· Timbaland married longtime girlfriend Monique Idlett on Sunday in a lavish ceremony in Aruba that was attended by Missy Elliott and Keri Hilson, along with hundreds of other guests. The producer, 37, and Idlett, his 33-year-old publicist, had been dating for nearly three years.
· Indie rockers the Shins may go even indier for their next studio album. The second-most-successful band ever signed to Sub Pop Records (after Nirvana) may release its fourth album on singer James Mercer's Aural Apothecary label.
· Legendary promoter Michael Cohl, the man who spearheaded megadeals between concert-promotion giant Live Nation and artists including Madonna and Jay-Z, has stepped down from the company's board of directors after clashing with LN boss Michael Rapino over the "360" deals.
· After traveling to Louisiana to attend the birth of 17-year-old sister Jamie Lynn's first baby, Britney Spears returned to Los Angeles on Friday and immediately made news when her entourage was involved in a scuffle with a scrum of more than two dozen paparazzi swarming around the singer.

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