· One of the Beatles’ key financial advisors, Neil Aspinall, has died at the age of 66. A childhood friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, Aspinall was at one point the band’s road manager, personal assistant and later head of the Beatles’ Apple Corps business, which handled their many financial interests.

· Do whatever you want to yourself on stage, but, please, keep the violence to a minimum on those CDs. The U.S. version of the new album from Be Your Own Pet, Get Awkward, will be three songs shorter because the band’s label, Universal Records, thought the tracks “Blow Yr Mind,” “Black Hole” and “Becky” were too violent. Somewhere out there, label mates Eminem and Marilyn Manson are dining on live human baby hearts they cut out with rusty butter knives and laughing. [UPDATE: Word from inside the group's camp is that the three songs will be available in the UK as an EP, and possibly with the same artwork as the album, except with a red circle-and-slash over it. Kinda great!]

· Primus are reuniting (sort of, we guess) to headline their hometown’s inaugural Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, in San Francisco, this August. Beck, Wilco, Widespread Panic, Devendra Banhart, Cold War Kids, Ben Harper, Regina Spektor and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings are also on the bill.

· We think the trailer for the upcoming Suge Knight reality show is awesome. Seriously, it’s great and we have no problem with it at all. [via Nah Right]