With “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” playing in the background, Poison’s Bret Michaels picked Jes to be his so-called “rock-star girlfriend” on the final episode of Rock of Love. Click above to check out Rock Daily’s interview with Michaels, where he admits his true feelings about the girls on the show and reveals what went on behind the scenes, and keep reading for our final Rock Reality Show Recap of the series:

Every week Poison frontman Bret Michaels searches for a worthy life partner on Rock of Love, while Rock Daily searches for ways to reference “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” in our Rock Reality Show Recaps. Here’s our take on the finale episode: (more…)

Radiohead have been teasing fans with cryptic clues about their seventh studio album for weeks, and now they have made a surprising announcement via their Dead Air Space Web site: The album, titled In Rainbows, is coming out October 10th. As of now, there has been no news about the band signing to a label (their deal with Capitol ended after the release of 2003’s Hail to the Thief), and In Rainbows is only available for sale via the Web site Inrainbows.com (for now). Fans can either order discboxes containing the new album on CD and vinyl, a second CD with additional tracks, artwork and photos, a lyric booklet and a DRM-free download (the package will ship on or before December 3rd but the download will activate October 10th) or a DRM-free download, which will be active as of October 10th. The price: interesting. The discbox costs 40£; the download is pay what you wish (plus a transaction fee). UPDATE: A press release now indicates “Radiohead are currently planning a traditional CD release of In Rainbows for early 2008.”
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Sunday night Poison frontman Bret Michaels’ quest for a worthy romantic partner will come to an end with the final episode of Rock of Love. Since Rock Daily has been closely following every catfight, projectile vomiting attack and rendition of “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” on the show each week, we were more than pleased to sit down with Michaels to grab a little dirt from behind the scenes. Come back Sunday night after the last episode airs for our full interview (where Bret reveals details from the reunion show and scenes you didn’t see), but for now, enjoy Michaels admitting what really happened with Heather and his true feelings about Lacey — plus check out a shocking tease as to who he ultimately picked to rock his world.

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• The day millions of crazed David Lee Roth fans (and dozens of Wolfgang Van Halen fans) have been waited for arrived: Van Halen played their first gig with David Lee Roth since 1984 in North Carolina.

• The day Phil Spector has been waiting for also arrived: Jurors returned from deliberating his murder charges deadlocked, and the case was declared a mistrial.

• Rolling Stone received proof that Axl Rose is alive and kicking: a photograph of the Guns N’ Roses leader in the studio with Sebastian Bach, whose Angel Down LP features some Rose cameos.

• David Gilmour killed off hope of a Pink Floyd reunion.

• Nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced: the list includes Madonna, the Beastie Boys, Leonard Cohen, Afrika Bambaataa and John Mellencamp.

Today show live concerts normally air between 8:30 and 9:00 AM, but this morning Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band broke the rules and played the show’s longest-ever set. “I can count on one hand the number of acts we would seek this for,” Today executive producer Jim Bell tells Rock Daily. “[Springsteen] is known for playing longer than scheduled, so we were prepared. He was supposed to play about four songs and he played seven.” The final set list was a mix of classics and new cuts from Magic: “The Promised Land,” “Radio Nowhere,” “Livin’ in the Future,” “My Hometown,” “Night,” “Last to Die” and “Long Walk Home” (click above for footage from Magic debut single “Radio Nowhere”). Bell says this morning’s crowd ranks among the show’s largest, extending onto the plaza of 30 Rockefeller Center and including two women who arrived yesterday morning from Ohio to claim their front-row spot (giant screens were set up so everyone had a decent view). “Bruce had the Magic this morning, and we’ve had a lot of great feedback coming in from all quarters from people saying how special was,” Bell quips. After the show was over, Springsteen and Co. packed up and headed back to New Jersey, where tonight they’ll play the final of three benefit warm-up gigs for their fall tour.

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Does Ryan Adams have a vendetta against the great state of Minnesota? Back in 2003, Adams played a remarkably bad concert at Minneapolis’ First Avenue, the club that features in Prince’s Purple Rain film. At that infamous show, Adams railed against the sound problems that marred the set, played several songs twice, and even had the audacity to trash on the Twin Cities’ prodigal son, Paul Westerberg. So what does Adams do for an encore? While playing Thursday night at Minneapolis’ State Theater, Adams once again complained about the venue’s sound. Maybe the Land of 10,000 Lakes has statewide acoustic problems? Maybe Adams was just pissed to discover that the Timberwolves traded Kevin Garnett? Who knows?

Adams became so frustrated, he took turns between being a rock star and a roadie as he moved two monitors, his guitar pedals, and the location of the microphone. (more…)

You’re running out of time to submit your music and pop culture questions to Rolling Stone contributing editor and Love is a Mix Tape author Rob Sheffield. Email queries to asksheffield@rollingstone.com now and we’ll post his responses here in Rock Daily.

WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY?
After the first match of Spector vs. California ended in a mistrial, Team Spector made some roster moves before the rematch begins. Out is defense lawyer Roger Rosen and rumored to be out is Bradley Brunon, as Spector felt a mistrial by the final tally of 10-2 was way too close to a guilty verdict. Taking over at lead counsel will be San Francisco legal giant Dennis Riordan, who cameoed at the first trial to help Spector’s squad during the tedious jury instructions process. Christopher Plourd and Spector consigliere Linda Kenney-Baden will still defend Spector, for now. Even though the lawyer firing shows Spector was disappointed that he was only sparred from jail by two acquitting jurors, that didn’t prevent Spector and his trouble-making wife Rachelle from doing a victory dance (and hump — see above) upon returning to their faux-mansion in Alhambra, as Phil celebrated being (for now, at least) a free man.

THE JURORS SPEAK:
A day after Juror nine expressed his regret that the jury couldn’t find Spector unanimously guilty, Juror ten, who was also the jury foreman, was ambushed into an interview with Court TV to explain to the viewers at home why he voted that Spector be acquitted. (more…)

File this under “you know you’re in bad shape when… .” According to some footage Blabbermouth brought to our attention, Ozzy Osbourne has joined the short list of Britney Spears defenders. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, the rocker impored the world to cut the pop star struggling with a botched comeback performance, management difficulties and custody troubles galore some slack. “I think [the media] are very unfair to Britney Spears … give her a break. I don’t know what the inside story is, all I see is this broken thing on TV every night.” Osbourne, in this case the voice of reason, continued, “She’ll die! She might kill herself! I hope she doesn’t. She’s got a mother and two kids, give her a break.”

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• After Gwen Stefani was forced to tone down her performance in Malaysia because of the country’s strict dress code, Beyoncé’s Kuala Lumpur debut was canceled thanks to protests from Malaysia’s Muslim groups. Beyoncé also reportedly refused to conform to the code, which doesn’t allow female performers to show any skin from the top of the chest down to the knees, and thus impeding on her ability to be “Bootylicious.”

• A countdown is ticking on a recently unearthed site called RadioheadLP7.com, but according to sources inside Camp Radiohead, the only thing that will be revealed when the clock strikes zeros is that the site is a hoax. We smelled “fake” from the onset, given the revert back to Kid A-era font, but that hasn’t stopped us from tricking our friends with personalized messages on the LP7 page.

• Before there was Kanye vs. 50, there was Oasis vs. Blur. But now, Liam Gallagher tells Mojo that he has put an end to the decade-old feud, officially white-flagging a war of bad words that began in 1995, when both bands released singles in the same week, and should have ended in 1996 when people stopped caring about the feud.

• Cat Power will release her second album of covers, curiously titled Covers II, on January 22nd. The full track list hasn’t been announced (click here for a short list, though), and Chan Marshall will once again be backed by her Dirty Delta Blues band.

• Reports that Michael Jackson married his children’s nanny at a shotgun wedding in Las Vegas are completely “not true,” according to Jacko’s spokesperson.

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