Counting Crows

• Billboard reports that Maroon 5 and Counting Crows are planning a spring and summer tour together starting July 25.
• Gibson Guitar filed a patent infringement lawsuit related to Guitar Hero and Rock Band. According to Reuters, Gibson claims the games "violate a 1999 patent for technology to simulate a musical performance."
• Kristen Bell has herself a leading man in Jon Heder who will play her love interest in Disney's upcoming romantic comedy When in Rome, Variety reports. Hopefully this love interest is nicer to Bell than this guy has been. Sheesh.
• Sadly, Grammy-nominated singer Corinne Bailey Rae's husband died suddenly over the weekend. A musician himself, he was only 31 when he passed away.




• Hollywood Reporter says the Scrubs cast is back to work, though it's still unclear what network they're actually working for.
• The longtime friend and business manager of the Beatles', Neil Aspinall, passed away at age 66.
• The LA Times reports that the new Pennywise album, Reason to Believe will be free for two weeks to fans starting tomorrow thanks to a partnership with MySpace Records.

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• Cinematical has a fantastic interview — and this hilarious image — from their set visit to Rainn Wilson's comedy The Rocker.
• TV With MeeVee has the first shots of Isaiah Washington on "Bionic Woman," while The TV Addict has pictures of Jerry Seinfeld on "30 Rock."
• FilmExperience can't help but expound on Hilary Swank's top 10 best movie performances.
• YumSugar has a great interview with "Top Chef" judge Gail Simmons.
• Popwatch wants to know if a celebrity endorsement has ever convinced you to buy something.
• Vulture talks with Clark Duke — the Clark of "Clark and Michael" — about his TV roles and his possible band with Kristen Bell.
• Stereogum calls "Cowboy," the new Counting Crows song, "not terrible."
• BellaSugar gives us an "America's Next Top Model" reality check.
• According to Corey Feldman on the MTV Movies Blog, there may be an animated Goonies sequel.
• Pop Candy points out a fun list of the coolest superhero costumes of all time.
• Buddy TV shows us the track listing for the new "Grey's Anatomy" soundtrack.

Bookmarking all your old first albums for this week's Buzzworthy challenge seemed like it was a fun way to think back on those first few albums you chose as a hip kid (well, you probably thought you were super hip at the time!). It was often hilarious to peruse the titles you bookmarked, especially since I'd forgotten all about some of these musicians! Others (like The Backstreet Boys) continue to haunt us to this day with their "comebacks." Yeesh. Here are some of the albums that stood out to me, and after the jump you can check out a widget with all the albums that were bookmarked.

Debbie Gibson, Out of the Blue
firedancyr7's paragraph accompanying this Buzzworthy selection is hilariously familiar: "Imagine me as an 8 year old kid with a side pony-tail and HUGE earings that no 8 year old should be wearing with ripped calf length black tights under a hot pink ruffled skirt, two pairs of socks so the crazy colors on both could show AND my purple jellies that made me feel like I was wearing princess shoes. I would dance around the room singing 'Only In My Dreams' as if I had written the song itself. Don't you kind of miss that wholesome childhood pop?"

INXS, Kick
auroraforever clearly loved this album when she was younger. As she says, "I literally wore this tape out I played it so many times."

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I realize I'm supposed to be cool and have impeccable taste in music, but the truth is, there are a few albums on my shelf and in my iTunes library that I'd be a little ashamed to have strangers discover. I always find them this time of year, when I'm doing my spring cleaning — and against my better judgment, I always put them back on the shelf.

So I've decided to devote this week's Buzzworthy challenge to those albums you just can't make yourself get rid of, no matter how embarrassed you are to keep them. Two come to mind right away for me: Better than Ezra's Deluxe, which was one of the first CDs I ever bought, and Counting Crows' August and Everything After, which got me through all the really rough times in, uh, junior high. I honestly can't remember the last time I listened to either of these, yet getting rid of them seems impossible.

I know you're holding on to a few albums like this, too, so 'fess up. Using BuzzSugar's cool Buzzworthy bookmarking tool, find those embarrassing albums on the Web and tag or title them with the phrase shameful CD. Then, I'll post some readers' choices next week.

To find out how to create a Buzzworthy bookmark, read more