- At a press conference announcing his partnership with Ciroc vodka, Diddy said last week’s claims that he threw a punch in a New York club over a woman were “just totally overblown … I don’t fight over girls.” Diddy did admit, “I am a human being and I will get into an argument at times,” and said police have looked into the situation. NYPD sources told Reuters he could face a misdemeanor assault charge.
- Police responded to a profanity complaint at Missouri State University earlier this month when a student band covering Against Me!’s “Baby, I’m an Anarchist” delivered the line “I was burning that fucker and stringing my black flag high.” According to the school’s Expressive Activity Policy, the concert was held in a designated “free speech zone” that allows free expression for all, excluding those that are “obscene, defamatory or incites violence.”
- University of Kansas students were relieved when spray-painted graffiti declaring “10.23.07″ turned out to be promotion for Coheed and Cambria’s new album and not, as rumored, the date of a school shooting. Someone had shot out windows of a campus dorm during the school’s fall break, leading to a large scare when the graffiti appeared.
- Alan Ellis, the creator of BitTorrent site OiNK who was arrested earlier this week, said his site is “no different to something like Google,” explaining to U.K.’s The Daily Telegraph, “If Google directed someone to a site they can illegally download music they are doing the same as what I have been accused of. I am not making any OiNK users break the law. People don’t pay to use the site.”
- Portishead are close to finishing their third album, according to what keyboardist Geoff Barrow wrote in the band’s blog, Pitchfork reports. Barrow theorized “one more day should do it,” earlier this week, indicating the band was almost done completing artwork selection and “getting live stuff together.”
