Uh-oh. It looks like we have ourselves another open letter to Pitchfork! After Ian Cohen’s 1.6 defenestration of The Airborne Toxic Event’s new self-titled disc, the band decided to craft a response to Cohen (and Pitchfork by extension) and throw it out there to the Internet, which, of course, lapped it up. MORE »
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The Airborne Toxic Event Tries To Kill Pitchfork With Kindness
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Robert Smith Is Full Of Despair… Over iTunes’ Pricing Methods
You’d think Robert Smith would be in a pretty good mood this week, what with a new EP by the Cure, Hypnagogic States, being out and featuring remixes of the band’s new songs by young turks like Patrick Stump and an unidentified member of 30 Seconds To Mars. But he’s less than pleased–not because of the music, but because of the price point that was bestowed on his album by whoever placed it to the iTunes Store’s shelves. Which is why he penned a blog post today that began “PLEASE DONT BUY HYPNAGOGIC STATES EP FROM ITUNES FOR £7.99.” Smith’s all-caps missive to the iTunes powers that be–which features, as he puts it, “colourful language”- after the jump. MORE »
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Kid Rock Speaks, In The Only Way He Knows How
iTunes holdout Kid Rock tells Bob Lefsetz how his iTunes avoidance is working for him: “Why sell a million downloads (at a dickweed penny rate) that u say equals a 100,000 records when I’m selling well over a hundrend thousand records every 2 weeks? And I’m helping my heros sell records too???? MORE »
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Kanye West (And His Caps Lock Key) Are Ready To Let You Know What Happened At Bonnaroo
It’s been 10 days since Kanye West’s dawn set at Bonnaroo, and surely I wasn’t the only person wondering just when Kanye, who’s no stranger to using the Internet to silence his critics, would respond to the angry online chatter. Oh boy, has that day come: He’s put up a blog post defending himself, and during its writing Kanye was apparently “typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!” (Ah, Kanye, you always know how to get the product placement down.) Some heavily capitalized highlights, after the jump. MORE »
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Josh Homme Speaks To The Peanut Gallery
Josh Homme’s 102-degree-fever-fueled tirade against a bottle-throwing concertgoer, which included the epithet “little chickenshit faggot” and threats of buggery, inspired many a comment-thread debate over whether or not Homme was a homophobe, whether or not the kid who threw the bottle was an asshole anyway, whether or not Homme is devolving into Axl Rose Mach 2.0, etc., etc. Well, Josh has responded, and not only did he take a page from one of our commenters and invoke the name of Bill Hicks, he used some really unpleasant Porta-Potty-related metaphors! MORE »
