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T.I. May Return to Prison

Having been arrested on drug charges in Los Angeles early yesterday, T.I. now must return to Atlanta and face a judge to determine whether the incident was a violation of the rapper's parole. If so, he may have to return to prison just seven months after he was released. "It's …
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Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Entire Arcade Fire MSG Show Rebroadcast for Limited Time

Front page photo by Kirstie Shanle; photo on this page by Mitch Manzella
If you missed Arcade Fire’s triumphant August 5 webcast of their show at Madison Square Garden– or just want to relive the experience all over again– the whole thing is officially available on-demand for the next 24 hours. (Via Merge.) [...]

Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Hear Two New Belle and Sebastian Songs

Last month, Belle and Sebastian promised a series of unique videos in support of their upcoming album, Belle and Sebastian Write About Love, and the first one is now available. (Via Matablog.) It’s a beautifully produced half-hour program featuring the band playing two new songs, “I Want The World to Stop” and “I [...]

Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

You Can Play Guitar With Pavement on "Fallon"

Photo by Akmal Naim
When Pavement take their 2010 reunion to “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on September 23, they’ll be joined by a special guest guitarist– you! Well, not all of you. But one of you. They’re accepting submissions from guitarists to play with them on the after hours TV [...]

Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Video: Deerhunter: "Helicopter"

“Helicopter”, a slow and dreamy track from Deerhunter’s forthcoming Halcyon Digest, now has a video. To watch it, head over to this site and click on the passage from band-beloved writer Dennis Cooper. The clip is five minutes of frontman Bradford Cox singing directly into the camera, in tight black-and-white close-up, while other stuff flashes [...]

Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Apples in Stereo Frontman Invents Mind-Controlled Theremin

If anyone was going to invent a Theremin that you could control with your mind, it’d have to be someone from the Elephant 6 collective, right? According to a possibly-not-joking press release, Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider has done just that. Scheider has invented a device he calls the Teletron, which allows the user [...]

Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Hurts surprised by Kylie consent

http://l.yimg.com/i/i/eu/ne/ukp.gif Hurts have revealed having Kylie Minogue sing on a track on their debut album ‘Happiness’ was the ”icing on the cake”.
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Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Ben Folds’ musical pressure

http://l.yimg.com/i/i/eu/ne/ukp.gif Ben Folds worried he wouldn’t be able to come up with music good enough for Nick Hornby’s lyrics for their forthcoming ‘Lonely Avenue’ project.
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Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Pussycat Dolls ‘inevitable’ split

http://l.yimg.com/i/i/eu/ne/ukp.gif Nicole Scherzinger has admitted the original Pussycat Dolls split was ”inevitable”, as the other members of the group were hired as dancers, rather than singers.
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Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Queens Of The Stone Age nearly history

http://l.yimg.com/i/i/eu/ne/ukp.gif Josh Homme almost split Queens Of The Stone Age when the band’s first full-time bassist Nick Oliveri left.
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Posted by: Zack the Rumormonger on Friday, September 3rd, 2010