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Lou Reed in 1973. If this was fat in the '70s, it's no wonder we're all considered obese now.

​The online music-journalism archive Rock's Backpages is 10 years old this month. If you've never heard of the site, it's probably because a) you're not a music geek or b) you don't want to have to pay to read interviews online--even awesome, historical ones, such as Bob Dylan's first interview with Columbia Records from 1961, Lester Bang's incredible interview with Lou Reed (in which he says Reed has a "nursing-home pallor and fat girdles at his sides") or Rush's 1978 interview with NME.

But this month, the site is giving away 30 exclusive features for free: 10 definitive interviews, 10 previously unpublished exclusives and 10 audio interviews from its vaults. All you have to do is enter your email address. Check out the list of what's available after the jump.

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​Another year, another BlizzCon, another slew of hot babes in seriously killer costumes with tons of painstaking detail. This year's BlizzCon took place at the Anaheim Convention Center on Oct. 21-22.

Click here to see our entire slideshow of the happenings at BlizzCon 2011. But in the meantime, here are our picks for the top 15 hottest babes of BlizzCon 2011 after the jump.  More >>

Courtesy of LoTR in Concert

​Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring in Concert
October 15, 2011
The Honda Center

Click here to see a slideshow of the show and fans.

I watched the Fellowship of the Ring for the first time on Saturday night.

Okay, no, that's a blatant fucking lie (the first time might have been at midnight on the night of December 19, 2001 in a theater somewhere in a suburb of Los Angeles, but then again, I'm not sure if that's something I should admit), but it sure felt like it was the first time again.
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​UPDATE: July 29, 2011, 7:50 p.m.: In a phone conversation today, Mindy Abel, the Senior Vice President of Convention Sales at the Anaheim Convention Center, clarified that nothing was confirmed regarding the change of venue for WonderCon. "We have been in discussion with Comic-Con International about the opportunity of moving to Anaheim ever since the inception of WonderCon," stated Abel. "Despite the rumors and blog posts however, nothing has been confirmed."

Original post: July 29, 2011, 10:40 a.m.: Get ready for an invasion of comic junkies dressed in Star Trek paraphernalia because WonderCon, an annual comic book, science fiction and motion picture convention under the umbrella of Comic Con International, is moving to the Anaheim Convention Center this April.

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​Pitchfork's interview with Björk regarding her forthcoming album Biophilia reveals that it's an album that is also "an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs."

At the same time, it's a "treatise on the natural world that involves everything from immense planets to tiny atoms... and a traveling exhibition that showcases one-of-a-kind instruments including a 30-foot bass-playing pendulum... and it's also an educational tool that aims to offer a modern take on music education, replacing notation and by-the-book theory with instinct and creativity."

All that sounds well and good (actually, most of it sounds amazing) but I don't own an iPad.

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According to TechCrunch, MySpace is definitely going through layoffs; the organization is apparently being slimmed down so it will be attractive to buyers.

Gawker says that two bidders--a digital ad network and a private equity firm--are offering $20 million to $30 million. Pretty sad, considering News Corp. paid $580 million in 2005.

So what does it mean for the countless bands who've used it to host music all these years? Once the bands leave with their songs, there's going to be no reason at all to go to MySpace. After the jump, a few more attractive options.
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​ In case you hadn't heard, today is Star Wars Day. And if you hadn't heard, I guess I should explain that today is Star Wars day because "May the fourth" sounds an awful lot like a lispy nerd who lives in his parents' basement saying "may the force" as in, "May the force be with you." But the dork-a-thon doesn't end there as today is as important for an equally bookish group of obsessive fans for defunct indie/pop/punk band Jawbreaker.
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​Happy Star Wars day to you, too! Here are some musicians who've geeked out to the greatest movie of all time.

1. Freddie Mercury
In this photo, he sits on Darth Vader's shoulders during Queen's tour to promote their album The Game. In his 1978 Queen song, 'Bicycle Race,' he sang, "I don't like 'Star Wars.'" 

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