and slippers. Yelling “You go girl!” at the TV screen as they prepare to prepare yet another TV dinner for their poor husbands just so they can catch yet another empowering episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”