Wayne Coyne's Twitter account

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Spending 22 hours in a car is a crazy idea in itself. Match that with driving halfway across the nation to knock on the door of rocker Wayne Coyne's house is taking stalker status to the next level.

"Some weirdos just showed up on my porch...They drove all the way from LA to bring me a birthday gift!!!" said Coyne on Twitter  last week.

Those weirdos were newly-formed Orange County band, Hott Mt. Not only did the trio, made up of Adam Ashe (formerly of Dahga Bloom), Nick Logie (of Telegram) and Ashleigh Allard  show up unexpectedly at Coyne's home in Oklahoma City on Jan. 13, SPIN.com also reported that the members got to sleep on Coyne's couch and floor for four days. 

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5. Mixed Reviews (Mostly Bad)

Despite the MTV nomination, the million-dollar record deal and the 17 million page views on YouTube of Kreayshawn's hit, "Gucci Gucci," we have yet to read a review of the 21-year-old white rapper's show that's all praises. Most of the time they're like these less-than-effusive reviews from the Village Voice in New York:

"What Lex Luger is to beats, Kreayshawn is to vocals--she's a Duncan Hines chef where the cake manages to turn out slightly different each time, despite it being built from the same basics. Her performance style (as it is) needs work, since it currently seems inspired by Saturday Night Live's "Deep House Dish" sketches. She moves her arms this way and that, though she doesn't dip her hips or arch her back. She stays on her side of the stage, and her sidekick Lil' Debbie gets the other...It felt like a high-school talent show. She seemed like a Canal Street version of Lady Gaga, sticking to what seemed like a very tight (and poorly written) script."

And then again a few months later: "This was an exercise in how far down rock bottom can be."

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Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman officially proclaimed January 2, 2012 as "deadmau5 Day" because that's when the electro/house DJ from Canada launches his residency at Wynn Las Vegas. (He plays at XS Nightclub during New Year's Eve weekend.)

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A New York artist/model/filmmaker/musician who gave herself the nom de plume Bon Jane is claiming that the Black Keys stole the idea for one of their videos without giving her credit. In a release, Bon Jane says she gave the Black Keys a video treatment proposal for the song "Ten Cent Pistol" that was never used because "the record label did not want to pay for the production of the video."

But when she saw the video for the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards-nominated "Howlin' for You" directed by local boy Chris Marrs Piliero, she says it bore a "striking resemblance" to the treatment she gave the Black Keys. Apparently, Bon Jane's concept included a femme fatale killer in a Quentin Tarrantino/David Lynch style-Western hunting down men, and there was supposed to be a vintage sports car from the '70s, three types of female assassins, a white horse, guns, men who were hunted down by the femme fatale and murdered in hotel rooms, old warehouses, night and desert and details such as feathered eyelashes. (Because you know no one had ever used feathered eyelashes in a video before the Black Keys.)

When we got in touch with Piliero, his response was short and succint: "I don't know who that lady is and I never corresponded with her or with anyone else before creating my video concept."

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​Bing.com, Microsoft's search engine, recently compiled its 2011 search trends for musicians and came up with some interesting results.

Their list of the top ten most searched musicians is entirely made up of femme powerhouses (Who run da world?), save for the top slot, which was nabbed by Justin Bieber (get it, girl). Biebs stole No. 1 from Lady Gaga, who has fallen to fifth place over the course of the past year.

Whether these results indicate a shift in the power dynamic within music industry or Bing's girl-heavy consumer base remains a mystery. Regardless, we hope JB is celebrating his new title as top bitch, and the fact that his baby mama drama seems to finally be coming to a close.

The full list is after the jump.

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Fat Joe says it's time for gay rappers to come out of the closet.

"Hip-hop is the greatest gay market in the world," he told VLAD TV. "So why wouldn't a guy come out and say, 'I'm gay,' and go with that kind of love?" Fat Joe asks.

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A (censored) screen shot from the homemade "Glazin'" video by the Jacuzzi Gals

​The homemade fan video for Jacuzzi Boys' song "Glazin'" blew our minds when it came out last week, what with its vajazzly arts-and-crafts disguises on vaginas singing as aliens, Santa Claus, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Homer Simpson.  (Watch the uncensored version here.) 

We asked the Miami-based indie pop band for a reaction. Bassist Danny Gonzalez says they've never met the actors in the video ("I'm not sure I'd want to though, I like the mystery"), and that no, they're not doing a counterpart vid ("with a bunch of dicks you mean? No way, nobody wants to see that....") he did send me the email address for the creators, also known as the Jacuzzi Gals.

We emailed them, and the students ("some of us want to be lawyers") who wish to remain anonymous replied with the interview you can read after the jump.

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​Maybe you've been wondering what's up with Detroit Bar; since its former co-owner and talent buyer Jon Reiser bought the Galaxy Theatre and opened the Constellation Room within, the Costa Mesa venue's calendar has been mostly empty. More >>

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​You know how it goes: "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage!" It's the same for everyone--even embittered hipsters who view love ironically fall prey to evolution and feel the need to procreate, so to speak. But if you're eschewing all sorts of labels (along with baby sign language and cloth diapers) you might want to see what makes you (inadvertently) a hipster parent. Just, you know, FYI.
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Zombies are going to be at the Huntington Beach Art Walk tonight--but don't worry, they're not eating your brains. They're just going to dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" with whoever else wants to join them.

A community flash mob will be performing a routine choreographed by students from the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts, so at 6:30 p.m., dancers will gnash and shuffle their way through the song at four locations: the Art Center, the parking lot of Electric Chair, the Main Street Fountain and at the Strand.

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