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So that story yesterday about Gnarls Barkley's video needing re-edits before it could get added to MTV's playlist because it failed the Harding Test, which measures whether or not a video can trigger epileptic seizures, neglected to note that this only applied to MTV in the UK, where they apparently care about these sorts of things a lot more than they do here. The unedited, blinding-lights version of "Run" will have its first airing on TRL this afternoon, so consider yourself warned. [Subterranean Blog]

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A Soulja Boy Mea Culpa

Dear Soulja Boy, I'm sorry if my initial post on your new single "Yahh" seemed somewhat dismissive. Over the last week I have come to understand it is actually the first great song of 2008. What confused me at first was its basic resemblance to all your other terrible singles, but I finally understood its unique power when I realized I had been walking around for days unconsciously shouting "YAHH!" and scaring the dog. My bad. Love, Jess. P.S. YAHHGADAYAHGADAYAHH. [Idolator]
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9:00 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Jess Harvell
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Latest by n/a: You had me at YAHHGADAYAHGADAYAHH. more »

Thanks to AnnaGawan for pointing out that the British gossip list Popbitch is now retracting yesterday's rumor about NME going Web-only: "Yesterday we reported a rumour that the print version of the NME was to close. We have been assured by NME, and accept, that any such rumour is entirely false and there is no such plan in place or in contemplation. We apologise to the publishers of the NME for this inaccuracy." They have not retracted the item about Steven Tyler's pedicure, however. (At least not yet.) [Popbitch]

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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]

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Wu-Tang Clan's Beatles Sample Claim A Bit More Complicated Than Previously Thought

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: More »

6:13 PM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by drjayphd: @mike a: If the original artists of any of the samples on Paul's Boutique took any action, Capitol Records would probably be a smoldering crater in LA. Thanks, Biz? more »

"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]

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That ASCAP copyright-infringement lawsuit against the Tommy Page-playing bar in Arizona? The Tucson Citizen has amended its story, and ASCAP is actually seeking $210,000, not $210 million. Damn zeroes! Still, we bet that Hiro's $10 Jack-and-Cokes will inspire ASCAP to inflate the judgment it's seeking from the NYC blog-rock den accordingly. [Tucson Citizen]

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"New York" Magazine Can't Go For Facts, No Can Do

From this week's normally-quite-savvy Approval Matrix. We're not one to object to running pictures of Messrs. Hall and Oates—and we have plenty of humdinger mistakes ourselves—but really, you only need to listen to the first twenty seconds of "Maneater" to figure out that it's a cover of Nelly Furtado.

9:30 AM on Wed Jun 6 2007
By Brian Raftery
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"New York Times" Doubles Up On Inaccuracies Regarding R. Kelly

We missed the headline —"A Swaggering Rap Storyteller Unleashing His One-Track Mind"—that inspired the above correction thanks to the holiday, but we're guessing that this little mix-up means curtains for Michelle Malkin's tenure as a holiday-weekend Times copyeditor. More »

10:21 AM on Thu May 31 2007
By mjohnston
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At Least The Post Spelled 'CBGB' Right

First the New York Times confuses Clash members Mick Jones and Joe Strummer—and the New York Post, in its rush to engage in some Times-mocking, runs a picture of Foreigner's Mick Jones. Now, the Post can't tell the difference between Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry and Patti Smith. Perhaps we should take up a collection to buy every NYC newspaper's photo desk a copy of Please Kill Me. (Also, if anyone has a copy of that Mick/Mick mix-up, please send us a scan—we'd like to blow it up and hang it on our flophouse's wall.) More »

11:20 AM on Mon Oct 16 2006
By mjohnston
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