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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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Concert Censorship: A Brief History Of ‘The Man’ Trying To Shut Down The Rock

Religious protesters want Lady Gaga to go to hell

Religious protesters want Lady Gaga to go to hell

On any given day, in any town or city, anywhere in the world, there’s probably some crackdown/protest/sinister bullshit happening that’s attempting to prevent people from rockin’ and dancin’.

Basically, the people behind these crackdowns hate music and they hate life and they’re assholes.

Anyway, in lieu of the latest round of anti-Lady Gaga protests in the Philippines and such, Sarah was tasked to find other examples of The Man cracking down on rock ‘n’ roll.

It turns out there were no shortage of examples, from Elvis Presley to Eminem to The Beatles to you name it. Basically, the government is afraid of musicians.

To read about this story, head over to Spinner by clicking here.

 

 

 

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Lamb Of God Singer Hates SOPA

Lamb Of God (Randy Blythe is bottom left)

Lamb Of God (Randy Blythe is bottom left)

You’ve heard about this SOPA/PIPA thing that’s broken Wikipedia, right? Well it’s some pretty Big Brother stuff that basically amounts to government and corporations trying to control the internet.

Lamb Of God singer Randy Blythe likes freedom. Which means he really doesn’t like SOPA and PIPA. He said as much when Aaron interviewed him about it at Spinner.

You can read the article by clicking here.

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Rock The Vote: 20 Musicians Turned Politicians

Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti

The Grammy-winning Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour recently announced he’s planning to run for president in his country’s upcoming election.

This, naturally, sent Sarah on a fact-finding mission to hunt down other musicians-turned politicians. She came up with 20 people, including amongst others, Krist Novoselic from Nirvana, Martha Reeves, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell, Fela Kuti, Sonny Bono, and her personal favourites, the guys from Iceland — Jon Gnarr and Einar Orn — who are part of a political movement called The Best Party.

You can read her story over at Spinner by clicking here.

 

 

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