Stockhausen has left the building. (guardian obit)

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Cringer and J Church frontman Lance Hahn has died from kidney complications. In addition to his punk bands and zine contributions, Hahn also owned and operated Honey Bear records, which released Unwound’s self-titled “first” album.
“as far as the doctors can tell, this collapse was due to a sudden, drastic drop in blood pressure, [...]

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While the following words should’ve been an intertitle in that Van Hagar video where Eddie shows us he can wank off just as hard on the ivories, unfortunately they’re not:
Riiight now, somewhere in the Stuyvesant Heights section of Brooklyn, a pandrogyne noise pioneer is cursing God and weeping uncontrollably – unsure if s/he can even [...]

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A 1970 version of “In the Ghetto”, just prior to the bloating. All the freaks are out in Memphis’ scorching heat for the yearly vigil honoring the day the king died on his throne.

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Tony Wilson, the legendary Mancunian label head of Factory Records, has died. Creation records’ Alan McGee has already paid tribute:
“He was a complete inspiration. He was one of the great spotter of music talent, and it’s a complete shame for him to go so very young.”
And Rollings Stone’s obituary:
“The U.K.’s most outrageous music impresario died [...]

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“Nobody did more to smuggle eerie psychedelic filth into the American pop mainstream“

(9 July 1929 – 4 August 2007)

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Eccentric fruitcake producer, Phil Spector, is about to go on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson, a former waitress/actor, who made an egregous error in judgment by joining Mr. Spector for a nightcap in his Hollywood castle in February of 2003. 
Set your Tivos, as this freakshow trial will be televised, of course. Spector’s responses to the allegations have [...]

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Even though Boston’s Brad Delp might not have written the hits (that was guitarist Tom Scholz), nobody can touch that high note in “More Than A Feeling.” Delp was found dead by his fiancée of an apparent carbon monoxid-induced suicide.

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