Reuters reports that AOL and Time Warner are prepared to go to court to fight federal regulators who say that the two corporations can't merge if they're not going to allow AOL's rivals access to its news and entertainment content.

Ol' Dirty Bastard [ tickets ] was denied bail following his arrest in Philadelphia--click here for that story--and will be held until his extradition hearing, The Associated Press reported. Both California and New York have warrants out for him.

From Joshua Clover's article on OutKast [ tickets ] in GQ: "An astonishing fact about this American life is that a band can move millions of records and remain underground, essentially unknown to the mainstream (read: white) audience. You don't need to cross over anymore to go platinum ..." According to the article, OutKast's first album went platinum without airplay.

How does that happen exactly? Is it the 'Net? Is everyone reading The Source? We're pretty hip-hop-ig-nunt here at liveDaily Briefly. Anyone who can explain it--like, if you bought OutKast's first album when it came out, how did you hear about it?--email us at james@livedaily.com.

Big Star [ tickets ] will reunite for a New Year's Eve show in New Orleans, RollingStone.com reported.