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This Week in Music Licensing (Crystal Castles, Stars of the Lid, Elbow, Battles, Tokyo Police Club, and more)

This weekly post was really just meant to be an (arguably) interesting news roundup of where (mostly BV-covered) music and musicians are showing up besides in our stereos/computers/headphones/players/etc. Like all news, it might be positive, negative or neither depending on your point of view. Wh...

Auto Workers Union Rules Out Concessions To Help Detroit Bailout

With the House of Representatives pledging an aid package for the auto industry, the United Auto Workers (UWA) union fanned the flames a bit by refusing to grant any concessions in a bailout of the big 3 Detroit automakers. UAW president Ron Gettelfinger adamantly stated that the auto industry's...

Amazon Would Like To Sell You On The Kings Of Leon Album [Year-end Analysis]

This year's first best-of list comes to us from Amazon, which I guess wanted to get a jump on holiday shopping by deeply discounting the albums it found better than the rest way before Black Friday rolled around. Top 50 after the jump, but first, here are a few impressions: THE GOOD: A top 10 w...

Kanye West keeps talking smack, says he's 'voice of this generation' (via Celebitchy)

Fafa points for: Jared Leto, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Rihanna, Katie Price, Lil' Wayne Kanye West got mad and crashed the stage ranting when he didn't win best video at the MTV Europe VMAs in 2006 and now he's mad that he did win one this year. You just can't please the guy ...

Massive China Stimulus is Viewed as an Attempt to Help the West

The half-trillion-dollar stimulus package that China unveiled on Sunday underscores that country’s growing importance to the global economy and shows Beijing’s willingness to assume a leadership role in the battle to blunt a widening worldwide financial crisis, a top expert on China s...

The Sun claims Kanye West urinated on the carpet in his dressing room