One Offs

Britney Spears may be coming back in a big way, recording the album Circus at the Palms Resort & Casino and performing live in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve, according to the U.K.’s Mirror …

AC/DC began hosting its own channel on Sirius XM-Radio Sept. 15 and is expected to rock out through January …

A judge says five women who testified that Phil Spector threatened them with a gun in the music producer’s first murder trial will testify again in his second trial …

A judge has ruled that the deposition of Marilyn Manson’s ex-guitar player, Scott Putesky, who has sued Manson in the past, can be taken as part of the prosecution’s case for ex-keyboardist Stephen Bier, who is suing the shock rocker, according to Los Angeles’ Daily News.

Florida’s Langerado Music Festival is expected to move from the cozy campgrounds of Broward County to Miami’s Bicentennial Park March 6-8 …

Jazz saxophonist Wayne Escoffery is offering a reward for the return of his sax, which he left in the trunk of an NYC cab …

Underwriters recently sold $228 million of Clear Channel Communications’ bonds, less than a quarter of what banks hoped to unload when they brought the deal to the market, according to the Wall Street Journal …

 Independence, Kan., broke ground on a 5,800-capacity arena Sept. 16, but the price has already climbed from $50 million to $68 million, according to the Kansas City Business Journal …

A famous Galveston, Texas, nightclub, the 79-year-old Balinese Room, where Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope once performed, was destroyed by Hurricane Ike.