Radiohead, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Jack Johnson will headline a music festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in August.

The inaugural Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, which aims to feature rock, blues, reggae, jazz, hip-hop, world, soul, Latin and electronic on five stages, will take place August 22-24 at the 1,000-plus acre venue.

Additional acts will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets will go on sale at the end of March, with pricing still to be worked out. Organizers hope to draw about 60,000 fans on each of the three days.

Johnson, who has ruled the U.S. pop charts for the last three weeks with his album “Sleep Through the Static,” is one of the headliners at the Coachella festival in southern California (April 25-27). Additionally, he and Radiohead top the bill for the inaugural All Points West festival near New York City (August 8-10).

The rap-rocker pleaded not guilty Monday to a misdemeanor count of simple battery stemming from a fight at an Atlanta-area Waffle House last October.

Rock, 37, did not appear in court and had his attorney, Darryl Cohen, enter the plea on his behalf.

The singer (real name: Robert Ritchie) and members of his entourage ran into trouble at the breakfast-purveying chain in the wee hours of Oct. 21, following a concert at the Tabernacle concert hall in Atlanta.

While at the restaurant, a woman who was with Rock’s group allegedly got into a heated debate with another Waffle House patron whom she recognized.

The two apparently took their quarrel into the parking lot, where Rock and five members of his entourage became involved before piling onto the rocker’s tour bus and departing.

Police stopped the bus shortly thereafter and took Rock and his cronies into custody on a single charge of simple battery. Rock was released later the same day after posting $1,000 bail.

During an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show later that same week, Rock maintained that he had been provoked into participating in the encounter, adding that he did not consider himself to be a violent person.

“The last thing I want is that reputation,” he said. “I believe in just standing up for things I believe in, and being honest, and sometimes it gets me in a little bit of trouble.”

Canadian rock star Avril Lavigne has criticised young Hollywood celebrities for constantly seeking media attention.

She is surprised that many celebrities give pointers to the paparazzi about where they are going so that they can be photographed, it was reported.

Lavigne said: “I think a lot of the Hollywood girls, I won’t get into names, are obsessed with the paparazzi. They call them or go to the Ivy (a popular restaurant) so they’ll be seen and followed for the rest of the day. I won’t go shopping on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles because it’s so cheesy. I would feel lame. It’s embarrassing.”

A few things we learned from tonight’s episode of American Idol: Wearing a black bandanna to the Thursday-night results show is bad luck. There’s no way to avoid looking awkward in the ”family mourning area” of Idol’s red room. It’s not too early in the season to feel your heart break (just a little) for a contestant you didn’t even know you cared about. And, last, Asia’h Epperson subscribes to the philosophy that even when you’ve been delivered an unexpected emotional kidney punch, you do not pass up an opportunity to grab the microphone and sing for 30 million viewers.

Let’s focus on those last two points for a moment, since both were connected to the elimination of Alaina Whitaker, the perky teenager who Simon Cowell had described as a potential season 7 dark horse only 24 hours earlier. When Ryan brought Alaina and fellow contestant Kady Malloy to center stage and informed them that one of them was the week’s lowest female vote getter while the other was among the bottom three, I got a sinking feeling Alaina was in for a surprise, and not the good kind.

You see, at the end of Wednesday night’s episode, I had pegged Kady as a possible goner, based on her excruciating rendition of ”Magic Man.” But Thursday afternoon, my colleague Dawnie Walton (who’ll be this week’s Idolatry co-host; e-mail us with your phone number and your take on this week in Idol at Idolatry@ew.com if you want to be our call-in guest) dropped by my office to insist that Alaina was the likeliest blond contestant to go home, because her ”Hopelessly Devoted to You” was hopelessly forgettable. Sure enough, after reading 47 pages of TV Watch message-board comments (oh, yes, I did!), I found that mentions of Alaina were few and far between — never a good sign.

Of course, that didn’t make it any less painful to watch a shell-shocked Alaina turn into Crying Girl Part Deux after Ryan announced her elimination. But then, moments after Alaina declared that there was no way she could go on with her exit performance, her fellow contestants rallied around her and urged her forward, with Asia’h muttering something about the possibility of ”a record producer” tuning in, and Carly and Amanda sweetly offering backup-vocal support. And while I’m still not quite sure why Ryan was offering his ”congratulations” (on being the lowest vote getter?), I’ll admit the whole scene was pretty touching.

By comparison, the ouster of Alexandréa Lushington (and her black-and-white peace-symbol bandanna) was far less emotional, unless, of course, you were David Archuleta (who took Alexandréa’s exit as if he’d just found out the fate of Bambi’s mother) or you shared my feeling that the abrasive teenager was one of the season’s more interesting vocalists.

I know, I know, I’m in the minority on that one. A reader named Cara said she found Miss Lushington’s voice so ”tiny and blah” that she began reading her latest issue of EW the second her cover of ”If You Leave Me Now” got under way. And even Alexandréa’s fans had begun to abandon her. ”I’m not sure what happened this week,” wrote JohnnyD. ”Someone sucked away the confidence of last week’s ‘Spinning Wheel.’ Alexandréa’s ability to jazz up a melody creates TECHNICOLOR, but last night it appeared she accepted the fact that it was her last song.”

(Side note: I leave it to you guys to discuss the fact that Amanda Overmyer dodged a bullet after her unspeakably gruesome treatment of Kansas’ ”Carry On Wayward Son” on Wednesday. Viva la Rock & Roll Nurse!)

Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer, singer and songwriter whose eclectic career included stints playing with Jimi Hendrix and as the lead voice of the California Raisins, the animated clay figures that became an advertising phenomenon in the late 1980s, has died. He was 60.

Miles died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his home in Austin, Texas, according to an announcement on his website.

A massive man with a distinctive, sculpted afro, Miles hit his peak of popularity when he joined Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox to form Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, which the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll called “the first black rock group.” Miles had played with Hendrix on the guitarist’s influential “Electric Ladyland” album released in 1968.

The Band of Gypsys made just one album, a live set recorded on New Year’s Eve in 1969-70, and two of Miles’ songs, “Them Changes” and “We Got to Live Together,” were included on the album. He gave the recording a memorable drum riff on one of Hendrix’s signature songs, “Machine Gun.”

But, according to Miles, the Band of Gypsys association was brief and stormy. He told The Times in 1988 that Hendrix’s management, not the guitarist himself, fired him within a month of the concert. He thought Hendrix’s managers were leery of continuing with an all-black group.

“It had to be a racial thing,” Miles told The Times. “I think it had to scare them because of the political aspect at the time.”

Miles was born Sept. 5, 1947, in Omaha. He developed an interest in drums at an early age and by 12 was playing in his father’s jazz combo. Within a couple of years he was in demand as a session player and a sideman, working with top-name R&B groups, including Ruby and the Romantics and the Delfonics. According to the Rolling Stone encyclopedia, he played on the session that produced the Jaynetts’ 1963 hit “Sally Go Round the Roses.”

While playing with Wilson Pickett in 1967, he was approached by guitarist Mike Bloomfield, who asked him to join the blues, rock and soul group Electric Flag. Miles played on three of the band’s albums before forming his own group, the Buddy Miles Express, in 1968. Next came his association with Hendrix.

Over the years, Miles recorded two albums with Carlos Santana, one of which went platinum, and worked with other leading music figures, including Muddy Waters and John McLaughlin. He re-formed the Buddy Miles Express in the mid-1970s and had a hit with his song “Them Changes.”

By the late 1970s, however, Miles’ career came to a halt over convictions for grand theft and auto theft. He served time in the California Institution for Men at Chino and at San Quentin State Prison. He was incarcerated until 1985 and formed bands at both prisons.

After he was released, he sang with Santana’s group and got the raisin gig while working on an album with the guitarist. The popular television commercials for the California Raisin Advisory Board featured a quartet of singing and dancing Claymation figures with Miles, as Buddy Raisin, doing the lead singing covering Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”

The commercial’s popularity spawned a million-selling offshoot album of remakes of rock and soul oldies, “The California Raisins Sing the Hit Songs.”