Mark Ronson Feels The Need To Respond To Noel Gallagher • Got room for more beef? It is a statistical fact that one of every three music flame wars involves Noel Gallagher. In support of this postulate, please enjoy Mark Ronson's retort to Noel's "learn three chords ... and go write a tune" slam. (Yes, it involves "Jockin' Jay-Z." Because Mark is friends with him, because Mark is friends with everybody. Except Noel.)

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John Lydon And Kele Okereke's Punch Out

While we were flying back from Chicago, news spread hard and fast about a spat between outspoken post-punk kid Kele Okereke and outspoken punk-punk grandaddy Johnny Rotten, occurring Saturday night in Barcelona. Honestly that would be enough to make it newsworthy in blogland, but it's Okereke's claims of what motivated the attack that make it a different kind of concerning.

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Posted at 11:25 AM by amrit in Where's The Beef?
Tags: Bloc Party | John Lydon | Johnny Rotten | The Sex Pistols

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Courtney Love Still Pissed At Ryan Adams, Blogging About It

There's a follow-up to Courtney's MySpace bulletin from Saturday which accused Ryan Adams of emptying Frances Bean Cobain's trust fund, leaving her with hardly enough to eat. It's titled "Dante's Inferno" and attempts to convince us that her story is not implausible it could happen to anyone yes there were 74 visa cards in addition to the 29 amexes and mark lanegan is totally underrated.

so it took 5 years YES to get all 29 amexes sorted through and an absolute time line, so WHAT? have YOU ever willingly ever had 29 amexes? NO! me neither. and when you see a passing "Guitar Center" charge on an amex if your a musician do you double check it?

There is more of course...

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Posted at 9:57 AM by Scott in Where's The Beef?
Tags: Courtney Love | Ryan Adams

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Courtney Love: Ryan Adams Stole $858k From Frances Bean

Courtney Love, one of rock's great OG bloggers, posted another brilliant (not brilliant) open letter on MySpace. In it she accuses fellow blogger/musician Ryan Adams of using $858,000 of Frances Bean Cobain's money to fund his 2003 album Rock n Roll, "one of the worst records i can think of in rock and roll history." Ryan's gear, hotels, drugs, dinners at Nobu ... all expensed to Courtney, stolen STRAIGHT OUT OF FRANCES"S TRUST FUND. Courtney has 29 AMEX cards, so it took a few years for her to notice.

Ex-boyfriends Ed Norton, Billy Corgan, and "Gollum" (Jim Barber, who produced Rock n Roll) all get name-checked in the diatribe. (Ryan and Courtney had "very safe sex" too, it is revealed.) A highlight of her overshare:

does that makje youf eel like a big man ? stealing from a suicide? A MARTYRED HERO? ... as God Is My Witness Ryan you will pay back every fucking penny of this. 858,000 dollars for Rock n Roll ? wow you were living large- most people reading this dont even know what record or even artist im referring to , as your just this cult americana wanna be dylan thing-

still shooting smack? hows that going for you?

Full text of Courtney's missive after the jump. She says she'll be in NY next week and is willing to work out a payment plan.

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Posted at 9:48 AM by Scott in Video, Where's The Beef?
Tags: Courtney Love | Kurt Cobain | Ryan Adams

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"I Used To Rule The World" • Speaking of... Here's Johnny Rotten on Coldplay: "I pity the poor bastards who have to watch them. They are utterly humourless. I met them a few years ago, said hello and realised they were just men in anoraks. They looked like a gang of little poncey masturbators. There is no fun, they don't offer joy. Their music has a couple of quite nice tones here and there but it's a box of tosh sold to slightly inadequate, half-baked people." That's one way to get press for a new Sex Pistols album.

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Lily Allen And Perez Hilton Fight Over Katy Perry

The other day we gave you Lily Allen's day in the life, which involved pink hair, hamburgers, paparazzi and her lunch date's cleavage. Today there are some graver matters for Lily, who's taken it upon herself to take on Brand Perez, laying it all out in a post titled "reportedly retarded":

No pictures today I'm afraid, I forgot my camera yesterday. So, I'm a little upset today, Perez Hilton is a mean man. I don't know what I did to piss him off but the last few months he has launched a bit of a tirade against me, I can understand why he'd write "MESS" across my head on a picture of me being carried out of an awards ceremony drunk out of my mind, but some things he say baffle me. He insinuated I was smoking during my pregnancy, which was not true, ask anyone who knows me, I didn't touch a cigarette or a drink for the few months that I was pregnant, he also insinuated there was something suspicious about me having a miscarriage, which is just wrong, but I'm not going to go into how painful that whole episode was. Yesterday he posted this...

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Posted at 12:54 PM by brandon in Where's The Beef?
Tags: Katy Perry | Lily Allen | Perez Hilton

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Dillinger Escape Plan Disturbed By Disturbed

A ways back we posted NJ Hall Of Famers Dillinger Escape Plan's video for "Milk Lizard" and discussed their more radio-friendly Faith No More sound. We didn't post their "Black Bubblegum" video, but would've brought up Faith No More again if we had. I'm a fan of Ire Works, but you can't ignore that on it, they do often sound different than even something relatively recent like Miss Machine's "Panasonic Youth, to keep it on the level of singles, videos they're making.

All this buildup because when you make your sound easier for people to digest, you do end up playing shows with bands like Chicago-based "Down With The Sickness" metallers Disturbed. Or at least watching their soundchecks. And that can lead to arguments. Dillinger guitarist/only original member Ben Weinman dissed Disturbed in an interview with the Australian magazine Beat, claiming that he saw the guys choreographing every one of their last moves during a soundcheck. He says, "[they were] practicing where they were going to walk and when they were going to put their leg up on the monitor and pose ... That was weird for us. There are times [during live shows] where I don't even know where I am." Disturbed frontman David Draiman responded.

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Posted at 11:34 AM by brandon in Where's The Beef?
Tags: Dillinger Escape Plan | Disturbed

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The Roger Waters Quandary or, Will The Last One Leaving Battersea Please Turn Out The Lights?

Today your regular bloggers have been replaced by Ben, Chris, Nick, and Jason of Death Cab For Cutie. The band's new album Narrow Stairs is out now. DCFC are not professional bloggers, so please send them tips.

By Ben Gibbard
It's come to my attention that there are some people who were genuinely upset at my comments concerning Roger Waters in a recent magazine interview. Hey, I get it! Who am I to slag a rock legend? I guess all I can say is sometimes I get talking and joking and forget there's a dictaphone recording my every word. If this is the worst thing I get caught saying I'll consider myself lucky.

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Tags: Ben Gibbard | Chris Walla | Death Cab For Cutie | Pink Floyd | Roger Waters

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