Kurt Cobain featured in "Guitar Hero 5"; Dire Straits; reporter gets stung by a bee; and fire starting for dummies (actually, dummies starting fires). Also, Ne-Yo channels West Side Story

Happy Birthday to Relient K singer Matt Thiessen (1980), actress Dominique Swain (1980), horror film actress Rebecca Gayheart (1971), tennis legend Pete Sampras (1971), "Clerks 2" writer/director Kevin Smith (1970),

Brothers Don and David Was are to revive their hit group Was (Not Was) for a Valentine's Day showcase in Los Angeles. In what will be the group's first official show since touring with Dire Straits in 1992, the "Walk The Dinosaur" hit-makers will perform at the Orpheum Theatre with Kris Kristofferson and Brian Wilson.

Singer/songwriter Shooter Jennings lead single "Walk of Life" off his introspective third studio album - The Wolf, originally made famous by Dire Straits, was chosen as the first single for its lyrical content and to help familiarize audiences with the sound of this third disc.

James Blunt has been crowned the king of Europe - the British singer/songwriter is on top of both the continent's singles and albums charts. Blunt's "1973" is Europe's number-one single for a second successive week, while his All The Lost Souls disc debuts at the top of the albums countdown.

"(Barack) Obama, he's a piece of s**t. I told him to suck on my machine gun and Hillary Clinton, you're a worthless bitch." Republican rocker Ted Nugent has no time for the leading Democratic presidential candidates.

Warner Bros. Records is set to release new music from Mark Knopfler, one of the world's most successful singer songwriters. Kill To Get Crimson is due September 18.

Happy Birthday to Relient K singer Matt Thiessen (1980), actress Dominique Swain (1980), horror film actress Rebecca Gayheart (1971), tennis legend Pete Sampras (1971), "Clerks 2" writer/director Kevin Smith (1970), "Six Feet Under" actor Peter Krause (1965), Canadian character actor Bruce Greenwood (1956), actor Sam Jones (1954), guitarist Pat Metheny (1954), Dire Straits singer/guitarist Mark Knopfler (1949), actress Deborah Walley (1943; d. 2001), actor George Hamilton (1939), country singer Buck Owens (1929; d. 2006), R&B singer Joe "Boogaloo" Jones (1926; d. 2005), actor John Derek (1926; d. 1998), actress Jane Wyatt (1911), prolific legendary director Cecil B. DeMille (1881; d. 1959), and dead-ball era baseball legend Christy Mathewson (1980).

Blix Street Records, best known for the catalog of recordings by the late Eva Cassidy, has signed dynamic young blues-rock trio Back Door Slam and will release the band's debut recording, Roll Away, in early summer, with distribution in the U.S. through Ryko.