Winehouse back to rehab

Amy Winehouse has now entered the "life imitating art that imitates life" phase. The singer, whose retro soul-soaked album Back to Black and "Rehab" single has been one of the biggest hits of 2007, has headed back to a UK rehab center two days after leaving it.

In an interview with BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, Winehouse's husband Blake Fielder-Civil said the pair did not leave the facility, which they entered last weekend after Winehouse was hospitalized with "severe exhaustion," because they didn't plan to follow through with rehabilitation and recovery.

"Everyone's just a bit tense, a bit worried about everything, but the main thing is me and Amy are getting better," he said. "It's a private matter. It's been a difficult time for me and Amy, we're going back to the place tonight. We only came back to get a guitar, but of course in the paper that's interpreted as me and Amy are both so weak that we left after three days. It's just the inevitable way that papers want to put you down when you're trying to do something positive."

"Don't worry," he continued. "She's being looked after. She's going back to this retreat. She's determined to get well. It's not as bad as everyone thinks, but she's fine. She's loved and looked after."

Winehouse has been forced to cancel a series of live dates, including several festival appearances in the UK and Europe, and has canceled all live dates in August. The status of her string of US tour dates with Paolo Nutini in September does not appear to be in jeopardy.

Adams talks about getting clean

Ryan Adams used to love snorting a combination of heroin and cocaine. But now, the thought of doing so is worse than the feeling of falling off a bicycle seat and smashing your family jewels on the top bar. That's the word from Adams in a new interview with Rolling Stone.

"I'd wake up, work, go for a drink or two and be exhausted," he told the mag about his former habits. "I would have drugs to keep my physical being going in order to never have to stop working in the night." But before he began to record his latest album, Easy Tiger, Adams went cold turkey.

"Think about falling off a bicycle and smashing your nuts on that bar, or the most horrible sports accident you can think of," he said. "That doesn't cover what it would be like for me to imagine drinking or doing drugs again."

Violent Femmes embroiled in lawsuit

Like many rock star rifts, a woman is at the center of a new legal dispute between two members of the Violent Femmes. But instead of a scantily clad groupie, Wendy's fast food chain is the source of the fallout between Femmes frontman Gordon Gano and bassist Brian Ritchie.

Ritchie sued Gano this week over Gano's decision to license the band's hit "Blister in the Sun" for a Wendy's ad, accusing Gano of trashing the band's reputation by doing so. "This action is the unfortunate culmination of an ongoing intra-band dispute between Ritchie and Gano over Gano's misappropriation and misadministration of Ritchie's interests in the jointly-owned songs and assets of the band," Ritchie said in the complaint.

Legendary drummer Roach dies

Jazz has lost one of its all-time great drummers. Max Roach, a master jazz man whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations helped to define bebop, died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 83.

Blue Note Records confirmed the passing of Roach in a statement, providing no details beyond the fact that Roach died at a Manhattan hospital. Roach is survived by five children: sons Daryl and Raoul, and daughters Maxine, Ayl, and Dara.

Roach caught his first break at the age of 16, when he sat in on drums for Duke Ellington in 1940. He quickly became one of the central figures of the bebop movement, along with the likes of Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, and Dizzy Gillespie.

"All great instrumentalists have a superior quality of sound, and his is one of the marvels of contemporary music," famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis wrote of Roach in a 1988 essay in The New York Times. The roundness and nobility of sound on the drums and the clarity and precision of the cymbals distinguishes Max Roach as a peerless master."