Last week, we ran an interview with Big Boi, in which he appeared to answer everyone's questions regarding the future of new collaborations between him and Andre 3000. He said that while working on his upcoming Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, he gave Andre as many as five tracks to rap on, but that his onetime partner "had to do some Gillette shit." The Internet promptly blew up, with countless posts, re-posts, shares, and brand new articles proclaiming from the digital mountaintop: Gillette is keeping OutKast apart! The thing is, Big Boi was clearly joking. As the man himself tweeted on Wednesday: "The Gillette Statement was me being Sarcastic, man y'all slow as hell."

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- Big Boi of OutKast Talks His New Album and Why Andre 3000 Isn't on It: "He Said He Had To Do Some Gillette Shit"

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Instead of bothering with Michael Damian's "Dream On," let's instead refer you to this sadly endearing long video of Corey Haim, still in his teens, clearly high and playing around with an artillery of synthesizers. "As far as what I really like in today's music, I'm into that Japanese funk, that pop funk, you know, I think Prince is the future," he tells the camera at the 3:01 mark. There's also a whole montage of him apparently drugged up and poking around keyboards, if you're into that sort of thing. But if you're more into paying tribute to recently dead people by mocking their tragic flaws, perhaps you're interested in this flyer for a Saturday offering at Dead Herring in Williamsburg:

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The bi-monthly music and culture mag will take a bow with its final issue, which has Alicia Keys on the cover, on December 15th. Its run lasted 33 issues, according to AllHipHop.com. Founded in 2004, it was always a slightly quixotic venture, with a hard to pinpoint readership and identity--more so after it was acquired by the monolithic Radio One subsidiary Interactive One for a paltry quarter-of-a-million dollars back in '07. As things go these days, the magazine is survived by its brand and a website, Giantlife.com. "Suspending the print vehicle marks the end of an era, but I am thrilled with the opportunity to bring more Celebrity, Style and Culture to our audiences through my exclusive video series, and other integrated rich media opportunities," said Interactive One head-suit Smokey Fontaine. "In the coming months consumers can look forward to more exclusive content from trend-setter and celebrity bloggers and active user participation and dialogue through TheGIANTList." Whatever that means. RIP.

Michael Yaniro

Lost amid the Halloween blog blitz was the terribly sad news that Michael Yaniro, bassist for hardcore sludge outfit Twin Stumps, was violently attacked two weeks ago in Ridgewood over $10 and a cell phone. The artist didn't have health insurance--and the mere account of his injuries was absolutely harrowing:

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The special guest line-up for this past weekend's Big Apple Comic Con read a lot like a wish list for VH1's The Surreal Life: classic TV-show refugees (Different Strokes' Todd Bridges, Silver Spoons' Erin Gray, Dukes of Hazzard's Tom Wopat); cartoony wrestlers (Ric Flair, The Iron Sheik, Bushwacker Luke); actors known for sci-fi kitsch (William Shatner, The Terminator's Edward Furlong, The Original Boba Fett); washed-up Billboard charters (Naughty By Nature, Taylor Dayne). Not all those advertised made it--"Smoking" Joe Frazier and bad Terminator 2 cop Robert Patrick were, for example, no-shows. But for the ones who did, the overall vibe was perplexing, sometimes costly (Shatner charged $80 to pose for a photo) and occasionally sad, sort of like that autograph scene in The Wrestler. "When there were fans around, they were cool taking pictures and signing autographs," our photographer Paul Quitoriano e-mails, "But then there would be times where they'd just be sitting there, staring into space." Quitoriano managed to sneak some candids of the scene. The results weren't exactly uplifting.

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It's no surprise that the inevitably leaked (and even more predictably TMZ-obtained) audio of President Obama calling Kanye West a "jackass"--off the record, to CNBC, which didn't keep ABC's Terry Moran from hearing about it and tweeting it, then deleting it and apologizing, much much too late--proves that it was in fact Obama who was the adult (as usual) in a room full of otherwise tittering children. From the way the quote ricocheted around the internet today, you might've thought our president gave an entire speech on the issue, or at least foamed at the mouth a bit when it was brought up, but, as it turns out, the actual response was really...normal. After a reporter Trojan-horsed the question via an inquiry of what Obama's daughters thought about the whole debacle, our president responded, sounding like every suburban dad ever, basically:

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Goodbye

There will inevitably be a prankster-coward contingent pumping our local jukeboxes with Dead Kennedys' anthems through the weekend. As it is, half a day after the 47 year Senator's passing, such poor-taste giggling has already flooded Twitter, Mary-Jo-Kopechne-as-Trending-Topic and all. Even Diplo already went there this morning, 140-charactering it from Sweden to post a link to this mix from Philly DJ/producer Emynd called "California Uber Alles (Emynd's FUCK IT UP Party Break)," a fight song with vocals from New York's very own Fatman Scoop laid over the beat from Melvin Bliss's "Synthetic Substitution" and Dead Kennedys' "California Uber Alles." (If Scoop hollering "Everyone in the club/if you hate someone right now/Turn to them and punch them in the fucking face" is a little too physical for your afternoon dead-pool jam, Emynd has kindly posted the instrumental.) All SOTC's native Masshole has to say is that, politics aside, for every Dead Kennedys song you put on tonight, we will personally match you by playing the Dropkick Murphys' version of "For Boston" seven times in a row, "Shipping Up to Boston" seven more times, and, if the Internet jukebox has it, the Cheers Theme once. Multiply all that by ten if you play "Too Drunk To Fuck."

"California Uber Alles (Emynd's FUCK IT UP Party Break)" [@diplo]

Oh just another fantastic day here in Musicland. Rashied Ali -- Philly-borne free-jazz drummer, John Coltrane co-conspirator when John started to get really out there, former NYC venue proprietor (Ali's Alley), and all-around badass -- died yesterday after a heart attack. He and Les Paul would've been something together, it's true. So after you've pulled out your Les Paul Studio and whacked it for awhile, put on Coltrane's Interstellar Space and really concentrate this time. "Don't leave stupid posts like 'this is not music' or whatever," notes the dude responsible for the YouTube clip above. Indeed.