Music biopics are huge in Hollywood these days as productions about everyone from Queen to Kurt Cobain to James Brown to the Clash are in the works. They're all big stars, but the biopic that has really had grabbed young actors' attention is the proposed film about the life of Jeff Buckley, the Grace rocker who died in a tragic swimming accident in 1997 at the age of 30.

Since news of a Buckley biopic was announced, actors James Franco and Robert Pattinson were viewed as frontrunners for the role, with Buckley's own mother Mary Guibert, an executive producer on the film, mentioning them as the favorites. However, a WB star has swooped in and taken the job.

Penn Badgley, or "Dan Humphrey" as he's commonly known on Gossip Girl, has reportedly won the Buckley role, Hollywood Life reports. Until we hear it from The Projector or the Hollywood Reporter, this news is still "reportedly," but Badgley is said to be "over the moon" about being cast as the singer whose version of "Hallelujah"

American Idol's new favorite metal band Judas Priest have issued a statement to "clarify a situation that seems to be confusing a few people out there." Their "farewell tour" isn't actually a "farewell tour" in the sense we all assumed, i.e. that the band is ending and they are saying farewell one last time. As the Rob Halford-led group explain (via Blabbermouth):

"When we issued our press release to announce the farewell tour, we stated that it was the last major world tour for Judas Priest. Nothing has changed -- we didn't say it was the end of the band or that we were going to retire or the band was going to break up... just that it would be the last major world tour we would be doing, which is still the case."

In fact, the band has plans for a new album (evidently there was a press release before the one that went out about the "farewell tour" that discussed that, excuuuuse us), and haven't ruled out playing live again should "something special or a great cause" pop up. So the

Back in primitive times, when faced with an unfamiliar song, one would first have to use the music-identifying app Shazam to determine "what's the name of this song again?" before heading to a search engine to find its lyrics at one of a million shady lyrics sites. Here in 2011, that multi-step process has been streamlined into one simple action: Shazam has introduced song lyrics to their already-awesome service, allowing bar patrons to sing along to whatever track they're awkwardly holding up their cell phone to identify. Or when testing Your Cover's Blown.

According to Mashable, Shazam implemented this breakthrough lyrical technology after acquiring a company called Tunezee, which coordinates the lyrics you're seeing with what part of the song is playing, like karaoke. We tested Shazam's new lyrics feature on a Cut Copy song we were listening to while writing this item, and it worked, kind of! It produced the proper lyrics, but we weren't able to get the lyrics to "scroll in time to

The Osbournes sold their reality TV mansion, and as far as we can tell, there's no evidence that Ozzy purchased property in Lake Tahoe, but that didn't stop one inebriated fan from searching for his idol in the California town. According to the Tahoe Daily Tribune, an 18-year-old male used a flowerpot to shatter a house's glass panel at about 4:15 a.m. Monday morning. When the police arrived and asked the teen what he was doing there, he responded simply that he was there to see Ozzy Osbourne. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), Ozzy Osbourne was not there.

A Breathalyzer found that the kid had a blood alcohol content double the legal limit, which was exacerbated by the fact that the legal limit for a minor under 21 is zero. Police arrested the teen, but not before he racked up $8,000 worth of damage on the property (that must have been one fancy flowerpot).

We don't want to stereotype, because we know how well-behaved metal fans are, but Ozzy is one of maybe five rockers we can