Scuttlebutt that Led Zeppelin was going to headline the Bonnaroo festival this June started back in December—only to be subsequently
denied by the festival's management shortly after. But the
Mirror is claiming that Led Zep's headlining gig is back on, thanks to Robert Plant having a "change of heart." (Maybe the Bonnaroo organizers enticed him with the prospect of playing a bluegrass set as well? Or maybe this isn't true at all and just filled a ginormous New Year's-induced news hole within the
Mirror's pages? It's so hard to tell!) Anyway, not to be outdone by its not-even-music-centric UK tabloid rivals, the scrappy site Gigwise has a Led Zep-related rumor of its own, and it's kind of a doozy if you read it straight:
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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.
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