AP - They are rare, intimate images of John Lennon just before the breakup of the Beatles: He’s hunched over a piano writing songs, smoking pot, joking about putting LSD in President Nixon’s tea.

AP - A judge on Wednesday tossed out a lawsuit by a television writer who claimed Jennifer Lopez had a hand in stealing his idea for a TV series.

Reuters - A pair of New Zealand comedians who
play struggling musicians on a cult hit television show
officially graduated to stardom on Wednesday when their debut
album opened at No. 3 on the U.S. pop chart.

Reuters - A giant inflatable pig that went
missing from a Southern California music festival at the
weekend has been found in tatters in a desert town.

Reuters - Why didn’t Merle Haggard or Waylon
Jennings think of this?

Reuters - British rock band Radiohead has lent
one of its songs to an MTV campaign to raise awareness about
sweatshop labor and human trafficking.

AP - A giant helium-filled pig didn’t drift off to hog heaven after it was released into the night sky during Roger Waters’ performance at the Coachella music festival. It’s been found ? in pieces.

AP - Mya, who was to have made her Broadway debut next month as Velma Kelly in “Chicago,” has broken her left foot and will postpone her engagement in the show, producer Barry Weissler announced Tuesday.

AP - Paula Abdul must be hearing double.

Reuters - It was a pivotal moment for
the music industry which many thought sounded the death knell
for recorded music sales, but Radiohead won’t be repeating its
initiative to let fans pay what they want for their downloads,
The English rock band’s frontman said Tuesday.