Rolling Stones axe another Spain show

Mick Jagger's ailing voice has officially been upgraded to laryngitis, and the 63-year-old star rocker's illness has forced The Rolling Stones to cancel a second concert in Spain. The show was scheduled for the southern Spanish city of El Ejido.

What started out as a simple doctor's order to rest his voice has morphed into full-blown laryngitis, but the band said it will still perform August 20 for the first of two planned appearances at London's Twickenham Stadium, as part of the Stones' "A Bigger Bang" world tour.

Yesterday, the aging rockers axed a show in Valladolid, a north-central city in Spain, which had already sold 37,000 tickets. Tickets bought for the Valladolid and El Ejido concerts will be refunded, but a spokeswoman for the Valladolid show's promoter said the gig won't be rescheduled.

"I am very sorry to be canceling this show as well," Mick Jagger said in a statement. "But unfortunately I have no other choice and I apologize to everyone who bought tickets for El Ejido."

Ironically, Jagger, at the helm of The Rolling Stones for more than three decades, announced that he has recently started taking voice lessons to improve his singing.

"A bit of voice coaching and warm-ups ... really helps," he said. "I always tell these younger singers, 'I never used to do it either, but you should.'"

Lil' Wayne arrested on drug charges

Lil' Wayne isn't so little anymore.

Atlanta police arrested Wayne--real name Dwayne Michael Carter--on a drug charge Monday. Police said the 23-year-old rapper was in possession of several drugs, but declined to elaborate further. Carter was released on bond after his arrest.

For more information on Lil' Wayne, check out an MP3.com audio interview with the rapper discussing his fifth studio album, Tha Carter, Vol. 2.

The album has been both a critical and sales success. Vol. 2 came out in December 2005 at number two on the charts, selling 240,000 copies.

Barker details Moakler breakup; blink bassist explains old band's split

Travis Barker, the former blink-182 drummer who announced the imminent divorce from ex-Playboy Playmate Shanna Moakler last week, posted a long-winded diatribe against Moakler on his MySpace blog yesterday.

Barker, now playing drums in the band Plus 44 with fellow blink bassist-vocalist Mark Hoppus, described himself as a responsible father who plays with his children in the morning and sends them to school, attends business meetings for his Famous Stars and Straps clothing line in the afternoon, then produces Plus 44's and other artists' music in his studio.

But Moakler, he said, is a party-crazy, nearly deadbeat mom--she's gone so often, he said, that their children sometimes call their nanny "mommy"--and may have been having "a MySpace affair" with some "dork," Barker wrote.

(Capitalization and typos edited by MP3.com for clarity.)

"That brings me to [a] week ago, I came across condoms (we don't use condoms ever)," Barker wrote, adding that Moakler failed to mention she had landed a role on the next season of the reality show Dancing with the Stars. Barker said he tried to work things out with Moakler, a former Miss USA champion, by going to therapy, but to no avail, and Barker didn't want to continue that kind of relationship.

"I'd have no pride, I'd walk wit my head down," he wrote. "That's not Travis Barker."

The breakup of Barker and Moakler, stars of Meet the Barkers, is the third separation of celebrities who appeared in an MTV reality show. Newlyweds stars Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey divorced in June, while Til Death Do Us Part's Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro separated weeks ago. Barker and Moakler had two children together and Moakler has one daughter from a previous relationship with Oscar De La Hoya.

In other blink news, the band's former bassist and singer Mark Hoppus discussed the band's breakup--originally billed as an "indefinite hiatus"--as one spurred by the band's guitarist and singer, Tom DeLonge, who later formed the band Angels and Airwaves. DeLonge refused to tour with the band, and required that blink-182 record material for an upcoming album at his San Diego home, not a Los Angeles recording studio, Hoppus said in an interview with fan Web site b182.com.

"After 13 years of being in a band together, hundreds of thousand of miles toured, countless shows played, and seven albums released, Tom didn't even call to quit the band," Hoppus said. "He had his manager do it for him."

Before the band split, Hoppus, Barker, and DeLonge wrote new blink-182 songs, whose beginnings ended up in songs on Angels and Airwaves' first album. "I thought they would have made great blink-182 songs, but something got lost in the translation," Hoppus said.

POD ditches Atlantic

Christian rockers POD have ended a seven-year relationship with Atlantic Records, the label that has released all five of the group's albums.

POD announced the split as amicable, but hinted that there may have been behind-the-scenes moves at Atlantic that caused the rockers to leave the company.

"We've been proud to be Atlantic Recording Artists, but it's not the same place anymore," the band said in a statement. "For most of our stay, we were blessed by a staff that was gracious towards our vision, faith, and love of music ... It's time to dream again with a new staff and we leave with grateful hearts."

Moby, Debbie Harry go to 'New York'

Debbie Harry, the bleach-blonde frontwoman to '80s new-wave punk band Blondie, has teamed with Moby to produce a new track on the electronica star's upcoming disc of otherwise-recycled tunes.

"New York, New York" will be a single and the sixth track on Go: The Very Best of Moby, a 15-song greatest-hits record being released in November, according to NME.com.

Moby wasn't very forthcoming about the new track's style or other details, and didn't mention that Harry, 61, would be featured on the new tune.

"I'm just working on a new song for the 'Moby Best Of' record that's supposed to come out in the autumn," Moby wrote August 10 on his official Web site. "I can't tell you any details about the new song. But it's fun. At least in my opinion. Maybe you'll hate it. I have no idea."