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May 31, 2004 - Kid Rock was on hand for the 39th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Wednesday (May 26). Check out pictures here.

May 28, 2004 - Steve and Smitty from the Steve And DC show went to the Kid Rock concert together and he gave a run-down of the evening on Monday's show. Listen to his review of the evening here.

May 20, 2004 - Kid Rock performed at the Downtown Hoedown Day 3 on Sunday (May 16) at Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan. Check out pictures from WireImage.

May 13, 2004 - The latest popbitch.com newsletter reports that Kid Rock recently visited Wayne Newton at his enormous mansion in Las Vegas and spent hours playing with the flock of tame penguins who wander round the house. Rock then told the press, "I gotta get some of those. If you've got a girl over you're guaranteed getting lucky!"

May 9, 2004 - Nick Lachey, Jessica Simpson, Kid Rock attended the 130th Running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday (May 1) in Louisville, Kentucky. Check out pictures from GettyImages.

May 5, 2004 - More details have emerged behind Kid Rock and Anna Nicole Smith's run-in at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. A witness tells Jeannette Walls of MSNBC.com: "Anna Nicole had a video crew and was filming everything, Kid Rock got upset and asked her if she had to have cameras following her every move. She snapped back at him and said, yes, she did. It really escalated, and he flipped the bird at her, and then she said, 'I can do that, too,' and flipped the bird back at him. It got pretty ugly, then afterwards, Kid Rock apologized to Anna Nicole's son for making an obscene gesture in front of him." Read more.

May 5, 2004 - The New York Post reports Anna Nicole Smith had nothing nice to say to Kid Rock at the Kentucky Derby. Rock approached Smith and tried to strike up a conversation with her son, Daniel. "He asked her son if he liked being on TV and being followed by cameras," a spy revealed, "and Daniel wouldn't answer." But something must have set Smith off: "She called him a fu**head, and stormed away."

May 2, 2004 - Kid Rock performed and Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon were interviewed on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' at the NBC Studios on Wednesday (April 28) in Burbank, California. Check out pictures from GettyImages.

May 2, 2004 - Kid Rock says he's setting beer sales records during his concerts and vows to keep tickets affordable. The rocker credits his "drunk fans" for the move, though the Coors commercials probably don't hurt. Watch his interview with KTLA here.

May 2, 2004 - Kid Rock will be performing on 'On Air with Ryan Seacrest' on Wednesday.

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