As it turns out, Black Kids have
not signed with Almost Gold, as
we re-reported earlier; they have, however, signed with Quest Management, which has a hand in Almost Gold's doings and which manages a little-known band from Canada called the Arcade Fire. This mixup extends the deadline on the inevitable Black Kids backlash by ... oh, about two hours or so. Savor it! [
Billboard]
"Because of a typographical error, a story on the Virgin Festival in the Aug. 6 Style section referred to Girl Talk's Greg Gillis as a one-trick phony instead of a one-trick pony." [
Washington Post]
Idolator
The Wu-Tang Clan song "The Heart Gently Weeps"—which you can listen to at Oh Word—was, according to a post on the hip-hop group's blog earlier this week, the first-ever song to use a cleared Beatles sample, a fact of such epic import that the release date of the Clan's forthcoming 8 Diagrams had to be pushed back from Nov. 13 to Dec. 4. The only snag? If you look at the details of the "first-ever sample" claim, it kind of falls apart:
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