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  • BBC Radio 1 has edited the Pogues’ Christmas standard “Fairytale in New York,” reports the NME. The song, originally a hit in 1987, now has the word “faggot” dubbed out, as well as the phrase “an old slut on junk.” Who knew Kristi MacColl and Shane MacGowan were actually singing real words? MacColl’s mother defended the songs in an interview, saying the singers are playing “characters.”

  • 50 Cent has become the first high-profile artist to perform in the Kosovan capital Pristina since the war. The rapper gave a concert at a soccer stadium Monday night for which over 25,000 tickets had been sold.

  • The Breeders have announced a tour of the UK and Ireland in April of 2008. The band has been inactive for five years, but never officially broke up, and Kim Deal has of course been busy with a reunited Pixies. Word “on the street” is the Breeders will headline Coachella as well.

  • M.I.A. has posted a rambling message on her blog decrying the “censorship” she’s experienced in the U.S., referring to the removal of gunshot sounds from her track “Paper Planes” during a performance on the Letterman show and by MTV. She also said she “felt soooooo bad for what they did to my sound” on the Letterman performance, something I mentioned here previously. Anyway, M.I.A. wants us all to watch the uncensored version of the video because “putting meanings in your videos in my opinion is a dying art.” Fine, fine:
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