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​First things first, can we all just take a moment and contemplate the fact that Justin Bieber and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar have a beef? How did this even happen?More >>

​Oh, Courtney. She just can't give a straight answer, can she? In an interview about the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's breakout music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Courtney Love took the opportunity to divulge several intimate details about her and Kurt Cobain's first... how shall we say... sheet meetings. More >>

​Perhaps following in the footsteps of Tom Waits, who took to his Twitter account to proclaim that rumors of him releasing new music will be "set straight" next Tuesday, August 23, and is causing his fans to fly into a tizzy, James Blake and Bon Iver have revealed a very cryptic new collaboration that will see the light of day a week from today, Wednesday, August 24.More >>

​As part of a scathing interview indicting his bandmates for "a lot of deception, disloyalty, and greed," Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett said that the once-popular indie band is now officially kaput. The band, whose frontwoman Jenny Lewis has gone on to a successful solo career and is currently touring with her boyfriend Johnathan Rice as Jenny & Johnny, released what is now their final record, Under the Blacklight, back in 2007. More >>

​It's a big week for Alecia Beth Moore, a.k.a. the uber-talented pop star P!nk. Not only is she releasing a career retrospective, Greatest Hits... So Far!!!, but the internets have been on fire with rumors of a "burrito-sized baby bump," most likely the result of her on-again, off-again marriage to motorcross star Carey Hart, which appears on-again as news of their expected little one circulates and he makes a cameo in her new video.

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​"My DJ set is on fiiiiire!" local DJ and videographer 00000001 a.k.a. Nico Demonte wrote on his Facebook wall around 11 p.m. last night.  "Fire at the Kitty Cat Klub!" 
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​With a new album, Hurley, due out September 14 and new dates in the works, Weezer have said that they are in the preliminary stages of planning a tour that would involve front-to-back performances of Pinkerton and their first self-titled LP, The Blue Album. According to MTV, the tour would include two-night runs in each city, giving the band enough time to perform each album straight through before moving on to the next stop.

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Justin Bieber is in town tonight. Have you heard? In addition to jamming up traffic downtown with his show tonight and getting Tony Fly all whipped up about his surprise appearance at the MOA yesterday, the Biebs just gave a "shoutout" to Twins first baseman Justin Morneau on his Twitter account.

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There's a rumor swirling around the interwebs today that Lady Gaga's mega-hit "Telephone" was originally written for Britney Spears, a claim that is hinged on an extremely Auto-Tuned demo making its way around the blogs. Apparently, Gaga used to pen tunes for Brit Brit before she made it big herself. Listen to the demo in the YouTube video below and decide for yourself -- to our ears, we can hear strains of Spears's voice, but her voice has been modified so much in the studio over time that at this point they could probably record a lunch lady sighing and make it sound like the voice we recognize as Britney's.

​Our recent interview with Al Kooper created quite the stir in the entertainment world last week, as he divulged that Max Weinberg was not going to be hired to lead the backing band for Conan O'Brien's new TBS show. Conan's reps have issued a somewhat vague statement countering Kooper's claims, saying "No details for the TBS show have been set as of now, none at all."

Conan didn't mention any of his plans for the TBS show in his first public interview on 60 Minutes last night, either, so it looks like we'll have to keep holding our breaths to find out Weinberg's plans for certain.

Here's a quick roundup of recent publications who have attempted to get a straight answer out of O'Brien's and Weinberg's representatives:

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