Former Creed frontman Scott Stapp and three members of rock band 311 allegedly thow down in a Thanksgiving altercation in the lounge at Baltimore's Harbor Court Hotel. 311 claims Stapp "appeared intoxicated?drank a shot at the bar and then threw his shot glass, smashing it on the bar" and insulted bandmember SA Martinez's wife. Stapp later denies instigating the brawl, saying "I was at the hotel celebrating Thanksgiving and my engagement with my new fiancée when the fight started," but 311 stands by its version of the events. Police filed no charges stemming from the incident. More...

With the 25th anniversary of his death nearing comes news that John Lennon's solo catalog will be made available digitally for the first time. The rollout begins with the the retrospective "Working Class Hero," and in early December grows to include his full solo discography More...

My Chemical Romance, Death Cab For Cutie, Muse and Green Day are among the artists who to snag an mtvU Woodie awards, the second-annual honors selected by college students across the country. More...

Rock acts Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blondie and the Sex Pistols and jazz legend Miles Davis are announced as the 2006 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. The formal induction will be held March 13 at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. More...

Sony BMG recalls millions of copy-protected CDs from U.S. store shelves in response to a mounting controversy over software contained on the discs that behaves like spyware. More...

Madonna tops The Billboard 200 for the sixth time in her career, with her new album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (Warner Bros.), which sells nearly 350,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

A collection of Bob Dylan poems, written while he was a Minnesota college student, later, sells for $78,000 at an auction of rock and pop memorabilia.

LEGALITIES:

Rapper DMX is given an extra 10-day jail sentence in addition to the seven days he was ordered for driving with a suspended license.

The Backstreet Boys file a lawsuit against Louis Pearlman and his Trans Continental Records for reimbursement of legal settlements the group paid to former member Sam "Phoenix Stone" Licata and former managers Sybil Hall and Jeanne Tanzy Williams. More...

Music moguls Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller reach a settlement in a multi-dollar legal case, allowing Cowell to extend his contract with the Fox TV series, "American Idol."

Former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell sues his ex-wife and one-time manager Susan J. Silver for more than $1 million in damages. Cornell alleges, among other things, that Silver rerouted money owed to Cornell to the other Soundgarden band members.

Former British rock star Gary Glitter is taken into custody in a southern Vietnamese resort city following allegations that he indulged in lewd acts with a minor.

R&B singer Ronald Isley is convicted of five counts of tax evasion and one count of willful failure to file a tax return.

Belgian songwriter Salvatore Acquaviva wins a plagiarism case against Madonna, leading a local court to ban the pop star's song, "Frozen" from sale or broadcast in the country. Acquaviva's suit alleged that Madonna's 1998 hit plagiarized parts of his song, "Ma Vie Fout L'camp (My Life's Getting Nowhere)," written five years prior.

Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty is stopped by police while driving along a street in west London and arrested on suspicion of drug possession.