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According to MTV, T.I. and Fall Out Boy have recorded a track together for T.I.'s upcoming album. MTV describes the song as "somber and emotional, loaded with dramatic, crashing guitars, soaring strings and the King of the South's deeply personal lyrics, which detail the trials and tribulations he's endured over the past year." And Pete Wentz is throwing around The Nightmare Before Christmas as a reference point for the song. Let's hope this foray into hip-hop fares better than the last. [MTV]

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Hinder To David Cook: "It'll Be Really Good To Hear Your Voice Singing Our Songs"

There was a point during American Idol's final stretch that a friend of mine turned to me and said, "Hang on, why am I rooting for David Cook again? I hate this post-grunge stuff." A good question, and one that will no doubt be asked again now that the confetti has stopped flying and Austin Winkler, lead singer of nu-mooks Hinder, has extended the offer to help write material for his fellow Oklahoman's forthcoming solo album. Is the world ready for "Lips Of An Angel II: After The Hang-Up"? More »

11:30 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,947 views, 2 comments

Latest by Maura Johnston: @Al Shipley: Well, it is EW. more »

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Britney Spears Gives Nicole Scherzinger And Co. Some Much-Needed Support

Perhaps realizing that their impending sophomore slump might result in them looking all, like, saggy, the Pussycat Dolls have reportedly enlisted Britney Spears to cameo in their video for the absolutely wretched track about their incredible celebrity "When I Grow Up." Which seems sort of like a strange fit, given that the song is all about how awesome it is to be well-known and Brit Brit's past few years have seemed like a cautionary tale about why that fantasy is 100% not true. Maybe this bit of casting is really Nicole Scherzinger's "I just want a normal life again" cry for help? Oh, the humanity! [People via MTV / Photo: WENN]

5:00 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
368 views, 9 comments

Latest by Maura Johnston: Oh, owenmeany. You're so reliable! more »

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Coldplay Cuts The Sexiness Quotient Of Its New Album By A Sizeable Amount

Apparently Kylie Minogue doesn't fit into Coldplay's quest to become the Arcade Fire Mach II, as their collaboration during the Viva La Vida sessions was, to quote Chris Martin, "too sexy" to make the album's final cut. Martin told the Guardian that the song will instead appear on Coldplay's next album, which will, alas, be an odds and ends collection and not the Eurodance masterpiece so many of us were waiting for. [Guardian]

9:15 AM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
356 views, 5 comments

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Brett Ratner Brings His C-Game To The Miley Cyrus Video Shoot

Pictures from the set of the dreaded Brett Ratner/Miley Cyrus collaboration have leaked, and the end result looks like it'll be... well, it looks like it'll be a music video. A very boring music video. Where are the laser-shooting mutants, Brett? The broad culture-clash humor? The obligatory car chase sequences? More »

3:30 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By Kate Richardson
2,187 views, 5 comments

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Neil Diamond Rides The Fader


Thanks to the sedentary demands of blogging and the 200-person capacity of New York's Bitter End, I didn't make it to last night's MySpace-sponsored Neil Diamond show. But through current videotape and Flash video technology, I can feel like I was there while half-blindfolded and surrounded by people yelling "WOOOOOO"! Check out the clip of "Cherry Cherry" above—and if you have better vision than I do, you, like the Daily Swarm, may notice that Neil's guitarist is none other than Matt Sweeney of Chavez and Zwan. Yes, really. He's "all over" the new Neil Diamond record, too. Hey, this seems like a fine excuse to post the video for "Unreal Is Here," doesn't it? More »

2:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
177 views, 4 comments

Latest by MTS: Dude, you should have saved this for tomorrow, then it could qualify for ALL CHAVEZ FRIDAY, which is my favorite kind of Friday. more »

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Has-Beens Busta Rhymes and Linkin Park Have Finally Made It


Maybe it's not fair to Linkin Park to call them has-beens, but it's a little late for them to be releasing a track titled "We've Made It." And Busta Rhymes? Hell, he might need to make it again. More »

10:00 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Anthony Miccio
395 views, 4 comments

poor hipsters

Why Don't Rappers Realize Indie Rock Is Cool?

Why do "top-notch rappers" always work with "cheesy rock'n'rollers?" Loving popular rap while hating popular rock must be difficult for those who want to keep it real while keeping it eclectic. That rappers don't seem to show the same disdain for mainstream pap like Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy and Gwen Stefani that their white hipster fanbase does must stick in the craw of folks who know that the Flaming Lips are so much better than what's on the radio. Is it that Timbaland just hasn't heard the Flaming Lips? Does he need a critic's guiding hand? Or are they just being commercially cagey? And if the final product is good, is it ok to like it? Does that mean you like harlots like Nelly Furtado now? Thank to that accursed Roots feat Patrick Stump devil of a song, Slate's Ben Mathis-Lilley must wrestle with the pop guilt/bullshit that any self-righteous indie snob who puts Kanye West in his top ten list must eventually face. More »

1:00 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,586 views, 45 comments

Latest by Lawson: I think this 'story' is mainly an indictment on forced music journalism in general - y'know, "copy's due, oh shit i better think up of two things in music completely unrelated and write on them". there is a constant stream more »

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AC/DC To Work With Brendan O'Brien, Angus To Sound Like A DeLeo Brother

AC/DC is currently recording their first album in eight years with Brendan O'Brien. You may know O'Brien as the man behind some the finest albums by Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, and Matthew Sweet, and some of the lamest by by Bruce Springsteen, Train, Papa Roach, and Incubus. Barf. "Rage Against The Machine in the '90s, Audioslave today" sums up his career pretty well. So who was the bearer of such blase tidings? Why, Eddie Spaghetti! The once and future Supersucker spilled the beans on his band's Web site. More »

4:30 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,249 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: They don't need a producer. They need an engineer that won't make it sound sterile like everything since the Back in Black. That man is Billy Anderson. Or, a collaboration between Anderson, Steve Albini, and Lemmy. Then AC/DC will more »

Things That Look 100% Awesome, Part II From Wire's official site: "[D]ue to Bruce Gilbert's resignation from the group in 2004, upcoming Wire gigs will have Margaret Fiedler McGinnis augmenting the band on rhythm guitar. Known for her work in Laika (masterminds of one of the best Wire covers to date, the Whore version of German Shepherds), her live credentials are further enhanced by her being a part of PJ Harvey's touring band earlier in the decade." As if there weren't already enough reasons to head on out to Calgary for this summer's Sled Island festival, here's another; Fiedler is an incredible live guitarist, and perhaps I can buttonhole her to talk about 1995's Silver Apples Of The Moon, one of the best albums to come out in a terrific year, music-wise. [Pinkflag.com; HT circletheglo.be]

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Iggy And Fatboy Slim To Be Your DogBeyourdogbeyourdogbebebebebbbbbbb

Someone is paying Fatboy Slim to make another album, and Iggy Pop is going to warble on it. "I've done a track with him and a few others as well," says the late-'90s techno duck. "We've been mates for years. He always comes to see me at shows and I'm like, 'You're Iggy Pop, what are you doing here?'" Good question. It's possible that the Stooges' less than transcendent arrangement of "Ray Of Light" inspired him to get a slighty (slightly) less outdated groove on. Or maybe he hope to score another "Aisha." More »

1:00 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Anthony Miccio
372 views, 16 comments

Latest by GOKOR: He's got some good new stuff with The Stooges. Iggy's an icon amongst icons. The originators of punk. more »

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NIN Goes YouTube (Perhaps With Your Help?)

Because snapping up $300 packages of new material might not be enough for the diehard faithful Nine Inch Nails luvvah these days, you, Trentoid of Reznoria, can now lend your Mac-editing-table talents to the cause that is Ghosts I-IV by placing your own visuals to his own music. Officially. More »

2:30 PM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
428 views, 3 comments