Kings of Leon drummer Nathan Followill has a queen. He tied the knot with singer Jessie Baylin over the weekend.

His bandmates — brothers Caleb and Jared Followill and cousin Matthew Followill — attended the wedding in Tennessee on Saturday. So did actress Scarlett Johansson, a high school friend of the bride.

The 25-year-old bride spread the news on Twitter: “Allow myself to introduce myself: Mrs Jessie B. Followill.”

The band’s hit singles include “Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody.” This month, they released their first DVD, “Live At The 02: London, England.”

Baylin’s second album, “Firesight,” was released in 2008.

Kris Allen knows he’s not garnering as much attention as Adam Lambert — and that’s OK with him.

Since foiling Lambert at the “American Idol” finale last May, the 24-year-old singer-songwriter from Conway, Ark., has not appeared on thecover of Rolling Stone magazine and declared he’s gay. His music can’t be heard during the credits of the apocalyptic action flick “2012.” And you won’t find him posing in a racy Details photo shoot with a naked woman.

“I don’t mind,” an always modest Allen says while perched in “Idol” overlord Simon Fuller’s quiet office 10 stories above the Sunset Strip. “I think that’s how I went through the competition as well. I did my thing, and it worked out. And that’s how I’m going to do my music career. I’m just going to do my thing, what I like to do, and hopefully it works out.”

His thing now is his self-titled album, which comes out Tuesday, a week before Lambert’s “For Your Entertainment” is scheduled for release. As one might expect after watching his soulful “Idol” renditions of Kanye West’s “Heartless” and “Falling Slowly” from the indie musical “Once,” Allen’s album is filled with melodic ballads and toe-tapping rock tunes.

Allen teamed with experienced producers like Toby Gad, Steve Kipner,Andrew Frampton and Saalam Remi, but contributed more than just his voice and guitar-and-piano-playing prowess. Allen’s name appears on the songwriting credits for all but four of the album’s 13 songs — including “Red Guitar,” a ditty Allen wrote for his wife, Katy, before his “Idol” run.

“I bought my wife a red guitar for her birthday a long time ago, hoping that she would play it,” he says. “She never learned how, so it became a wall decoration in our apartment. One day, I took it off the wall and started playing it, and just started writing a song that ended up being about the guitar itself, which was not the greatest guitar in the world.”

His beaming wife’s face became a constant presence in the audience during Allen’s “Idol” tenure, a move that judge Simon Cowell teased at risk of scaring off female fans. Throughout the post-”Idol” zaniness — the tour! the recording! the trip to Disney World! — Allen says she’s kept him fully grounded and embraced their move from Arkansas to La La Land.

Allen admits he doesn’t mind being mobbed by fans in public because “people are usually nice about it.” But he’s still not totally comfortable with on-camera interviews, despite some post-”Idol” media training. His goofy nice-guy demeanor remains refreshing, even when the chime from a friend’s rather coarse text message interrupts the interview.

“If I just had one word to describe this entire experience, it would be nuts,” Allen says. “It’s just nuts going from being a happily married guy into the music industry and this crazy world of entertainment. But in the end, I get to do exactly what I like to do, and that’s make music. That’s what makes me happy. That’s the thing that has always driven me.”

Allen is looking forward to touring with his band next year and hopes to keep an Allen family Christmas tradition going strong this holiday. Every year, Allen’s mother gives him and his brother, Daniel, a new pair of pajamas and a board game, which they play — no matter how long it takes — before going to bed. He already knows what game he wants this year.

“The new Monopoly with the big towers,” he says, his eyes widening. “You can build cities. It’s weird.”

The physician being investigated in Michael Jackson’s death reached an agreement Monday in a separate child support casethat will keep him out of jail.

Prosecutors sought an arrest warrant for Dr. Conrad Murray after he failed to appear for previous hearings in the case. He is accused of owing more than $14,000 to a California woman and her son dating back to October 2008.

With Murray in court, his lawyer Christopher Aaron paid $700 cash and promised to pay another $303 as part of the deal approved by Clark County District Court Judge Gerald Hardcastle.

Aaron has said Murray, a cardiologist, has been unable to pay because he had to close his medical practice and move due to threats following Jackson’s death June 25.

“He’s radioactive,” Aaron told The Associated Press. “He’s unemployed and unemployable.”

In Oct. 27 court filings, Clark County Deputy District Attorney Gerard Costantian asked the court to find Murray in contempt and send him to jail unless he could demonstrate an inability to pay.

The Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Jackson’s death a homicide, caused primarily by propofol and another sedative.

Murray told investigators he administered propofol as a sleep aid, along with multiple sedatives, in the hours before Jackson died.

Murray has not been charged with a crime but is the focus of the Los Angeles police investigation, according to documents made public with search warrants served as his home and offices.

Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman for Murray, said he continues to maintain he neither prescribed nor administered anything to Jackson that should have killed him.

Murray, who is licensed in Nevada, Texas and California, had been hired to a lucrative $150,000-per-month contract to be the pop star’s personal physician during a world tour.

At the time, the financially troubled physician owed at least $780,000 for settlements against his business, outstanding mortgage payments on his large Las Vegas house, delinquent student loans, credit cards and child support.

Another judge in Las Vegas is due Wednesday to consider unsealing search warrant documents stemming from a police raid Aug. 11 at a Las Vegas pharmacy from which authorities say Murray legally purchased propofol.

Meanwhile, Janet Jackson said she blamed Murray for her brother Michael’s death.

She told ABC News in an interview to air Wednesday that Murray should no longer be allowed to practice medicine.

“He was the one that was administering,” Jackson said. “I think he is responsible.”

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have officially signed on as co-producers of “Fela!,” a musical about Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti that opens Monday (November 23) on Broadway.

The news confirms weeks of speculation that the three would back the show.

A representative for “Fela!” did not specify the amount of the celebrities’ investment, but their endorsement alone gives the musical’s profile a significant boost just a week before its premiere.

“There’s going to be an enormous incentive for people to investigate Fela when they know that Jay-Z and Will Smith are all rabid fans,” Rikki Stein, Kuti’s former co-manager and executor of his estate, recently told Billboard. “It’s a sign that the underground is moving overground.”

“Fela!” will help find a larger audience for the music of Kuti, who pioneered Afrobeat from the sounds of James Brown and West African high-life music, became a political icon in his native Nigeria and earned the admiration of everyone from Paul McCartney to the Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil before his death in 1997.

“I have an abiding regret that Fela never achieved the recognition he deserved during his lifetime,” Stein said. “We have a long row to hoe in terms of general knowledge and acceptance.”

In addition to green-lighting “Fela!,” Kuti’s estate has licensed his catalog to the newly revived Knitting Factory Records. The well-timed deal will result in the reissue of Kuti’s complete catalog — 45 albums — during the next 12 years.

“The industry always talks about who the next big legacy artist will be,” said Ian Wheeler, label manager ofKnitting Factory Records. “It should have been Fela years ago. We’re really trying to bring a new audience around the world, and particularly in the U.S., to his music.”

Up first is the October 27 release “The Best of the Black President,” a compilation of Kuti’s best-known material. The set is being sold at previews of “Fela!” and at Felabrations, a series of Afrobeat DJ parties organized by Knitting Factory Records and its marketing partner, Giant Step.

LOST IN THE SHUFFLE

MCA reissued Kuti’s catalog in 2001, but Bernstein, who helped market that series, said its potential wasn’t fully realized. “MCA was a major label, and no matter how much they said they loved Fela and how important he was, he was definitely lost in the shuffle,” he said.

Stein is all too familiar with labels’ conflicted admiration for Kuti. In the mid-’80s, he said he met with every major about a potential deal. “They all received me respectfully and saw Fela as akin to Miles Davis or any of the jazz greats,” Stein recalls. “But they’d ask: ‘Rikki, which three minutes of this 18-minute song do you want me to put on the radio?’”

“I’d ask Fela to write me a small tune,” Stein added. “He used to say, ‘I’m writing African classical music. Don’t mess with Tchaikovsky.’”

A deal nearly came to fruition in 1993, when then-Motown Records president Jheryl Busby offered Kuti a five-album deal under his new Africa-oriented label, with a $1.3 million advance for each album and another $1 million for full ownership of Kuti’s catalog, Stein said. But after talking to his spirit advisers, Kuti refused to sign until April 1995. Busby left Motown the week of the scheduled signing, and Andre Harrell’s first action as Motown’s new president was to ax the African label.

“Fela!” re-creates the Shrine — the Lagos, Nigeria, nightclub where Kuti played multiple nights each week with his band, Africa 70. Singers, dancers and musicians perform Kuti songs including “Shakara,” “Zombie” and “Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense” behind lead actor Sahr Ngaujah, who has won an Obie Award for his spot-on portrayal of Kuti in the show’s Off Broadway run last year. The effect is less stuffy theater than raucous concert — just as its creators intended.

“The Broadway experience can be like sitting with blinders on,” “Fela!” director/choreographer Bill T. Jones said. “This is a show you enjoy as much with your body as with your mind. It’s free and communal.”

“There was a constant struggle between keeping Fela’s music pure and deconstructing it for the audience,” said the show’s musical director, Aaron Johnson, who translated Kuti’s Yoruba and pidgin lyrics and is also the conductor/trombonist of the acclaimed Afrobeat band Antibalas. “I’ve been very pleasantly surprised with the response so far.”

Nor have the most controversial aspects of Kuti’s life been smoothed over, from his simultaneous “wedding” to 27 women to his clashes with the Nigerian government that led to a brutal 1977 attack on his compound, which he called the Kalakuta Republic. “It’s all out there,” Stein said. “Fela has not been sanitized.”

And there’s further proof that a Kuti revival of sorts is under way: A screenplay for a biopic is in the works, to be directed by the U.K. filmmaker Steve McQueen (”Hunger”).

“I believe that with the show, the film and the reissues, a lot is going to change,” Stein said. “We’ll see a much wider audience for Fela. There were a million people at his funeral shouting, ‘Fela will live forever.’ Of course, they were right.”

LOS ANGELES – A prominent entertainment law firm is suing Rod Stewart for $3.3 million in legal fees it claims he owes.

Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro filed the case Tuesday in Los Angeles. The firm has numerous high-profile clients and recently won judgments for architect Frank Gehry and television host Bob Barker.

The lawsuit claims Stewart owes for work on three cases, including one involving the singer’s cancellation of a December 2000 show in Las Vegas. A federal jury decided Stewart owed the Rio hotel-casino $2 million for canceling the show.

The firm also represented the Rock and Rock Hall of Famer in atrademark infringement case and a lawsuit filed by a concert promoter.

Stewart’s manager was not immediately available for comment.