» Slow News Day: The musicFIRST Coalition, the group lobbying to have broadcasters pay a performance royalty on the music they play, is sending free songs to National Association of Broadcasters executives this week. Copies of Steve Miller Band's "Take The Money And Run," Bruce Springsteen's "Pay Me My Money Down," Paul McCartney's "Back In The U.S.S.R." and Sheryl Crow's "A Change Would Do You Good" are being delivered to NAB President/CEO David Rehr and EVP/Radio John David to remind them of the "inequity" facing recording artists who go unpaid when their music is played on the radio.

In response, the NAB fired back at the "organization backed by the RIAA" with this statement from EVP Dennis Wharton: "This silly gesture obscures the fact that most musicians become successful through free airplay from America's hometown radio stations. NAB suggests that RIAA instead donate these tunes to the college kids and grandmothers that they keep trying to have arrested." Later, the two organizations were heard shouting "Your Mama" at each other.

» Starry Knight: Jones Radio's Lia Knight received the 2008 Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, Program Host from the American Women In Radio and Television May 28. This is her fourth time taking home the award, having done so in 2003, 2004 and 2006.

» Gig Alert: New South's WOKK/Meridian, MS Production Dir./afternoon jock John Fox is leaving the station to move to Shreveport, LA at the end of the month. PD Todd "Sharkey" Rupe is looking for a team player with excellent production skills to fill the position. Send airchecks and resumes to him here.

» Treo Update: URBan Radio's WWZD Tupelo, MS is no longer accepting snail mail at its P.O. Box. All correspondence should go to 5026 Cliff Gookin Blvd., Tupelo, 38801.

» Hillbilly Mansion: MSN.com has included the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in its top 10 of the World's Wildest Architecture, citing the building's treble clef shape and piano-key windows. Other buildings on the list are the Haines Shoe House, the Guggenheim Museum, the Ideal Palace of Ferdinand Cheval and the Sydney Opera House. Check out a slideshow here.

» Guitar? Here? Oh. In celebration of James Otto as the Xbox June Live Artist of the Month, Warner Bros. and Xbox are sponsoring a booth in the Nashville Convention Center during CMA Music Fest this week. Otto, as well as Cowboy Troy, Whitney Duncan Jason Jones, Point Of Grace, The Dirt Drifters, Jason Jones and Randy Travis, will be on hand to play Guitar Hero 3, Project Gotham and more with fans in two-hour rotating shifts. Fans will also be able to register to win an Xbox signed by all the artists.

» Life Note: Congrats to Rascal Flatt's Joe Don Rooney and wife Tiffany Fallon on the birth of their son Jagger Donovan May 31. Mom and baby are doing well.