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Since the 51st Grammy Awards have already happened and you’ve witnessed MIA perform at nine months pregnant. You may have seen MIA’s OB/GYN anxiously standing side-stage, as the baby was also due that day. You may or may not have also seen the gentlemen of Coldplay in attendance, who were likely “served” by Mr. Joe Satriani‘s attorneys. Fox News reported that Satriani’s lawyers have hired a team to “dog the band everywhere they go” to personally serve them the papers. Chris Martin and company vehemently deny plagiarizing Satriani’s tune. They are considered guilty until proven innocent in a court of law. Additionally, Katy Perry has big boobs and”¦ oh yeah, people also won Grammys.

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Joaquin Phoenix wants to be a rapper, and he’s serious. The news broke recently, followed by rumors that it was a joke. But Phoenix says that it’s true and even confirmed that P. Diddy will be working on his new record. About freestyling on stage, Phoenix said “”¦ it’s really nerve-wracking, because there’s literally people there heckling you.” I guess it’s official; he’s traded in acting for a mic and a Tom-Hanks-in-Castaway beard. Go figure.

Silversun Pickups are expected to release their new album Swoon by late spring, and you can expect singer Brian Aubert’s girl-ish vocals “times five.” Aubert said “there isn’t a single song on here that would’ve made sense on [the previous album] Carnavas.” He went on to say that this album is “Bizarrely big. Every song is that much more complicated.” The band will be playing the first night of Coachella in April, headlined by Sir Paul McCartney.

New Jersey natives Thursday are set to release their fifth album. The band, who split from Island Records two years ago, are back on an indie label where they belong. Thursday will release Common Existence Feb. 17 on Epitaph Records. Singer Geoff Rickly told Rolling Stone, “I don’t know if it was because we didn’t have a label, and we were just writing for ourselves, but we’d get together, and shit would be turned up to 11 again”¦ doing all the fun stuff we’d done on Full Collapse.” The new track “Friends in the Armed Forces” is graced by vocalist Walter Schrieffels of Quicksand, a band that had a major influence on the early Thursday. Longtime Thursday fans should be excited the band is heading back to their roots.

After a drawn-out battle with Victory Records, which ended in the band putting their tail between their legs, Hawthorne Heights has finally escaped the Chicago-based hardcore label to sign a multi-rights deal with Wind-Up Records (Creed’s old label). In addition to standard recording royalties, the band will also fork over percentages of merchandise, publishing and touring revenues as well as 40 percent of their souls.

In other news”¦ and quite possibly the saddest news of the year thus far, Once couple Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova have split.

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