1. Arrested! Filmmaker Roman Polanski was cuffed in Switzerland for a decades-old charge that he raped a 13-year-old girl while UK rapper Lady Sovereign was taken in for spitting at a doorman in Australia.
2. Los-Angeles based, mixed-race all-girl dance troup “We Are Heroes” won MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it hapenned.
3. In movie news: Tickets to Michael Jackson’s This is It film, which will have a limited two week run, sold out in two hours in Los Angeles. A the San Sebastian film festival, Chinese black-and-white art film City of Life and Death took home grand prize.
Wayne Coyne, Ready to fight. Photo Credit: The Flaming Lips
4. There are two mega-fights in the world of American Indie rock. One, between the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Bradford Cox, concerns urination. Another, between the Wavves and the Black Lips, is about nothing. (Via Nialler9, The Daily Swarm)
5. Sweden’s Triobelesk dropped a dancey new single today. It’s all over the net. Listen here. (Via We Like it Indie.)
6. Rock video games jumping the shark? Ozzy Osbourne & Jack Black will star in a new one. Bleugh.
Don’t cry for me, Nelly Furtado. Photo Credit: Getty Images
7. Cry me a river. Nelly Furtado tells NME she’s “inconsolable” after Oasis split-up. (NME)
8. Sell-out! Jay-Z was on Oprah. (Via Pigeons & Planes)
9. The London Design Festival looks awesome. (Via The Moment)
Artist Martino Gamper's arch of stacked chairs outside London's Victoria & Albert Museum. Photo Credit: NYT
