I can't stop giggling about Dave Grohl getting a DUI while riding a moped. For those who haven't heard, the story is that Foo Fighters' Grohl and Taylor Hawkins were riding their rented, barely motorized two-wheelers (top speed 30 mph) back to their hotel in Southport, Australia, when they came upon a "police breathalyzer stop thingy" -- as Grohl called it on the band's official website, where he pleads his case. "They were checking everybody, but I wasn't worried because (A) I was on the silliest little scooter you've ever seen, and (B) I only had four or five beers in a period of three and a half or four hours. I thought they'd wave me by. I wasn't driving recklessly, I wasn't pulled over. I drove up to them." The former Nirvana drummer was arrested and spent a few hours in the clink. He was also was fined and told he could not drive in Australia for three months. "Don't underestimate the definition of a 'Motor Vehicle,'" he warns in his statement, adding, "Sorry if you all think I'm a dork. Believe me, I feel like a total dickweed, but you gotta kinda laugh." I've been laughing all week.

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Speaking of dickweeds, that's what one disgruntled karaoke lover would like to call Murder City Devils front man Spencer Moody. One D. Sticker wrote The Stranger to complain that Moody -- who hosted a night of karaoke at the Breakroom on Jan 29 -- didn't do a very good job. "It turned out to be an evening of audience members waiting to perform, or to see their friends perform, only to be completely ignored and left to endure a rotation of five or so of the same people on stage," Sticker vents. "He was definitely aware of the table full of what I can only guess were his friends, acquaintances, and/or needy girlfriends... he would shamelessly allow them on stage to sing, knowing full well that there were several audience members who had been waiting for quite a while to sing their one karaoke selection which, in some cases, eventually ended up being performed by one of [Moody's chosen few]. How relentlessly obnoxious!!" I was there, and I gotta say the guy has a legitimate beef. Moody is no Wm. Steven Humphrey, the Fairest Karaoke Host in the Land.

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Perhaps the bands from now-defunct Loosegroove Records should rethink their decision to align themselves with Will Records, because that label's employees are jumping ship faster than New American Shame fell off the face of the planet. Will, a local label affiliated with Paramount Pictures and headed by Skip Williamson, boasts artists such as the Black Mob Group, Lovemongers, the Souvenirs, and Joey Altruda. It's known for signing bands to recording/management deals in hopes of selling them off to a major label, like it did with the aforementioned New American Shame. Several of Will's less-successful (read: less-marketable) bands have complained of poor treatment from the label, and now it seems its employees are grumbly, too. Make that former employees. Within the last two weeks, Will has lost label manager Don Robertson, special products rep Frank Nieto, radio accounts rep Matt Shay, and receptionist Emily Liecham, leaving Williamson and sales and graphics guy Glen Boyd to hold down the shaky fort.