Aerosmith axeman Joe Perry has undergone successful knee replacement surgery. The surgery was performed last Tuesday, March 18th after being put off for two years so Perry could complete live commitments.Perry was put into ICU but doctors have eased his pain and transformed him to a private room. Perry will stay there through the end of the week then head home where he will recover until the en...
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San Francisco...I am starting to get jealous. The line-up for this summer's inaugural Outside Lands Festival is shaping up to be one of the hottest. Joining headliners Radiohead, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Jack Johnson will be Beck, Wilco (whose tune "Walken" is currently spinning on my iTunes) and Widespread Panic. The three-day festival will take place at San Francisco's historic Gol...
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Britney is back. The recovering pop-star made a positive return to television last night on an episode of the CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother. She does a great job of playing a ditzy doctor's receptionist. The show, which also stars Doogie Howser, M.D. and the "at band camp" girl, is actually pretty funny.
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Cuban bass player Israel Lopez "Cachao," known as one of the creators of the mambo has died due to kidney failure. He was 89.In 1930s Cuba, Lopez with the help of his brother Orestes composed the piece "Danzon Mambo," which heralded the mambo revolution, later carried out by Damaso Perez Prado.Cachao would then live his life in obscurity, until being rediscovered by actor Andy Garcia. Garcia pr...
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How else do we honor Kurt Cobain, but by marketing the shoe he killed himself in with his name on it. Yes, Converse will release a new limited edition series of shoes decorated with the late Nirvana frontman's drawings and writing from his 2002 book Journals. The kicks are out this May. The Kurt Cobain Converse have gotten the full OK and approval of his widow, Courtney Love, unlike last year's...
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Today comes the long awaited confirmation that R.E.M's Peter Buck and Michael Mills are straight. A play on the obsession media has with the band's frontman Michael Stipe's sexual orientation was announced today via press release and read: "R.E.M.'s Mike Mills and Peter Buck announced today that they are both, after years of awkward speculation, heterosexual, or "straight." Singer Michael Stipe...
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Madonna's new album Hard Candy doesn't come out for another five weeks, but its already Number Two on Amazon.com, right behind everyone's favorite - Celtic Thunder's (who?) self-titled album. Looking back on Madonna posts, I noticed MOG hasn't posted the Hard Candy album cover. So here is it:Suck on it April 29th.
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Suicide is the dumbest shit anyone can do, next to killing a friend in the passenger seat while driving under the influence. On a personal note, the effects and turmoil self-flicted death causes on friends and family is indescribable, if anything unbearable. Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz is sorta a dumbass. He toyed with the idea of killing himself, around the time he was launching his music care...
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The Raconteurs have "flooded MOG":http://mog.com/Michael_Goldberg/blog_post/150558 unexpectedly with the announcement that their new album Consolers of the Lonely will be out March 25th. Along with a tour, centering around the west side of the US and European dates to follow, Jack White and Co. have leaked the albums tracklisting:Consolers of the Lonely:01 Consoler of the Lonely02 Salute Your S...
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I stopped playing with my Barbies back before middle school, but up-and-coming 23-year-old Katy Perry, is still holding onto her Barbie and Ken doll, both who make a cameo in her video for "Ur So Gay."This is one for the folks at TRL. Perry is heading out on Warped Tour this summer, beginning June 20th in Pomona, CA. Watch out Ashlee Simpson....Ur So Gay
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