Kanye apologizes for award-show rant, vows "to download" winners' music

Last week, Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West interrupted an acceptance speech for a best-music-video award he didn't win. Now, after the "sippy sippy" has worn off, he says he's sorry.

West, in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the MTV Europe Music Awards, stormed the stage after Justice vs. Simian's "We Are Your Friends" won the prize for best music video. But losing in the best-vid category was the rapper's "Touch the Sky," which should have won because it "cost a million dollars," West lamented onstage. "Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons and s***...If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility. Nothing against you," he told Justice vs. Simian, "but h***, man."

Kanye's singing a different tune now. "I don't have anything against the group that won," he told MTV. "I'm going to download their album right now. I didn't mean to be offensive in any way. I love you guys. I never heard of you, [but] I am your friend."

Culture Club delays upcoming "Reborn" tour

Culture Club Reborn--the reincarnation of the famed '80s pop group, sans frontman Boy George--has postponed a December UK tour to finish recording songs for the band's next album. The band's manager, Tony Gordon, said that recording the new tracks was "taking longer than we planned, but we feel it's the right decision" to delay the tour, according to the Associated Press. The tour was to begin December 7, and the band did not reveal when the delayed tour would begin.

The remaining members of the band--bassist Mikey Craig, drummer Jon Moss, and keyboard player Phil Pickett--didn't have anything nice to say last week about their former singer, criticizing Boy George for accepting a songwriting award for "Karma Chameleon" alone and for his poor choices, way back when, thinking of a name and image for the band. "He wanted to call himself 'Papa George.' It doesn't have the same ring to it," Moss said. "And he wanted to call us Caravan Club."

K-Fed's Playing With Fire debuts at lowly 151

The latest Billboard music sales data is out--and it isn't going to make Kevin Federline's week any better. K-Fed, who is undergoing a divorce with pop princess Britney Spears and a legal battle for custody of the ex-couple's kids, appeared at number 151 on the Billboard 200 charts. Federline's rap album, Playing With Fire, sold about 6,000 copies, according to MTV. Of the week's 19 debut albums, K-Fed's is the 16th best performer, according to SoundScan data.

By comparison, Barry Manilow's The Greatest Songs of the Sixties, debuted at number two and sold 202,000 copies.

100-plus performances of Dylan-inspired Broadway musical axed

The critics and fans have already panned The Times They Are A-Changin', the Broadway show that uses Bob Dylan music to tell a working-class American story. Now the show's producers have given in, announcing they will cancel the musical after its November 19 performance, scheduled for the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York.

In all, producers will cancel 112 scheduled performances of The Times They Are A-Changin', which was originally booked into April 2007, according to Ticketmaster data. Ticket prices for the musical, which was to be performed exclusively in New York, ranged from $71.25 to $201.25 for a premium seat.

Critics at major newspapers didn't have many nice words for the musical, choreographed by Twyla Tharp, who had success with Movin' Out, a musical set to the music of Bill Joel. "Ms. Tharp single-handedly drags Mr. Dylan into the shallows," wrote the New York Times. "The Times They Are A-Changin' is so bad that it makes you forget how good the songs are," said the Wall Street Journal.