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Thursday, July 02, 2009

So this week in the fishwrap and online we name the best emerging act from each of our fifty states (and one district). And Rye Rye, our pick from Maryland, is already making some waves. Yesterday, she premiered a video directed by her friend M.I.A., presented on this video player because it was reportedly banned by YouTube.

^{Dinosaur Jr.}

ON SALE JULY 2

Doomriders + Keelhaul | August 3 at Great Scott, Boston | $10 advance/$12 day-of | On sale Thursday, July 2, at 10 am | http://www.ticketweb.com

ON SALE JULY 3

Joe Jack Talcum (of The Dead Milkmen) + The Bassturd + Samuel Locke-Ward | September 7 at the Middle East upstairs, Cambridge | $9 | On sale Friday, July 3, at 10 am | http://www.ticketmaster.com

Dinosaur Jr. + Lou Barlow + The Missingmen | October 2-3 at the Middle East downstairs, Cambridge | $25 | On sale Friday, July 3, at 10 am | http://www.ticketmaster.com

Mutemath: Fall 2009 Armistice Tour | November 12 at the House of Blues, Boston | $22-$29 | On sale Friday, July 3, at 10 am | http://www.houseofblues.com

ON SALE JULY 7

Múm | October 21 at the Somerville Theatre, Somerville | $22 | On sale Tuesday, July 7, at 10 am | http://www.worldmusic.org

ON SALE JULY 9

Face to Face + Pegboy + Polar Bear Club | September 18 at the House of Blues, Boston | $25 | On sale Thursday, July 9, at 10 am | http://www.houseofblues.com

The Twilight Sad + The Rakes + We Were Promised Jetpacks | October 7 at Great Scott, Boston | $12 | On sale Thursday, July 9, at 10 am | http://www.ticketweb.com

ON SALE NOW

Drop C Destruction 09-Heavy Metal Festival | August 2 at Showcase Live, Foxboro | $12 | On sale now | http://www.ticketmaster.com

Paul McCartney + MGMT | August 5-6 at Fenway Park, Boston | $69-$205 | On sale now | http://www.livenation.com

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Hopefully Anderson Cooper will blog the video in a few minutes, but for now -- if you missed it on AC360 just now -- let the record show that Michael Jackson's pet monkey, Bubbles, is alive and well. This was not at all evident a few days ago, when, just hours after MJ's death, Jackson's ghostwriter told us that he thought Bubbles was probably not alive, and related the story of why Jackson got rid of Bubbles, which, suffice to say, was not suitable for broadcasting on CNN. (Hint, it involves monkey diapers and a busload of Japanese school children.)

Long live Bubbles. 

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Odds are, no one reading these words will ever set foot inside Femi Kuti’s New Afrika Shrine, a huge tin-sided barn in Lagos that serves as a nightclub and a controversial community refuge. And if the Nigerian government had its way, the Shrine would disappear forever. Authorities nearly burned down the first Shrine (founded by Fela Kuti, a pioneer of Afrobeat and Femi’s rabble-rousing father) in 1977; they did finally bulldoze it after Fela's death in 1997. Last month, mere days before Femi Kuti embarked on his US tour, officials closed the Shrine’s second incarnation, citing noise violations and illegally parked cars. The Shrine is back in business — for now — but its future would appear shaky. Lucky for us, Kuti and his Positive Force backing band brought a little taste to Boston last Wednesday.

My mother and I arrive at this sold-out Paradise show just in time to grab a sweet spot in the upper balcony, where we scope out the crush of hipsters, Nigerian ex-pats, and old-school Afrobeat heads swelling the club. Mom eyes a middle-aged woman wearing a vintage dashiki: “She must have kept that in her closet a long time.”

Then Kuti and his massive 13-piece band (whose line-up includes three barefooted, bead-bedecked dancers) troop out and launch into “Blackman Know Yourself,” a cut off Kuti’s 1998 album Shoki Shoki. With so many people crammed on this stage, there’s not a lot of room for the fly girls to move; instead, they dip and shimmy in place, fluttering their prehensile booties. “Don’t forget your past,” Kuti implores, and his energetic burst of Pan-African sermonizing swathed in raucous party funk sets the standard for the evening.

The rest of the set list leans heavy on Kuti's 2008 record, Day by Day (his first studio album in seven years), which is more of a throwback to the “funky Lagos” style of the ’70s than any of his previous outings. “They Will Run” sounds especially time-warped. It kicks off with Kuti wailing out a mournful, jazzy horn solo — despite the throng already on stage, Kuti still does quadruple duty on trumpet, sax, clarinet, and Hammond XK-2.

The grand finale is “Beng Beng Beng.” Banned in his own country for its brazenly erotic lyrics, it’s Kuti's biggest hit, and the crowd goes apeshit. He begins: “Two things make us very happy in life: sex and music, and the two kind of go hand in hand. It takes a lot of practice to become dexterous.” Suddenly, he’s gleefully divulging graphic, Tantra-like secrets before sliding into the song. “Don’t come too fast,” he sings, then points at some guy’s video camera, declaring, “He comes too fast!”

Kuti and the Positive Force band certainly don’t need to prove their stamina: they've laid down a ferocious 16-song set, and they return for three encore numbers. After ripping through the blazing-fast stomper “One Two,” Kuti announces: “The people of the Shrine, the people of Lagos, are way ahead of you.” To get us up to speed, he tells us, they're going to do some new material “so you can say, 'I heard it in Boston. Oh yes!' ” What follows is another frenetic groove, complete with a guitar solo that inspires Kuti to start throwing air punches and high kicks.

We end the night sweat-soaked and exhausted. Boston may have to wait another seven years for a Femi Kuti album, but we'll have this piece of the Shrine to tide us over until then.

Not-quite-comprehensive set list from Femi Kuti's Paradise show on June 24, 2009

Femi Kuti set list - Boston 2009

1. THE LUXURY, “STRAITJACKET” (mp3)
2. LEMONHEADS, “LAYIN’ UP WITH LINDA”
3. THE GREAT BANDINI, “ARE YOU IN LOVE WITH HIM?”
4. QUIXOTE, “HUBRIS”
5. THE NEW ALIBIS, “GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS”

Check out New England Product on WFNX 101.7 every Sunday, 11 pm–midnight.

Monday, June 29, 2009

1. Nightmare: Choking on marshmallow in front of large crowd | Soundtrack: "The Spirit of Radio," by RUSH
2. Nightmare: Running through post-nuclear ghost town and sister has holes in head | Soundtrack: "These Dreams," by Heart
3. Nightmare: Pulling out teeth with ease and feeling a sense of ultimate relief | Soundtrack: "Welcome Back, Kotter" theme song, by John Sebastian
4. Nightmare: Sex with sixth-grade Social Studies teacher Ms. Casey | Soundtrack: "Jump," by Van Halen
5. Nightmare: Falling to nowhere | Soundtrack: "Send in the Clowns," Barbra Streisand version!

The Dejas are playing:
June 30 at the Lizard Lounge, Cambridge (opening for Lori McKenna)
July 5 at Sally O'Brien's, Somerville
July 7 at The Loft @ Tommy Doyle's, Harvard Square, Cambridge
July 12 + 26 and August 8 at Toad, Cambridge

Playlist 7-3-2009: Callie Lipton of The Dejas

It was less than three weeks after the September 11 attacks that the Onion newspaper shattered the comic silence that always follows tragedy. With such headlines as “A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again” and “Privileged Children of Millionaires Square Off On World Stage,” they got folks laughing again. And then Saturday Night Live did some corny bullshit - with that great New Yorker Reese Witherspoon hosting - and NBC went down as the enterprise that not only pulled New York out of the rubble, but that lifted the joke moratorium.

Kind of like Jay-Z, whose “Death of Auto-Tune (D.O.A.)” is being touted as the axe that amputated the lamest of all lame rap trends - even though enlightened MCs and music critics have been lambasting pathetic contemporary synth crutches for years. While skeptics were lamenting the corn pop direction that he steered Def Jam into, Hova was grubbing surf-and-turf and promoting such trash as Ne-Yo and Rihanna. And now he gets to take credit for beheading the monster he helped spawn? Please. It’s like Bono taking credit for Obama's diplomacy.

Nonetheless, his words will be the ones that stick; Jay-Z is the most exalted cat in hip-hop, which affords him the right to pull the winning chess move and declare victory - even if he was playing for your opponent the entire time. Still - and I think I speak on behalf of anyone who believes that Jay’s overall contribution to hip-hop has been as disappointing and superficial as its been triumphant - this song (and its accompanying video) is just another empty gesture on par with tapping the Roots to back his MTV Unplugged set.  

Like so many moves in Jay’s career, “Death Of Auto-Tune” is a demonstration in deep irony. He shouts out Lil Wayne, but criticizes rappers who jock T-Pain. In a Hot 97 interview, he even said that it’s acceptable when Kanye West uses Auto-Tune. Call the folks at Urban Dictionary. It seems we have a new definition for “half-stepping.” That said; Hova’s choice of No ID to cook this beat is a sure sign that the man can make a decent choice from time to time. As far as the video is concerned, though, it would have been nice if Jay also sentenced slow-motion cigar-smoking pan-shots to the guillotine.

Re: Best Music Poll 2009 Concert

BOSTON PHOENIX/WFNX BEST MUSIC POLL 2009
August 1st | 4:30
City Hall Plaza in Boston
FREE

Ra Ra Riot
Passion Pit
Metric
Gaslight Anthem
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Bravery

Did we mention it was FREE.

Videos after the jump to get you pumped.

Continue reading Boston Phoenix/WFNX Best Music Poll Concert will be a FREE SHOW at City Hall Plaza with Passion Pit, Metric, Gaslight Anthem, Ra Ra Riot, The Bravery, and TATE >>

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Following a Def Leppard/Poison show at an amusement park in upstate NY, a local community blog posted the following description of who'd been arrested, and why. It made us laugh so hard we choked on our coffee. Here's our favorite five, but we highly recommend clicking through to read the rest:

• Murad Ramaden, 35, 66 Huetter St., Buffalo, was charged with disorderly conduct after reportedly wrestling with a security officer who was trying to evict him for reportedly urinating on a seat.
• Jeanine A. Kless, 36, 295 Tampa Drive, West Seneca, was charged with Harassment after allegedly poking a person in the eye with her finger.
• Jeffrey S. Ellis, 41, 89 Marymont St., Buffalo, was charged with trespass for allegedly climbing on the stage after the concert was over.
• Sharon J. Williams, 33, 70 Black Creek Road, Rochester, was charged with harassment for allegedly punching a security guard in the chest and attempting to kick him in the groin.
• Scott D. Quigley, 37, 1356 Drexmore Ave., Charlotte, N.C., was charged with trespass for allegedly gaining access to the back stage area without a proper pass or permission. He was jailed on $200 bail and scheduled to appear in court next on July 15.

It also occurs to us that a gauntlet has been thrown down. It's up to you, Massholes: see if you can top this nonsense when the Def Leppard/Poison/Cheap Trick tour shows up at the Comcast Center in Mansfield on Tuesday. We'll be checking the police blotter to see how our aging biker-metal hooligans stack up . . .

Friday, June 26, 2009

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   iamdiddy Michael Jackson showed me that you can actually see the beat. He made the music come to life!! He made me believe in magic. I will miss him! 25 Jun 2009 from web
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   iamdiddy Check out this tribute to Michael Jackson feat Myself, Game, Chris Brown, Polo, Mario Winans Boyz II Men http://tinyurl.com/kow5e7
   RT Please 26 Jun 2009 from web

 DOWNLOAD: DJ Khalid with Chris Brown, Diddy, Polow Da Don, Mario Winans, Usher, Boyz II Men, "Better on the Other Side (Tribute To MJ)" [mp3]

 

Asia Chandler, host of Big City 101.3 FM's "Morning Mayhem" show, has put out a call asking supporters to march on One Herald Square at 4 pm -- right now, basically -- to protest today's Boston Herald cover. 

From Facebook:

ASIA CHANDLER is outraged about the Boston Herald cover this morning and is on her way to One Herald Square to boycott!!!! Join me, the Big City fans, and all the media sources I can reach out to this afternoon at 4pm, right outside the Herald as we peacefully demonstrate that these blatant forms of bigotry are no longer accepted by the Black community in Boston and we mean it! Michael Jackson was an icon and should be respected!

LAST NIGHT IN DETROIT: New Kids pay tribute to Michael Jackson (click ahead for singing part)

NKOTB were in Motown last night, so there was no way they couldn't pour one out for Michael. We're not huge NKOTB fans, but given the town, the audience, and the enormous debt those guys owe to the man, the boys kept it classy. 

Not so for our ever-faithfully clueless local tabloid, which delivers a worst-of-both-worlds headline: they went with a pun that sounded vaguely racist without actually meaning anything. Even the world's scummiest tabloid, the Post, didn't go cheesy. We're not sensitive enough to give the Herald shit for a dumb headline, but we're amused enough at their incompetence to post Marky Wahlberg's recent Twitters, which sidebar from talking about the MJ tribute long enough to whack the hometown yahoos. So there.

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   DonnieWahlberg This is as close as we came to sharing the stage with The King- Thank You for inspiring me Michael Jackson. Thank you for your gift to us. 26 Jun 2009 from TwitterBerry
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   DonnieWahlberg To all MJ fans- please forgive the tackiness of a certain Boston media publication for their distasteful and, frankly, ignorant headline. 26 Jun 2009 from TwitterBerry
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   DonnieWahlberg Motown made the moment so magical last night. We didn't want to be too obvious with Man In The Mirror but our fans- got it- and sang along. 26 Jun 2009 from UberTwitter

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THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: for front pages from around the world, check Newseum. Hey Calgary Sun: great minds think alike, eh?

1. What the hell happened? Autopsy results expected imminently. But so far the leading contenders appear to be painkillers and anorexia, although Fox News is throwing Lupus into the mix just for good measure.

2. Who gets Blanket? No less a legal expert than Jeffrey Toobin is on CNN predicting that MJ's kids could be the subject of an epic custody battle -- especially the one he had with a still-unnamed surrogate.

3. Who gets the Beatles catologue? According to several sketchy reports, MJ left them to Paul in his will.

4. Who gets the bill? Looks like that goes to AEG, the concert giant that was about to put on Jackson's string of 50 shows in London. The company, which also promotes big-venue concert tours in America, will have to refund $85 million in tickets already sold, and eat the $20 million it had sunk into the production of the shows (which were said to include over 20 sets, extensive lighting, and "high-wire acts." The company had expected to make $115 million, and now may end up losing that much. According to the AP -- and to AEG themselves -- everyone thought they were crazy to book the shows, and according to the AP, the company appears to have only been able to secure insurance for $23 million of that cost.

5. What did those poor Iranians do while Michael Jackson was murdering the tubes? CNN, please make this a T-shirt: "Jackson dies, almost takes internet with him." At Google, engineers briefly feared they were under attack. Even AIM went down.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

In 1987, Stephen Davis -- the noted rock and roll biographer, and author of arguably the most notorious non-fiction rock tome of all time, the Led Zeppelin screamer Hammer of the Gods -- was living with his family in Malibu and working on a book about Fleetwood Mac when his agent called and offered him a plum gig: ghostwriting Michael Jackson's autobiography. That book, Moon Walk, became a #1 NY Times Bestseller, and broke the news of Michael's accusations that he'd been abused by his father.

Earlier this evening, about 45 minutes after the networks confirmed Jackson's death from a heart attack, we phoned Davis at his home in Milton, MA, as he watched his subject's demise unfold on CNN. We talked about the odd circumstances surrounding the book, his memories of what Jackson was like at the time, and how Michael saved Davis's seven year old daughter from the clutches of Bubbles the monkey. "This was still a 30 year old black kid when I was working with him," Davis mentioned, still incredulous at Jackson's death. "And the guy who just died looked kind of like a 60 year old white woman in garish lipstick. Kind of like the Joker."

How surprised were you at Michael's death?
Oh, totally shocked. I was going to go to London and go to one of those shows. [At the time of his death, Jackson was preparing to play 50 sold-out comeback performances at the O2 Arena in the UK.] And I figured as his biographer -- as his autobiographer -- it would be a cool thing to do. I mean, I thought maybe I'd do my own book someday. I've just been trying to figure out if my confidentiality agreement with him from 1987 is still in force. I guess I'll have to get legal advice.

As someone who's written about some of the biggest stars of the age -- from Led Zeppelin to Ziggy Marley to Guns N Roses -- is there any question that Michael Jackson was at the top of the list?
Well, you know I wasn't a very big fan of Michael Jackson. I'm a reggae fanatic. But there's certainly nobody in the second half of the 20^th century who burned brighter than him. He's one of these semi-mythical, elfin figures, like Elvis. There's not too many people who would call himself the king of pop and then have it be picked up as a title by the media in general - because it was indisputable. There was no other King of Pop. There was the King of Rock N Roll, and then there was this little kid from Gary, Indiana, via Detroit, who was burned into the national consciousness as a seven-year-old, and really kind of never went away. It's an incredible story, really. And then burned out, I guess, or retired, or was hounded and prosecuted, out of the country for many years, and two trials, and massive extortion. It's very sad in a way. As I like to say, everything you ever heard about Michael Jackson is true, except that he molested those kids. Which I never believed for a minute. And he was acquitted [of those charges].

What are you memories of working on Moon Walk?
I was in California, and I was working on a book with Fleetwood Mac at the time. And my agent called me up and said that Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis had hired Michael Jackson to write his autobiography and was having trouble -- they'd assigned a couple of writers already, and Michael either didn't like them or, well, I don't know what happened. I was the third writer on the project. And I had some of their previous transcripts, and they weren't very good. And I'd been interviewing Mick Fleetwood a lot and living with my family in Malibu and they said, "Well, we'd like you to go over and have an audience with Michael Jackson and see if he likes you, and the deadline is approaching." So I went there to his house in Encino, California. And the zoo was there, and the candy store and all this stuff.

This is 1987, pre-Neverland?
He moved, later on, to Neverland Ranch. But this was in his LA house, his mother's house, where he was living all through the '80s, when he was doing Thriller and Bad and those records. He was extremely kind, he took me up to his bedroom and showed me all his collections and obsessions -- y'know, the hyperbolic oxygen chamber. And we talked about the situation. He was afraid to look at me in the eye, at first. He was very shy. Remember, he'd never been to school, never been socialized, never learned to play well with others. Grew up sleeping in hotel rooms with his brothers and cousins. Just never been to school a day in his life, so he was very shy. And a little freaky. But, y'know, I'm cool -- I just said, "Y'know, Mrs. Onasis sent me, wanna see if we can do this?"

So I started going to his house every day at two o'clock in the afternoon. I decided early on that I would treat this like a therapeutic hour -- 50 minutes or an hour, at most, at a time, because he had a short attention span. So that's how we did it: every day I'd go over there, we'd talk for an hour, maybe an hour and a quarter. Sometimes I'd take my wife and kids, and then we'd screen a movie, and we'd be served lunch in his screening room while watching To Kill A Mockingbird for the third time. And he was extremely nice to my seven-year-old daughter. And when someone like that is nice to your kids -- I feel very loyal to him.

After writing the book, did you ever have any contact with him again?
No. And that's what everyone wants to know. I was with him for a very intense period -- maybe eight months it took to get those texts together. And then the book was published, it was the #1 NY Times Bestseller, and it also came out in England -- and then he refused to let a paperback come out. I think he and Mrs. Onasis kind of fell out over it. Because he kind of blackmailed her into writing a forward, which she never did [for her authors]. And I think she was kind of miffed about that. That was the take the I got on it.

Moon Walk has been out of print since its first edition?
Yeah. The day it hit the NY Times Bestseller list it went out of print. It's one of the weirder stories in a) my career, and b) in publishing history. You can look - I have it somewhere. Someone framed the Times Non-Fiction best-seller list that week and sent it to me.

I'm on Amazon now, and sure enough, there's only used copies: they've got five starting at $55. That's about to go way, way up.
I think there were 100 signed copies. Someone told me that, and that Michael kept like 60 of them, and that some of them were in that auction they were gonna do - the one two weeks ago, or last month, and then he cancelled at the last minute. But apparently there were half a dozen signed copies that were going to be auctioned off. But I guess they've gone back to the estate. (Ed. Note: a more thorough search of Amazon suggests an import paperback was issued at some point)

 

What was the most surprising thing that Michael told you when you interviewed him for the book?
Oh, well -- that there had been some physical abuse by his father. But that wasn't really surprising: what was surprising was that he told me. It had been kind of obvious for years. And he only called it abuse - he didn't say it was sexual or anything like that. The rest was how he got to where he was, with Diana Ross discovering them and the early days on the Ed Sullivan show. It was a pretty straightforward meat-and-potatoes -- it was kind of a clip job. I just realized I have eight hours of Michael Jackson telling me his life story, but I don't think there's anything on those tapes that I didn't put in the book. Of course, there wasn't that much scandal then -- this was before the molestation charges, and before the massive skin-whitening, before the psychopathology really started to crank in there. This was still a 30 year old black kid when I was working with him. And the guy who just died looked kind of like a 60 year old white woman in garish lipstick. Kind of like the Joker.

Do they know you have those audio tapes?
The only one who would know is Frank DiLeo, his manager from that era.

Coincidentally, Frank DiLeo reportedly had re-entered Michael Jackson's life in the past couple of weeks.
I saw that. And I'm not surprised. Frank was a very, very good, very, very tough guy, and exactly the kind of mob-looking father figure who was really the only successful guy who ever managed Michael Jackson -- through Thriller and Bad and the highlights of his career. And of course Frank emerged a multi-millionaire and doesn't really need to work. But if Michael Jackson calls you, no matter where you are, you're going to pick up the phone and say, "How can I help you, Mike?", because he was a very endearing, sweet guy.  

Oh look -- this is the house, on CNN, where I worked with him! That's the Encino house! Oh, wait -- no. That's the ambulance. My God I need a drink. I can't believe he died.

When you remember Michael, do you have an epigraphic moment that you'll think fondly of?
Michael had this monkey called Bubbles. And they brought in Bubbles one day after lunch when my daughter was with me - she was seven at the time, her name is Lilly. And there weren't many kids around at that time. This was in the Encino house, before he moved out to Neverland. And the monkey comes in and takes one look at Lilly, my little seven year old girl, and grabs her by the arm - and then starts dragging her out of the room. And Michael Jackson grabs Lily's other arm. And he says to the monkey, "Hey Bubbles - Where you goin' with my girlfriend?"

Meanwhile, I notice that the hand that is being held by the monkey is turning blue, because he's got this vice grip on it. So I said, Mike, this is getting a little old here, I'm a little worried about the hand turning blue. So he kind of intervened, sort of kicked the monkey with his foot. But it's that moment - where the monkey is pulling one way, and Michael is pulling the other, and Lilly looks up at me, and Michael goes, "Hey Bubbles - where you going with my girlfriend?" And my heart just went out to him, it was such a sweet thing to do.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to Bubbles?
What happened to Bubbles in the end was that he started jerking off in front of busloads of school children who would come to Neverland Ranch. So they put him in monkey school, they retrained him, and they put him in these diapers. But one day, some very important schoolchildren came to Neverland - from Japan, I heard later - and they brought the monkey out, because the kids wanted to know where Bubbles was. So they bring the monkey out, but he had managed to reach into the diaper and had these two handfuls of monkey shit, which he threw at the kids. And that was the end of Bubbles. They sent him to like, Monkey Ranch, or something. I don't think he's alive. Although they can live for years and years. I'll have to do some research and see if Bubbles Jackson is still with us.

Michael Jackson dead. Bastard is such a fame whore: couldn't even let Farrah Fawcett have her day.

TMZ: http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dies-death-dead-cardiac-arrest/

NY Post: http://www.nypost.com/seven/06252009/news/nationalnews/michael_jackson_dies_176101.html

Twitter freakout: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=michael+jackson+dead

Boston.com: Our sources at the Globe tell us theyll be publishing confirmation imminently . . . Crazy: now linking toLA Times blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/pop-star-michael-jackson-was-rushed-to-a-hospital-this-afternoon-by-los-angeles-fire-department-paramedics--capt-steve-ruda.html

celebritytweet: crashed. Twitter is pretty fucked too.

 

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