● Rumor has it that fallen news star Keith Olbermann has landed at Current TV, Al Gore's little cable news channel that only ever sort of was. The new job would come with a much more limited audience, but with welcome breathing room for the fiery anchor. [NYT] ● "I had enormous boobs that I didn't know what to do with," admits Katy Perry in the March issue of Elle. But now she's older and much more competent. [Elle] ● "Welcome to America," said Prince, after kicking Kim Kardashian offstage for not dancing. [VV]

Lia Ices makes an entrance, Rhett Miller and Prince return (again?), while the Hundred in the Hands, Woods, and The Suzan round out the week's cant-miss shows.

In case you’re not an American, next weekend is the Superbowl, the big kahuna, the end all and be all. And because it’s such a massive deal, big brands are pulling out all the stops in an attempt to woo celebrities and media types to Texas for the festivities surrounding the football game. Here’s what to look out for if you’ll be in Dallas next weekend.

July 1: Eat it, Frederik. American music legend, Prince, headlines the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, which starts today. July 3: The Tour de France kicks off. Lance Armstrong, riding for Team RadioShack, gets caught with performance enhancing batteries. July 4: In honor of Independence Day, at her Atlantic City concert, Lady Gaga exercises her freedom to bleach.

I Dj’d over at subMercer last night playing to a smart set that somehow endured my dumb music. I play tracks from the last century with the hope that the crowd actually likes to party like it’s 1999, or ’69. As I mixed George Thorogood’s “Bad to the Bone” into Them’s “Baby Please Don’t Go,” a record industry exec, who will remain nameless in case he shows up late for work today, told me that over at BB King’s, Prince popped up on stage and covered Sly & The Family Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin).” My friend’s memory was rather weak because his drinks were rather strong, but he said industry folks knew about the star’s impending appearance with Ex-Sly and the Family Stone bassist Larry Graham. They put out music together, and have toured and such, so it was not much of a shock. Anyway it’s on Youtube this morning, so I believe him.

● The Tonight Show saga gets the musical treatment. "My stars. My word. I do declare/ That Conan’s self-abusing bear/Has given me, once more, the laughter/That I lost in the hereafter." [New Yorker] ● Was Kanye not invited to tonight’s Haiti Telethon because of his “George Bush Hates Black People” comment during the Katrina telethon? Since that’s the best thing that's ever happened on a telethon, this seems unfair. [Daily News] ● How to say eff you in 100 languages. (Take with a grain of salt, as our rudimentary knowledge of Latin leads us to believe “Dorme Mecum” means sleep with shit, which isn’t quite the same as the F-bomb.) [Buzzfeed] ● Prince loves football, records a not-particularly rousing song for the Vikings (they're team color is purple). Minnesota represent! [TMZ]

Some time ago, Mariah Carey, of all pop stars, remarked incisively about how it's no longer enough for musicians to record songs. Now they have to establish themselves as businesses. It then makes sense that Robbie Williams, who's currently riding the high of a well-tailored comeback, is looking to branch out similarly. With his current four-album record deal with EMI coming to a close, Williams is looking to sidestep record label bosses and establish himself as a self-governing musical entity for the next phase of his career. This way, investors -- maybe including financial institutions -- would his production costs on the promise of a 50% return on all profits. It's another advance that hacks away overgrown weeds of an industry still gasping to keep up with the predominantly digital tendencies of music fans. It also makes them the latest in a growing line of self-employed pop stars increasingly fed up with record label cock-ups.

● Angelina Jolie will grace the cover of July Harper’s Bazaar, but the actress has nothing to promote; she isn’t even interviewed for the magazine. Rather, feminist writer Naomi Wolf will explain why so many woman would go gay for Jolie. [US] ● Ed Westwick -- more commonly known as Chuck Bass -- would like you to stop calling him "fat." He’s practically svelte. [E!] ● Miley Cyrus isn’t attracting the same crowds as in the past; thousands were expected to show up for the casting of her latest film, but less than ten showed up. [WTOCTV]

Surely for that chump change, the gadget includes not only every out-take, every "When Doves Cry" reswizzle, and a scrap of fabric torn from the Prince's own pair of assless trousers, but also a custom prayer inscribed on the back. Wrong! Retailing at roughly $150 per song, the iPod includes 15 songs and a 40-minute concert video. It's also very purple and has that unpronounceable other moniker of his inscribed on the back. But that's not all.

● Prince may have a little crush on Salma Hayek. His new song is named after her daughter Valentina; in it, he sings "Hey Valentina, tell your mama she should give me a call.” Smart man to go through the daughter first, except she can’t quite speak yet. [Spinner] ● Halle Berry looks a lot like Jennifer Lopez on the cover of the new Harper’s Bazaar. [JustJared] ● Did you notice Britney Spears' slimmer figure in those new Candies ads? That’s no diet; the signer called in the airbrush pros. [E&Sb]