July 11, 2012 – Did you know that over 625,000 civil cases are filed in New York City Small Claims Court every year? While it's likely that Courtney Love is responsible for roughly 400,000 of those, it's also just as likely that at least 100,000 of them are those filed against the Muppet-hating Hole frontwoman. Yesterday afternoon, her former administrative assistant Jessica LaBrie joined the long line, most recently populated by her allegedly defamed lawyers, to sue Love, this time for wrongful termination, wage dispute, and breach of contract. As the AP reports, LaBrie claims that her year spent from 2010 to 2011 working for Love was ended abruptly after she complained "she was owed thousands in unpaid wages and expenses for business trips" and that she "suffered from headaches, insomnia and other medical conditions as a result of Love's conduct." What conduct, you ask?

July 11, 2012 – First!: Sadly, despite the media's efforts (including ours) to dissuade people from buying his new album, Worst New Music honoree Chris Brown tops this week's Billboard 200 albums chart with the debut of Fortune. The full-time singer/part-time club destroyer's fifth studio album, while decidedly terrible, sold 134,000 copies. Take comfort, though, in the fact that this is less than half the sum of the first-week sales for his last record, the Grammy-winning F.A.M.E. (it pulled in 270,000 copies) and barely a third of Justin Bieber's Believe debut at No. 1 last week. 2 Through 10: Katy Perry's Teenage Dream got a 99-cent Amazon MP3 promotion on Tuesday of last week (the day before everyone spun "Firework" at their Fourth of July parties), which helps her snag No. 2 with 80,000 copies sold; so did Gotye's Making Mirrors (No. 6 with 44,000), fun.'s Some Nights (No.

July 11, 2012 – What does a seminal pop record get for its 25th birthday when it's already receiving an elaborate box set and a billion soda cans? Clearly, a Spike Lee-directed documentary. Michael Jackson's Bad is the focus of a film by the late singer's friend, whose movie about that 1985-1987 era, as the Stool Pigeon reports (via THR), is already in post-production. It's the second time Lee has worked with old Jackson footage since the King of Pop's death in June 2009, having already directed the video for "This Is It." "We have footage in this documentary that no one's ever seen, stuff that Michael shot himself, behind-the-scenes stuff," Lee shared in an interview earlier this week.

July 11, 2012 – Charlie Sheen may have a documented soft spot in his heart for Guns N' Roses, but that didn't stop him from becoming the latest mouthpiece to bash Axl Rose. Sheen grabbed an opportunity to poke fun at the sole remaining original member of GN'R at his longtime friend Slash's Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony yesterday, where he helped induct the ex-GNR guitarist, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "It’s quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on," Sheen crowed at the opening of the ceremony, which also featured performances by Slash and Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy, who sings on Slash's latest solo record, Apocalyptic Love.

July 10, 2012 – In May, Lady Gaga's crew must've become aware that her insanely large Twitter following was about to equal 5.2 percent of Facebook's entire user base, because that month, almost exactly 30 days before Gaga hit 26 million followers, they announced the launch of Little Monsters, a Pinterest-meets-Reddit social networking site for only the most dedicated Gaga fans.

July 10, 2012 – On the heels of buzz around Andre 3000's Jimi Hendrix biopic All Is By My Side comes news that the long-in-the-works Janis Joplin biopic has finally secured a director, a leading lady, and some serious publishing support. According to Deadline, Joplin will be played by Tony-winning stage actress Nina Arianda, making her on-screen debut in a starring role; she won the Best Actress nod last month for her theatrical part in Venus in Fur, but has also played supporting parts in films like Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris (as Carol) and the surprisingly well-liked Tower Heist (as Miss Iovenko).

July 10, 2012 – Green Day have given fans many blink-and-you'll-miss'em YouTube album teasers over the past few months, but they've been busy filming far meatier pieces, too. The band will release two documentaries to coincide with their forthcoming trilogy of albums. Billboard reports that filmmakers Tim Lynch and Tim Wheeler (the former of whom helped produce the band's 2005 concert video Bullet in a Bible and the latter of whom co-produced and edited the White Stripes' 2009 documentary Under the Great White Northern Lights) will produce both films, the first of which will focus on the making of ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tre! (which drop on September 25, November 13, and January 15 respectively, via Reprise), while the second will consist of "vintage footage from their pre-Dookie days" — a punk-rock response to Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D, if you will.

July 10, 2012 – While the entire music-loving world had its collective finger hovering above the mouse button to download a digital copy of Frank Ocean's channel ORANGE last night just before he took the stage on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, there was at least one person feeling a little resentful of the rising singer's moment. Big Boi logged on to Twitter just as the record hit the iTunes store to proclaim that the only reason he, too, wasn't featured on one of the record's 17 tracks like his OutKast-mate André 3000 (who drops a breathtaking verse on "Pink Matter") was because, more or less, what Stacks says, goes.

July 9, 2012 – Super Bowl XLVII may be a whole seven months away, but music and sports fans alike can always go for a good halftime show rumor — especially one with a good sense of humor. This year's first whisper was that the tired dudes of Van Halen would be playing the headlining spot on the floor of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on February 3, 2013. Sadly, however, frontman/mouthpiece David Lee Roth sent an open letter over to their fan site (Rolling Stone) earlier today to officially quash the rumor while practically begging NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to give them the gig: An Open Letter I’m compelled to address the now-rampant rumors that Van Halen is playing the Superbowl. First of all let me say this — be still my pigskin heart.

July 9, 2012 – In what seems to be an attempt to prove to heartbroken fans that he really is sad about having to end the White Stripes, Jack White and Third Man Records have announced that the next batch of goodies its Vault subscribers will receive includes a 12" recording of the Stripes' first-ever live show. Yes, that would be the set performed and recorded at Detroit's now-closed Gold Dollar club on August 14, 1997, exactly 15 years ago next month. Consequence of Sound reports that Vault Package #13 will include the 12" white (obviously) vinyl recording of the Detroit duo's first live show, in addition to a 7-inch (also obviously) red vinyl recording from an even earlier performance at an open mic, also held at the Gold Dollar on July 14, 1997, exactly a month before the official debut show.