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• Arista Drops Idol Runner-Up Blake Lewis After Less Than A Year [Heaven Needed A Timberlake Wannabe] by Idolator

  "Ruben Studdard released three albums before getting dropped. Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee got a year and a half on their post-Idol contracts before being let go. Now 2007 American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis has been cast away by Arista, less than a year after they announced signing him. How..."

• How do you like 'dem apples? by lamestain

  "First, sorry about the French holiday between posts. Sub Pop has been gearing up the 20th Birthday celebrations with aplomb, and Tom and I were, traveling to England or trudging away on a project for a class. No doubt, you’ve all picked up the reissue of Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff by..."

• I'm in the Norman Blake fanclub by The Daily Growl

  "I love Teenage Fanclub. They’re the first band that I really got into, way back in the heady summer of 1991, and their sun-drenched harmonies were the soundtrack to much of my 1990s. So it’s hardly a surprise that despite the disappointments of the last couple of albums, I still..."

• Gordon in the morning: The what complaints commission? by No Rock&Roll Fun

  "Oddly, considering how certain Gordon was that Amy Winehouse had abandoned Blake and was moving on, he seems equally certain that she's paying a thousand pounds a week for "protection" for him in prison. And:A source said: “Blake has people who look after him.“And he gets crack and heroin. Amy..."

• In Which Amy Winehouse Oughta Be Ashamed by This Recording

  "Dear Amy Winehouse by Molly Lambert Please stop doing drugs you’re going to die soon You are talented and you need to stop throwing your life away didn’t u see Trainspotting? did u not see the second half or something? ur husband is a git and he’s not even that..."