The “Cake Boss” brand is growing – and although the cash flow seems to be also be growing, celebrity cake baker Buddy Valastro feels bad for his fans that the lines outside of Carlo’s City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, NJ are also extending with it.

“I would love to facilitate everybody, but a lot of people want that experience, as crazy as it sounds,” Valastro said before a tribute dinner to Regis Philbin at Mohegan Sun’s 15th anniversary in Uncasville, CT. Of course, the “Cake Boss” presented Philbin with a cake designed to look like a television. “I think (the lines are) part of the allure, so, we’re doing some things to try to change that a little bit, so that we can facilitate a little better. Hopefully within a year, we’ll be all set.”

After I questioned what he intends to do specifically, Valastro confirmed that he was referring to his plans to expand Carlo’s current location in Hoboken. The “Cake Boss” just opened a 50,000 square foot factory in Jersey City, and there are rumors of future Carlo’s Bake Shop locations in the northern New Jersey area. In conjunction with TLC, Valastro launched Cake Boss Café, a mini bake shop/souvenir store dedicated to the TV show in Discovery Times Square, an exhibit space in midtown Manhattan. The site opened this past May.

“America’s Grillmaster” Bobby Flay has certainly proven that he can handle the heat in the kitchen. But this summer, Flay proved he could handle a different type of heat, as in the wrath of the fictional super-agent Ari Gold on the HBO series “Entourage.” The hit show saw its eighth and final season air this summer, with Flay playing the role of semi-home wrecker, moving in on Gold’s wife after the couple had separated. However in an interesting twist, show writers chose Flay to reveal Mrs. Ari’s first name, Melissa, for the first time in the show’s history.

“When I read the script, I couldn’t believe it,” Flay told me at an appearance for Mohegan Sun’s 15th anniversary in Uncasville, CT. “I was like, ‘This is sort of like television history. No one knew her name for eight seasons, and I’m going to get to be the one to reveal her name?’ I thought that was pretty cool.”

Flay’s arc on the show was his first for a fictional series. The celebrity chef currently owns eleven different restaurants between his Mesa Grill, Bar Americain, Bobby Flay Steak, and Bobby’s Burger Palace brands.

Don’t act too surprised: it looks as if America’s favorite on-and-off couple is off… again.

According to multiple sources, Ronnie Magro was close to a no-show for his scheduled appearance at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT on Friday night. The resort booked Magro along with fellow MTV “Jersey Shore” stars Sammi Giancola and Deena Cortese for a question and answer session, meet and greet, and nightclub appearance. Magro missed the Q&A and had “Meatball #2” sit between him and Sammi during the meet and greet.

Later in the evening, all three showed up to Mohegan Sun’s Ultra 88 Nightclub. Sammi entered first, flanked by a girlfriend. Deena followed soon after, and Ronnie showed up last. While waiting to walk in to the club, Magro turned to a friend and said, “I can’t do this. It’s too tough.” Immediately after, he and his entourage walked out the entrance of the club, past Sammi Sweetheart who could only turn and glare at her now ex-boyfriend.

Sammi and Deena stayed the evening, partying inside a VIP suite with the Cake Boss, Buddy Valastro. Ronnie exited out the back door around 1 a.m.

Mitchel Musso, known best for his role as “Oliver” on the hit Disney show, “Hannah Montana,” was arrested Sunday morning in Burbank, CA on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. TMZ reports that Musso blew well above a .08 on his breathalyzer exam, California’s limit. According to the website, the actor did not perform well on his field sobriety test.

Police pulled Musso over after he failed to slow down for authorities who were attending to a different accident on the side of the road. He is only 20 years old.

Prior to this weekend, Musso had done a fairly good job of keeping his name off websites like TMZ, unlike some of his peers. In November 2010, while promoting his album Brainstorm, I asked the artist on “The Ralphie Radio Show” how he managed to do this.

“I think they realize that I’m just not one to be messed with,” responded Musso. “Am I saying that I’m the best role model in the world? Hell no, and I would never say that. But do I think I keep a clean enough image… I’m so boring of a person that I don’t really have anything to talk about to TMZ? Yeah.”

Musso continued, explaining that he felt most teen stars have control over whether they appear on sites like TMZ or not – and that most of the people you see simply want the attention.

“It’s almost scripted,” he claimed. “It kind of makes everyone look like a joke, and I’m sorry for letting out the truth but I’m so sick of hearing, ‘(The gossip websites) are so bad because they’re looking in to these people’s lives.’ No, these people are telling their lives.”

Unfortunately for Musso, the police report is now telling his. As he will be finding out, drinking and driving isn’t something to be messed with, either.

The Fray has released three live albums, and lead singer Isaac Slade admits there is a sense of vulnerability that needs to be overlooked in order to allow the masses to hear your work live and raw. Yet, it was that same feeling of vulnerability that Slade thinks prohibited the band from meeting its expectations on The Fray’s second, self-titled album.

“We wanted to swing for the ball as hard as we could on (The Fray) and I feel like we were a little afraid to,” admitted Slade on “The Ralphie Radio Show.” “Maybe the pressure to do a ‘How to Save a Life’ number two or to not really own up to who we actually are… it is a little bit of, I think, an embarrassment that we’re like so mainstream, commercial, yunno, on TV shows and stuff, and all of our friends are like, Indie Rock bands.”

The “sophomore slump” feelings only motivated the Denver-based band to work harder on its third studio album, Scars & Stories. The Fray teamed up with producer Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam) and Slade said it was a learning experience.

“He kicked our ass a little bit,” the front man said of O’Brien. “I’d get in to these artistic, self-doubt tail spins and he’d just kind of slap me across the face and be like, ‘Just get in there and do it the best you can because that’s all you can do!’”

In addition to the figurative sparring between the producer and the band, there was some argument amongst The Fray themselves, particularly on the choice for the first single from Scars.

“There’s another song called, ‘Run for Your Life’ that I think is probably my favorite song on the record,” said Slade. “It’s real ballad-y, beautiful, and heart wrenching and kind of like, whatever you think of The Fray to be, kind of our cliché.”

Slade is confident that the song will elicit tears from listeners and that it will be “exciting to release to the public,” but ultimately the band decided to go in a more upbeat direction with “Heartbeat” – a track inspired by the real life events of the genocide and exile in Rwanda.

Scars & Stories is scheduled for a February 7, 2012 release.

It is quite ironic that V V Brown sampled “Do Your Ears Hang Low?” for her song “Children,” the first single for an album entitled, Lollipops & Politics. The irony did not get past the singer.

“When we were making this song, I was outside and I heard an ice cream truck go by,” explained Brown in studio on “The Ralphie Radio Show” of how the track came about. “I just sampled (the song) on my iPhone. I wanted to talk about the youth and politics, generation, in a pop, sort of culture way.”

But then Brown did a little research on “Do Your Ears Hang Low?” and found out that the children’s song was derived from an old military tune that soldiers would sing, “Do Your Balls Hang Low?” You can’t combine lollipops and politics much more than that.

In typical V V-fashion, the sample heard in the final version of “Children” is the actual recording of the ice cream truck from her iPhone. On Brown’s debut LP, Traveling Like the Light, all of the vocals used for the album were taken from demo cuts. The UK-born artist kept the same formula for her sophomore record.

“Still the same kind of ‘rough’ thing,” Brown said of the recording process. “I believe that you capture magic when you’re in the moment.”

It is staying in the moment, and not getting too consumed in it, that Brown is trying to teach herself to do more often on her second run in the U.S. Specifically, the singer is applying this mentality when performing on television, as she is conscious of not “overdoing it.”

“We managed to do David Letterman and ‘Ellen,’” recalled Brown. “It made me realize that when you’re performing, you almost have to perform less for the TV, because if you do an extremely exaggerated performance and give it everything, it looks (like) too much when you watch it back.”

The other thing Brown learned from her first go-around on the American tube? The myth is true: Letterman’s “Late Show” studio is indeed freezing cold.

It was a surreal moment for Yonkers, NY-emcee Outasight when he heard, “Tonight is the Night” on a Pepsi commercial that featured some of music’s biggest stars, from Michael Jackson to Britney Spears.

“The first time I saw it, I definitely got the chills,” the artist, born Richard Andrew, told me via telephone on “The Ralphie Radio Show.” “Just to be a part of something so cool and so incredible… I just feel honored.”

The commercial airs during “The X-Factor,” Simon Cowell’s latest import from across the pond to FOX. Outasight is currently on the road and about to support Gym Class Heroes on tour. But, the emcee did catch the first couple of episodes on TV.

“It was really good,” he said of the reality show. “It seemed like there was some really good talent on the show so, we’ll see how it all turns out.”

Outasight is launching his career a little more traditionally, with his touring schedule combined with the Pepsi campaign and the release of free mixtapes via the Internet. The latter method is interesting given that a lot of artists stop giving away free music once they land on a major label. Not the case for Outasight, who is signed to Warner Brothers Records.

“(WB is) super cool,” the singer said of his record label allowing him to offer free downloads. “Yunno, today’s market, the way music is released, mixtapes are kind of like a really great medium for artists to get out there and get exposure, or thank fans, or reward fans and gain new fans.”

In Outasight’s case, he’s hoping to accomplish all of the above. So far, so good.

Wynter Gordon’s introduction as a new artist wasn’t typical for the industry. But, when you’re working with Flo Rida on what would eventually be a top five hit in the country, untypical is par for the course.

“The good ole’ days!” exclaimed Wynter, born Diana Gordon, when I brought up the 2009 track “Sugar” during an interview on “The Ralphie Radio Show.” “That was like the first time that I traveled the world in style, because Flo Rida surely does travel in style.”

The best hotels, with the best accommodations, and some prime time gigs like “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” were a small sample of the perks that the singer/songwriter experienced with Flo. But now Gordon is out on her own, making a name for herself.

Wynter just wrapped up a tour in support of Fall Out Boy front man Patrick Stump. I ran in to her backstage during their stop in Philadelphia at World Live Café. Gordon was a bit frazzled. It was just minutes before she was supposed to go on stage and she needed to iron a skirt. The problem: Wynter thought she didn’t have any water for the iron in her dressing room. Quickly I ran to the bar, grabbed two cups and sprinted back to her. Turns out, while my efforts were appreciated, they weren’t needed.

“There was a bathroom right in the room,” Gordon admitted. “I didn’t even know.”

Surely, clothing irons and water were not an issue with Flo Rida’s hospitality rider. But, now that Gordon is flying solo, she can truly live out her dream of making music for the masses. Her first single, “Dirty Talk,” burned up DJ crates across the world and sold over three million copies. Wynter released the With the Music I Die EP in June. The extended play, which has already spawned a top three dance charter in “Til Death,” also features her next single, “Buy My Love.” The track fuses a retro 90’s pop sound with current dance beats, provided by Swedish House Mafia’s Axwell.

“I was doing a bunch of serious songs (for the EP),” explained Gordon. “’Buy My Love’ was one of the more fun, cheekier ones. I’m kind of leaning more towards that sound, moving forward.”

Certainly dance music is seeing quite the resurgence, led by big time DJs and producers like the aforementioned SHM along with David Guetta, Afrojack, The Cataracs, and others. But Gordon believes that like any other genre or group of artists, a lack of evolution could lead to audiences becoming bored and moving away from the product.

“Nothing can stay the same and be popular for a long, long, long period of time,” Gordon said. “I don’t think we can all do the same thing for too long.”

September is usually a month of celebration: Fall arrives, football returns, leaves turn, wardrobes change, and school is back in session.

But Allstar Weekend isn’t exactly celebrating on the new single, “Blame It on September.” The track is a single off the band’s forthcoming LP, All the Way, which ironically enough, drops next Tuesday… September 27.

“It was a disappointing situation,” ASW lead singer Zach Porter recently recalled on “The Ralphie Radio Show.” Porter sat down with fellow band mates Cameron Quiseng and Michael Martinez to chat. “It was like a summer love, and then September (and) school came around, and we went to different schools and she kind of broke it off.”

Porter remembers being so heartbroken, he almost didn’t attend his school’s homecoming that sophomore year. But the front man went to the dance, moved on (kind of), and still keeps in touch with the subject of the song to this day.

However Porter and classmate Quiseng revealed that the girl does not keep up with the band – so she has no idea that the song is about her… yet.

“If you actually look up some of the interviews about the song, we do drop her name,” Quiseng divulged (a quick Google search pointed to a girl named “Rachel”). “But like Zach said, she doesn’t look at any of the videos.”

This September, “Rachel” will have a hard time avoiding Allstar Weekend. The band is set for appearances on “Good Morning America” and “Live! with Regis and Kelly.” The boys from San Diego just wrapped up a summer arena tour supporting Selena Gomez and the Scene.

“We played the first show she ever played, but this our first time, not only touring with her, but touring with her in places this big,” Porter said. “It’s pretty dope.”

“American Idol” finalist Casey Abrams recently revealed on “The Ralphie Radio Show” that he is feeling no symptoms of his ulcerative colitis after receiving an infusion of remedies in New York City.

“All the remedies are kicking in,” said Abrams. “I’ve been completely normal.”

Abrams revelation is great news, especially if you’ve followed the jazz singer’s progression throughout the competition. There was a point when it was rumored that Abrams condition would force him to drop out of “Idol.” But the artist made it to the tour with the finalists, and he’s joining forces with Janssen Biotech and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America to bring more awareness to the issue with a new website, IDBIcons.com.

“People can send in their stories of they got passed ulcerative colitis, which I have,” he explained. “I just happen to be on a TV show and have it. There’s people out there that have way more interesting and inspiring stories.”

Don’t allow Abrams’ modesty though to downgrade his story: the singer overcame the disorder while competing on the most watched television show in the country. Not only did Abrams compete, but he performed with a uniqueness and style that grabbed the audience’s attention. Ending a performance once by kissing Jennifer Lopez didn’t hurt things either.

“After kissing J-Lo, I turned on the news, and it was me kissing J-Lo, so that was pretty cool,” Abrams recalled. “That gave (me) a perspective.”

Abrams has no formal projects in the works, but did mention that he’s helping Stefano Langone, Paul McDonald, and Haley Reinhart write new material.