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- Sunday - November 1, 2009
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#awesomethings
Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
Happy November: You're about to watch rock history be made. Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner's youngest kid, Gus, has a musical act with Steven Spielberg's daughter. "It's like the nepotistic She and Him," writes our tipster. So: how many stars? More » - Monday - October 19, 2009
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#gossiproundup
Whitney Houston Should Just Go Home And Rest
Whitney Houston had a wardrobe malfunction and forgot about her own album. Paris Hilton craves shellfish. Akon wants his baby mama to be his Myspace friend. All that and more in your Monday Morning Gossip Roundup! More » - Wednesday - October 14, 2009
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#instantreview
Most Comically Dylanesque Tracks on Bob Dylan's Christmas Album
Bob Dylan's much-anticipated Christmas album is out. And — huzzah — it doesn't sound horrible. Still, you can't help but imagine Dylan as a drunken interloper who stumbled into choir rehearsal at a prim suburban church. More » - Monday - October 12, 2009
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#michaeljackson
Michael Jackson's New Track? Eerie.
The internet's abuzz over the release of the late Michael Jackson's latest, "This is It." Listening to him sing about undying love is at once reassuring and distressful. More » - Tuesday - October 6, 2009
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#jobs
Become Record Label To Rappers Who Hate Record Labels
Working with internet startup Sellaband, Public Enemy hopes to turn its fans into investors, bucking The Man in the process. For as little as $25, you too can become a greedy record executive. Just like those slammed by Public Enemy. More » - Monday - October 5, 2009
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#lovesongs
Ghostface Gives Example of What Could Have Inspired His New Album, Hypothetically
"I might have messed around, let the cable man come to my house, fix my cable, but two weeks later he's somewhere on my property in my guest house, screwing my wife...It's more mature; that's what I'll say." [Pitchfork] - Friday - October 2, 2009
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#andnowhesdead
Mr. Magic, Hip Hop's First Radio DJ
Legendary hip hop DJ Mr. Magic reportedly died of a heart attack this morning. He was the man who brought rap music to the radio, and some of the most famous moments in hip hop wouldn't have happened without him. More » - Saturday - September 26, 2009
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#shutupnilla
Vanity Fair's Borderline-Racist Interview With Borderline-Homophobic Warren G
Regulators! Mount. Up. Warren G got interviewed by Eric Spitznagel (Read: NILLA) for Vanity Fair. Spitznagel's interviewed lots of celebrities for lots of Nilla publications (The Believer, anyone?) and is a likable writer. But he'll remember this for a while: More » -
- Wednesday - September 23, 2009
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#trendwatch
Common: Obama Single-Handedly Transformed Hip-Hop
Is there anything Barack Obama can't do? Not according to rapper Common, who credits the President with sending hip-hop off into a more cuddly, less bling-centric direction. And now peace reigns for all. More » - Monday - September 21, 2009
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#crazies
Rap Music Kills Again
Rap music: Will it ever stop inspiring America's youth to commit multiple homicides? Not likely, if the sad case of Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey is any indication. Because he's charged with killing four people. More »
- Thursday - September 17, 2009
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#indierocklives
Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
Indie-rock progenitors Pavement are getting the band back together for a tour—but no record—next year. Rumors were floated by Brooklyn Vegan a few days ago, but now it's official. Their last show was in 1999. We feel old. - Wednesday - September 16, 2009
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#andnowshesdead
R.I.P. Mary Travers, 72
An anti-war voice has fallen silent, for Mary Travers, a founding member of Peter, Paul and Mary, was felled by cancer today. The singer, whose sullen folksy sound many of you will remember from "Blowin' in the Wind," was 72. More » -
#couturecrash
Rock Rules, Fashion Drools on Perry Farrell's Party Bus
Once upon a time the John Varvatos store reeked of rat poison, sweaty skinheads and Iggy Pop's low-hanging balls. But last night, the scent was decidedly sweeter for me, because I totally partied on a tour bus with Perry Farrell.
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- Thursday - September 10, 2009
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#feuds
Ellen DeGeneres and Company, You've Been Served!
Ellen DeGeneres was floating on cloud nine this week, when American Idol producers finalized a deal that made her the show's fourth judge. Sadly, that cloud has popped. Her talk show's being sued! More » - Saturday - September 5, 2009
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#toys
Jay-Z's Attempt To Kill Autotune: Fail
Autotune, the technology giving guys like T-Pain, Akon, and Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak their trademark sounds, was supposedly murdered by Jay-Z. Not so much: the I AM T-PAIN iPhone app enables ordinary folk to sound just like him. More » - Thursday - September 3, 2009
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#poplife
In Defense Of Lady Gaga, Whose VMA Performance "Will Inspire A Movement"
She wears preposterous ensembles and says ridiculous things. But seriously? We need Lady Gaga. [Jezebel] - Wednesday - September 2, 2009
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#grungeisdead
Hey Look, It's Video of Kurt Cobain. In Hell.
Courtney Love and Dave Grohl love money more than their dead husband and bandmate, so Love let Activision include his image and Grohl let them use his music in Guitar Hero, where people make him sing Bon Jovi songs. More » -
#saywhat
Did ABC Digitally 'Sweeten' Whitney Houston's Disastrous GMA Performance?
Don't blame the Good Morning America producers for Whitney Houston's creaky voice this morning. A tipster says they went to extreme measures, including digital "sweetening," to rescue what was supposed to be the singer's comeback performance in Central Park. More » -
#thingsweactuallylike
Drake: Degrassi's Most Likely To Succeed?
Some have questioned whether Drake, perhaps best known for playing Jimmy on excellent Canadian soap Degrassi: The Next Generation, is for real. Well, he is. And he may be the best thing to come out of that show ever. More » - Sunday - August 30, 2009
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#tardy
Rolling Stone Finally Taking Late, Doomed Shot At RollingStone.com
It must pain Jann Wenner to see his other properties start succeeding where flagship Rolling Stone squandered possibilities and descended into irrelevancy: online. Now that US Weekly's site has heat, Wenner's finally starting to line up RS's strategy of "whatever." More » - Friday - August 28, 2009
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#andnowhesdead
DJ AM Found Dead
Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein, the nightclub disk jockey who not one year ago narrowly escaped death in a jet crash, was found dead in his New York apartment. He was 36.
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- Wednesday - August 26, 2009
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#branding
Bob Dylan's Christmas Idyll
Here's the cover to Bob Dylan's forthcoming Christmas album. Proceeds go to charity; as Vulture notes, this lends hope the project won't be commercially corrupted and critically panned. We still wish the sleigh driver had a harmonica holder or something. More » - Tuesday - August 25, 2009
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#michaeljackson
A&E Claims It Will One Day Air Jackson Bros. Reality Show
Michael Jackson's death has obviously helped thrust his record sales, memorabilia and hangers-on into the celebrity stratosphere. No group, however, benefited more than his family, who are all of a sudden relatively relevant again. The ultimate sign: a reality show... More » - Monday - August 24, 2009
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#thingsweactuallylike
Roxanne's Revenge
Heartwarming story of the day: Back in the 80s, Warner Music tossed a clause in then-teenage rapper Roxanne Shante's contract saying they'd pay for her education for life. So she got a psychology Ph.D from Cornell. Cost: $217K. Ha. [NYDN] More » - Saturday - August 22, 2009
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#thingsweactuallylike
Fan-Made Music Video Restores Hope In Music Video Kind
Remember music videos being important, and good? Neither does anybody I know, because our memory's been wiped by MTV and VH1's current slate of programming. And then there's this beautiful, fan-made music video of indie band Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks." More » - Thursday - August 20, 2009
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#thingsweactuallylike
Spotify: Delicious Forbidden Fruit
Spotify is everything iTunes should be: Simple, free and completely ubiquitous. The internet positively overflows with shared Spotify playlists. But the damned Europeans have the online music service all to themselves. Well, almost all of it.
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- Tuesday - August 18, 2009
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#acquisitions
How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
Two years ago, music service iLike appeared to be set: Its CEO said it was "made," its investor mused it could be a "billion-dollar winner," and the press was enthralled. Now the poster child is a cautionary tale. More » - Friday - August 14, 2009
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#imagefile
Singin' On The Roof
Justine Bennett performs last night at the Open A.I.R. Concert Series on the roof of the Atlas building on West 38th St. [Rob Loud/Getty] - Thursday - August 13, 2009
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#thebridgeisover
The internet killed hip hop regionalism, explains R.M. Schneiderman. Which made the shit fun!
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#apple
Steve Jobs' Chance to Show His Strength
Apple quietly told music executives about a special "keynote" event in four weeks, according to All Things D. Hard to see how CEO Steve Jobs avoids this event, after nearly a year in seclusion. Especially after recently rocking with Coldplay. -
#obits
Les Paul, 1915-2009
Les Paul literally made possible all the music you love, and he died today. More » - Friday - August 7, 2009
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#music
Facebook Friends? 'Are You F—king Kidding Me?'
Hey look, it's a song about Facebook, that is somehow pretty great. Geeks have been uploading songs about their culture for a while now, but it took an Aussie alt-pop singer's "Are You Fucking Kidding Me" to legitimize the genre. More » -
#biteme
Karma Attacks, Beats Wrigley's Chris Brown Campaign
Last year, Wrigley designed the world's most evil stealth marketing campaign ever, with a fella by the name of Chris Brown. Now they've finally ended it. It just took a little domestic violence to convince them to stop killing music! More » - Tuesday - July 28, 2009
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#disappointments
Indie Rock Is Still Dead
Somebody put on a yoga festival—a yoga festival—in Lake Tahoe, and indie staples Spoon, Broken Social Scene, and Jenny Lewis played. So did MC Yogi, who asked the crowd: "How many of you think Ganesh is fresh?" Why? More » - Sunday - July 26, 2009
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#popcultureaneurysm
The Best of Racial Profiling, Pop Culture Edition
The arrest of Harvard's star African-American studies professor Henry Louis Gates has reignited national conversation about things like racial profiling! The important part of the conversation, however? What the best of pop culture has to say about it, naturally. More »
- Monday - July 20, 2009
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#breaking
Beastie Boy Is Ill
The Beastie Boys' MCA, a.k.a. Adam Yauch, has cancer of the salivary gland. The group is canceling its upcoming tour and pushing back its album release date. Yauch, a Buddhist, turns 45 on August 5. Click to watch the announcement. - Tuesday - July 7, 2009
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#spectacles
The Michael Jackson Memorial Clusterfuck
Michael Jackson's memorial service happens in LA today. Is it a media circus out there? Check out the elephants! Eh? Seriously, it sounds like the media equivalent of the Superdome after Katrina. A brief rundown of the clusterfuckery: More » - Tuesday - June 30, 2009
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#layoffs
Daily Intel hears there were layoffs today at Spin. Know details? Email us.
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#greatmagazinedieoff
Vibe Folds (Updated)
Vibe Magazine—one of the biggest music magazines in America—is folding. The entire music magazine landscape is full of the dead and dying. [UPDATED below.]
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- Monday - June 29, 2009
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#jewishshouting
'The Ringtone of Choice Among Hip Literary Types This Summer'
This wailing ringtone featuring a horsey Philip Roth sample is still better than anything Moby came up with for New York magazine. Of course, the joke is that there are no "hip literary types." [Guardian]
