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In the grand tradition of Kurt and Courtney's Frances Bean Cobain and Thurston and Kim of Sonic Youth's Coco Hayley Gordon Moore comes more indie rock royalty: the newborn baby son of Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Regine Chassagne. Lots

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"Do you remember when you first fell in love with Easter," Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio asks actor Steve Buscemi in a new promo video (watch above) for the band's upcoming American Express Unstaged live webcast, which Busemi will direct. Buscemi oddly waxes nostalgic about the holiday -- "I couldn't sleep the night before, thinking about how many eggs I was gonna get," he recalls -- and the whole thing comes across as pretty awkward and totally random, much like the entire Buscemi/Vampire Weekend association, which started when he appeared with the band at this year's Easter parade in New York City.

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Country music lost one of its greats when iconic singer George Jones died Friday (April 26) at the age of 81. Jones was the real deal -- not one of those shiny country superstars of the 'Nashville' generation -- and he penned hundreds of classic country songs and recorded dozens of Top 10 hits. His influence cast a wide net well beyond the country music genre, and pl

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"Don't take the law into your own hands: You take 'em to court," 'People's Court' reporter Doug Llewelyn used to say at the end of each episode of the '80s court reality show. Llewelyn later appeared as a variety show host at the beginning of Nirvana's 'In Bloom' vid

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Punk legends the Dead Kennedys had been broken up for more than a decade when former members East Bay Ray, Klaus Flouride and D. H. Peligro noticed that the band's label, Alternative Tentacles, had been shorting them on record royalties to the benefit of frontman Jello Biafra, who also just happened to run the record label. What followed was a very un-punk lawsuit over record royalties and publishing rights, with a jury ruling Biafra had committed fraud and malice and ordering him to pay the other three members nearly $200,000 in damages and punitive fees. Biafra also was forced to hand over the rights to the majority of Dead Kennedys' back catalog.

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Fans of the National won't be able to find the band's new album, ‘Trouble Will Find Me,' in stores until May 20, but it doesn't take much searching to find several tracks bound for the disc online. A few weeks ago, the New York rockers premiered three songs (‘Heavenfaced,' ‘Graceless’ and ‘Fireproof’) during a secret show in Berlin. A week later, the disc's first single, 'Demons,' surfaced online, followed a few days later by another cut, 'Don’t Swallow the Cap.'

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Liam Gallagher says he "might" reunite Oasis for a mere $45 million? Fingers crossed!

Another day, another 'Great Gatsby' soundtrack jam premiere.

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Mick Harvey may still be best known for his work as a member of the Birthday Party and the Bad Seeds, but his latest album, 'FOUR (Acts of Love),' is actually the sixth solo disc of his career. And what a remarkable career it's been, including more than three decades of collaboration with Nick Cave, a partnership with PJ Harvey that helped spawn two stellar albums from the British singer and a series of his own records reinterpreting the music of French legend Serge Gainsbourg.

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Several years after the 1994 suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, his widow, Courtney Love, formed a business partnership called Nirvana L.L.C. with surviving members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl to oversee future uses of the band's music. But Love soon filed suit against the two, claiming that they were merely minor sidemen in Nirvana, that she joined the partnership under duress, and that as Cobain's widow, she should be the sole guiding force of Nirvana's legacy. Dave and Krist countersued, the two parties reached a settlement in 2002, and later that year, a greatest-hits album featuring Nirvana's final studio recording, 'You Know You're Right,' hit stores.

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Iconic pop artist Andy Warhol and influential New York rockers the Velvet Underground have been linked ever since Warhol's banana print appeared on the cover of the band's 1967 debut album, 'The Velvet Underground & Nico' -- a fact cited by the Velvets in a copyright lawsuit filed last year against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over its licensing of the image for such products as covers for Apple iPods and iPads.

A judge rejected the band's copyright claim last Septemb

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