Idolator — • A judge has ruled that Hendrix Electric Vodka (prototype bottle shown at left) will disappear in a purple haze of legal reasons. Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix, which own Jimi Hendrix's name for licensing purposes, have won a $3.2 milli... more info

Paste Magazine — HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE MINUTES: 2/19/09 (Chairman Barney Frank called the committee to order at 9:25 a.m.) Rep. Frank: Uh, yes... the committee will now hear testimony from the gentleman from Detroit on his plan to bolster the national ... more info

MTV.com News — New albums from Lily Allen, India.Arie debut in the top five.By James Montgomery Taylor Swift's Fearless Photo: Big Machine Records After taking a couple of weeks off, Taylor Swift will once again top next week's Billboard albums chart. B... more info

Rolling Stone — Meet the Kid Rock stimulus package: the Michigan Brewing Company will produce a line of Kid Rock-branded beer, Detroit’s 7Action News reports, which is expected to create 700 new jobs in the state. The Rock N Roll Jesus singer is working close wit... more info

Perez Hilton — We never thought we'd ever say this, but Kid Rock is actually making himself useful and doing something we like! A Webberville-based Michigan Brewing Company received approval for a tax credit from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority. The company ... more info

Detroit Free Press — The Michigan Economic Growth Authority approved today a state tax credit valued at $722,957 so that the Michigan Brewing Company, a Webberville-based brewer of craft beers, can produce a new product line: a craft beer for musician Kid Rock. The compa... more info

Kings of A&R — KOAR favorite Shawn Fisher and the Jukebox Gypsies just signed to EMI Music Publishing. It didn’t take long for EMI to jump on board after hearing our favorite track Out of Control.   Fisher was featured in our July Soundcheck column and is a... more info

AllHipHop — Veteran music executive Julie Greenwald was named Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of The Atlantic Records Group.   Greenwald, who was President, will run Atlantic's group of labels with CEO Craig Kallman, who will continue to oversee the label... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — Waiting for the MSTRKRFT album to leak. Waiting for the U.S. vs Mexico WC qualifier to start. Waiting for more b/s to undermine the obsessive compulsion of LOST's biggest fans in tonight's episode. While I wait, I see what today's email shitstorm ... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — The title of this post may as well have included "w/ USC Marching Band & a Gwyneth Paltrow verbal blowjob"; which would be ironic in the sense that she's married to the frontman of Coldplay who many critical listeners like to call a Radiohead ripoff.... more info