+ Julian Casablancas, lead singer of The Strokes, plans to launch his debut solo record with an over-the-top tour, Disney-style. As in he'll ride a pole like Miley? We might actually be intrigued by that. (NME)

+ Happy 1st Birthday to The JoBros A Little Bit Longer album, which turned out to be a HUGE trending topic in the Twitterverse today. (Twitter)

+ If you had enough money (or assistants) to get multiple hair extensions glued to your head on a daily basis, you would probably take care of them or at the very least brush them once in a while, right? Then tell us WHYYYYYY Britney seems to go out of her way to make her hair extensions look as obvious (and obviously not washed) as possible? If anyone is within reach, would you please just shake her?? Thanks. (The Blemish)

+ Oh -- and in case you're wondering how Britney's looking so good in a bikini (with those tracks covered up by a huge hat), it comes in a box and is delivered to her door/tour bus. And it's not crack. (ICYDK)

+ With a new album on the way, Janet Jackson is ready for another new look (no, it's not a new pair of Juicy Couture sweatpants). The question is, are you ready? (Bossip)

+ Also, did you know Ryan Gosling has a band? Listen to this song off his forthcoming debut album and see what you think. Sounds like Elvis, Jeff Buckley, and Johnny Cash. Kinda? (PopSugar)

+ Kelly Osbourne is looking very "True Blue" Madonna these days. "Likes this." (Popsquire)

As they'll tell you in the $5 Cover trailer (embedded below), every city has a story. Well, this one's about Memphis, Tennessee, that capital of American music where landmarks like Graceland and Sun Records share a zip code with the Beale Street BBQs and grown-over backyard bandshells that hosted the humble beginnings of Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Carl Perkins and countless others.

These days, the pomade and blue suede that kept those rhythm and blues pilgrims slick are in shorter supply, but the music has only gotten louder and more diverse. Between Lucero's whiskey growl, Amy LaVere's musky seductions, Al Kapone's blues-driven rap rants and Two Way Radio's saccharine squeal, Memphis has enough homegrown talent to nightly light up every old marquee in Tennessee.

That's where Craig Brewer comes in. The same visionary exporter who turned the world on to the ho-slapping Memphis rap circuit with Hustle & Flow picks up where he left off, delivering new windows into Southern music's subcultures. As he did last time around, Brewer casts local musicians as themselves. And while they do go by a script, it's all drawn from their lives and peppered with plenty of improvisation.

Show-stopping musical performances mingle with tricky marriages, dead end jobs and heated inter-roommate love triangles. Basically $5 Cover exists to document the everyday dramas of the Delta's foremost flavor-purveyors, the mundane details of this town's least boring characters. Watch them in bite-sized installments and get yourself hooked on that same old electricity that set the King of Rock'n'Roll's thighs flying and made all the girls scream. Meet the players here, get familiar, and do yourself a favor: watch $5 Cover. Trust me.

+ Ashlee Simpson has finally given birth to the world's first Fall Out baby Boy: Bronx Mowgli Wentz. Yeeesh, and Johnny Cash thought "Sue" was rough! (MTV News)

+ Brandy is sorry she purposely lied about her marriage and accidentally ran over a lady with her car. (Usmagazine.com)

+ This just in! Michael Jackson has reportedly converted to Islam and changed his name to "Mikaeel," thereby inspiring the best newspaper headline ever: "The Way You Mecca Me Feel." (The Sun - UK)

+ Is Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy "too artsy and overproduced?" And if so, does this mean you won't be buying/illegally downloading it? (MTV News)

+ Madonna and Guy Ritchie's marriage may not be intact -- in fact, their divorce was finalized yesterday! -- but Madge's estimate $450 million fortune is. Despite the nonexistent pre-nup, Ritchie reportedly wants none of the Material Girl's material wealth. (Gawker)

+ Meanwhile, all this talk about divorce must've made Madonna a wee bit nostalgic! Earlier this week, she grabbed drinks with her first ex-husband, Sean Penn. (Page Six)

+ Taylor Swift's a little bit country, a little bit rock n' roll. And a lot successful. (The Boot)

+ Is Danity Kane castoff Aubrey O'Day on the verge of getting her own spinoff? (Remote Control)

+ Kanye West's new album, 808s & Heartbreak, doesn't hit stores til Monday, but it'll be up on his MySpace as of midnight tonight! Have a listen, won't you? (Kanye's MySpace)