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White Lies Claim Kings of Leon Are 'Super Chill,' Reports 'Blown Out of Proportion'

Fiction Records | Getty Images In light of reports claiming the Kings of Leon are on the verge of break up due to lead singer Caleb Followill's drinking problems, British synth-rockers White Lies are claiming the whole issue is likely media speculation. "We've always heard these stories about [the Kings of Leon] being intense guys but ...

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Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Marries Couple Onstage to Close Osheaga Festival

Shirlaine Forrest, WireImage Moments before the last song, on the last day of Osheaga (July 31), Flaming Lips lead singer Wayne Coyne took several deep breaths and stopped the show. Having just finished a complete run through of their 1999 psychedelic comeback album, 'The Soft Bulletin,' possibly for "the last time ever," the shaggy Coyne -- ...

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Elvis Costello Can't Compete With DFA1979 and Ratatat on Day Two of Osheaga

Scott Legato, Getty Images Comparing the crowd between the first and second days of Osheaga proves a depressing study into the cultural currency of hip-hop versus rock. While Eminem brought a record-shattering 38,000 people to their knees with a swaggering performance on Friday night (July 30), Saturday headliner Elvis Costello and the ...

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Eminem Draws Record Crowd on First Day of Montreal's Osheaga Music Festival

Jason Merritt, Getty Images Though the ticket read Osheaga, it could just as easily have been called the Eminem Show as a record 38,000 people packed Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau July 29 to watch Marshall Bruce Mathers III play only his third show of 2011, a 90-minute greatest hits set punctuated by a tribute to the late, great Nate Dogg. ...

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Calgary Folk Fest 2011 Stays True to Its Roots

Tasha Komery, Calgary Folk Fest Flickr This year, perhaps more than any other in its three decade history, the organizers of the Calgary Folk Festival were faced with a conundrum. As acts such as Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver enjoy an unexpected rein at the top of the charts -- a clue that indie-folk's popular revival keeps ...

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Anvil Turn Movie Success Into Real-Life Sequel -- Exclusive Video

Gary Wolstenholme, Redferns As the subject of the documentary 'Anvil! The Story of Anvil!,' the members of Anvil were given a new lease on life nearly three decades after the Canadians first gained notoriety as influential, if under-appreciated, stars of the hair metal scene. Two years and countless accolades later, as guitarist and vocalist ...

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DFA1979 Say Stormy Set at Festival D'Ete Is God's Way of Getting Even

Marc Broussely, Redferns According to DFA1979 drummer/singer Sebastien Grainger, the lightning strikes which lit up the sky during their closing set on the Molson Dry stage Sunday night (July 17) at Quebec's Festival D'Ete were God's way of getting even, or, as he put it, "This is because I told him I didn't believe in him two years ago." ...

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