If Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington seems to possess superhuman powers these days, maybe it's because — like Peter Parker, aka Spiderman — he was bitten by a poisonous spider. A dangerous brown recluse spider sank its fangs into Bennington's arm at a hotel in Mansfield, Massachusetts, after the band performed at an Ozzfest concert. Bennington ran a high fever, and a portion of his arm swelled significantly. The singer managed to finish the band's two remaining Ozzfest shows before being treated with medication. According to an Associated Press report, victims of brown recluse spider bites often require hospitalization.

Another strange Ozzfest incident involved Papa Roach front man Coby Dick, who got into a fistful of trouble after urging fans to tear up the turf at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey. The band was later handed a bill for the damage, the amount of which was undisclosed. Papa Roach had nearly finished their set when Dick incited the audience to engage in the literal turf battle. The grass flinging continued for 20 minutes and ended only after the Ozzfest master of ceremonies told the crowd that if the chaos persisted, the rest of the show would be canceled.

No one would ever equate singer and songwriter Aimee Mann with anger-spewing rage rockers such as Limp Bizkit or Godsmack, yet Mann is fighting mad about a recent compilation of her music issued by Hip-O Records and has filed suit against the label's parent company, Universal Music Group. According to Billboard.com, Mann is seeking more than $2 million in damages. The disc, Aimee Mann: Ultimate Collection, features songs by Mann's early pop group, 'Til Tuesday, and her solo material. Mann is disgusted by the record, claiming that she was not allowed any involvement with the song selection.

“It's a product I consider to be seriously substandard and misleading,” she says on her Web site (www.aimeemann.com).

“It doesn't contain anything from Bachelor No. 2 [her latest CD] and only one song from Magnolia, and not the Oscar-nominated song,” she says. “Yet it does contain several things I personally consider to be absolute crap, including a rough mix of one song from just one of two reels of tracks, a song recorded live off the radio ten years ago and never authorized by me, and a song I didn't even write that I recorded for a movie as a favor to a producer friend.”