Link Love | Gaga's Favorite Music Is Her ... Fans, Is Chris Owens for Real?, Baditude, Some Songs Considered & More

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In a klonopin- or––let's be nice––jet-lag-induced haze, Lady Gaga insists that the only music she listens to is not actually music at all, but the sound of her fans throwing praise in her direction during her––what appears to be daily––concerts. Host/sounding board to chaos Alexa Chung stoically endures.

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In this week's Village Voice (the paper!) Reyhan Harmanci ponders whether Christopher Owens, star of that long-sold-out Bowery Ballroom concert on Friday, actually has as fucked up a life as is documented in review after review after feature article after profile after interview after blog post.

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Rob Mitchum reviews Weezer's Raditude, the commodity behind the music industry's most exhaustive public relations campaign of 2009. Hint: Mitchum gave it the equivalent of my worst (or is it average?) calculus exam grade, and judging by what I do for a living ...

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All Songs Considered recently got a hate e-mail about its choices––the subject was "All Indie Rock Considered?"––and instead of just pretending this never happened, Bob Boilen took to the blog to explain the staff's process. The post isn't exactly satisfying, but some of the suggestions in the comments section are. It appears from the comments that many of ASC's fans are satisfied and refreshed by what they hear, implying that to those fans, ASC succeeds as a discovery engine. Disgruntled listeners who don't believe that both Iron & Wine and M.I.A. should count as "indie rock" may just have to go forth and explore on their own.

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Joss Stone is the latest musician to hammer a nail in the coffin of Lily Allen's anti-filesharing campaign and possibly music career.