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15 Musical Family Feuds: The Jacksons, Wilsons, Browns, Gallaghers And More

The Jackson Family

The Jackson Family

It’s become obvious over the last couple weeks that things have gotten crazy town banana pants in the Jackson family, what with accusations of kidnapping, Janet Jackson slap fights, Paris Jackson lashing out on Twitter, crazy maneuvering to control Michael Jackson‘s estate and other weirdness.

Jacko’s isn’t the only family to have nutty internal fights, though.

There’ve been the fist-fighting Gallagher brothers in Oasis, the soap opera antics of James Brown‘s family, the cake stomping antics of The Kinks and a whole bunch more.

Sarah compiled a list of cuckoo in the coconut musical families for Spinner. You can check out that story by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

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Polaris People For The Week Of July 27 (Owen Pallett Comics! K’naan True Blood!)

Fucked Up's Damian Abraham

Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the newly redesigned Polaris Music Prize website.

There’s some fascinating stuff in this one: Owen Pallett now has a comic book, K’naan has a True Blood connection, and the Polaris Music Prize Fantasy Draft is a real thing that actually exists.

To read about them, and to check the recently redesigned Polaris home page, go here.

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Spinner News Triple Pack: A Tribe Called Red Mix, Carly Rae Jepsen Nude, A-Trak vs. EDM (UPDATE: Now Five-Pack)

A Tribe Called Red

A Tribe Called Red

Here’s the latest batch of news stories I’ve done for the Spinner AOL empire:

With “EDM” being the new breakout thing in music, DJ A-Trak wants people to remember to respect the turntablist.

One of my new faves, Ottawa DJ crew A Tribe Called Red released an exclusive mixtape  to Spinner to celebrate their appearance at Toronto’s Mad Decent Block Party. You should get it here.

Carly Rae Jepsen is not  involved in a nude photo hacking scandal. Which, awkwardly, Vancouver Police say they have a suspect for.

Hey, I added two more news bits from the week of August 3:

1) Drake is finally gonna graduate from Degrassi.

2) Tiesto and Skrillex were the world’s highest paid DJs last year.

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Polaris People For The Week Of July 20 (Cadence Weapon! Grimes! Links To Stuff!)

2012 Polaris Short List announcement

2012 Polaris Short List announcement

The latest edition of my Polaris People column is online over at the Polaris Music Prize website.

It’s the first in a post-2012 Short List world, so there’s lots of news about nominees like Grimes and Cadence Weapon and some of the more interesting coverage of the announcement.

To read about it, and to check the recently redesigned Polaris home page, go here.

 

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2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List Gets Announced + Fast Facts

Polaris Robots

Polaris Robots

Earlier this week the 2012 Polaris Music Prize Short List got announced.

Said list included the following albums:

Cadence Weapon — Hope In Dirt City
Cold Specks — I Predict A Graceful Expulsion
Drake — Take Care
Kathleen Edwards — Voyageur
Feist — Metals
Fucked Up — David Comes To Life
Grimes — Visions
Handsome Furs — Sound Kapital
Japandroids — Celebration Rock
YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN — YT//ST

Over at the Polaris website I did a bit of digging and came up with some fast facts about the 10 nominated acts for this year. You can read said facts — like the complete list of acts who’ve been on the Short List twice in their careers — by clicking here.

 

 

 

 

 

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