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they write letters

Dr Pepper Continuing To Operate In "All Publicity Is Good Publicity" Mode

So, after all the advance hype which led to disappointing sales numbers which led to people pointing their fingers toward Axl Rose for not promoting Chinese Democracy at all, the blame game surrounding the long-delayed Guns N' Roses album has finally focused in on... Dr Pepper! Yes, the soft-drink pushers, which offered the world a (coupon for a) free sample of its beverage in honor of Chinese Democracy's release date, got into a bit of (uncarbonated) hot water when the Web site it created for the promotion crashed under the stress of all those people who weren't buying Axl's album trying to wring their free soda out of it. Axl's lawyers whipped off a letter saying that the stunt was "a complete fiasco." (I'd think that in the grand scheme of things, the decision to go with the clowns at Best Buy for the exclusive distribution of a piece of recorded music, and not, say, a flat-screen TV, was the biggest fiasco of all, but who asked me, right?) What does Dr Pepper have to say about it? More »

4:00 PM on Wed Dec 3 2008
By Maura Johnston
413 views, 2 comments

Latest by brasstax: @Marth: Hey, I can only drink about TWO Dr. Peppers a week. more »

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Kid Rock Unclear On The Meaning Behind The Word "Punishment"

Was it really more than a year ago that Kid Rock got in a scrap at a Waffle House that resulted in him having to go for anger-management training and perform some community service? It was, and Kid figured that enough time had passed that he could get "creative" with his service time... by going on his already-scheduled trip to the Middle East to entertain the troops stationed over there. Sure, singing for the servicemen and women who are stuck in Iraq is a noble pursuit, but the judge who sentenced him didn't exactly think that killing two birds with one high-publicity stone would allow Kid to properly reflect on scattering and smothering his parking-lot opponent. "Giving him credit for something he would otherwise love to do in front of a camera completely defeats the punitive purpose of performing community service," the judge wrote in his decision denying Kid Rock's request. Which is kind of a good point, given that the whole idea of "punishment" would seem to imply "doing something one really doesn't want to do." But Kid disagrees, and he's mad enough to blog about it. The Skynyrd-recycling Detroit boy's missive to his fans after the jump. More »

4:15 PM on Tue Dec 2 2008
By Maura Johnston
333 views, 6 comments

Latest by Murk: Am I to understand that you really think that Kid Rock's "singing for the servicemen and women who are stuck in Iraq is a noble pursuit"? For whom? Don't they deserve someone who doesn't suck? Actually, I'm not a real big more »

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Jonas Brothers Fans Feel They Are Way 2 Good 2 Be Forgotten

The Jonas Brothers are adorable, and they know how to sling a pop song. And they look so cute in wax! But has their ascent to the top resulted in them forgetting about the Disney-trained tweens who rescued them from Columbia Records' pop dustbin? From the looks of an open letter to Nick, Joe, and Kevin that's been making the rounds of miffed Jonas diehards—which one similarly discouraged fan reposted in the comments section of a post on the JoBros' inclusion on a Disney holiday comp that was (gasp!) pretty much the same as a post on Miley Cyrus' blog—a feeling that the Brothers' fame has resulted in them outgrowing their fans may have taken hold in some more obsessive quarters of the Internet: More »

3:00 PM on Wed Nov 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
704 views, 11 comments

Latest by ObtuseIntolerant: @NeverEnough: One can only hope! They try pretty hard to stay nonpartisan but they did favorite that clip on their YouTube channel last week. more »

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Moby Makes Sense (No, Really!)

In yet another open letter to a hegemonic media power—in this case, EMI—electronic artist Moby decries the reticence of his corporate masters toward selling music to people who both want it, and are willing to pay for it. More »

1:30 PM on Thu Oct 2 2008
By Lucas Jensen
642 views, 13 comments

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The Airborne Toxic Event Tries To Kill Pitchfork With Kindness

Uh-oh. It looks like we have ourselves another open letter to Pitchfork! After Ian Cohen's 1.6 defenestration of The Airborne Toxic Event's new self-titled disc, the band decided to craft a response to Cohen (and Pitchfork by extension) and throw it out there to the Internet, which, of course, lapped it up. More »

2:00 PM on Thu Sep 18 2008
By Lucas Jensen
1,986 views, 37 comments

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Robert Smith Is Full Of Despair... Over iTunes' Pricing Methods

You'd think Robert Smith would be in a pretty good mood this week, what with a new EP by the Cure, Hypnagogic States, being out and featuring remixes of the band's new songs by young turks like Patrick Stump and an unidentified member of 30 Seconds To Mars. But he's less than pleased—not because of the music, but because of the price point that was bestowed on his album by whoever placed it to the iTunes Store's shelves. Which is why he penned a blog post today that began "PLEASE DONT BUY HYPNAGOGIC STATES EP FROM ITUNES FOR £7.99." Smith's all-caps missive to the iTunes powers that be—which features, as he puts it, "colourful language"- after the jump. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Sep 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
953 views, 7 comments

Latest by TheHeartless: Quality. more »

Kid Rock Speaks, In The Only Way He Knows How iTunes holdout Kid Rock tells Bob Lefsetz how his iTunes avoidance is working for him: "Why sell a million downloads (at a dickweed penny rate) that u say equals a 100,000 records when I'm selling well over a hundrend thousand records every 2 weeks? And I'm helping my heros sell records too???? Sounds like I'm winning, if this were the olympics I would definatley be receiving the gold medal, but that's a lot like itunes, a lot of glory, no money!!!! i only wanna sell my album. i made a great album. itunes said 'no', i dont like being told 'no'. thier just as guilty. ps, i have a ton of apple stock, pretty ironic eh? lol" All the way to the bank, even. [Lefsetz Letter]

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Kanye West (And His Caps Lock Key) Are Ready To Let You Know What Happened At Bonnaroo

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. More »

9:15 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,358 views, 22 comments

Latest by imnotthatguyanymore: @loudersoft: But after he realized things were fucked, he could've just done the show to keep the fans from waiting longer and had it out with the organizers afterward. If he's really about the fans. I love 'Ye's music, but more »

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Josh Homme Speaks To The Peanut Gallery

Josh Homme's 102-degree-fever-fueled tirade against a bottle-throwing concertgoer, which included the epithet "little chickenshit faggot" and threats of buggery, inspired many a comment-thread debate over whether or not Homme was a homophobe, whether or not the kid who threw the bottle was an asshole anyway, whether or not Homme is devolving into Axl Rose Mach 2.0, etc., etc. Well, Josh has responded, and not only did he take a page from one of our commenters and invoke the name of Bill Hicks, he used some really unpleasant Porta-Potty-related metaphors! More »

10:00 AM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,534 views, 54 comments

Latest by roeblingx: @OliverTwist: sorry. you're still bullshit, and i call you out on it. you're obviously personally offended by this and have made it your mission to conquer Josh Homme, while dodging the reality of it all, in that you are no better more »