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Master P’s brother C-Murder, real name Corey Miller, was sentenced to ten years in prison for second degree attempted murder charges in 2001.

Miller pleaded no contest to the charges on Wednesday, May 21, 2009. Miller’s trial began today where he was accused of trying to shoot the owner of Club Raggs in Baton Rouge, LA., along with a bouncer at Plank Road Nightclub in 2001.

Check out the video of the shooting incident below:

You may not have heard of Dolla before today, but he was an aspiring rapper out of Atlanta, Georgia. Dolla was murdered Monday afternoon, after the perpetrator brandished a gun at The Beverly Center in L.A. and shot him in the head.

That was the only photo that I could locate of the victim, from a 2008 CD, titled, “I’m Tore Up”.

TMZ has found out the identity of the suspect, who was trying to board a plane at LAX, with a gun. The perp, Aubery Berry, who was sitting there at the airport:

LAX police spotted a man who matched the description, sitting in the lobby area of Terminal 1. Cops approached Berry and almost immediately he said he knew why cops were there and then raised his hands and told them he had a 9 millimeter handgun in his waistband.

R.I.P. Dolla, he was only 21.

Via The L.A. Times / Image via Amazon

Rapper T.I. will be heading to Arkansas on May 26th to serve his one-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to federal weapons charges.

He will be credited for 305 days of home detention and will likely serve only 60 days, as opposed to the full year’s sentence.

T.I. will be on probation for three years, following his release, and he has also been ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.

Before heading to the prison, it was rumored that he would be releasing a new video for “Never Forget”.

Via AP / Image via Amazon

Pearl Jam’s bass player, Jeff Ament was arriving at the studio in his SUV when three guys jumped out of the bushes and busted his windows. Jeff tried to run, but was caught by one of the guys who hit him in the head and left him with a gash.

The thieves made off with $3,000 in cash in addition to $4,000 in computers and equipment. This is just awful and we can only hope that the thieves can be identified and brought to justice.

Get well soon Jeff!

For all of who you love me to death or can’t stand the crap that I spew about Miley Cyrus, feel free to talk with me in real time on my Twitter.

Click here to follow Earsucker and maybe you can suggest a better icon than that fairy chick I’m usin’.

Courtney Love thinks she’s rock royalty and that she can try to hook her 16-year-old daughter with anyone she wants. And that includes Twilight star Robert Pattinson.

That’s Rob, pre-haircut days. Think he’s interested in being Frances’ first date? And if you thought it was creepy that Miley Cyrus was dating a 20-year-old, then this is super creepy. I mean, sure he’s a new breakout “heartthrob” and everything, but isn’t it illegal?

A source says, “Courtney thinks he’s charming and handsome and absolutely has to be Frances’ first date. She’s doing everything she can to engineer another meeting.”

What would Kurt Cobain do?

Bonus: See Rob Pattinson’s Haunted Airman bathtub scene here.

Image Credit: Bauer-Griffin

Yes, I am officially getting old. Sorry for the lack of posts today. I’ve been tossing back some Margeritas and getting ready to go out for some drinks.

This had to be the best birthday present ever. A special thank you to all of the Miley Cyrus nutjobs for giving me something to laugh at today.

I’ll update some more when my hungover self wakes up in the morning! Nite!

I know this has nothing really to do with music. But I wanted to give a shout out in rememberance to Bernie Mac, who passed away today.

He suffered from complications due to pneumonia. He was expected to make a full recovery. He was only 50 years old.

Rest in peace, Bernie Mac.

Usually I do a Musical Tidbits piece, but today, I’m gonna do whatever I want. It’s Joe Elliott’s birthday, in case you haven’t noticed, so it gives me free reign to do whatever the heck I want. And today, I feel like spreading the link love around. So please feel free to enjoy the posts below:

On the 30th, I posted about how Britney Spears’ conservatorship might not end. Boy was I right. Get better Brit!

Sammi at 52 Bands has a really nifty iPod shuffle game! Check it out!

How many others are going to write about the Black Crowes suing Gretchen Wilson for snagging the riff to Jealous Again? I guess there’s three of us.

Is Nick Hogan a better man for spending time in jail? Probably not. He probably still doesn’t know why he’s there.

Want to sound like Joe Perry on the guitar? Who doesn’t?

Was Lindsay Lohan outed?

Work for Diddy begins August 4th!

Check out Maroon 5′s exclusive concert webcast!

Is Oasis considered fascists because of the union jack flag?

Is Selena Gomez the next Miley Cyrus? Check her out on Regis & Kelly!

Paris Hilton actually did something smart!

I just got an email from our friends at Indie-Music.com and they’ve experienced a terrible situation:

Indie-Music.com’s regularly scheduled newsletter will delayed for an indefinite period of time, as will updates on the website. We apologize for the inconvenience.

On Saturday, June 8th, Indie-Music’s offices and the home of founders Suzanne Glass and Paul Bultman in Indiana were destroyed by flood waters.

We are currently without anywhere to live or work until matters can be resolved. Thankfully, everyone is safe. But operations at Indie-Music.com are suspended until the immediate emergency situation has passed.

We greatly appreciate donations already sent by friends and family. If anyone else wishes to contribute, you may send to our Paypal account at billingATindie-musicDOTcom.

If you can help out, I’m sure that they’d greatly appreciate it.

Now usually I don’t use this blog to peddle my wares at all, cuz you know I don’t endorse CRAP. (Except for endless amounts of Def Leppard concerts).

I’m selling off my celebrity blog, Tragicomical.com, because I don’t have time to keep it updated. It has a pagerank of three and it already has tons of content and several backlinks from some pretty cool celebrity blogs.

Check out the auction details here. Feel free to ask any questions.

/Wares pimping over

Hope you and your family enjoy your Christmas this year! I want to take this time to thank all of my readers for sticking around for two Christmases already and many more to come!

Thank you and be safe this holiday season!!!

As always, stay tuned for the music news!

I hear the Simple Minds song playing in my head now.

Don’t forget about Earsucker when voting for the best music blog!

Okay, I know that was cheesy, but vote!

She Knows Best is having a Gifts.com gift card contest and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment on this post.

How easy is that?

The Gift card can be used to more than one hundred merchants available from Gifts.com. Go now, enter. I’ll wait.

Firstly, I have Arieanna over at the Entertainment Channel to thank for allowing me to run amok in the Celebrities Channel, via Star Offenders!

Woot, I love that blog already. Blogging about celebrities will allow me to run with my crazy idea about celebs doing dumb crap. It all started at Tragicomical and it ends with Star Offenders.

More rockin’ news!

This very fine blog has been updated to a pagerank 5! I’m so psyched. This is awesome news!!!

I was tagged by Jennifer at TreeHuggingFamily recently to tell you guys 7 Random Things About Me That You Might Not Know. Hope I don’t screw this up :)

1. I hate my day job. It really, really, really sucks. In case you were wondering what I do. Wonder no more. Did I mention it sucks?

2. I listen to wayyyy too much 80′s music. It’s unhealthy. I make CDs that have Culture Club on them, along with Def Leppard, Poison, 2 Live Crue, and Run DMC. I’m a weirdo and I can’t help myself.

3. I have ADD & the attention span of a peanut. It’s unfortunate, but true. What were we talking about again?!?

4. I don’t like coats. Even when it gets all yucky and snowy out. I’d rather wear a jacket or a heavy sweater. It’s all about layers.

5. I’m a spelling/grammar nazi. I can’t overlook spelling and grammar errors. It’s weird. And I hated English class in school.

6. I’m competitive. Okay, maybe you knew that already. I can’t walk away from a good contest or something.

7. I have two sons, who are twelve and eight. They rock. My youngest son, Justin, wants to be a rock star. Jeffrey, 12, wants to be a lawyer. Go figure. They’re truly little pieces of me.

That’s my two cents. Now I get the luxury of tagging seven other unsuspecting victims friends:

And I can’t think of three more…..I just have no imagination.

In case you weren’t aware, Problogger, Darren Rowse is having a monstrous contest with over $54,000 in prizes. What an amazing list of things that you can win or take part in.

The range of prizes include cash, blog analysis and an ad spot, monitors, DVDs, gift certificates, an iPod Touch, and much more!

Darren has really outdone himself this time. What an amazing contest, in celebration of Problogger’s third birthday.

I’m entering the monitor contest because of the archaic monster of a monitor that I have to look at everyday. It’s an HP Pavilion mx704 and it’s olddddd. In hopes of beautifying my workspace and making blogging a little easier, this is my entry.

The contest is sponsored by DisplayLink and the monitors rock!

The whiney faced Britney defender, Chris Crocker, is getting his own television show:

Reality shingle 44 Blue Prods. has inked a development deal with Chris Crocker, the Internet superstar whose tear-filled defense of Britney Spears has generated nearly 8 million hits on YouTube in just one week.

Plan is to develop a docusoap built around Crocker, a 19-year-old who lives with his grandparents in Tennessee. Even before the Britney clip, Crocker had developed a large Net audience via numerous video performances posted on MySpace.com.

So, to be famous, all we have to do is get on Youtube and whine and cry “real tears” for a celeb that’s been “wronged” by the public? I’m all in for that one, where do I sign?

Phil over at one of my favorite blogs, ContestBlogger just had his 30th birthday! His blog is about blog contests, so head on over there for more info!

Happy Birthday Phil!

And, just for you(since this is a music blog):

Tonight, my boyfriend and I are leaving for our vacation in Georgia. While I’m on vacation, I may have limited access to a computer and the internet.

For your viewing pleasure, I’m posting pre-timestamped material throughout the rest of the week. These will not be re-hashed posts, rather more like album reviews and snippets of news.

I will be returning to Ohio around August 2nd or 3rd.

Your comments,as always, are appreciated, and will be answered upon my return.

Thank you!
Roberta

If you haven’t seen these badges floating around yet, then what are you waiting for?!? Go grab ‘em!

For the Rockin’ Girl Blogger badge, just nominate a girl blogger that you think rocks!

And, for the guys out there, I’ve hatched the Awesome Guy Blogger badge:

Tag someone today!
Let’s see where it goes!

Vote for me….haul your tookus over to the Bloggers Choice Awards and vote, vote, vote!!