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I Read The News Today... For May 6, 2011

The Vaccines are touring North America with Arctic Monkeys this month. Lazarus A.D.'s show with Baptized In Blood and Modern Miniatures that was to take place in Toronto this Monday has been cancelled. Beirut's new album will probably come out this summer. Cue hipsters everywhere peeing themselves. Chromeo, Tiga and MSTRKRFT are among those...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 10, 2011

Toronto alt.country band One Hundred Dollars will release their Songs Of Man sophomore album on May 10. You can stream "Waiting On Another," which will appear on the album, here. Bison B.C. were recently detained at the U.S.-Canadian border while trying to cross the 49th parallel south into the States. Why? Well, according to guitarist/vocalist...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 26, 2011

A special fundraiser's being held for Bruce Peninsula's Neil Haverty, who was recently diagnosed with leukemia. Toronto's Music Gallery will host the day-long event on Saturday, and funds raised will go to Haverty and his family to help him treat his illness and recover. —brucetrails.blogspot.com Here's something that's a bit weird, but not at the...
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I Read The News Today... For Oct. 8, 2010

The Flaming Lips will host their fourth annual March Of 1,000 Flaming Skeletons Halloween parade in Oklahoma City on Oct. 23. Yes, if you take acid and attend, you will probably freak out. —Warner Music CanadaJames Burns, the 29-year-old Seattle man who's trying to get Weezer to break up for $10 million, has apparently been getting death threats...
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I Read The News Today... For July 15, 2010

Amy Winehouse's album will reportedly be out by January at the latest. Hey, have you also heard I'm the Queen Of England?! —Metro Rush have released an iPhone and iPod Touch application. It'll cost you a mere $2.99 U.S. ($3.11 Canadian) —Blabbermouth We Were So Turned On, a David Bowie tribute album featuring A Place To...
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Pete Wentz Is Probably In A New Band Named The Black Cards

Pete Wentz was pretty much being the catalyst behind the destruction of Fall Out Boy and pulled what we thought was a graceful disappearing act from the public eye. But he appears to be rearing his guylinered head once again in the form of a new act called The Black Cards. Not much is known about the band, outside of a very short message that...
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Fall Out Boy Guitarist Gets Radio Show, Pete Wentz Threatens Perez Hilton

Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman can be heard every day this week on Friends Or Enemies radio, hosting his own radio show from 3 to 7 p.m. ET. A post on the Friends Or Enemies blog mentions Trohman will have "a slew of amazing guests coming by." You can listen to Trohman spin tunes and interview other (probably) famous people here...
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Alice In Wonderland Soundtrack Full Of Pop-Punk Like Avril, All-American Rejects, Hoppus, Wentz

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland is usually associated with psychotropic drugs and psychedelic rock, not pop punk. But that looks like it could change with the soundtrack to Tim Burton's upcoming film adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. It's only appropriate that Burton — whose films are pretty trippy —will direct a film version...
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Fall Out Boy Members Jam With Daryl Hall, Turn Down Soccer With Rod Stewart

Fall Out Boy singer/guitarist Patrick Stump will appear on the upcoming episode of Hall And Oates member Daryl Hall's Live From Daryl's House online webcast series. The episode will be available as of Sunday (Nov. 15) through the series' website. Stump helped Hall perform Hall And Oates classics like "Out Of Touch" and "Guessing...
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Fall Out Boy Greatest Hits Album Comes With Pete Wentz's Hair

Fall Out Boy's upcoming greatest hits album, Believers Never Die: Greatest Hits, will come with a very special lock of bassist Pete Wentz's hair. OMG, I know, it's, like, totally your dream to have a piece of him, but before you jump up and down and scream uncontrollably you're going to want to know how to get your hands on a piece of his hair,...
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Wentz On Every Time I Die Album

Pete Wentz recently took some time away from his Twitter war with Perez Hilton to record with hardcore four-piece Every Time I Die. He provides guest vocals on the band's upcoming album, New Junk Aesthetic. "Just laid down some vox on @etidwastaken record," the Fall Out Boy bassist wrote in a June 27 Tweet. "Hopefully I didn't...
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Pete Wentz, Perez Hilton Fight About Jacko

Days after he was allegedly punched by the Black Eyed Peas' manager, Perez Hilton got into a virtual tussle of sorts with Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz about Michael Jackson's death. Even Ashlee Simpson Wentz, Good Charlotte's Joel Madden, John Mayer and actor Kevin Spacey got in the middle of it. It seemed the only person missing was Keyser Soze...
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Pete Wentz's Bar Gets Busted

Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz plays to lots of screaming, underaged kids when he's gigging with his band, and his bar also apparently likes to cater to them. Angels And Kings, Wentz's bar in New York City's East Village, has been shut for three days by the New York Police Department because it's allegedly been serving alcohol to minors,...
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Pete Wentz In Degrassi Movie

Degrassi: The Next Generation is about to get even more emo-tional in its first full-length, made-for-television film. Degrassi Goes Hollywood is based on the popular Canadian teen TV drama and will feature cameos from various guests, including Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, whose role hasn't been revealed. The movie follows the female...
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The More You Deplore Me, The Rougher I Get

The dynamics of when rock celebrities come out swingin' John Lennon wanted us all to give peace a chance, but there've been a number of incidents in recent months where celebrity musicians certainly didn't. It's pretty well understood that rock star celebrities don't exactly defined society's high moral ground. That said, there's a...
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Pete Wentz Fears Murder

Pete Wentz is sure someone is going to murder him one day. The Fall Out Boy bassist recently told the U.K.'s Daily Mail tabloid that he doesn't answer his front door because he thinks someone is going to kill him. "I used to think that some day I'd end up murdering a close friend or relative," he said. "Now, it's reversed and I'm...
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Wentz And Simpson Go Gangster

As if Pete Wentz wasn't already on television enough. Now he's set to appear on CSI: NY with his wife, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz. They'll appear on the March 18 episode playing a gangster couple (think Bonnie and Clyde, except way, way more emo), according to Entertainment Weekly. There's no word on whether they'll have son Bronx Mowgli Wentz with...
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Cops Thwart Fall Out Boy Show

Fall Out Boy thought of a genius way to launch Folie A Deux in New York City — or so they thought. Singer/guitarist Patrick Stump, bassist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley took over a stage in Washington Square Park on Monday to play a free show. But it turned out they didn't have a permit to do so, which meant the cops...
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Jungle Book Name For Wentz's Child

It’s a jungle out there, especially when competing with fellow celebrities for the craziest baby name. But Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson's kid takes the cake — er, banana. On Tuesday, the Fall Out Boy bassist told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show that he and his wife named their son Bronx Mowgli Wentz after the character in The Jungle Book...
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Bronx Mowgli Wentz Born

Emo spawn now walks crawls the earth. Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Pete Wentz welcomed their first child, a boy they've named Bronx Mowgli Wentz, into the world on Thursday at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Little Bronx apparently weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz. "Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for...
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