Tagged: wheresthebeef

Ever since Monday, we've been hearing rumors that Madonna was furious at M.I.A. for flipping off the camera during Madonna's Super Bowl halftime show. Today, we get confirmation, as NME reports . Talking to Ryan Seacrest earlier today (because of course she was), Madonna said that she "wasn't happy about it," breaking it down thus: "It's kind of a teenager irrelevant thing to do in one respect, but there was such a feeling of love and unity there so what was the point? It was just out of place." I don't know about the [...]

After last year's Grammys, when Arcade Fire performed dodging Mat Hoffman bike-tricks and then immediately won the Album Of The Year award, the award show has a high standard to live up to when it comes to ridiculous and implausible but kind of awesome indie-rock performances. But even though Bon Iver got nominated for a boatload of Grammys and s howed up in a Grammy ad , we won't get a chance to see Justin Vernon singing "Holocene" from the bottom of Tony Hawk's halfpipe. As it turns out, Bon Iver isn't performing at this year's ceremony. [...]

Akron/Family might have just made the wrong enemy. The psych-folk band recently started selling a T-shirt on its website that shamelessly uses an extremely recognizable image: The skull logo of Man Is The Bastard, the '90s band that pioneered the hardcore punk subgenre known as power violence. And as Brooklyn Vegan points out , Man Is The Bastard frontman Eric Wood isn't happy about it. Wood has taken to leaving incendiary comments on Akron/Family's Facebook page and encouraging his fans to do the same. (Akron/Family: "We play Subkirke in South Bend, IN tonight!! See you [...]

Over the weekend, Kanye West played Australia's Big Day Out fest, pissing some audience members off by showing up around 45 minutes late to the stage. Audience members weren't the only ones he was pissing off; Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, whose band was playing on an adjacent stage, said: "Sounds like there's children playing music there," singer Chris Cornell quipped to his irritating, booing fans. "Retarded children, retarded as in held back. There's no other word for it." (via Popdust ) What I'm most surprised about, honestly, [...]

LA punks No Age posted the above image on their blog today, posing the question, look familiar ? Spin reports that it's not as egregious as it seems - the shirt does not appear in the Kings' online store - although Spin 's Google search found it on Amazon's UK site. So, there's something to this. Surely they're not the first punks to be ripped off, but where would you put this exactly? In the days of merch overload No Age's shirt is relatively iconic. No word on [...]

NBC news anchor Brian Williams and Gawker chief Nick Denton are friends, apparently, and over the weekend he e-mailed a critique of the site's coverage, or lack thereof, to Denton. An excerpt: ... I do wish the main page featured more TV coverage (Brooklyn hippster [sic] Lana Del Rey had one of the worst outings in SNL history last night — booked on the strength of her TWO SONG web EP, the least-experienced musical guest in the show's history, for starters). In my humble opinion as a loyal customer (you know I love you but the [...]

A late entry to our 10 Biggest Band Beefs Of 2011 list was the developing issue between Common and Drake, which may or may not have been based on general jealousy surrounding Serena Williams, of all people. Common started things out, huffing and puffing at Drake on his song " Sweet ," and each one had made pointed comments about the other in various public forums. That particular pro-wrestling storyline has continued into the new year. Drake, sounding more legitimately tough than he ever has before, served up some impressively regal disdain for Common on his verse from [...]

To many of us, this year's Coachella lineup looks like the best thing the festival has put together in ages. Radiohead! Dre and Snoop! So many '90s-band reunions! A rare live show from the Weeknd! There's just a lot to like. Diplo, however, does not agree. As Pitchfork points out , Diplo went in on the festival's plans in a Tweet that's since been deleted: "maybe im just throwing shade but coachsmella looks pretty lame this year.. u used to be a place to check out new bands/music." He went on to write , [...]

It all started when former Drive-By Truckers member Jason Isbell tweeted ""Dierks" [Bentley] has officially ripped off my song "In A Razor Town." Dierks is a douchebag" for Bentley's song "Home," a song written co-written Bentley, Dan Wilson and the Beaver brothers. Here's the basic sequence for you: So, there you have it. Listen to both songs after the jump and decide for yourself. [...]

This is how the inevitable war of the internet-hype fashion-rap sprites starts: Not with a bang, but with a Twitter. (Sorry.) Azealia Banks and Kreayshawn both got famous in 2011 on the strength of YouTube videos for catchy songs, in which both of them rocked Mickey Mouse-related clothing (" 212 " and Mickey sweatshirt for Azealia, " Gucci Gucci " and Mickey ears for Kreayshawn). So of course they don't like each other Read More...

As you can see up top, Black Keys will cover the January 19th issue of Rolling Stone on the strength of their new LP, El Camino , and its critically positive reception. Given that shine, Keys drummer Patrick Carney doesn't disappoint. An excerpt: Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world," he says, blowing cigarette smoke out the window of his rented East Village loft a few days ­before the band heads to L.A. "So they became OK with [...]

Along with Drake , the Goodie Mob rap legend/meme-pop king Cee Lo Green was one of the artists who performed for cameras and drunk be-novelty-spectacled tourists in Times Square on New Years Eve. And during his segment, Cee Lo managed to piss off a whole lot of people by significantly tweaking a line during his cover of John Lennon's "Imagine." Rather than singing the original lyric "and no religion too," the former choirboy sang "all religion is true." And as Billboard points out , plenty of Lennon fans on Twitter were not happy [...]

Back in the day, when two artists didn't like each other, they'd deal with it in relatively low-profile ways: A snippy backstage comment, or a pointed interview comment. Maybe they'd toss in a lyrical jab, the way Lynyrd Skynyrd did toward Neil Young on "Sweet Home Alabama," but that would be just about it. That's all changed. If, say, the Kurt Cobain/Axl Rose VMA-backstage kerfuffle had happened today, the resounding Twitterpocalypse would have the over-capacity whale showing up for three solid days whenever you tried to reload the site. And every time an artist is even vaguely annoyed at something [...]

Every year, a few bands make it into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and a few more nominated bands get left off. This year, the list of inductees isn't terrible: Guns N' Roses, the Beastie Boys, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the Small Faces among them. But the list of snubbed acts is arguably even more impressive: the Cure, Eric B. & Rakim, the Spinners, Donna Summer, Heart. And War. The '70s funkateers, whose catalog of hits is deep and impressive, were among the acts left out in the cold this year. And [...]

The Avalanches haven't released an album in about 11 years, but that doesn't mean they've stopped paying attention. And since that album was Since I Left You , people pay attention when they make a fuss. Recently, The New York Times posted an interview with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon in which Vernon essentially calls the Grammy Awards meaningless. (The interview was conducted months ago, before Bon Iver got nominated for a buttload of Grammys .) And in a series of posts on their Twitter this morning, the Avalanches have called out Vernon for maintaining [...]

On 12/6, Hip-O will release The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook , a new live box set from Elvis Costello and his backing band the Imposters. But though Costello might be proud of the final product, he's made it pretty clear that he doesn't want us, the public, to buy it. On Costello's website, a post titled "Steal This Record" makes the reason plain: It costs too damn much. At Amazon , the box retails for $202.64, and the post on Costello's site says that this amount "appears to be either a [...]

Aaaaand the messy Oasis breakup just keeps getting messier. Billboard reports that Liam filed legal action against Noel in August, after Noel claimed that Liam pulled out of a headlining spot at the 2009 V Festival because of a hangover. Noel apologized and recanted, but now he's hitting Liam with a series of counter claims, alleging a whole bunch of shit about Liam. Let's see what he said! Read More...

This isn't the '90s, and these days no indie bands are getting cards pulled for licensing songs to advertisers. In fact, it's generally accepted that ad-licensing money is one of the few economic things keeping many indie bands afloat. But when it comes to the much-hated Bank Of America, the rules, it seems, change. Read More...

The sneering L.A. skate-rap collective have been dropped from at least one date on the Big Day Out tour, a multi-city traveling festival that crosses New Zealand and Australia in January and February. The NZ Herald reports that OF have been dropped from the lineup of the festival's Auckland show after one person, a Wellington native named Calum Bennachie, wrote to the Auckland City Council, which owns Big Day Out venue Mt. Smart Stadium. Bennachie complained about the group's homophobic lyrics, and the City Council, evidently, listened. These letter-writing campaigns sometimes work! Or they do in [...]

Yesterday, we posted a fairly random and goofy list of Bon Iver's five favorite rap verses, which main man Justin Vernon had compiled for the current issue of Rolling Stone . As it turns out, Vernon isn't too happy with the way the list came out, claiming that the magazine changed his list. Also not happy: Roots drummer/bandleader and actual rap historian type ?uestlove, whose list for the magazine got cut completely. Read More...