Kanye’s management suggested that perhaps Mr. West think about anger management, and they don’t mean that hardcore rock tour that Eminem started. This is what he blogged:

Do yall remember when people said my fiance was pregnant???? What happened to that rumor????? I guess after we broke up it was just forgot about???? I’m just using that as an example of how people make up stuff and everybody runs with it. I had my own family asking me about that. Now the media is saying I’m going to anger management something or ‘nother. I have never had any conversations about anger management. If anything, I need anger enhancement!! lol! I get off the plane in Hawaii today and the world is saying my management team said blah blah blah… SIIIIIIGGGHHHH! I told the media you can’t make up lies about me because I have a media outlet myself. Oh and sidebar I don’t know if everyone has realized this yet but I don’t do interviews if there’s anything I wanna say I’ll say right here on my own blog.

And this is what I blog:

Should I remind you about this little incident? What about this nice little speech? I say sign his diva ass up for an anger program before he remixes “Rehab”.

I hate Kanye West. Granted, he makes samples great music, but besides that, the guys has to be the most arrogant artist in the world.  After the whole Bonnaroo incident where he basically anally raped the audience by not playing til 4 in the morning, one would think he would shut his mouth tighter than when he get his jaw wired shut.

Mr. West is back at it again, this time writing a horribly emo (and grammatically shitty) blog that asks why people are ‘trying to plot my downfall’. In the letter, written in almost all caps locks, he complains about how horribly hard it is to maintain his job and how his light show ‘cuts my payday in half’. Last time I checked, 50% of damn near 5 million a night is about what most 3rd world countries make over the course of a decade. The blog is too sad for words, so go ahead and read it in full after the jump.

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[The following words and photos have been submitted by Synthesis contributer Karen Dunbar, who recently attended the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee.]

Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
Manchester, TN
Thursday, June 12th – Sunday, June 15th

Bonnaroo isn’t just a music festival—it’s a mindset. This was the seventh year the tiny town of Manchester, Tennessee—a small, rural town 65 miles outside Nashville with a population of 9,500—was converged upon by 70,000 people. Arriving is a bit surreal; almost magically and suddenly the event explodes in front of you as you’re still driving through corn fields and family farms. The four days of Bonnaroo seem to meld together into an even more surreal, yet shared experience.
The event organizers seem to have thought of almost everything. Shuttles run from the airport on an almost continual basis as plane after plane empties music fans from all over the country. If you weren’t up to sitting in the hot sun watching one of the 158 bands, you could have your hair done, get a massage, go online or eat from a huge variety of choices, after you of course visited one of the many ATMs conveniently located throughout the festival. In the evening, the Silent Disco is better than many drugs: the aptly-named Ferris wheel offers a view of the entire site, and if timed properly offers the best views and sounds from either of two nearby stages. Speaking of drugs…Tennessee is an odd state. Possession of anything is still illegal, but if busted (and you don’t have a State sold tax sticker) you face tax evasion charges on top of the possession charge. Bonnaroo upholds all State laws. The price of this stamp is $3.50 per gram of pot and $50. per gram of cocaine. Bought anonymously, of course.

Almost every music genre was represented. You could watch Willie Nelson and then catch Metallica…on the same day. Dweezil Zappa performing his dad’s songs, Vampire Weekend, My Morning Jacket…the list went on forever. Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, Jack Johnson, the Raconteurs, The Coup, BB King followed by Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam ripped Kanye West a new one, and then watched as Kanye ripped himself one. (Kanye had a bit of a prima donna thing going; Eddie Vedder had a bit of an anti-Kanye thing going. Vedder’s fuck you to Kanye included beginning to promote Kanye’s performance and stopping mid-sentence, saying, “I just can’t do it,” then continuing to play for an additional 50 minutes and asking the crew for a slow load-out. Kanye’s stage needed three hours for production; he didn’t go on until 4:30 AM and only played an hour without a word of apology or explanation. Let’s just say the chant of “Kanye sucks” was a unifying theme through the remainder of the event, shouted at several sets during the rest of the weekend.

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Apparently Metallica’s forthcoming new Rick Rubin-produced full-length will be titled Death Magnetic:

Last week, a mysterious image popped up on Metallica’s Web site — an image that continued to morph over the next few days. It began June 9 with just two letters, D and C, in the middle of four sideways Metallica M’s arranged to look like magnetic rays. Each day, more letters were added. Because the band had promised it would soon divulge the title of its forthcoming album (due in stores this fall), several fans accurately surmised that the image would eventually reveal the LP’s name. Some guessed the title would be Magnetica. On Saturday, just before the band’s set at Bonnaroo, the image changed for the last time, providing fans with the answer they’d been waiting for. It seems that Metallica have named their next record Death Magnetic.

Video Matt’s future wife Hayley Williams and the rest of Paramore have a busy summer ahead of them: touring Europe, doing time on this year’s Warped Tour, embarking on their Final RIOT! tour with Phantom Planet and Jack’s Mannequin and stopping by Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot and Dfest. Check out the band’s complete dates below and then check out some ancient footage of the band out of Video Matt’s spank band vault above:

JUNE
2 Dublin, IRE Dublin RDS Simmions Court
4 Portsmouth, UK Portsmouth Guildhall
5 Nottingham, UK Nottingham Rock City
7 Nürburgring, GER Rock Am Ring
8 Nürnberg, GER Rock Im Park
9 Brussels, BEL Brussels AB
11 Copenhagen, DK Pumpehuset
12 Hultsfred, SWE Hultsfred Festival
14 Oslo, NOR Norwegian Wood Festival
15 Seinajoki, FIN Provinssirock
17 Amsterdam, HOL Melkweg
18 Paris, FRA Bataclan
30 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
JULY
1 St. Louis, MO Vans Warped Tour
2 Kansas City, MO Vans Warped Tour
3 Dallas, TX Vans Warped Tour
5 San Antonio, TX Vans Warped Tour
6 Houston, TX Vans Warped Tour
25 Tulsa, OK Dfest
26 Englewood, CO Channel 93.3’s Big Gig - Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre
28 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Theatre* (w/ Jack’s Mannequin and Paper Route)
30 Costa Mesa, CA Pacific Amphitheatre* (OC Fair w/ Jack’s Mannequin)
AUGUST
1 San Diego, CA Concerts On The Green
2 Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre
5 Little Rock, AR Riverfest Amphitheatre
6 New Orleans, LA The Sugarmill
7 Memphis, TN Mud Island Amphitheatre
10 Baltimore, MD Virgin Festival 2008 - Pimlico Race Course *
12 Chicago, IL Congress Theatre
13 Sterling Hts, MI Freedom Hill
15 Philadelphia, PA Festival Pier @ Penn’s Landing
16 Asbury Park, NJ Asbury Park Convention Hall
17 Providence, RI Providence Piers
22 Montreal, QUE Metropolis* (w/ Phantom Planet and Paper Route)
23 Toronto, ONT Kool Haus* (w/ Phantom Planet and Paper Route)
24 Cleveland, OH Time Warner Cable Ampitheatre* (w/ Phantom Planet and Paper Route)
26 St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair
29 Portsmouth, VA NTelos Wireless Pavilion* (w/ Phantom Planet and Paper Route)
30 Wallingford, CT Chevrolet Theatre
SEPTEMBER
1 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival- Seattle Center Memorial Stadium

Once upon a time (actually, 2001) when Synthesis.net was first standing to make a name for itself in the internet game, one of our correspondents, the lovely Laney Erokan wrote a review of a Dave Matthews show in Las Vegas that featured some hippie band named Widespread Panic as openers. She wasn’t exactly feeling Widespread Panic, writing in her review:

if I could think of any word worse than “suck” to describe a band I would use it. Macy Gray also opened and for some reason she played before Widespread Panic (bad decision), so we missed Macy instead of missing Widespread Panic and had to sit through an hour of shite…long, drawn-out jams, barely any vox and just plain boring music. The only thing that kept us entertained through the hour of crap was the hippies on ecstasy

Big deal, right? I mean, so what if someone writing for some shitty website doesn’t like a band, especially one that already has a solid enough fan base. You would think it wouldn’t be a big deal, but no, all of a sudden cyber hippies were coming out of the woodwork, e-mailing us all sorts of vulgar comments and even threats of violence. Peace and love apparently go out the window when Widespread Panic is involved.

I bring this up as a warning to budding music journalists out there, as the band is set to embark upon a summer tour, including a stop at this year’s Bonnaroo Music Festival. DON’T TALK SHIT ABOUT WIDEPSREAD PANIC! You might find your prize race horse’s head laying next to you in your bed the next morning…

Dates after the jump

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