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Gorillaz took to the stage at Glastonbury with a surprise special guest – Snoop Dogg!

They performed Clint Eastwood with the rapper to end their set at the festival and it was pretty awesome. Seriously, how can you not love Snoop?

Check out the video after the jump! (continue reading…)

According to Contact Music, Gorillaz have been accused of stealing their new song, Stylo from Eddy Grant’s song, Time Warp.

Eddy said, “I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song Time Warm claiming their song Stylo to be an original compilation. My song sits almost note to note with their release and is a blatant rip off. Time Warp is a very popular song and has been a staple of the DJ scene for many years and I feel total disrespect from Gorillaz and their management company, especially as they are an established act. I am very angrey that this was not picked up by our mutual publisher EMI’s administration division. It’s such an obvious copy that from day one the band and their management should have taken control of this situation with EMI publishing. I would like the outcome to be that the band admits that they have lifted my song, that I have a full credit for the song and an apology from the band.”

After the jump for the comparison side by side! (continue reading…)

Action-packed, running from Johnny fat-law and his donut-addiction (who promptly gets run off the road, BOOSH!) and then … what’s this … Bruce fucking Willis makes a cameo as the villain. The video blows me away with it’s sophistication and their new album is great through and through. NPR has the entire album available to stream for free, which is really cool. (continue reading…)

Let me repeat that title: I really, really hope Arctic Monkeys doesn’t sue anybody over this. I say this twice because EarSucker has been the target of the Arctic Monkey lawyers in the past for linking to their music (some Web Sheriff/Sherrif/Sharif nonsense that isn’t worth exploring here), and I know for a fact that mashups are in that very gray zone of copyright law that gets IP lawyers horny.

The fucked up thing is that this mashup is really good and I just wasted a good twenty seconds of your time NOT talking about the music of “The Arctic Monkeys Brush the Dirt Off of Clint Eastwood’s Shoulders” or the other folks on this mashup song thingy. Which just makes me hate lawyers even more and endorse marching them into the ovens (okay that one is probably too far). Anyways, watch this awesome mashup some crazy wacky awesome YouTube guy made without consent from Jay Z, Arctic Monkeys, and Gorrilaz [sic]. If you would like to download the song, the creator says you are allowed (see the box message on the YouTube page). We promote this! Which means this video will definitely get yanked and more lawyers involved. Look at us now bitches, we are so edgy it cuts through diamonds. (continue reading…)

Activision has just released the official band listing for Guitar Hero 5 and it’s good!

Among the coolest of bands on the list are Megadeth, Nirvana, Billy Squier, Iron Maiden, and Rammstein.

Check out the full list after the jump!

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