And he apparently confessed, too.  Here’s the scoop from the band’s website. Hello all, Some shit happened last night and before the blogosphere gets all crazy with false statements and

The big rock-star-gone-bad story this weekend involves Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong being kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight because a flight attendant objected to his low-slung pants.  When he refused the request to hike them up, he and whomever he was flying with was ejected from the Oakland-to-Burbank flight

No, I didn’t go away for the long weekend because frankly, I couldn’t be bothered.  I just couldn’t deal with the hassle of making arrangements, the traffic and having to interact with people grasping desperately at their last bit of summer.

Besides, Canada’s largest ribfest is just down the highway this weekend and I couldn’t possibly miss that.  I’m all out of Camp 31 BBQ sauce and I need to stock up for the winter and the spring of summer of 2012.  That’s what’s important to me.  

And keeping you up to date on music news, of course.  I mean, at some point you’re going to open a beer and break out the laptop, right?

[Note:  Some editions of the Metro papers carried this column yesterday.]

I didn’t spend a lot of money on music over the summer because there wasn’t much of anything to buy.  Unless you’re into metal, of course, but that’s an entirely different column.  But with the coming of Labour Day, the new release pipeline is starting to fill up.  The fourth quarter is make-or-break time for both the labels and record stores.

Joe and the Clash have been documented and studied to death.  Yet there’s still more to learn.  

Like what?  Well, if you ever take the tube in London, you might stumble across something Joe-related.  And Joe’s daughter is something of a superstar–just not in the world of music.

Yesterday, after months of speculation, Calgary’s Shaw Media announced that they would not be getting into the cell phone game.  

After acquiring much expensive spectrum, it was expected that they’d beef up their delivery systems by rolling out a mobile phone unit in order to compete with vertically integrated communications-content-delivery companies like Rogers and Bell.  But they say, “Um, no.  We’re not going to do that.  Too expensive.”

Why?  I have a theory.

I may be wrong, but I haven’t seen any pundits mention this anywhere yet.