:: After much speculation, it’s finally confirmed that Bruce Springsteen will be the halftime performer at this year’s Superbowl.

:: The new Guns N Roses album will be a Best Buy exclusive in November.

:: My Bloody Valentine announed they plan to record their first new studio album in 17 years.

:: More Deftones studio update videos.

:: Boing Boing has announced Wal-Mart plans on closing down their DRM server. Creating problems for people who have purchased digital music through Wal-Mart.

:: Internet radio can breathe a little easier, for now.

:: Death Cab For Cutie has offered to play on the college campus that registers the most students to vote between now and November.

:: Seems the all the fanfare over the Guns N’ Roses album leaker arrest backfired for the band and lawyers. Rather than detracting filesharing, instead it just alerted people a new GNR album was available and increased the its file sharing on torrent sites.

:: Taking Back Sunday are in the studio recording album #4. Don’t believe us? Here are some pictures.

:: 50 Disastrous Live Shows. Altamont? Redding? Great White? Guns N’ Roses? Who do you think made the list?

:: You can stream Jenny Lewis’ new album Acid Tongue here.

:: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a Radiohead Ballet.

17 years in the making, GUNS N’ ROSES Chinese Democracy has been recorded, re-recorded, and almost coming out for so long that countless bands have formed, put records out, and broken up while Axl Rose and a revolving crew of musicians and producers work on the album.

Leave it to Dr. Pepper to come to the rescue. The company has issued a press release stating that if the album is released in 2008, they’ll give a free can of their soda to everyone in America. That’s 300 million cans of Dr. Pepper. Actually, make that 299,999,998 – the offer doesn’t extend to ex-axemen Slash and Buckethead (who’s more of a KFC kinda guy, anyway). While this sounds like a publicity stunt, that’s probably because it is – but a brilliant one.

Even though this could have been done ten years ago, when the album was only seven years in the making, the publicity that Dr. Pepper has gotten from the media (not to mention blogs that didn’t exist back in the ‘90s), has been huge. In fact, word even got back to Axl himself, who apparently has an appetite for ‘da soda. He released a statement stating that he was happy to have Dr. Pepper’s support, stating that since Buckethead played on the album, he would share his Dr. Pepper with him.