'now jason hadnt the right to state the Ostensible amount of sponsorships, but if you think theres some magical major label world after MCR and Coldplay are done in the world of major label dom , your dreaming, theres no money baby, its all done gone, and since we do sell sin stocks wether its White Stripes or MADM auf der mar or QOTSA or Kings of Leon ( Leon once told me i was quite "buxom" he didnt know who i was i found that charming in a wierd snake handler sort iof way)
i think we should make a really excellent festival, all of the bands that dont fit on warped and on ozzfest i think its time andwhen i think i tend to take action, dont you?
well its time to take a little action, theres enough women in this situation now to make the gender stuff equal once again so in Canada and North America itd be really really cool and the male to female musician and dj ratio would be almost even . FIRST TIME SINCE THE MID NINETIES< and that i will support and i know exactly who id wantto do business with and who has the leadership co leadership abilities to do it with me, its best to keep quiet about these things needless to say im very very excited between the two of us i am genuinly excited that we could potentially get this travelling fabulous circus into a very real tangible thing by the summer maybe even no promises it just came to me in a vision, its TIME>< so illzip it for now but i love my perfect partner, we have always had the perfect partner relationship and hopefully the sponsors who will be part of the music world from now on will see our vision, Lolapalooza never lost a dime as far as i know, it was sold the name to many people all whom argues about it, thats what haoopens when you sell your shit, i should know tho iuw as forced gto by a pacjk of lies

Given that this week has been all about the awesome female-fronted bands, I have to say that her timing couldn't be better should she pull this off. And of course, the economy being in the crapper and the marked improvement in music is making me a bit giddy. For example, does this mean more movies like The Snapper and less mumblecore? Will Wale parlay his Mixtape About Nothing into a nu-Seinfeld on cable? Should I go get my baggy sweaters out of my parents' basement? (Also, I don't have to wear those lace things, do I?)

well ill bore you for a few paragraphs then i promise i WONT!! [Courtney Love's MySpace Blog]

VENUE
Courtney: MySpace.
Kanye: A well-designed, Flash-enhanced hosted site.

MODEL:
Courtney: Edie Sedgwick
Kanye: Someone named "Dollicia."

AESTHETIC:
Courtney: Steampunk (!!!).
Kanye: Holocubes.

MUSIC:
Courtney: A new wave/girl group/VU female singer-songwriter.
Kanye: People he's worked with.

MOVIES:
Courtney: Milk.
Kanye: Kanye does not appear to watch movies, but he is excited about the Ghostbusters game.

DESIGN:
Courtney: A purveyor of "whimsical costume accessories."
Kanye: Art students.

ACCESSORIES:
Courtney: Etsy-hawked Jewlery that incorporates vintage elements.
Kanye: Casio watches.

FOREIGN INFLUENCE:
Courtney: Japanese pop-punk gothic lolita Nana Kitade.
Kanye: Japanese pop-art guru Takashi Murakami.

What can we conclude from all this? If you follow Kanye, you'll end up wearing a Casio and sitting on a well-designed chair while a girl named Dollicia tries to distract you from playing video games; if you follow Courtney, you'll end up throwing a parasol at your best friend over an argument about gay rights you had on MySpace. In other words, Kanye will have you living the hipster dream, and Courtney will have you living like a teenage girl. Hers is more realistic, at least.

visual hot list [Courtney Love's MySpace Blog]
kanYe West: blog [KanyeUniverseCity]

The comment section, of course, went into instant freak-out mode, with these pleas being posted over a 15-minute span:

so what is the password?

anyone know?

come on passwordddd
PLEASE

what is the fucking password

how come not one single person knows this?
is anyone able to get tix at all?

Of course, this led to some people claiming that they did have the password, and that it was "queef," or "imastupidfuckingidiotforreadingthis," or "vampire weekend"; others said they had it but would give it up for a price, a kidney, etc. But my mind was blown by this claim, which—well, I'll just let you read it, and you can assume the rejoinder:

I heard the password was shown during HD TNA Impact on Spike Tonight, but Time Warner doesn't carry Spike in HiDef. DAMMIT!!!

Yeah, somebody indeed fell for it. Jeez, people. Put down the drugs.

Animal Collective add Bowery Ballroom show, tour dates [BV]

Above, a sketch for the stage design of Kanye West's forthcoming tour, which may be called "Ye vs. th[photo cuts off here]." Gil Kaufman at MTV News wondered if the stage design was a portent that the tour would be themed after Joe Vs. The Volcano, but I'm wondering if it isn't going to be some sort of abandoned amusement-park-themed thing, with Kanye walking through a junkyard (metaphor for his emotions!) that's filled with decrepit Space Mountains et al (another metaphor!).

I'm probably overthinking, right? Anyway. If you have a better idea, feel free to toss it out there.

Also I love that this was the entirety of the post in question's title:

THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR MAKING 808'S & HEARTBREAK THE NUMBER ONE ALBUM IN THE WORLD!!!!! LOVE LOCK DOWN HAS SOLD 1.3 MILLION SO FAR ON ITUNES AND HEARTLESS AND SEE YOU IN MY NIGHTMARES SOLD OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND EACH LAST WEEK. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. THIS IS A NEW FRONTIER FOR ME AND MUSIC. ALL THE MIXED OPINIONS WILL BE OVER BY NEXT SUMMER WHEN I'M CLOSING FESTIVALS AND EVERYONE IS SINGING OKAAAAY ... OKAY. OKAAAAAYEE .. YOU'LL NEVER STOP IT NOW!!!! YOU'LL NEVER STOP IT NOW!!!! OR YOU WORRIED BOUT THE WRONG THINGS , THE WROOONG THIIINGS!!!!

Working with Jon Brion resulted in the strangest things rubbing off.

THANK YOU EVERYBODY ETC ETC [kanYe West: Blog ; HT MTV Newsroom]

All of Ewing's ABBA write-ups are worth reading on their own: they're acts of love; you feel him giving himself over to the music more consistently with them than anyone else. I've taken the liberty of constructing a Last Word, to give you the idea, from each of the group's eight No. 1s covered so far (their ninth and last, "Super Trouper," will be along soon as well):

• "The second half of 'Waterloo' is the straightest Wizzard-lift, a really good rock and roll knees-up, but those thirty seconds, so stuffed with life and confidence and flamboyance - thats why I listen to this stuff in the first place. And then they disappeared, as soon as they’d come, and the Seventies shrugged, forgot Eurovision and got on with it. 9"Waterloo"]

• "Some people’s tolerance for ABBA is low because their music is so inescapable - I respect that point of view but if anything I feel I don’t hear enough ABBA, there are swathes of marvellous Andersson/Ulvaeus songs which get overlooked in favour of the usual five or six. But of those five or six, this is the one where I can most sympathise with the ABBA-weary: its lack of an emotional catch for me makes it more vulnerable to overplay. 7" ["Mamma Mia"]

• “'Fernando' is a good ABBA record, not a great one - but its enormous success gave them permission to stretch out further and faster in several directions. No 'Fernando,' no 'The Visitors' (no 'I Have A Dream' either, mind you). 7" ["Fernando"]

• “That piano line turned up again three years later, changed slightly in a pop world that seemed overturned, and it almost pushed Elvis Costello - a perennial sideline-lurker who’d long seen the tears as well as the grins in ABBA - to Number One himself. Even by then 'Dancing Queen' had become ABBA’s monolith, and by their 90s revival it was omnipresent. There’s an irony, maybe, that a song about the fleet intense beauty of youth, love and movement should have become such an ossified monument to ‘perfect pop’ - but when I play it that really never seems to matter. 10 ["Dancing Queen"]

• “It’s Frida’s star turn - though her first verse performance is a little wobbly - but Agnetha nearly steals it with her spectral whispers. The keyboards hit the grandeur they’re aiming for; the guitar solo doesn’t, but even in its forever-sabotaged state 'Knowing Me Knowing You' has cohesion and power. 8" ["Knowing Me Knowing You"]

• “An awkward record about awkward feelings: one of ABBA’s transitional singles, where they’re staking out territories they’d explore better later on. 7" ["The Name of the Game"]

• “The simplicity here’s a little deceptive, though - that wonderful a capella rhythm line is as bold a stroke as you’ll find on any of their records, and the flashing, bubbling keyboards show that Benny and Bjorn had been paying attention to Moroder’s advances. But that’s really all secondary to the song’s effervescence, with the girls’ hammy semi-spoken bits summing the whole thing up: this is a band having casually brilliant fun. 8" ["Take a Chance on Me"]

• "On the video, the members of ABBA laugh and clink glasses, reminding us that there’s a third layer of theatre here, the public disintegration of a real life marriage. That layer’s become shorthand for the whole song - 'Winner' as a divorce epic. But the specifics are unfair on the song: as “Dancing Queen” was to their world-beating peak, 'Winner' is to the wintry late ABBA - a monumental combination of supreme craft and bittersweet subtlety. And more - it’s one of pop’s great pieces of acting. 10" ["The Winner Takes It All"]

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in the midst of everything else that has happened lately, tom, travis, and i have all spoken together. first through a number of phone calls, and then a couple of weeks ago we all hung out for a few hours. they’ve all been great, very positive conversations. we’re just reconnecting as friends after four years of not talking. it’s a good thing. obviously the first question for a lot of people will be “does this mean a blink-182 reunion?” the answer is none of us know. we haven’t talked about it at all. right now it’s just good for the three of us to see one another, reconnect, and let the past be the past. the events of the past two months supersede everything that happened before. life is too short.

There's no telling what they'll come out with if they actually do get back together, but here's sincerely hoping that the re-formed Blink-182 is a little more "Dammit" and a little less "Down."

Hello Again. [himynameismark]

Now, it’s bad enough to subject your audience to about 40 minutes of abrasive, deliberately off-putting music, but it’s even more uncool to come back for an encore that mocks them for not being 100% with you, and feeling disappointed for not hearing more of what they expected to hear from a show billed as a 20th anniversary concert. In conventional show biz logic, if you’re going to go that far, you should at least leave the audience with a crowd-pleaser. In Billy Corgan logic, you come out and perform one of the lesser songs from your best-selling album, and then finish off with a song that mixes disingenuous hippy-dippy “everyone is beautiful!” lyrics with improvised sarcastic rants that outright diss the city you’re playing in, mock the fans for paying to see your band, and tell your visibly disappointed audience that you’ll see them in hell. It was full-on douche-tastic passive-aggression. It’s as if he set out to do this heel turn, and purposefully alienate as much of the audience as possible. Well, it worked. Believe me, unless you’ve witnessed other shows on this tour, it’s unlikely you’ve seen a more defeated audience exit from a rock show.

Sure, tonight's show apparently has a different, better set list. But one can't help but wonder what's going on. The only explanation is the heel-turn idea outlined by Perpetua, and really, it seems kinda logical: Corgan's fetishization of wrestling has resulted in him going all Hollywood on his fans... but they shouldn't worry, since the next five years will consist of him realizing his transgressions and redeeming himself just in time for a 25th anniversary tour. (After all, anniversaries with precious-metal associations are so much more profitable!)

One Last Trip To Hell [Fluxblog]

I DID NOT LEAK ROBOCOP!!!... THAT'S NOT EVEN THE FINISHED VERSION... I'M PRETTY UPSET ABOUT IT BUT THAT'S THE WAY LIFE IS SOMETIMES! [kanYe West: Blog]
Kanye West - Robocop [YouTube]

Other notes on the Yankovic experience:

He's pretty happy with how things went down in general. "It was very gratifying for me to be able to put a parody out while the original song was still at its commercial peak – and it seemed to be gratifying to the fans as well."

He's pretty dissatisfied with iTunes, though! In addition to the whole issue of the song actually coming out, there was the matter of the song being poorly promoted: "I'm not sure that I'd agree to give iTunes any kind of an exclusivity window in the future – it seems like the amount of publicity I received from them didn't really compensate for the sales I lost by not also having my song available elsewhere." And they listed it under "Pop," not "Comedy"! The nerve!

But he's comforted by the fact that he's probably psychic, and that his cultural foresight will allow him to be even more au courant in the future. "The good news, of course, was that the DOW dropped a thousand more points that day, bringing us ever closer to the brink of a devastating financial apocalypse… and thereby making my song that much more topical! Yay!" Yay, apocalypse! Wait, what?

What I Learned [Weird Al Yankovic's MySpace Blog]

Big thanks go out to T.I and his manager for their support—not only was he nice enough to give me his permission and blessing for this parody, but he responded so quickly that I was able to make everything happen insanely fast. In less than a two week period—seriously—I was able to come up with an idea for the song, get legal permission for the song, write the song, record the song, mix the song, master the song, upload the song to my label and deliver the song to iTunes. Talk about instant gratification! One of the other cool things about putting out music this way is, there's not really enough time for Internet leaks to happen. I try to maintain a certain amount of secrecy around my projects for obvious reasons… and this time, as far as I can tell, the only person leaking information to the Internet has been ME!"

Ah, God bless you, Al. Now if you could start a YouTube channel for those moments when you're inspired to create new AL TV segments, maybe this here Internet experiment would seem like a little bit less of a wash.

WYL ["Weird Al" Yankovic's MySpace Blog]

Update… Stranded on the runway. Delayed an hour due to high winds in new york. Autumn is here, indeed. Nothing coffee and headphones can’t fix. Go download a song called “True Affection” by a band called “The Blow”. Nice little song. Very good lyrics, quite wordy… Just like some body else we know.

Wise words, William! That's a cracker jack "little song," and it's nice of you to lend a some cool to your fan base. But how did they take the suggestion?

i dont like coffee :(
but headphones fix anything

Same here! Headphones are like duct tape. :D

Lime green ducktape i hope ^-^

Also... IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR WILLIAM!

White Sox or Cubs?

I... would look that up.
But being the lazy girl I am, I won't. x)
Maybe some other time.
When you just said "high winds in New York" it reminded me of the beginning of the storm in Manhattan in The Day After Tomorrow where Jake Gyllenhal or however you spell his name is all in New York with his buddies and the big tidal wave is about to crash down on their miserable lives. >D
That was on today, btw.
And yesterday. Such a good movie. Dennis Quaid is amazing.
As is Jake. Both amazing.
You should star in a movie.
I wonder if you'd make a good actor ? ;D

Btw, coffee is nasty.
Get some taste buds, Beckett. >w<

Ladies, ladies. Your deep love of music is truly moving. I'm sure William Beckett appreciates your germane response.

To be fair, there were plenty of positive responses about the song, but the general tone skewed much more towards "we're going to ignore the actual topic of your post and talk about how much we love headphones too!" This fanbase's proritizing of the concept of connection with their favorite musicians over said musicians' actual output never ceases to fascinate me.

Here's the song, just for kicks:

William Beckett [Blog]

Here is the track listing for Afternoon Delight. It's kind of great. No, scratch "kind of," it's great—even the spoken-word bit, althogh I will admit that it was tough for the teenaged me to stomach at first.

1. Sebadoh / It's So Hard To Fall In Love

2. Come / Car
3. Beat Happening / Other Side
4. Unrest / When It All Comes Down
5. Steven Jesse Bernstein / This Clouded Heart
6. Green River / Baby Takes
7. Codeine / Castle
8. Afghan Whigs / Let Me Lie To You

9. Smashing Pumpkins / La Dolly Vita
10. Seaweed / Clean Slate
11. Vaselines / Rory Rides Me Raw

12. Rev. Horton Heat / Where In The Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush?
13. Billy Childish & Kyra / Why Can't You See

It was comps like these that caused me to trawl the aisles of the Country Glen Center's Tower Records outpost back in the day, looking for the missing links between these artists and the one song of theirs I'd heard. (Hello, Thee Headcoatees!) I guess I'm echoing Jay Smooth's lament in a way by mourning that time, but it was a lot of fun, even if it did ultimately drain my meager earnings almost as soon as I'd earned them.

Various Arists: Afternoon Delight [Sub Pop]
if i had a life [Courtney Love's MySpace Blog]

i love when a friend does well and Russell appears to have done quite well- ist not exactltya fucking rock fest at mtv its...... "date my mom" remember- and it will never revert back to reliably rock n roll- its just the economiclevel of thier decision marketing wise to "grow with thier audience"" aka save mass money on shows by just predating on peoples insane desire and frenzy to be on insanely dysfunction al reality shows for free.

Given that the first hour of my red-carpet experience was spent watching luminaries from The Real World and lesser MTV shows fameball right by me, I'm wondering if she'd want to be our Very Special Red-Carpet correspondent next year. At the very least, she'd have better questions to ask people than the ones I came up with—especially if MTV gets the idea to invite people from its brand-new Cops ripoff to show off their stuff. I should get to work on this now, shouldn't I?

how was russell? [Courtney Love's MySpace Blog]

This isn't meant to be a place for me to respond to journalists, but I am very grateful I have this page, if i didn't then i would have absolutely no voice when it comes to this stuff.

All these showbiz journalists are just bullies when it comes down to it. I have felt really very bullied this week.I realise that when i first started this job I slagged a few people off when I probably shouldn't have and I have been opinionated about some things, but i haven't said a bad word about anyone for a long time, even when I have wanted to, even when people have tried to start feuds and said horrible things about me when they'd never even met me, when they'd based an opinion on me because of something they'd read. It's hurtful, but it's fine if you want to print a picture of me and say how awful I look, how much weight i've put on or how terrible my choice of clothes were that day. In my opinion it's still a form of bullying and if anyone spoke to any of my friends like that to their faces i'd want to kill them. But character assasination is another thing it's just not needed.

I turned up and presented an awards ceremony for charity, i drank some champagne and went home for 12.30 and again I've been made to feel like a bad friend and an embarassment to my fans and the people who support me. I shouldn't have to defend myself when i've done nothing wrong. And by the way, to all the photographers waiting outside my house. I won't be leaving for a while, all my friends have gone to Bestival and i've got enough food and fags to last me till wednesday, so you might as well fuck off and find somebody else to make miserable.

I'm torn here, you guys. On the one hand, yes, I do think that the blogs that basically say nothing more than "LOL FATTIE" are kind of gross. On the other hand, perhaps both Lily and Elton are such good actors that their palpable disgust for one another was actually a great wind-up, in which case the BBC should sign them up for an Absolutely Fabulous-style sitcom about excess and celebrity immediately. And on a third hand that's waving around, don't you think Lily should know by now, and own her behavior, instead of blogging about feeling persecuted every time she does something stupid? (Newsflash: Actions have consequences! Especially in public!) Oh, ambivalence, you sure do make for un-pithy blog posts...

Hi [Lily Allen's MySpace Blog]