A representative for Aerosmith is denying that reports that Joe Perry hip-checked Steven Tyler off stage last Tuesday (August 17th) during the band's show at Toronto's Air Canada Centre. Aerosmith's spokesperson told TMZ, "Joe wanted his fans to know he would never deliberately push Steven off the stage. (Joe is a) total gentleman."

Steven Tyler recently told us that he doesn't ever see a time when he'll retire from the road: "No, I don't know if I know how to do that. I know that Joe and I, we questioned it a couple of times about whether, you know, whether we would go out again. We took a year off. I remember I had hep-C (hepatitis-C) and decided to take a year off, and I literally got rid of it. I mean, it's one of the few miracles known to man. I kicked its ass."

Aerosmith tour dates (subject to change):
August 24 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
August 26 - Syracuse, NY - New York State Fair
August 28 - Atlantic City, NJ - Boardwalk Hall
August 31 - Detroit, MI - The Palace at Auburn Hills
September 2 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
September 4 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
September 8 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre
September 9 - Calgary, AB - Pengrowth Saddledome
September 12 - Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Centre
September 14 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
September 16 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena

Beyonce has revealed that one of her bad habits is being messy at home. In an interview with Self Magazine, the singer said, "I promise I'm working on this, but I could be less messy at home and keep the clothes in my closet and off the floor." Beyonce also admitted that although she is on hiatus from recording music, her daily life inspires her music.

She said, "I love going to dinners, seeing plays, visiting museums and spending time with family and friends. I know it's time to jump back into my work when everything I do starts inspiring lyrics and melodies and I can't keep myself out of the studio."
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If you see Carrie Underwood out somewhere, say hello but just don't get too close! The superstar tells WebMD magazine that she has a real issue with people who violate her personal space. This phobia even led to panic attacks as a high school student. Carrie said, "I'm a big personal space person. You know, if you go to the restroom, you use the stall that's not near anybody. Or if you're in the gym, you go to the treadmill where there's space in between you."

She says that her "worst nightmare" is going Christmas shopping because "it seemed like in crowded situations like that, people would just completely violate your personal space."

Carrie has pretty much gotten her panic attacks under control, except when it comes to small spaces, like elevators. She said a recent experience sent her into a bit of a meltdown. "Every floor we stopped on, we'd cram more people in, and by the time we were done, there was just a ton of people. So I start thinking about all the bad things that can happen, and I'm like, 'I've got to get off the elevator, I need to get off the elevator.' I was just like, 'No more stops, please, no more stops!'"

Carrie continues her Play On tour on September 25th in Portland, Oregon.

She plays the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois on Sunday (August 29th).

Talk show host Bill O'Reilly is now coming out against Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian, criticizing the pair for posing together on a beach for an Elle magazine photo shoot. He thinks the age difference is at issue: Bieber, 16 years old and Kardashian, 29.

According to UsMagazine.com, O'Reilly questioned if "The Graduate"/"Mrs. Robinson" themed photos were too risque. He aid, "I think it's gross. It's a 16 year-old having an affair with a celebutante!" O'Reilly added, "I will tell you this: If a 16-year-old girl was pictured with a 29-year-old man in any of that, he'd be in big trouble."

He joked that Kardashian is "42" (she's really 29) and said that Bieber "looks like Ringo Starr."

When a strategist on his show suggested that it's every 16 year old's dream to have photos with Kardashian, O'Reilly argued that he, for one, wasn't interested in sexy, older woman at that age; instead he was busy playing baseball.

In the shots, Kardashian and Bieber are seen holding hands.

O'Reilly recently criticized Jennifer Aniston, calling her "destructive to society" for saying a woman doesn't need a man while reflecting on her new movie, The Switch.

Katy Perry says there's no way she's wearing latex on her wedding day. A rumor had been going around that she would be sporting a latex fabric dress when she weds comedian Russell Brand this year, but the pop star told People magazine, "I'm definitely not going to get married in latex. When I wear latex onstage, I sweat. I could wring out those dresses -- and I don't want to do that at my wedding."

Though she won't be donning latex for her big day, Perry continues to take risks with her style. She tells us it's all part of her personality: "I kind of was born a big personality -- whether I had the opportunity to become a successful artist or not, I was always going to be Wha! -- I don't know how you could kind of explain that. Maybe you know there's something attributed to that because of my big personality and my use of color and frankness and kitschness. If kistch could be my middle I definitely would take that. And I like making people happy and making them smile."

Perry will release her new Teenage Dream album tomorrow (Tuesday, August 24th). Fans got the chance to hear her new album on Facebook starting last night.

She recently tweeted, "Back in the USA ready for an amazing upcoming week. I'm so excited and so grateful for this feeling. Thank you so so much."

Lady Gaga now has the most followers on Twitter, beating out Britney Spears, who previously held the title. At last check, Gaga had 5.7-plus million followers compared with Spears, who had more than 5,690,000. Still -- both pop stars are close, so Spears could inch out Gaga at any moment.

Gaga more frequently updates her Twitter page. Just last week, she told fans, "Haven't left the studio. Each song I write, I feel closer to you. Miss you little monsters, little inspirations. X" Spears, though, has been a bit more Twitter-active over the past week, having tweeted updates about her visit to the set of Glee.

Just weeks after Madonna debuted her new Material Girl clothing line, she faces a lawsuit over the brand's name. L.A. Triumph, a California-based company, has been using the Material Girl name for its own line of clothes since 1997 -- and wants Madge to pay.

According to Reuters, the company filed suit, arguing that "Madonna and her newfound company do not have the right to trade in the same space under this brand." L.A. Triumph wants the judge to rule that Madonna's use of "Material Girl" creates "deception" in the marketplace. It is also asking for Madonna and her company to turn over all the profits from their line.

Madge and her daughter Lourdes' clothing line hit Macy's last month with Gossip Girl actress Taylor Momsen as the face of the collection.

In other news, Gossip Cop blasted a report claiming Madge was offered billions to do a five-year residency in Las Vegas.

BRITNEY SPEARS TO PAY HOMAGE TO MADONNA ON GLEE?

There's talk that as part of her guest spot on Glee, Britney Spears will pay tribute to Madonna by recreating her 2003 "Me Against the Music" video collaboration with Madge. According to CNN.com, Spears may play Madonna's part.

Spears referenced the 2003 track in a recent Twitter post, writing, "All my GLEEKERS in the crowd, Grab a partner take it down." She also sported an all-white outfit, similar to the one Madonna wore in the video for the song.

Nancy Wilson says that following Heart's cease and desist letter order to the McCain-Palin campaign demanding that they refrain from using the band's 1977 hit "Barracuda" as a campaign song for Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, they were hit by some dangerous threats from what Wilson describes as "crazies."

Wilson told Classic Rock magazine, that at times it got pretty tense on the road for her and sister Ann, recalling, "Some of the fans decided they didn't like us and didn't like our music anymore. At least for a while. We were out on the road, and the next show that we played after that was somewhere in Florida -- which is not where you wanna be if you're a Democrat. We were kinda nervous, but we upped our security and kept a close watch on people walking in. Luckily -- knock on wood -- of all the crazies who have threatened to take us down, nobody so far has done that."

Back in September 2008 the Wilson sisters issued a statement saying: "Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late '70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there."

Nancy Wilson, who co-wrote the song, told ew.com at the time: "I think it's completely unfair to be so misrepresented. I feel completely f***ed over."

Wilson says that throughout its career, Heart has always embraced change and never been afraid of venturing off the beaten path artistically: "They tell you not to reinvent yourself, because your fans have an identity that they know, that is familiar to them, that they don't want to change. But in our case, we've been able to change a lot, but we've had to fight to be able to change a lot."

Heart performs tonight (August 23rd) in Dallas, Texas at the House of Blues.

Former Wings lead guitarist Laurence Juber feels that at the end of the day, Paul McCartney's only post-Beatles band deserves a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Despite the fact that McCartney himself was inducted into the Hall on his own for his solo work back in 1999 -- Juber believes Wings deserves separate recognition. He told Day Trippin' magazine, "There is no question that Wings as a core group is the Paul, Linda (McCartney) and Denny (Laine) ensemble. This is where it carries over into getting Wings into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Wings was not just 'Paul McCartney' post-Beatles. Wings was Paul McCartney's group post-Beatles, if that makes sense."

The Grammy award-winning Juber, who's best known for his work on such McCartney & Wings classics as "Coming Up," "Getting Closer," "Old Siam, Sir," and "Goodnight Tonight," is currently on tour in support of his latest album, called Wooden Horses. He says that like the Beatles, Wings also casts a long shadow on McCartney's current live act: "If you go see Paul now and when he does a Wings song in his set, it's great but there is something missing. You're not hearing Linda's voice; you're not hearing Denny's voice; you're not getting the qualities that they brought to Paul's work. It was a tempering."

Juber added that multi-instrumentalist and occasional McCartney songwriting partner Denny Laine played an invaluable role for McCartney throughout the 1970's, saying, "I think Paul recognized that he needed a foil. . . Obviously, no one could fill in for John Lennon but Denny has his own eclecticism with his gypsy/folk sensibilities with an R&B voice and rock guitar prowess. And Linda was kinda the glue. Things just worked better with Linda there in the room because she was Paul's soul mate and the female balancing part of his creative energy. There was a dynamic that happened and, as much as Paul will perform a Wings song and you tap your foot and sing along with it and think, 'What a great song,' it doesn't sound like Wings. I do appreciate the fact that he plays some of those tunes though."

Denny Laine -- who would be the only shoe-in for induction should Wings ever get a Rock Hall nod -- says that he personally doesn't think that the band deserves the honor: "Yeah, but Wings was just too many different lineups to be a real band, I always thought. It was really me, Paul and Linda -- in a sense -- plus musicians for a lot of the time. I never really felt like, you know, I was a member of a band, to be honest. Never really felt that."

The Beatles' longtime engineer Geoff Emerick, who went on to work on several Wings projects, including the One Hand Clapping film and the Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, and London Town albums -- along with numerous solo McCartney projects -- says that above all the members, it was Linda McCartney that was really the unsung hero of the group: "Wings was Wings, and Linda was such an integral part of that -- if you took Linda's vocals out of those harmony voices -- it wasn't Wings anymore."

Laurence Juber tour dates (subject to change):
August 30, 31 - Wasilla, AK - Acoustic Alaska Guitar Camp
September 1, 2, 3 - Wasilla, AK - Acoustic Alaska Guitar Camp
September 19 - Santa Clara, CA - Mission City Coffee Roasting Company
September 21 - Berkeley, CA - Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
September 22 - Felton, CA - Don Quixote's International Music Hall
September 23 - Winters, CA - The Palms
September 24 - Shingle Springs, CA - House Concert
September 25 - Oakhurst, CA - Coolwater Ranch
October 2 - Long Beach, CA - Grace First Presbyterian Church
October 8 - Tempe, AZ - ASU Katzin Concert Hall
October 9 - Flagstaff, AZ - Coconino Center
October 10 - Prescott, AZ - Center For The Arts
October 11 - Phoenix, AZ - Roberto Venn
November 6 - Santa Monica, CA - McCabe's Guitar Shop
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Shakira is reportedly in a bit of trouble with officials in Barcelona, Spain over a recent video shoot for her upcoming duet with Dizzee Rascal called "Loca" According to PopEater.com, officials claim her team didn't ask permission to film at various Barcelona sites, including the historic fountain at Pla de Palau.

Authorities spotted the footage on YouTube and are said to be inspecting the clips closely to "detect infringements that have been committed during the recording." Other sources say her hip-shaking moves distracted traffic, while authorities note that Shakira "does not lead by example" despite being "a public person." According to reports, tt sounds like Shakira may walk away with a fine.

Shakira expects to release a Spanish-language album called Sale El Sol on November 2nd.

Like many rock veterans, Stevie Nicks is convinced that the Internet will prove to be the end of rock and roll. Nicks, who's currently prepping her new album, which is a collaboration with the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart, admitted to The New York Daily News that she fears that times are changing for the worse, saying, "The Internet has destroyed rock. Children no longer develop social graces. They don't hang out anymore. I'm financially stable. I'm okay. But what about the kids trying to make it in this business? If you're not an established band, if you don't have a hit single, they're gonna drop you. There are a lot of people out there as talented as we were, but they can't sustain being in a rock 'n' roll band for long without success. We were able to, but we're going to die out."

Nicks, who wrapped her most recent tour with Fleetwood Mac back in December says that her new solo album is her main priority for 2011: "Eventually, there will be another Fleetwood Mac record and another tour. But this record is my moment. All next year, it's going to be this. This is now my turn."

Nicks' good friend and occasional collaborator, Sheryl Crow, says that of all the female rockers she heard while growing up in the '70s, Nicks was the one who meant the most to her: "I just gravitated to Stevie. I thought she was the one young rock-and-roll woman I could really relate to and I could see myself being like. And up until that point, I really only had, like, Mick Jagger and people like that, Robert Plant, to sort of look at and think, 'God, I'd really like to be like that.' I never really related to Janis Joplin so much. In my mind, she wasn't very together, even though she was definitely an artist. But when Stevie came around, that rang a real clear bell with me."

Stevie Nicks tour dates (subject to change):
August 25 -Verona, NY - Event Center At Turning Stone Resort Casino
August 27 - Atlantic City, NJ - Mark G. Etess Arena
August 28 - Mashantucket, CT - MGM Grand At Foxwoods

Train has had a lot of success with its hit song "Hey, Soul Sister," the lead single off of last year's Save Me San Francisco album. It's almost a comeback for the group, who had previously had hits with "Drops of Jupiter" and "Meet Virginia."

We recently caught up with Train frontman Pat Monahan and asked how the song came about: "I kind of wanted to write an INXS song. And so the idea was I want to write 'Need You Tonight'. So I kind of just started plugging a little riff -- bam, bam, bam, but then I was like, 'I don't really want to write that song, but something like it. So I just started to do whatever you do riffing with music and then was like 'Man, I know exactly what to do here. Just give me about 45 minutes.'"

Monahan told us how the lyrics were initially based on what the annual Burning Man event held in the Nevada desert: "I just wrote on my computer for a while what I saw as a group of beautiful women at Burning Man dancing around the fire. I've never been there before, but that's what I imagined it would be like. And so I wrote these words and sang it to these guys, and then one of the dudes pulled out a ukulele, and it all made sense."

Train just recorded a Christmas song. No word yet on which track, or where it will surface.

Train performs in Vienna, Virginia tonight (Monday, August 23rd).

U2 singer Bono told Rolling Stone that the band has as much as four albums' worth of new material that it could release, including the ethereal and previously announced Songs Of Ascent, a rock record, a club album and the music they wrote for the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.

Bono added that the band is not sure how they will release the records, or in what order, saying, "We're not as 21st Century as we think we are, because we'd be putting out more new songs online, involving our audience in the choice -- if we were really modern."

The band has been playing three new tunes since returning to its world tour following Bono's back surgery.