I Read The News Today… For Sept. 3, 2010

Calgary's Michael Bernard Fitzgerald is taking his folky tunes across most of western Canada with LIGHTS this fall. —Facebook

"Radioactive," the first single from Kings Of Leon's new Come Around Sundown album, is out Oct. 12. It's out the following week in North America. —Sony Music

How's this for bizarre: A Bulgarian man is transitioning from male to female so he can "become Lady Gaga." Not only that, but he's also going to have extensive cosmetic surgery so that he can look exactly like her. —Radar Online

This shit is freaky: Apples In Stereo frontman Robert Schneider has invented a mind-controlled theremin. Yes, seriously. Apparently the Teletron works using brain activity:



Were you weirded out by how much techno was on Linkin Park's "The Catalyst"? Well, new single "Wretches And Kings" is a bit more like their usual selves… except for that beat. —Noisecreep

San Diego shoegazers Crocodiles have released a free instrumental EP, Fires Of Comparison, to drum up anticipation for their Sleep Forever sophomore album, which is out Sept. 14. Get it here.

Only five per cent of Hawksley Workman objects to a census, but 95 per cent of Hawksley Workman objects to Stephen Harper diddling with the census. —The Globe And Mail

3 Inches Of Blood's new video for "Silent Killer" has been banned by MTV in the United States because it's "too gory." That's fine; the last thing anyone wants is 3 Inches Of Blood not being metal enough. —Twitter

Gossip singer Beth Ditto wants a baby. Is it wrong to be frightened by that idea? —London Evening Standard

It turns out The Pogues aren't breaking up after all. Guitarist Phil Chevron now says the name of their "Farewell Tour" is nothing but a marketing ploy initiated by other band members. —pogues.com

A Rolling Stones version of Monopoly is coming. Did they change the jail space to Exile On Main St.? —Daily Mail

How to get your career back on track? Release a sex tape. How to make even more of a stir? Release a gay sex tape. Just ask Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins about that. Bet you didn't see that one coming, did you? —Unrated Perez