Tool postpones tour due to injury

Tool drummer Danny Carey is widely regarded as one of the best in the business, but even he isn't able to pound the skins with a torn bicep. Carey had to have surgery to repair the injury, forcing the prog-metal act to postpone indefinitely its upcoming spring tour. According to Tool's Web site, the procedure "went well" but Carey will not be recovered in time for the planned start of the tour on March 15 at the Pearl in Las Vegas. Rescheduled dates have yet to be announced. The band expects Carey to recover in time for its previously announced co-headlining appearance at the Bonnaroo Festival in mid-June in Manchester, Tennesee. Tool is touring in support of its latest studio album, 10,000 Days, which has sold more than 1.4 million copies in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Britney returns to rehab

When your downward spiral is able to make K-Fed look like a fit parent, you know you've hit rock bottom. Britney Spears reportedly entered rehab for the third time in 10 days Wednesday night, a move that halted a potential hearing over custody of her two young children. Several media outlets reported today that Spears, 25, returned to the Promises Malibu Treatment Center Wednesday night, the same facility she entered two days prior before leaving after less than 24 hours. The move came one day before her estranged husband, Kevin Federline, was to appear in court to request an emergency order granting him custody of the couple's two young children, Sean Preston, 17 months, and Jayden James, 5 months. The hearing did not occur today, and the couple officially retains joint custody until a divorce hearing later this year.

Arcade Fire frontman blasts UK music biz

Do you like U2 or the Stones for the same reasons that you do a toaster or a cruise package? That's the view of Win Butler, frontman for indie band Arcade Fire, who lashed out this week at the commercialization of the music business in the UK. In an interview with NME.com, Butler said, "It's not like we shun success, but at the same time we don't want to shove it down people's throats. UK there's this kind of rock star competition. I don't know if U2 started it, or The Stones or Oasis but a lot of bands think in terms of 'I'm going to be the biggest band in the world. F*** all those bands who've got no ambition.' I think that's a total crock of sh**. There's nothing less interesting to me than the idea of marketing the f*** out of something so people are forced to like it. Some bands are just manipulating people to buy music. That's how 90 percent of the record industry works! It's basically the same as selling a f***ing toaster or a cruise package."

Beanie Sigel gets extended supervision

A judge extended Beanie Sigel's supervised release after the rapper was questioned in federal court about a positive drug test and association with convicted felons. The Philadelphia-based rapper was sentenced in October 2004 to 12 months and a day, plus two years of supervised release, on gun and drug charges.

The US Probation Office asked for a hearing Wednesday to change his supervised release status, saying he failed to notify his probation officer that he had been stopped and questioned by police on August 20. Police said that he was with several people, at least one of whom was a convicted felon at the time. Sigel also tested positive for codeine and morphine in a drug test in December.

The 32-year-old rapper--real name is Dwight Grant--told US District Court Judge R. Barclay Surrick that he had been given a prescription by his doctor three days before a scheduled drug test. Sigel's attorney, Fortunato Perri Jr., provided Surrick and Assistant US Attorney Curtis Douglas with a copy of a prescription and a letter signed by a doctor. Surrick sentenced Sigel to an additional six months of supervised release. He told Sigel he would have to get the situation "under control or otherwise I'm going to have to take action you're not going to appreciate."

Deerhoof to release ballet DVD of album

Deerhoof, the exceedingly creative trio that has been riding a wave of buzz in recent months, is set to release a ballet interpretation of its previous album on DVD. The ballet of the band's 2004 album Milk Man was performed by the North Haven Community School in Maine, with transcription of the album and arrangement of the ballet done by Courtney Naliboff, the school's music and drama teacher, located on an island 12 miles off the coast of Maine. Proceeds from sales of the DVD will benefit the North Haven Community School Building Fund, a nonprofit campaign to build a new school building. You can buy the DVD here.