Fiery Furnaces To Radiohead: "Fuck You" • Matthew Friedberger clearly thought Radiohead wrote a song about American composer Harry Partch not UK old guy Harry Patch when he told them to fuck off for "brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool." Bogus.

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Wavves, Black Lips In Brooklyn Bar Fight • There were no survivors. Probably. The Daily Swarm reports on the aftermath.

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Guitar Hero CEO Says Blame Courtney • Dan Rosensweig insists his company's offer to desecrate Kurt Cobain's legacy was crystal clear and that Dave and Krist should take it up with Nirvana's estate. Jon Bon Jovi's weighed in too. No doubt this will all be cleared up soon via Courtney's Twitter.

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Why Can't Juggalos And Maggots Just Be Friends? • Who knew there was such a rift in the horrorcore community? Fans of Slipknot (Maggots) hate fans of ICP (Juggalos) and vice versa, but these groups really should join together and create a unified Army of Awful. The more you know.

Lily Allen Gets Big Pink Remix, Calls Out Ed O'Brien

London duo the Big Pink recently offered some of A Brief History Of Love's dusky electronic post-new romantic magic to Allen's "22," a song that could use it. Their dramatic face lift shows up as the b-side of the It's Not Me, It's You track's 7" single. While you listen, learn why Allen takes issue with Radiohead's stance on music piracy.

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Tags: Ed O'Brien | Lily Allen | Radiohead | The Big Pink

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Courtney, Dave, Krist, Activision Fight Over Guitar Hero's Controversial Kurt Cartoon

Who to believe, who to believe. As you know, Guitar Hero 5 features a playable Kurt Cobain avatar which you can unlock to have the Nirvana icon cover Bush, stunt like Flavor Flav, and roll over in his grave. Everybody's coming down on Courtney Love for licensing this atrocity, so Courtney Love very calmly took to Twitter to call out Activision and threaten filing suit. In her words:

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Tags: Courtney Love | Dave Grohl | Guitar Hero | Krist Novoselic | Kurt Cobain | Nirvana

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Wayne Coyne Rescinds Arcade Fire Apology • A few months ago he tore the group a new asshole, then backtracked. Now: "I know what I said was absolutely the truth. I run into people virtually everywhere we play and they're like, 'Wayne, you're the only one that says anything.'" So he's a hero. (Via 24Bit.)

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Alice Cooper Thinks Vampire Weekend Have No Balls

The makeup-wearing senior citizen with the girl's name and 7 handicap is not a fan of Upper West Side Soweto. Alice asks Noisecreep, "Are all American bands metro-sexual now? I heard the title Vampire Weekend and I thought, 'Oh, man, that's gonna be great. I gotta see it. And there are these guys with little Gap T-shirts on and I'm going, 'What happened to the balls in rock 'n' roll? Why are American bands so wimpy?'"

He thought they were real vampires. Honest mistake.

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