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Ted Nugent, 2 Bears and a PSA

See killing costs coin, so I hope he invested well from his “Wango Tango” days. Nugent wounded a bear with a bow and arrow then killed another- a violation of the 1per customer rule

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Willie Nelson Statue Unveiled

A proud stoner Willie speaks his mind and pays the price – ya gotta respect him for not being a hypocrite that’s for sure! The unveiling was fitting on April 20 – or 4/20, which is slang for smoking marijuana

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Slash Offers Advise To The Up and Coming

“Be careful what you wish for! It’s a f**king no-man’s land out there at this point,” he told Kerrang! magazine. “The rules have changed so much, and the tips I might have given out when the music industry was easier to understand really don’t apply any more

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Mayhem Festival Cruise slated for this Dec. 7-11, 2012

Mayhem Festival is usually the summer tour sponsodred by Rockstar Energy Drink. Rockstar leader Kevin Lyman stated .”We are just excited to get to put this together,” he stated. “It has been a fun process for both of us and really allows us to expand the Mayhem brand and good times.”

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Insane Clown Posse, "The Mighty Death Pop"

Figure their ‘Jugaloo”s are basically social outcast kids who just want to be cool. Fair enough, who doesn’t. Its just unfortunate that Insane Clown Posse couldn’t have better music. I would totally hop on board for the psychological fascination alone

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Record Store Day in Manchester, CT

By golly, It IS RECORD STORED DAY! I have to say it was Mary Magpies idea to go there in the first place. She has picked up a retro turntable and suddenly is queen hipster so we went to check out what they had, not even realizing they could be celebrating this event,

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The InBetweeners Final Season: One Of Them Will Die

Iman and I were sad it would never return. Well now, looks like there has been a change of heart. The UK Daily Star revealed that James Buckley (who plays the role of Jay Cartwright) let the cat out of the bag. The boys will return and either be at college or with job.

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Memories Of LCD Soundsystem: James Murphy, Author

James Murphy is the master of ceremonies of all hip puppets. I have to stop and note that ‘hip puppets’ was a typo, I was to write ‘his puppets’ talk about your Freudian slips. His fans wont go away, they wont even acknowledge the band is gone and really there is no reason too.

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Lil Wayne's Songs of Love

Who knows more about love than Weezy? And where better to love and be loved than prison? Well that is where the words of love came together. The follow up release to last years double platinum LP ‘Carter IV’ will be called ‘Devol”

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Joe Strummer of Love

Strummer was an activist and remains a powerful and inspirational force whose art, convictions and energy spans the decades and inspires all. Proceeds from the festival will go towards Joes passions.

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One Direction vs One Direction

C’mon now they should be happy. Without the Brit boys they would never have gotten as much press, and their ITunes wouldn’t be a buzz with buyers. If youre still doing Battle of the Bands three years later you take what you can to get your name in the papers.

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Tom DeLonges Schlong

Take autographs: “When I was younger I would sign girls’ butts and boobs. I’ve never signed anyone’s penis, but I’d love to!” he quipped in an interview with Kerrang! magazine.

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Facebook 'Timeline', Hurting Band Pages?

Lets face it you would be hard pressed to find anyone who is a fan of the new Timeline format but I cant recall a FB change that didn’t cause a ruckus amongst the masses. People don’t like change and well Timeline is the biggest change yet.

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Lily Allen, New Album 2013?

‘Lily has been in the studio trying different sounds and writing new tracks. She’s not at a stage where she can start recording but the new album is definitely under way and there’s a chance it could be released early next year.’

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Hard Rock UK: Guitar Amnesty

‘Hard Rock Cafe is urging as many people as possible to help us with this fantastic scheme. It doesn’t matter what condition the guitar is in our expert guitar technician will make them as good as new.

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Spider Stacy Scolds One Direction

18 year old Niall Horan got a speaking too via tweet Tuesday morning as you can see in this photo. ‘Tell your bloody controllers to ‘let’ you go out and say hello to your 25+ young fans who’ve been out in the cold ALL DAY LONG.” The first interesting point is there are only 25 fans waiting.

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Jack White Has Children?

Who allowed the odd Jack White to procreate? This came as a surprise to me, I had no idea. Can you imaging Jack as dad? Thirty six years old is surely old enough but I suppose I was more shocked they had never been mentioned.

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Making Music When Nature Calls, Guitar Pee

The idea here is for gentlemen to aim their stream at specific strings, thus creating sound associated with that note. Once done and depending on the duration of the, ahem ‘performance’ the song can be downloaded and actually shared

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KISS Hiring Vets For Roadie Gig

The solider who is hired will travel with the band from July, 14 through September 25, 2012, according to MSNBC. You dont have to have a carpentry background, but duties will include putting together stage sets, running effects during show and tear down. You know.. being a roadie.

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The Flaming Lips and The Blood of Friends

‘I don’t have everybody’s blood just yet, but I collected quite a few vials of blood and it’s actually sitting in my refrigerator as we speak. I’m going to try to take that same concept and put little bits of everybody’s blood in the middle of this record.

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Chiodos, A Long Goodbye

The last tour was the roughest of times for us. Within the first week I tore several ligaments in my right ankle and another member broke his foot. On top of that, I heard a member wanted to leave to go to school and start a family. That was it for me.

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The Kinks Contribute To Record Store Day

Record Store Day is a cool hipster idea that simply is too hip. I’m sure those that participate are die hard audiophiles and the rest just use them as decoration and wait for the digital download of the vinyl. It is good though, to support your local shop (if you still have one).

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Cover Art Similarities

don’t know where this Elliott Smith’s picture was taken but I know it is French photographer Renaud Monfourny’s work, and there are a few other ones in color, taken on these same stairs.

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Tenacious D Summer Tour and New Video

Jack Black and Kyle Gaas are back. Bigger rounder balder and bad asser than ever. Not only are they touring this summer but they have a nice 6 minute video of nonsense to share with us as well. Long live bad comedy acts.

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Fergie On Hiatus

‘I’m more focusing on my other things, like my shoe line, I’m designing for that,’ Fergie explained. ‘I’m really getting to work from home, and I’m loving it

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Happy Birthday Lady Gaga

Her little monsters, the cast outs of society who simply cannot tell when their leader has sold out will hold all sort of raves in her honor. She really is the patron saint of lost souls.

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Cher Wanted Adele, Settled For Gaga

Adele couldn’t make it so word is she settled for Lady Gaga to guest with her instead. To icons in the gay dance movement all these two would need is Madonna and Liza Minelli and it would be a glow stick party time.

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