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Amy Winehouse is set to be the main attraction at this year’s London Fashion Week, sources say.

Welsh designer Julien Macdonald says that Amy has a great style and he’s desperate to sign her for his show.

He says, “She’s an amazing talent, isn’t she? She’s unique.”

She has a great talent as a singer, but her fashion sense leaves a lot to be desired. She’s probably going to request that the models be malnourished looking with pooched out stomachs and wearing scarves around fake beehives.

I could be wrong.

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Nate Dogg was rumored to have passed away over the weekend after suffering complications following his stroke late last year.

Someone apparently hacked into the rapper’s Myspace page and posted something confirming the rumor, but his manager, Rod McCrew, is saying that Nate is alive and well.

McCrew says, “It’s a vicious rumor. And it’s run amok.”

Nate Dogg has been recovering at home since he was hospitalized in December, but McCrew reveals he is gradually regaining his health.

He adds, “We’re pleased with his progress.”

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Amy Winehouse goes for a wander on the M40 when the car she is travelling in gets stuck in traffic. An accident caused gridlock on the motorway as the troubled singer was returning to London from Henley this afternoon. But the wait proved too much for Winehouse as she disembarked her vehicle and approached other motorists in the jam asking for cigarettes.

What a tool. She doesn’t even take any pride in her appearance anymore. And what’s with the blonde streak?

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Def Leppard’s previous albums X and Yeah! never enjoyed the type of success that they are receiving with Songs From The Sparkle Lounge and it’s got the Leppard boys a little curious:

Phil Collen says, “I am pleased but mildly irritated by the fact that we haven’t done anything different (to the most recent album) but simplified it. I am irked that people didn’t pay this much attention to the other albums which I felt were just as good. This one is stripped down and people seem to be going nuts for it.”

Someone should’ve pulled Scarlett Johansson aside and said, ‘Ya know, you might not have the voice for this” or maybe plainly, “You suck as a singer, stick to acting.”

Apparently no one had the cohones to tell her. So I’ll do it for you.

Scarlett, you suck as a singer, please continue doing movies or making Justin Timberlake videos. Thanks, Earsucker.

See, now that wasn’t so hard, was it?

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Amy Winehouse has been arrested for drug offenses.

She is currently at the police department being questioned in East London.

Amy needs to lay off the drugs and the headbutting people, already.

When is she going to learn?

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Okay, I’m cracking up now. You can actually own your very own Jason Castro doll!

If you don’t know who Jason Castro is, he’s that dread kid from American Idol.

The bidding is currently at $155.45. There are really that many fans that want a dressed up, repainted Ken doll of this kid??

Someone better tell Mattel to get on it!

Here’s the auction, enjoy.

Hello my faithful readers. Today I have good news.

Soon, when I have everything together, Earsucker will be hosting a rockin’ contest for music lovers.

Don’t worry, to enter, you’ll have to leave a comment or something simple. But it’s going to be worth it, trust me. I’m still waiting on several of the prizes to come in, but it’s going to be spiffy!!!

Details to come!!!!

Stay tuned :)

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On Nine Inch Nails’ official site, Trent says, “(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years – this one’s on me)”

So help yourself to getting the newest Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, for free.

Thanks Trent, you rock!

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This is a great interview that was conducted by Billboard with Def Leppard’s frontman Joe Elliott. Enjoy!

The title of Def Leppard’s latest album, “Songs From the Sparkle Lounge,” spurs an obvious question: What’s a Sparkle Lounge?

According to band frontman Joe Elliott, it was a special room with recording equipment set up backstage at each of the group’s 2007 shows. He says as time went on, “the crew started having a bit of fun with it, putting in sparkly lights, candles, incense — you name it. It turned into this very atmospheric little work space.”

The Sparkle Lounge was the incubator for the songs on the group’s new album — its 14th studio effort and first of all-new material since 2002′s “X.” Final recording was done at Elliott’s Joe’s Garage studio in Dublin.

Most of the 11 tracks — including first single “Nine Lives,” a collaboration with Tim McGraw that is being played on National Basketball Association telecasts — recall a vintage Def Leppard sound, which Elliott says was not an accident.

Q: “Sparkle Lounge” sounds like a kind of default Def Leppard album, something that’s almost “easy” for the band to make.

Joe Elliott: Well, yeah, I suppose that’s one way of putting it. There was a thought process behind it that we wanted to deliver a specific kind of record, but that specific kind of record was, if you like, a nonspecific kind of record. We weren’t going to try to theme it to the point of “Pyromania,” where it’s got a drum sound that was definitive in 1983 … (or) “Hysteria,” when we had a definite, like, overall ’80s sound.

With this one it was a case of, “Let’s just hone in on the songwriting and we’ll use 2008 production techniques, if you like, to make it sound more like a ’70s record.” It sounds very complicated, but it actually wasn’t.

Q: Did doing a covers album (2005′s “Yeah”) before this have any impact on “Sparkle Lounge?”

Elliott: I think a lot of it is overspill from the “Yeah” album. When we went in to do the covers record we didn’t have to worry at all about one word or one note from a writing point of view; all we did was … record these songs that made us all, (at) the age of 10 or 11 or 12, plead for our first guitar.

So then when it came to this one, it was a case of, “Alright, let’s try to sit down and write some songs that, if we were out buying records, they would be the kinds of songs we (would) want to buy.” So we all just sat down and wrote what we thought were meaningful songs.

Q: Was the Sparkle Lounge on the road a place where songs were written or did you already have the ideas?

Elliott: Well, we’re notoriously terrible at writing on the road. We just can’t do it. You can’t write a song like you can build a cabinet; the best idea is you lock yourself away in a room and you just do it, and it might take three or four days until it comes to a natural ending. What we did with (the Sparkle Lounge) was we took a lot of songs that were already half-written, and it was a lot easier. We’d go in and really work on these songs, and by the time we started recording them we knew them really well, and there was not that much of a learning process … So it was probably the best recording situation for new music we’ve ever had.

Q: How did the Tim McGraw collaboration happen on “Nine Lives?”

Elliott: I’ll try to make a long story short. (laughs) Sav’s (bassist Rick Savage’s) brother Robert is Tim’s tour manager. We’ve kind of known Tim and Faith Hill are huge Leppard fans and have been for many years. When we played the Hollywood Bowl in 2006, Tim happened to be in L.A., so we invited him down; it was one of those, “Hey, man, you want to get up and do something?” So we did “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” which went down really well.

We had a good laugh that night, and lo and behold, when we came through Nashville just a short while later, he came down to soundcheck and we ended up in the Sparkle Lounge, and that’s where the song was conceived.

Q: And now everybody thinks Def Leppard is going country!

Elliott: (laughs) People have been bringing that question up: “You guys have gone country?” “No! Tim went rock!” And truth be known, that’s really what he did. If you listen to the record, he goes off on his own kind of twangy tangent for the beginning part, but after that, even me and him could barely distinguish one from another…. So he really stepped up to the plate in the rock sense.

Q: What kind of commercial pressure do you feel when you put out a new Def Leppard album now?

Elliott: The commercial pressure actually comes after we’ve delivered a record. The fact of the matter is we don’t allow anybody anywhere near us when we’re making records — it’s what I call the Roger Waters syndrome; nobody’s going to tell Roger Waters how to make a Pink Floyd album, and rightfully so. Same thing with us…. I know some people might think that someone shoved Tim McGraw in our face, but it wasn’t like that at all. That was something we chose to do, and it caused a certain ripple in the media.

Q: Who is the Def Leppard audience these days?

Elliott: I think logic would say it’s a continuation of the audience we’ve always had. But having said that, and without wanting to extend a cliche, ’cause I’m sure you hear from every band our age that “our audience seems to be getting younger” — it really is in our case! (laughs) At the last few shows, even the casino gig we did, there were, like, 10-year-old kids, albeit with their parents.

I just think anybody that likes a great commercial pop-rock song, or a rock song, is potentially a Leppard fan.

I know that I may have a different taste in music than some of my readers, but you should give these two songs a listen and add them to your iPod.

Def Leppard – Nine Lives

Come on, this is me we’re talking about here. Did you think I’d leave my favorite band off of this list?

If you haven’t had the chance to give this song a listen yet, then please feel free to do so now, I’ll wait. What did you think? Wonderful, isn’t it? Of course, minus the first, say, 30 seconds…right?

Cradle of Filth – Temptation

Now I know I’m hopping genres here, but these are just two bands that I can’t burn a CD without, ya know?

Temptation is a great song and isn’t really all that death metal-like.

What have you added to your iPod recently?

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Kanye West took to his blog to sort of apologize for walking off stage in Houston as well as running off at the mouth to Entertainment Weekly.

He says:

Don’t believe the hype! When I started the show the other night we were having a lot of technical issues due 2 the heat. The 2 huge screens on both sides of the stage were glaring bright blue like when your DVD player acts up at home. I asked for them 2 turn the screens off 3 times because it was distracting 2 the show. The fans were not getting what they paid for. I admit, in my frustration, I did use profanity on the 4th time I asked. I stopped the show 2 go over and check it out myself. After the screens were turned off I started the same song from the beginning. The screens were eventually fixed 5 songs in but it was definitely better 2 have them blacked out rather than bright blue. Unfortunately for certain media outlets, you will never be able 2 ‘Michael Jackson’ me. That means 2 make it seem like everything I do is so weird or out of place… they always try 2 make it seem like everything is about my ego! That joke is getting old. At a certain point you have 2 respect that I’m one of the last artist that still cares about the fans having the best time of there lives! Thanks 2 Bossip and Perez for taking it easy on me on the EW spaz… I did go in a little 2 much on that one. I’m sure there are some cool people who work over there and had nothing 2 do with that review. With all that said…. “I’m still the greatest!!!” lol!! Oh and I was in the studio with T.I. last night…. so get ready!!!

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Rapper Lil’ Wayne is set to star alongside Forest Whitaker and Bow Wow in the Weinstein Company’s new high school basketball movie, called Patriots.

Check out the full story here.

Chad Kroeger received his driving ban yesterday from a court in Canada, stemming from a drunk driving incident in 2006.

Why’d they take so long to sentence him? Are they that backed up??

He pleaded not guilty to DUI in November of last year, and are in the middle of appealing the sentence. Chad’s lawyers are saying that his rights were violated. I think he should just shut up and serve it. Either way, he was speeding and had a blood alcohol level over the legal limit.

Suck it, Chad.

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Pete Doherty is getting out of the clink early. He was sentenced to 14 weeks in the slammer for probation violation and drug use, but after serving 28 days of his sentence, he’s being set free.

They’re letting him go early due to prison overcrowding. But his early release means that he’ll be able to play the Glastonbury Festival, as previously planned.

If he was Paris Hilton, he’d have been out after a day.