His band may be called the Foo Fighters, but Dave Grohl wants the world to know that said nomenclature does not serve as carte blanche for people to get their conflict on during his concerts. During the Foos' Monday night show in London, he stopped mid-song to eject someone who was causing a ruckus in the crowd: "You don't come to my show and fight, you come to my show and fucking dance, you asshole!" he shouted as the guy was shamed/escorted out. I think that'd be a pretty good t-shirt slogan! Also, how lousy do you have to feel after being kicked out of a free show by virtue of nothing more than your ragey ways? Here's hoping the guy went home and looked up the origins of the Foos' name to alleviate his confusion over the night's purpose. [Via]

We do not get paid enough to give the play by play of Larry King's interview with Chris Brown (his first since assaulting Rihanna earlier this year), which is alternately halting and stuttering and defensive and almost entirely objectionable. (King: "Why do you think you were violent?" Brown: "I don't want to go into that. Sorry.") Credit to Larry King for his rising tone of incredulity and dismay as Brown's mother and lawyer circle the wagons and Brown obfuscates and claims to remember nothing. Brown's team's sham attempts to protect Rihanna's privacy well after that privacy had been thoroughly obliterated by TMZ and entire tabloid and professional press are perhaps the most contemptible--some not-very-well-disguised version of your usual blame-the-victim inanity. Why even bother to go on national television if you have nothing whatsoever to say?

R. Kelly's latest mixtape is The "Demo" Tape, a free, very unlicensed suite of riffs on tracks by T-Pain, Jeremih, Lil Wayne, and more. It's a funny, ouroboric project: Kelly remakes songs by a generation of rappers-turned-singers who in turn make music directly inspired by R. Kelly. At the center of this hall of mirror's is Kelly's cover of The-Dream's "Kelly's 12 Play," a song about boning to the 1993 R. Kelly album of the same name. "You can't ruin it while we doin' it to Kelly's 12 Play," sings The-Dream, on his own Love Vs. Money. "Like a DJ, we screwin' it while we doin' it to Kelly's 12 Play." Which Kelly, hilariously, updates to:

I believe that your momma and your daddy, they laid down, and they did it to Kelly's 12 Play
You can't ruin it, we doin' it to Kelly's 12 Play

Except, uh, Byron Crawford does the math:

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As you may recall, Eminem kicked off his press tour for Relapse by claiming that he had urinated on Mariah Carey, back when they were dating. She also makes a cameo or two on the actual album, in amongst the Kim Kardashian and Sarah Palin references. Her pint-sized husband, Nick Cannon, eventually stood up for her (on the internet, anyway), calling Eminem "Slim Lamey," before backing down, hilariously, and deleting the blog post. So now Mariah--no slouch, she--has been forced to come to her own defense, releasing "Obsessed," the Tricky Stewart & The-Dream penned/produced first single to Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel.

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He lives. He types. Per Vulture comes news of Bret's official statement regarding his rather unfortunate run-in with a piece of scenery live onstage at the Tony Awards Sunday night. A few rather unpleasant pictures, too. He's trying to laugh this off, people, give him credit. Key graf:

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via the Smoking Gun, of course

Right. So that haggard, emaciated, disintegrating man in the photo above is Phil Spector, pictured sometime around day one of the 19 years to life he's serving in a California state prison for murdering the actress Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his gun-riddled mansion. According to the Smoking Gun, Spector's signature late-period hairstyle--a kind of brillo pad of towering white afro--was in fact a "fright wig." And in North Kern State Prison, no fright wigs are allowed. In other news, Phil Spector is not quite five feet tall.

Phil Spector Unplugged [The Smoking Gun]

First the conviction, and now the sentence. Phil Spector will serve 19 years to life for killing actress Lana Clarkson in his gun-riddled mansion of a home in 2003. The AP gleefully notes that the sentence "suggests to some that California prosecutors have broken a decades-long string of celebrity murder case losses." The law demands that Spector do 15 years minimum for the murder itself; the other four years were tacked on "for personal use of a gun," a crime Spector had been well acquainted with--by many accounts--for over three decades. Spector is 69-years-old. His lawyer says "he is enduring jail by focusing on his plans to appeal." [MSNBC]

Ex-flames only, apparently.

Wednesday's Village Voice will have our take on Asher Roth's long-agonized-about Asleep in the Bread Aisle. In the meantime, whatever you think of the guy, it's hard not to be entertained by this clip of Roth shaking hands repeatedly with a guy who moments before had been mercilessly disparaging the XXL coverboy, not knowing that Roth was backstage. Explains Music Addicts Only:

So I was at the earth day event last night at NYU..I will go into more detail about it later once all the vids are uploaded but this was the best part of the night due to the fact that Peter Rosenberg was entertaing the crowd trying to see who they liked in the rap game people cheered for most of the "Cover Boys" from the XXL cover(except for a mixed response for Charles) as Rosenberg continued 2 name others he asked about Asher and some random dude in a light blue fitted yelled out "Asher Roth is a tool" as Rosenberg was defending his friends name Asher actually came out from the back. That random dude was quiet the rest of the night lol.

Watch for the blue fitted in the video; he's the dude shrugging his shoulders in embarrassment as the rest of the crowd cackles at about the the 2:45 mark. [MAD, via 2DopeBoyz]