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Blender (Issue 31,November 2004)
"Retired pastor J. D. Turner of Georgia has complained about Alicia Keys fans calling his home at 489-4608, the phone number featured in her single 'Diary.""

"David Hasselhoff is set to launch a hip-hop career. The former Knight Rider and Baywatch star has teamed with gangsta-rap icon Ice-T to record an album under the name Hassle the Hoff."

"Snoop Dogg is being sued for $1 million by music promoter Patricia Ann Richardson, who accuses him of tricking her into picking up three packages of marijuana from a motel. She said she was unaware they cotained illegal substances. "

"You're going to get cancer for writing this way about Justin." Cameron Diaz

"Director Gus Van Sant has finished shooting a movie based on the last days of Kurt Cobain. Final Days stars Michael Pitt, recently seen in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village."

"Krist Novoselic has released a book called Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy!,combining a memoir of his Nirvana days with his radical views on electoral reform. "

"'A dildo.' Britney Spears on the last thing she had in her mouth."

"Do you think it's a compliment that my best friend Suesan calls he vibrator Ll Cool J? 'Absolutely! Glad to be of service.'" LL Cool J

"We get a lot of very young girls coming up and asking what our favorite color is, which is cool. I love them, and they make us what we are. But just once I'd like a guy to come up and ask how I play a riff or say 'You guys are cool.'" Billy Martin of Good Charlotte

"Without sounding totally phony, I think this might be our second best--if not our best--album. It's up there with Achtung [Baby]. It had to be. You can't live like this and put out a crap album or else people are going to want to shoot you." Bono

"The Edge goes to the boom box to check the running order he's been tweaking all day, only to discover the disc is missing. The fact slowly dawns that U2's album has been stolen...the potential for bootlegging is immense. The French police are called, and the U2 organization goes into smoothly efficient override...'U2 Still Haven't Found What They're Looking For' crow the newspapers the next morning as the story breaks. But the band has a plan. Should even one track appear on the Internet the will release the whole album through iTunes immediately. Other than that, they'll just have to wait."

"Trickier structures and posh arrangements quickly defy punk expectations. Two nine-minute tracks introduce characters who struggle for transcendence, but fall under society's boot. Green Day surround these expanded blockbusters with ballads and rockers that rail against consumer culture, skewer organized religion and family. Heavy stuff, lightly grilled." Review of Green Day's American Idiot.

"...this halfhearted propaganda is masked in lines which evoke distressed friendships and romances that are never pinned down." Review of R.E.M.'s Around the Sun.

"Smith's music was a salve, transforming despair into sweet melodic ache. On his heart-breaking final album. he's left a potent reality check--a reminder that pain isn't pretty, and sometimes, beauty isn't enough." Review of Elliott Smith's From a Basement on the Hill.

From Spin (November 2004)
"Are American girls different from Canadian girls? The only difference I noticed when I was single was that American girls don't give blowjobs as easily as Canadian girls do. Also, American girls will have sex with you without a condom, but they don't want to do anything else. We were really surprised by this. We were like, 'I just want a blowjob--I don't know you that well.'" Deryck Whibley of Sum 41

"Have two decades of wearing headphones [in public via a Walkman or Discman] made us more alienated? The logic worked like this: Since we could now listen to our own music within our own vacuum, we became more isolated. We no longer had to talk to strangers, and strangers could not talk to us. Instead of being a source of commonality, rock music had evolved into a vehicle for personal escapism, and, at least in theory, would thereby become less culturally signifigant. I don't know if this argument makes sense now; while I agree that wearing headphones temporarily distances the listener from others, the same could be said about reading in public, and I don't see many people blaming books for the universal alienation of American culture." Chuck Klosterman, columnist

"Rock's become such a conservative business. You have a batch of songs, put out a single, do your video, hope you get played on the radio, go on tour. People like Outkast are kicking rock's ass, because there's so much ambition." Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day

"In what situation would it be hard to resist temptation? [Stammers] 'I don't know. If I see drugs or slutty girls or something, it just might be me who turns away. I don't know if it's just the way I am, saying, "I'm going to go to bed now," or if it's from being raised Mormon.'" Brandon Flowers of The Killers

"Do you have any regrets? No. Any regrets are so minor. Sometimes I wish we could have spent a little more time on songs and recording. I feel like we could have done better. We got our little advance, and whatever we had left, we kept...It mattered that The Ramones made money. We worked really hard, and I didn't want, after 15 years, to have to look for a job. 'Oh, what have you been doing for the last 15 years?' 'Oh, I've been in a punk rock band.'" Johnny Ramone

"PLAYLIST: Trash: Bowling for Soup, 1985. (Jive) Where 80's nostalgia hangs itself with its own piano-key necktie. (We wish.)"

From Spin (Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2004)
"Two weeks after Rick James was found dead of undetermined causes...some of the funk legend's and admirers reportedly gave him an unorthodox send-off at a L.A. nightclub. According to the New York Daily News, partiers 'paid their respects by approaching his portrait on the wall and blowing either marijuana smoke or cocaine at his smiling face.'"

"I'm a spiritual person, but I don't believe I need to pay money to get to heaven." Bert McCracken of The Used.

"The only place for a long time to buy records was Target. 'London Calling' [The Clash] had a parental-advisory sticker on it. I'd just peel away a little bit of the sticker away each time we went shopping. Finally, I got enough of it off so you couldn't read why you shouldn't buy it if you were a parent. I put it in the cart and begged for it. I really should come clean with my mom about that." Jeff Tweedy of Uncle Tupelo and Wilco.

Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth:
"I'll go to a basement in Brooklyn to see a band, and they're like, 'What the fuck is he doing here?' I've always gone to those places. Why would you want to go see something that's hyped up by MTV? Why would you choose to go see Something Corporate at Irving Plaza when you could see XBXRX down at Lit lounge? To me, there's no choice. One is exciting and great and the other is Live, part two, or something." On being an elderstatesman of music and attending small venue shows.
"Everybody likes the idea of fame, but everyone who experiences the reality of it knows it's bullshit."
"[Coco's] friends were listening to Spice Girls and Britney Spears, and Kim explained to Coco early on that these people are not writing the music they're singing. Basically, it's written by old men. That set a lightbulb off with Coco."

"Well, I figured if I were to do it, I'd have to jump in 100 percent...I'm writing a book, then I'm getting an advanced rating for my plane, I gotta put my garden in, I gotta wash the windows on my house. So I figured, shit, maybe not this time." Krist Novoselic when asked about running for Lt. Gov. of Washington.

From Rolling Stone (Issue 959, 10/14/04)
"On those tapes are everything from shitty collages to some pretty stunning, awe-inspiring songs to stupid, fucked-up shit." Courtney Love on Cobain's solo material. (Nirvana box-set hits stores Nov. 23rd.)

"It's about 2 Bonnie and Clyde-type lovers who die in the desert in a gunfight. The guy goes to hell and meets the devil. But the woman isn't there, and the devil says they can only be reunited if the guy brings him the souls of 1,000 evil men." Singer Gerard Way's descrip of My Chemical Romance's sophomore release.

"Bassist Pete Wentz...writes all the lyrics, deflating typical emo-punk self-seriousness with jokey references such as 'Rushmore'-quoting "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things To Do Today." Review of Fall Out Boy's debut album.

"Like Bjork and Brian Wilson having group sex with Portishead in a junk shop." Review of Psapp.

Marilyn Manson:
"I was trying my best not to meet him, because there is often the horror of meeting someone you really admire, and they are everything you don't want them to be." On meeting David Bowie.
"She's very peculiar, because she travels without an entourage or a baby sitter, something I am incapable of doing." On Avril Lavigne.
"I'll tell you what. I'm someone who carries a lot of straws, but I don't drink milkshakes at all."

"The utter and total satiation of your immediate senses is the fruits by which you shall live. You should be discriminating in your tastes, but you should try to fulfill them as immediately as possible without question." Carlos D of Interpol. (The interviewer's interpretation: "By which he means, if you wanna fuck, fuck; if you wanna get high, get high.")

"Every day I have an anxiety attack." (He takes medication for anxiety and depression, sees a therapist 3 times a week, plus a routine of work and exercise)"I'll tell you something I've learned. It's hard work to be happy." Brian Wilson

"I always felt that the musician's job...was to provide an alternative source of information, a spiritual and social rallying place, somewhere you went to have a communal experience." Bruce Springsteen

"I'm terrifically impulsive, but I see things through. I'm very patient. I waited out the whole Eighties. Those fuckers all went away eventually, with their stupid haircuts and synthesizers." Elvis Costello.