R.E.M

R.E.M. has finished recording the band's 15th album in Berlin with producer Jacknife Lee. The follow-up to 2008's Accelerate doesn't have a name yet, but it's expected to be released in spring 2011 after being mixed this fall. The band wrote on its official website, "Berlin is a pulsing, exciting city with so many varied and distinctive neighborhoods, iconic history all around, great food at all levels and from every corner of the world...an excellent place to set up camp and make a great record." [MusicRadar.com]

R.I.P. country songwriter Hank Cochran, who died Thursday morning at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee at age 74. Cochran wrote chart-topping hits such as "He's Got You" and "Make the World Go Away," and co-wrote "I Fall to Pieces." A member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, Cochran was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008 and suffered an aortic aneurysm in March. [AOLNews.com]

Lindsay Lohan will get her own private cell in jail

The 24-year-old actress ' who has been sentenced to 90 days in prison for violating her probation for a driving under the influence (DUI) arrest in 2007 ' will be segregated from the general population at Los Angeles' Century Regional Detention Facility to avoid unwanted attention.

Steve Whitmore of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office told the New York Daily News newspaper: 'She's getting a cell by herself.

'She will be separated from the general population. She will be in a pod with other inmates in the same classification."

Lindsay - who also has to spend three months in an inpatient rehab facility after her jail term is complete - has to surrender herself to authorities on July 20 to start her sentence.

Although she will be in a private cell, the 'Mean Girls' star could have a cellmate who she will spend up to 22 hours a day with in the 12ft by 8ft room, which comes complete with two bunks and one toilet.

Lindsay can also look forward to getting up at 5am each morning and spending just one hour a day exercising, however, there is a shop where inmates can buy shampoo, cigarettes and sweet foods.