plus: Radio station that was fined for playing Eminem [ tickets ] appeals. Doobie Brothers' drummer in stable condition. "Real World" imitates "Real Life."

According to Sonicnet.com, unreleased Nirvana [ tickets ] material includes "Nirvana's first show in Seattle in April 1988, four-track basement demos, bedroom tapes of [frontman Kurt] Cobain singing and strumming on new songs as well as embryonic versions of classics like 'All Apologies,' and the band's last complete recording, 'You Know You're Right.'"

The article quotes an unnamed source as saying that most of the material hasn't been screened, and therefore, no one knows how much of it is "releasable."

Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, and his surviving Nirvana bandmates, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are currently in a legal dispute regarding their post-Nirvana partnership.

Spin.com reported that the new Napster version, Napster 10.3, "features the latest audio fingerprinting technology implemented to help more accurately and efficiently filter copyrighted material from the Napster database," and that any previous version of the music file-trading website is now obsolete.

From KNAC.com's interview with Marilyn Manson [ tickets ]:

Right now the thing that I've been working on is I created some music to be heard within the film called From Hell by the Hughes brothers. It's about Jack the Ripper and it's 19th Century period music, and I created a lot of the atmospheres and the sounds that are in the film. I worked with the composer they already hired and he did most of the conventional score. I did some of the nightmare sequences and absinthe and opium visions and things like that. Being that I have experience in all of those, I was able to create some interesting things for that. There may end up being a soundtrack for that [film] and at the end credits, if the soundtrack does take place, that will be the next [Manson] thing people will hear.

The parent company of KKMG-FM in Colorado Springs, the station that was fined $7,000 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for playing an Eminem song, has filed an appeal with the FCC, Reuters reported.

The article suggests that parent company Citadel Communications is adopting an approach that is rooted more in philosophy than law--which is appropriate, since the FCC essentially utilized its own philosophy when deciding to fine a station that played an edited-for-radio version of the Eminem song because of the song's innuendo.

According to the article, Citadel claimed that the FCC's ruling "raises the specter of a dominant culture exerting its power to bar those groups who do not share its mores from the public forum."

Also: "The emergence and concomitant popularity of artists like Eminem may evidence the fact that this country has a reached a cultural crossroads, as when Ed Sullivan decreed that Elvis be shown only from the waist up ... the Doors refused to alter their lyrics for appearances on national television, 'All in the Family' addressed mature themes and more recent programs incorporated same-sex relationships.''

The Doobie Brothers announced that their drummer Michael Hossack, who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident on June 22, "is out of I.C.U., sitting up, in good spirits, and looking forward to being home in less than a week. It is expected that there will be a several-month healing process, followed by intensive physical therapy."

From the Department of Unintentional Creepiness, a press release from the company that's supplying wireless devices to the cast and crew of "The Real World":

Before taping began, potential cast members received a colorful [cell phone] upon their arrival in New York. The lucky seven chosen to be on "The Real World'' were notified via their 2-way and cast members quickly learned how to send messages to each other, creating an atmosphere of secrecy and havoc in the house. Housemates were industrious in sending secret messages to each other to gossip and arrange secret offsite meetings so the cameras wouldn't be able to follow them. And never seen nor heard, the show's production crew communicated via [cell phones] while in "The Real World'' house by messaging important memos or just trying to keep each updated on the housemates.

We're (finally, considering how obvious the connection is) reminded of the 1979 movie "Real Life." Albert Brooks plays a filmmaker shooting a documentary about an average American family, and he decides that the family is too dull, so he manipulates them into being more interesting, and members of the family try to get away from the cameras and to control what footage makes it into the final cut, and ultimately try to get out of the shoot altogether, but the filmmaker won't let them. A very funny, very prescient movie.