Paris Hilton got a new record deal… thanks to Lil Wayne

Wayne’s mentor — Birdman — confirmed the news on Twitter. “Lil Wayne’s Cash Money family has a new member! Paris Hilton: RichgangRichgirl.”

According to Showbiz411, Hilton’s album will focus on house music — no surprise, since she’s been DJing at various clubs all over the world … and training with some house music bigshots for years.

Paris told Showbiz411, “[The new album] is a lot different than my first album. It’s really going to be house music.”

Thanks Lil Wayne…

David Bowie’s classic ‘Space Oddity’ has been done to death… but I assure you no other cover will ever be as great as Commander Chris Hadfield’s version… with a few changes to the lyrics.

Here’s the first music video ever shot in space:

And, like everything Bowie does, it’s awesome.

Warning: If you are a really religious person maybe you shouldn’t watch this, it will probably offend you.

Selena Gomez is over 18 years old now so I can say this without getting in trouble or making me feel extra creepy. She looks incredibly hot in her new video “Come & Get It”… I have something she can come and get…

I bet you didn’t know there’s a Grammy-nominated Christian heavy metal band called “As I Lay Dying”… well, you will know it now after its lead singer made headlines today when he was arrested after trying to hire an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife.

Tim Lambesis, 32, was arrested at a retail business in California.

In a statement, police say detectives received information Thursday that Lambesis had solicited someone to kill his wife, who lives in nearby Encinitas. A task force from several law enforcement agencies quickly launched an investigation that led to the arrest.

It was not clear whether Lambesis had hired an attorney.

Vanessa Hudgens just released her music video for her Spring Breakers inspired song “$$$ex”… it’s like they all blew their production budget on LSD and cocaine and just said ‘fuck it, we are shooting this in my dad’s basement’

It’s just awful.

Jeff Hanneman, guitarist and founding member of metal band Slayer, died at age 49 yesterday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital .

The cause of death is still a mystery… although the consensus points to excessive drinking, Hannerman had been slowly recovering from what was believed to be a spider bite that nearly cost him his arm. Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said it’s believed the spider bite contributed to the failure of Hanneman’s liver.

Hanneman co-founded the thrash metal pioneers in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 1982. “The music industry has lost a true trailblazer, and our deepest sympathies go out to his family, his bandmates, and fans around the world who mourn his untimely passing,” said Neil Portnow, president and CEO of the Recording Academy, in a statement. “Jeff Hanneman will always be a metal god,” rocker Andrew WK tweeted.

It’s a sad day in music today as news that Chris Kelly died Wednesday surfaced online.

Kelly, better known as half of the 90′s rap duo Kris Kross, was pronounced dead “at an Atlanta hospital on Wednesday [after] an apparent drug overdose at his home, authorities said. … ‘It appears it may have been a possible drug overdose,’ said Cpl. Kay Lester, a spokeswoman for the Fulton County police.”

Kris Kross, who’s ‘thing’ was wearing clothes backwards, scored a big hit with “Jump” in 1992. After that, as the AP says, “they toured with Michael Jackson, appeared on TV shows, and even had their own video game. [But] the group was never able to match the tremendous success of their first song, though they had other hits like ‘Warm It Up,’ and ‘Tonite’s tha Night.’ ”