Between the Raconteurs' hiatus and an upcoming solo album, Detroit-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Brendan Benson has found a great way to occupy his time. "If I'm not working on music then I'm frantically weeding or gardening," Benson tells Spinner. "I'm not too good with knowing the different kinds of flowers but I know a few. There's a few I like, like the dahlia. I do mostly the landscaping part. My girlfriend, she picks out the flowers and stuff. I mostly weed and dig the hole for her to plant them."

But later this summer, Benson will shift his focus from yard work back to music in support of his latest album, 'My Old, Familiar Friend,' which was named for reasons that weren't readily apparent to him. "It's a lyric in one of the songs," Benson says. "It leapt out at me. I had a hard time thinking of a name and then I was listening to the record, trying to think that it might provoke a name. Sure enough, that just kind of popped out at me. I wasn't sure why I liked it. After doing these interviews and answering that question, after being with the Raconteurs and coming back now to my solo stuff, it's like my old familiar friend."

While some keep their drug use under the radar, Oasis' Noel Gallagher admitted to spending £1 million on drugs till he kicked the habit in 1998. Despite all the cash he dropped on drugs (including doing cocaine in a toilet that was set aside for the Queen of England), Gallagher said he never did heroin, "which kills people and which I have never tried." He stopped using in 1998 "because it is bad for your health, brain, life and for people around you."

Gallagher also slams Coldplay's Chris Martin, who says he has never taken drugs, and calls him an idiot for not doing so. "Doing drugs is the most beautiful thing about being in a rock band," the Oasis guitarist tells Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera.

Just two weeks after the launch of his clothing line, Pretty Green, Oasis' Liam Gallagher says he has plans to expand into the furniture business by launching a full range of furnishings in the near future.

"We are doing everything man, we are going to cane it," Gallagher tells an Oasis fan site.

"We have got this leather round sofa that opens up, made the other day," he explains. "A pretty green one, shaped like a target with the Pretty Green logo in the middle and it's f---ing nuts."

"He's never seen my little lad ... you wouldn't let him in the house if he spoke to you the way he speaks to me and my family." --Noel Gallagher

In a recent interview, the Oasis guitarist insisted that it will take five years to reconcile with brother/bandmate Liam, calling him "the angriest man you'll ever meet."

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Leave it to sunny Liam Gallagher to launch his new clothing line, Pretty Green, by slagging the fashion choices of some of his peers. "I'm not into the skinny look," he says in a new promotional video. "That's what I'm here for, to f---ing get rid of that s---."

Named for the Jam's 1980 song, the Oasis singer's designs range from footwear, denim and jackets to trenchcoats, parkas, T-shirts and accessories. According to the company, it's an "up-front, straight-talking, classic clothing range."

"I'm not gonna be putting anything out unless I'd wear it," Gallagher says on the line's official Web site. "I think you get a little more classy as you get older, don't you?"

You do?

"I've never used a computer." --Noel Gallagher

While accepting an award for Best Band Blog, the Oasis guitarist insisted that while proficient in the art of texting, he's never touched a laptop. Oh, irony.



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Speaking of modesty, Weezer's River Cuomo claims that the band's recent 'Troublemaker' tour felt like "the greatest show on earth." Hmm. If that sounds like something Liam Gallagher might say about his own circus, well, perhaps it is no coincidence. Cuomo tells Spinner that Weezer is, in fact, "planning the next leg of the tour to start up again in May of 2009 -- possibly with Oasis." Gee, we don't see any potential ego-clashes there.

"I've noticed over the past few Weezer tours that we just keep getting better and reaching new heights -- both the band, in terms of the power of their sound, but also me as a frontman and performer," Cuomo says.