Cantankerous actor (and newly appointed Oscar co-host) Alec Baldwin has denied responsibility for the Lil Wayne cake his daughter, Ireland, enjoyed on her 14th birthday: “No, I didn’t [get it for her]. I don’t know where that came from. But I will take that idea. I will give here a Little Wayne cake for her next birthday,” he told New York. Hmm, but it might be a bit passé by then! Perhaps next year you should just go with Drake’s? [Vulture / Earlier] MORE »
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Alec Baldwin Claims No Responsibility For Lil Wayne Cake
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The First Denial Of That Original-Sugababes-Reunion Rumor Comes Out
Warner Music Group is putting the kibosh on those OG Sugababe-reunion rumors that floated out of the UK this morning. (The gossip site that “broke” the story fingered WMG as the eventual home for Mutya, Keisha, and Siobhán, both collectively and as solo artists.) But I still believe!! Even though, yeah, Siobhán isn’t exactly a fan of Keisha’s… [Guardian / Earlier / Dailymotion] MORE »
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Adam Lambert Is Fabulously Sulking
Adam Lambert takes to Twitter to respond to the response to his album cover: “Thank you to those who appreciate and understand that the album cover is deliberately campy. It’s an omage [sic] to the past. It IS ridiculous. For those that don’t get it: oh well… Glad to have gotten your attention. androgyny. Rock n Roll.” Still waiting on him to address the unfortunate font choices, though! [@adamlambert / Twitter] MORE »
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Chris Brown Grabs The Mic
Chris Brown is doing the first radio interview since his domestic-violence incident with Rihanna in November right now on New York radio station Hot 97, and I have to say that the DJ conducting the interview, Angie Martinez, is pretty no-holds-barred in her questioning, asking the singer about his status as a role model in light of the incident (and about lighter topics like the wedding-borne success of “Forever” over the past few months). Miss Info, who does some work for the station, has been cutting snippets from the chat as it’s been happening, and it’s still going on at the moment. Brown also dropped the redemptive ballad “Crawl” during the interview (hear it here); yesterday he announced dates for an “intimate” club tour, and they’re after the jump. MORE »
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Guns N’ Roses’ Stance On That Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit: It’s Our Music, But If It Isn’t, Blame The Recording Engineer
Guns N’ Roses are going to “vigorously contest” claims that they ripped off German electro-composer Ulrich Schnauss for the ambient intro to their song “Riad N’ The Bedouins,” a dispute that’s currently the source of a million-dollar lawsuit filed last week. (A million dollars may seem like a lot of cash for an album that had such a soft landing on the retail scene, but then again, the album’s production costs were probably way higher than that.) GNR manager Irving Azoff released a denial that’s both vehement and somewhat masterful: MORE »
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Kanye West Keeping Relatively Quiet (For Now)
It would appear from his blog that Kanye West is going to be pretty tight-lipped about last night’s abrupt cancellation of his tour with Lady GaGa; instead of any all-caps official statements, today he and his ghost-bloggers have gone back to posting design porn on his site. Oh well, at least his Web team got rid of all those now-out-of-date banner ads… [kanYe West: Blog] MORE »
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Andrew WK Will Not Take You To Church
Motivational partier / nascent meteorologist Andrew WK just embarked on a short tour with the contemporary classicists the Calder Quartet, and he’s moved two of the shows (in Washington, D.C., and Toronto) from churches to other venues. Any other artist out there would just have moved the shows and been done with it, but Andrew explained his decision to move the shows in his inimitable way: MORE »
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Kanye West Is Still Sorry
Schticky talk-show host Jay Leno may be not so into having musicians as regular guests on his primetime-killing program, which premiered last night. But as it turned out, booking musicians for the opening installment of his new show proved lucky, as one of the people scheduled to perform was none other than Kanye West, whose outburst at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards was still burning up the Internet when he stopped by Jay’s studio yesterday. So he took some time out to apologize to the public yet again, and this time he even got a “what would your mother think?” upbraiding by the late-night king himself. MORE »
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Kanye West’s Apology, Take Two: Mixed Case, Robert DeNiro References
The apology that Kanye West issued to Taylor Swift in the heat of last night’s Video Music Awards run-in has since been deleted from his blog—as has the subsequent shout-out to fellow VMA attendee/apologizer Serena Williams—but today, the hotheaded MC posted a second mea culpa. And this time, he not only shut off his Caps Lock key, he referenced one of the cinema’s biggest comedy hits of the past 10 years! MORE »
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Kanye West: “I’M IN THE WRONG”
While Taylor Swift was in the press room talking about Kanye West running in and interrupting her acceptance speech, Kanye was updating his blog (perhaps because he’d been kicked out of the show shortly after the whole thing went down?) and he had this to say: MORE »
