Win Butler from the Arcade Fire, called out for pomposity by supposed good guy Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, fired back late yesterday what's shaping up to be the Musical Beef Of March 2009. (It's at least on par with some of the great beefs of the past, like Canibus vs. LL Cool J, Canibus vs. Em...

So, Wayne Coyne doesn't really care for the Arcade Fire, dropping some really spectacular quotes— including the bon mot "They have good tunes, but they're pricks, so fuck 'em"—into an interview with Andy Greene of Rolling Stone. More of Wayne gone wild: "I'm a fan of them on one level, b...

Late last summer, Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone and The Game's LAX engaged in a SoundScan battle to the death, almost. Initial returns had LAX ahead of the masked Iowans on the albums chart by a mere 13 copies, but a hasty recount put Slipknot in the drivers' seat, with a victory margin of 1,134 album...

Right after Barack Obama's inauguration, the son of legendary singer Etta James claimed that his mother was happy with Beyoncé's performance of her signature song "At Last" at one of the event's associated balls; James allegedly watched Beyonce serenade the first couple while recuperating from comp...

Kiss bassist/serial entrepreneur Gene Simmons got wind of yesterday's post about his all new Canadian-artists-only record label, and he is not pleased! He took to the blog of his recently relaunched Simmons Records and went off, calling the person who penned it (a.k.a. me) "an amateur who's achieved...

Billy Corgan, in his latest attempt to be seen as a total nutball by pretty much anyone who liked him during the '90s, is saying that Eddie Vedder's song about the Cubs maybe winning the World Series "killed that shit dead... Eddie ain’t living here to write a song about my fuckin’ team." Funny,...

Last month, Joe Elliott told an Irish newspaper that he thought his former Headbanger's Ball cohorts Poison, Winger, and Warrant were "shite bands," and that he was too busy chasing after the latest tunes by the Stereophonics to even think about touring with them. Well, Poison members Rikki Rockett ...

In case you don't have the stomach to watch Soulja Boy's expletive-laden, nearly eight-minutes-long despite edits response to Ice-T saying he ruined hip-hop forevermore, let me sum up its two major arguments. No. 1: "YAHHH OLD YAHHH." (That's a paraphrase.) No. 2: "How are you gonna make a song call...

50 Cent—who apparently still records music, despite what he might have said previously—has decided to take on T.I., because the Atlanta MC isn't going to spend as much time in prison as Curtis would like. To spare you the trouble of picking up the new G-Unit disc, the "controversial" lyr...

Alicia Keys clumsily claims that the concept of "gangsta rap" was a concoction of the government/media in a Blender interview, and uncommercial maverick artists like 50 Cent get in a tizzy over the idea that they might be playing into some sort of conglomerate-approved caricature. "I don't like Alic...