Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 24, 2009…This really shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone: Jay Bennett died of a drug overdose.The seminal emo-rockers in Sunny Day Real Estate are getting back together for a tour. Of course, you’d know this if you’ve been scanning…

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 23, 2009… Perez Hilton allegedly got punched by the Black Eyed Peas’ manager for calling Will.I.Am a “faggot.”  It’s funny how it’s OK for him to call a straight man that. A little bit of a double standard, ya think? Kid…

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 22, 2009… A Minnesota mom was charged a $1.92 million dollar fine for illegally downloading songs from Kazaa. Way to go record industry–alienating record buyers is the best way to get people to buy your product. Former members of Evanescence are…

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 19, 2009… Do you think David Lynch writes lyrics that are as weird as his movies? Well, we’re all about to find out: He’s coming out with his own rock album. Well, sort of–he actually just wrote the lyrics. Limp…

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 18, 2009… Eddie Van Halen is suing Nike for copyright infringement. The legendary guitarist had the color scheme of his “Frankenstrat” copywritten, copyrighted, and a new pair of Nikes has a similar scheme on the sole of it’s new shoes…

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 17, 2009… Bob Bogle, lead guitarist and co-founder of The Ventures has died at 75.  His band was best known as the band who played the Hawaii Five-0 theme song. In what is either a stroke of genius or the…

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 16, 2009… Swedish electronic duo The Knife has unveiled a three-minute trailer for its opera based on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. This could test the notion that everything the Swedes do musically is awesome. Weezy is taking the young ‘uns…

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 15, 2009… Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknhold used to be an illegal music downloader. But he thinks it helped him make the music he and other bands are making today, so it’s cool. The New Orleans Voodoo Festival has added touring monsters…

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 12, 2009… Prince is apparently refusing to get a double hip replacement because of his religious beliefs. So, instead of having the surgery, he’s “popping pain killers and hoping it will all go away.” I think that’s the same thing my…

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 11, 2009… Unlike everyone else who saw him run into a stage prop at the Tony Awards, Bret Michaels is not happy about what happened–and he feels that the award show and host Neil Patrick Harris didn’t take his injury seriously. Hard…

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… In the day of instant access to anything-and-everything via the interweb musicians can’t seem to keep anything under lock and key anymore. The video for Eminem’s “Crack A Bottle” has hit the web waaay early. Good thing it’s…

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 9, 2009…Jay-Z has premiered his new song “D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)”… and he’s already catching flack for it. I can’t imagine why.Singer Jeff Hanson died at his St. Paul home.Alice In Chains’ first record in 10 years will be released…

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 8, 2009…Lil’ Wayne has such a affinity for Kobe Bryant that he’s penned a song about him called, shockingly, “Kobe Bryant.”  Word is it’s the best song ever about a once-alleged rapist.I guess Rihanna has officially moved on–she’s writing a…

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, June 5, 2009… Middle-age moms everywhere have reason to say “hell to the yes” today: Whitney Houston will release her long-awaited comeback album in September. Time to put down your squeeze box: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has…

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, June 4, 2009… It seems like Trent Reznor is turning into the alt-rock’s grumpy old man. First he bashed Chris Cornell’s new solo album, then he bashed Prince and Weezer, and now he’s going after his former protege Marilyn Manson. Mr…

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, June 3, 2009… A writer for the MTV Movie Awards has confirmed that the Bruno ass-in-Eminem’s-face stunt was staged. Noooooo! MTV would never script any show they produce!  Two of hip-hop’s biggest up-and-comers are joining forces on a joint tour this…

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, June 2, 2009… Pink thinks Kanye West is a “waste of skin” because he likes fur. Along with independent music retailers, Pearl Jam is going to let Target be the official point-of-purchase for its upcoming release. Way to fight the man, boys…

Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, June 1, 2009… In a moment of clarity, Ozzy Osbourne realized he’s not receiving his proper share of Black Sabbath royalties. So, he’s suing Tony Iommi.  Disgraced producer Phil Spector received a sentence of 19 years to life for the murder…

Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, May 29, 2009… The latest installment of Dr Pepper’s “Trust Me I’m A Doctor” campaign may be the only time we will get to hear anything off of Dr. Dre’s long in-the-works Detox… for now.  It’s always nice to see how…

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2009… What do you do when your competition has about 90 percent of the market? You make your product link to the Xbox. Yep, Microsoft isn’t ready to give up on the ol’ Zune yet; it will launch the Zune…

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, May 26, 2009… Let’s hope that Zooey Dechanel and M. Ward haven’t started a bad Hollywood trend. Unfortunately, it’s looking like they did: Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn have teamed up for a duets album titled Break Up. After Snuggie-mania swept…