New Elvis #1’s collection about to debut on top of the world: Twenty-five years after his death, Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n Roll, is about to do something he never managed in life — debut an album at No. 1 on record charts around the world. According to …

Says Conan O’Brien: It’s amazing what famous people will tell you when you lock them in a small, dark room and deprive them of human contact. From Snoop to Shatner and Fabio to Mr. T, we’ve got all their whimpering confessions caught on tape. PALTROW SECRETS: “You’d never know it …

Speaking of new music distribution formats, this one appears to have failed: DataPlay, a company attempting to replace CDs as the music format of choice, has missed its announced release date and appears unlikely to survive. Employees were put on mandatory leave and told to call in Friday for a …

This campaign didn’t work: the House of Representatives canceled a vote on Tuesday that would have postponed royalty payments for Internet radio broadcasts. The bill’s sponsor pulled it from consideration after Internet Webcasters and the music industry promised they could settle a years-long dispute over royalty rates by the end …

For you serious “bookie” types (reading not wagering), there is Book TV all weekend long (Saturday at 8 a.m. to Monday at 8a.m.) on C-SPAN2. The schedule this weekend: Saturday, October 5 (All times Eastern) 8 a.m. Children’s Books. From Tillicum Middle School in Bellevue, Wash., Helen Szablya and Peggy …

Will more sophisticated p2p replace physical music storage? What is the future of music delivery systems, and the fate of our beloved CD? Paul Sanders, of the highly cool state51 site, offers these thoughts: I sometimes suspect that the answers to questions like these lie buried in arcane fields such …

Matt at Scrubbles is an unabashed fan of Disneyland. Matt brings us glad tidings: Paul Pressler has stepped down as CEO of Disney’s theme parks, accepting an offer at the Gap. For those who don’t know, Pressler has been a thorn in the collective sides of Disneyland fans for years, …

Steve Rhodes’ piece on Joe Pantoliano reminds me that Joe played Bob Keane in the film La Bamba, which I loved though Bob didn’t. Here’s a profile of Bob. An archetypal Southern California figure, Bob Keane’s fascinating career in music extends over 60 years from the ’30s to the present. …

The Onion: The Recording Industry Association of America filed a $7.1 billion lawsuit against the nation’s radio stations Monday, accusing them of freely distributing copyrighted music. “It’s criminal,” RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. “Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters …

The LA Times reports on movie studios hyping their own films on Internet movie sites: earlier this year, Chris Parry, a 32-year-old writer and ex-production manager who runs the site efilmcritic.com, began noticing a lot of very inauthentic postings. They read like outright publicity plugs, or what Net denizens call …