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Lady GaGa Has Heart (And Spikes)

With all of Lady GaGa's poker face-ing, blonde-wigging, hot pants and disco sticks, one might expect her to be a vain, fame-hungry diva. A handful of media members, some corporate CEOs and a crew of pretty amazing kids saw firsthand on Sunday afternoon that she's completely the opposite. Lady GaGa's visit to Toronto's Circa wasn't only to put on...
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Lady Gaga — The Fame

During a recent performance on the hot-tranny-mess of a show So You Think You Can Dance, Lady Gaga declared "pop music will never be low-brow" while wearing electronic sunglasses. She's certainly putting that statement to the test with her debut. If you've ever seen this New York City art school brat perform, you know something is up. There's a...
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Lady Gaga's The Fame

I Read The News Today... For July 7, 2011

M83 — also known as Anthony Gonzalez — is touring North America this fall in support of his upcoming new album. The LP is still untitled and doesn't have a release date, but you can see him in Mexican, American and Canadian cities from Oct. 15 to Nov. 22, playing songs from it. Turns out even singer/songwriter Veda Hille's two-year-old son is...
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I Fought The Law... For The Week Ending June 30, 2011

Young Jeezy's being sued for allegedly pulling a no-show at a gig in the Virgin Islands. Seriously, who would NOT show up for a gig on a tropical island? It's like screwing yourself out of the best vacation ever after work's done!Lady Gaga's being sued for racketeering and corruption by the charity for which she sold "We Pray For Japan" bracelets...
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I Fought The Law... For Week Ending June 24, 2011

U2 guitarist The Edge is not allowed to build several mansions in Malibu, Calif., since officials have reportedly said it will be "a blight on a pristine ridgeline." OK, when was the last time you heard about someone being denied permission to build a mansion in California? Eighteen-year-old hackers: don't steal shit from Lady Gaga or she'll get...
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I Read The News Today... For June 21, 2011

Cancer Bats are working on the follow-up to last year's Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones, which they say should feature plenty of Sabbath-esque riffs. And, y'know... screaming. That, too. Anet Mook, singer for '90s indie rockers Cay, died earlier this month after she was hit by a bus in Amsterdam. Her funeral was held last Thursday.Your mom...
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MuchMusic Video Awards 2011 Winners List

Yeah, considering they give half of them out during the red carpet pre-show, the actual awards at the MuchMusic Video Awards aren't all that important to the young superstars of today's broadcast, but here's your complete winners list anyway:UR FAVE VideoFefe Dobson — "Stuttering"  UR FAVE New ArtistJustin Bieber featuring...
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I Read The News Today... For June 7, 2011

The Jimmy Swift Band have broken up. But don't cry! Vocalist Craig Mercer and keyboardist Aaron Collier are still making music as Scientists Of Sound and are touring in support of their new Wealth & Hellness album. M83's next album is going to be a double LP. It's going to be about dreams. Makes sense, since I fall asleep while listening to...
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I Read The News Today... For April 7, 2011

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead are touring North America later this month and in May. Let's hope their fans don't stupidly boo their new material this time. —Facebook Rapper Moka Only has signed with Wandering Wox Music, and will release his next album, Airport 5, next Thursday. We hear it's a 40 album deal, which means it should...
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The Grist 13 And Shitty 7 — March 2011

The Grist 131. Charlie SheenMajor League and Major League 2 ruled. 2. Neil Hamburger's Twitter War Against Britney SpearsOne of them's greasy, ugly and washed-up in the entertainment business. The other is Neil Hamburger.3. Sophisticated Billboard VandalismIt's one thing to draw a penis going into a model's mouth using a sharpie. It's...
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Kanye Tops Almost Every 2010 Best Of List (Except Ours)

While every major music publication except us was putting Kanye West's grammatically-challenged My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on top of their best albums of 2010 lists, a few blogs and magazines decided "out indie" everyone by either not including the disc at all, or listing a more obscure disc at #1.Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, Billboard,...
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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

I Read The News Today... For Oct. 22, 2010

Kings Of Leon have made themselves look like pretentious dickheads in an attempt to make themselves not look like pretentious dickheads by calling Arcade Fire... "pretentious dickheads." Go figure. —Hipster Runoff The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Blitzen Trapper are some of the artists that will appear on an upcoming Guided By...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 20, 2010

This ought to leave you teenage ladies crying into your pillow: Kings Of Leon's Caleb Followill is engaged to model Lily Aldridge. Now maybe they can focus on making babies and Kings Of Leon can stop making shitty records (aka go away forever). —US Weekly Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has signed on to co-manage London, Ont.'s Baptized In Blood. —...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 17, 2010

Apparently one member of the Stars has impregnated another member of the Stars and it involves some combination of Amy Millan and Evan Cranley. To celebrate they're offering two song downloads. —StarsMeanwhile, in extended Stars family news, Young Galaxy have announced their next album will come out in spring '11 through Paper Bag and their...
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Seven Imaginary Responses To Lady Gaga's Meat Dress

Unless you spent the last 48 hours or so in some kind of a coma, you're probably aware that Lady Gaga appeared in a meat dress — yes, she was dressed completely in raw meat — at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards.She'd appeared on the cover of the Japanese edition of Vogue Hommes wearing a meat bikini last week, so this kind of wasn't anything...
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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:...
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I Read The News Today... For Sept. 1, 2010

Clothes Make The Man are offering a free download of "Dreamless Nights," which aired on Degrassi: The Next Generation. —clothesmaketheman.org LIGHTS is hardcore. No, seriously: Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta and Gallows have remixed two of her songs, which are available on iTunes now. All proceeds are going to The Greater New Orleans...
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I Read The News Today... For Aug. 30, 2010

Kanye West and Jay-Z are working on a collaborative album that's reportedly called Watch The Throne. It remains to be seen whether Kanye will interrupt Hova's rhymes about being the greatest rapper of all time. Twitter Axl Rose is really pissed off at the organizers of this past weekend's Reading and Leeds festivals in England. They...
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