Kid Rock: 'Festival bosses lied about real reason for scrapped show'

Kid Rock has slammed a British rock festival for telling fans he cancelled his scheduled headlining appearance because he was suffering from dehydration.

Details emerged stating Kid Rock was suffering from stomach cramps and dehydration and was kept in hospital overnight for observation.

But Rock, real name Rob (BOB) ert Ritchie, has denounced festival bosses' statements as lies - insisting he pulled the show after promoters failed to provide his band with adequate backstage perks.

He tells Daily Star newspaper, "They (festival bosses) treated me like (edit: crud). There was just one trailer for my whole band. We had no water, no bathroom, no rider. The final straw was when they wouldn't give my crew any food or drinks vouchers."

Blake and Miranda Take the Leap

... Not that one! GAC REPORTS: Neither Blake Shelton nor Miranda Lambert has headlined a mid-sized arena tour before, but the couple is hoping their collective track record will be enough to make a road show of that magnitude succeed this fall.

No dates have been announced yet, but the plan thus far would yield two-and-a-half hours of music. They took a test run with the concept a month ago, playing their first show together at a fair in Toledo, Ohio.

"It's exciting, and it's really scary for me at the same time — not so much for her," Blake says. "She's really somebody that came out of the box and just has been kickin' ass since day one, you know? And my career's been a slower build than that. But I'm finally gonna take the step, and she's gonna do it with me. We're gonna go out, and we're gonna play arenas this fall. And that is just creepin' me out — 4,000- and 5,000-seat arenas, and I'm not openin' for Rascal Flatts anymore or Toby [Keith]. You gotta hope that I'm enough and that she's enough. We finally feel like we're there."

Kenny Set for New CD

Kenny Chesney is set to release his next album, Lucky Old Sun, on Oct. 14.
Kenny is already enjoying his beach-fun-sounding hit single from the album, “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” Kenny says -- “We’ve been on a real creative jag.”

Taylor a "Grey's Fan"

GAC Reports: Fall is just around the corner, and it means two things this year: the release of Taylor Swift’s sophomore album and the start of the new TV season. One show in particular brings the artist and the tube together.

"I am obsessed with ‘Grey's Anatomy’," Taylor confesses. "It's my life goal to get a guest spot on that show. My love of ‘Grey's Anatomy’ has never wavered. It's my longest relationship to date."

Her other shorter relationships merely lead to hit songs, and then to videos. Taylor directed her recent "I’m Only Me When I’m With You" video, which she sees as an extension of her musical efforts.

"It's one of my favorite things to do, because it's so creative," she enthuses. "It's a lot like songwriting, in that it's like a puzzle. And if you get the edits exactly right in movie-making, you can make something magical. It's just like lyrics and melody structure when you're writing. If you get it right, it can really be something."

Taylor’s next album, Fearless, comes out Nov. 11, but it can be pre-ordered at TheTaylorNation.com. Fans can choose three different options, ranging from the basic $13.88 CD to a $75 deluxe collector’s box that includes a whole range of extra goodies.

She's a Dance Machine That's For Sure!!!!

Julianne Hough pulls double duty in the near future as she heads back to "Dancing With The Stars" for a new season, which finds her partnering with the youngest competitor ever, 18-year-old Cody Linley.

Cody may not be familiar to a lot of adults, but he’s certainly known by plenty of young women as a former "Hannah Montana" actor: He played one of the boyfriends of the series’ lead character, portrayed by Miley Cyrus. Among the other "Dancing" contestants are NFL lineman Warren Sapp, Olympic volleyball star Misty May-Treanor, soap opera actor Susan Lucci, R&B singer Toni Braxton and former ‘N Sync member Lance Bass.

ABC’s "Dancing" has become a perennial hit, which makes sense to Julianne.

"Everybody loves to dance," she told Dial-Global. "I don't care who you are, how old you are, if you're a horrible dancer, if you're a great dancer... There's just hidden passions for that. So, to see celebrities who people think so highly of and think don't ever have any flaws, you know, you get to see them and their personalities come out and see them totally out of their element — mess up and get frustrated and look silly. You know, they're human. I think people like that."

Sugarland's Green Sunday

PEOPLE reports: It was a very earthy opening: On the eve of the Democratic National Convention's kick-off, Sheryl Crow, Sugarland and the Dave Matthews Band drew some 8,000 fans and environmental activists to their "Green Sunday."

"What better place to spend this incredible weekend!" said Crow amid the magnificent natural rock formations of the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver.

Opening the concert, Crow performed, among other tunes, "God Bless This Mess."

In the first of several messages, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles told the crowd: "Reach your hand out and pat yourself on the back for being such great people and caring about this environment."

Matthews, whose saxophonist LeRoi Moore died last week from injuries sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident, admitted to being a man of few words – on stage, at least.

"Nice to be in a place where a lot of people are talking with a whole lot of sense," he said.

Sugarland's Green Sunday

PEOPLE reports: It was a very earthy opening: On the eve of the Democratic National Convention's kick-off, Sheryl Crow, Sugarland and the Dave Matthews Band drew some 8,000 fans and environmental activists to their "Green Sunday."

"What better place to spend this incredible weekend!" said Crow amid the magnificent natural rock formations of the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver.

Opening the concert, Crow performed, among other tunes, "God Bless This Mess."

In the first of several messages, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles told the crowd: "Reach your hand out and pat yourself on the back for being such great people and caring about this environment."

Matthews, whose saxophonist LeRoi Moore died last week from injuries sustained in an all-terrain vehicle accident, admitted to being a man of few words – on stage, at least.

"Nice to be in a place where a lot of people are talking with a whole lot of sense," he said.

Darius Rucker... IS Thinking About It!

Darius Rucker reached the Top 10 on the country singles chart this week for the first time, taking a hefty jump from No. 13 to No. 8 with "Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It."

The single’s success is particularly rewarding for Darius because he basically called the shots on the single. When the Hootie + The Blowfish singer signed with the country division of Capitol Records, he found himself in disagreement with the label head over "Don’t Think," and he ultimately had to take a stand over releasing it to radio.

"I said, 'Dude, this is it. This is what we want,'" Darius explained "I said, 'It's not the best song on the record, but this is the song that could get us in the door and, you know, that's what we want.' We went round and round about it, and finally, I guess for lack of any other reason, they put it out, and it worked for us. I love that song! Somebody told me the other day, 'You know, you're gonna be playin' that song for the rest of your life.' I've been playin' 'Let Her Cry' for 22 years, and I'm okay with that. So I'll be okay with [this]."

Taylor's FEARLESS

Given that her MySpace page played a huge role in building her career, it should come as no surprise that the title song from Taylor Swift’s second album is already getting buzz on the Internet — even though no one can hear the recorded version of the song yet.

The album, titled Fearless, doesn’t come out until Nov. 11, but Taylor gave a performance of the title song to fans on her tour bus last year, and a radio station put the audio online. A bunch of her fans found it, and now YouTube has close to 100 versions posted of people singing "Fearless."

It caused a bit of a problem. It is, in absolute terms, copyright infringement, though her record company figures it’s better to have fans excited about her new music than have them frustrated by legalities. So the label isn’t doing anything to stop it — other than counseling Taylor that debuting new music as she did on the bus is not such a good idea in the digital age.

"I wasn’t allowed to play new music for people after that," Taylor told USA Today.

For her part, Taylor is upbeat about the exposure for "Fearless."

"If you know that somebody's passionate enough about a song to want to sing it, that's a really good indicator that it's going to do well," she said.

Miranda The Gamer

Miranda Lambert is this month’s Artist of the Month at Xbox!

Tomorrow, August 23rd, she and a bandmate will be hopping onto Xbox Live to play some Halo 3 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm --- Look for the gamertags Miranda GWF or crazyXgirlfrnd and send off a game invite!