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Coldplay Video Bears 'Striking Similarities' to Singer-Songwriter's Clip

Coldplay just ended their battle of the bands with guitarist Joe Satriani earlier this week, but they aren't out of hot water just yet. While a federal judge dismissed the copyright infringement case that claimed the band's Grammy-winning hit 'Vida La Vida' ripped off Satriani's 2004 song 'If I Could Fly,' they're facing yet another "creative ...

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Kaki King Hits the Studio With Timbaland

Kaki King is bringing tiny back. You giant people don't know how to act. But seriously. The pint-sized (5'1, folks) guitar-wielding virtuoso just wrapped two collaboration sessions with mega-producer/beatmaster Timbaland in his Miami studio for an as-yet-undecided project. "He doesn't really work with a specific project in mind," King tells ...

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The Organ Get Revived by 'Thieves'

It's not unusual for bands and musicians to posthumously release albums (Tupac, anyone?). What is unusual, though, is for a band offer a "posthumous" release when all original band members are still, in fact, living. But that's what the Organ is doing. The Canadian indie pop band broke up in November 2006, with some citing frontwoman Katie ...

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French Kicks Cover Lindsey Buckingham, the Shirelles

Be it serious or ironic, everyone loves a good cover song (emphasis on good). NYC's indie darlings the French Kicks are no exception. To that end, the band released an EP this week comprised entirely of covers, titled, well, 'Covers,' which finds the Kicks taking on the Ramones, Zombies, Lindsey Buckingham and the Shirelles. Seriously. The band ...

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IFLTS: 'Athene,' Hercules and Love Affair

'Athene,' Hercules and Love Affair From 2008's 'Hercules and Love Affair' I love this song so much, it's my new puppy's middle name. Seriously. When I found out Brooklyn's Hercules and Love Affair were on the bill for the Hideout Block Party in my homebase of Chicago this Saturday, I was a bit shocked, mostly because it didn't seem like a good ...

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