Macklemore, Machine Gun Kelly Rule mtvU Woodie Awards

Tegan and Sara and Machine Gun Kelly host the mtvU Woodie Awards on March 14th, 2013 in Austin, Texas.

mtvU's Woodie Awards have become something of a SXSW tradition over the past few years, with a day party, nighttime showcase and the awards show broadcast on MTV all dedicated to celebrating the tastemaking musical choices of college students across the country. Last night, co-hosts Machine Gun Kelly and Tegan and Sara led the crowd through performances by headliner Zedd and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, pausing between performances to hand out awards. The showcase will be edited down to a half-hour telecast set to air Saturday night at 8 pm.

The day party included sets by Pusha T, Atlas Genius and Travi$ Scott (who brought out T.I. for a cameo appearance). Tegan and Sara took the stage to kick off the award show just as the sun set over downtown Austin. Opening with "Back in Your Head," the twin duo with a four-piece backing band ran through a short four-song set (which included "Body Work" and "Closer") before heading to the small host's stage, where Machine Gun Kelly delivered the Breaking Woodie to Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt. Earl, whose major label solo debut Doris is set to drop this year on his vanity imprint for Columbia, jokingly thanked R. Kelly for getting him to come down to SXSW.

Video: Machine Gun Kelly 'Takes Over the Rucker'

The awards show gave the showcase a bit of a stilted feel, with a few longer waits between artists and the bizarre sight of MGK and Tegan and Sara speaking into cameras from the host's stage without being able to hear a word they were saying. Danny Brown was on hand to collect his Woodie Award for Best Music Video (for the coming-of-age tale "Grown Up"), while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis shared the Branching Out Woodie and MGK himself took home the Woodie of the Year honor, delivering a prepared speech in which he decried the backlash against him from critics and journalists and thanked his fans for sticking by him.

The average age of the crowd unsurprisingly skewed young, with a number of fans crowded near the backstage barricade before the show started, trying to get a glimpse of Macklemore and Lewis. But the band that surprised most was the Ohio-based SXSW newcomers Twenty One Pilots, who caused more than a few audience members to utter a double-take "Who?" But their genre-mashing electro-pop-rap-rock combination was received with enthusiastic praise. "I know you don't know who we are," said singer/keyboardist/aerial stuntman Tyler Joseph self-deprecatingly before he and drummer Josh Dun jumped all over the stage – Dun executing a backflip off a raised dais – and performing their song "Holding On To You," a Passion Pit-inspired indie synth-pop track with rapped verses.

The crowd packed in for Macklemore, who appropriately came out wearing a poncho he claimed to have bought at an Austin thrift shop, a story he related to the crowd after performing his near-ubiquitous chart-topping hit "Thrift Shop." "Same Love" was a sermon tearing down homophobia in hip-hop and the church, while Schoolboy Q and Hollis emerged to help out with "White Walls" and Macklemore went walking out on top of the crowd's hands a la Method Man during his set-closing "Can't Hold Us."

Much of the audience streamed out after his last song – another unsurprising twist, considering how rabid his fanbase has become – leaving plenty of space to dance around during Zedd's closing set. His massive screen and video game-esque light show helped energize the crowd, which wound up covered in beach balls and the residue of Zedd's fog machine by evening's end, a celebratory ending.

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Macklemore, Machine Gun Kelly Rule mtvU Woodie Awards

Tegan and Sara and Machine Gun Kelly host the mtvU Woodie Awards on March 14th, 2013 in Austin, Texas.

mtvU's Woodie Awards have become something of a SXSW tradition over the past few years, with a day party, nighttime showcase and the awards show broadcast on MTV all dedicated to celebrating the tastemaking musical choices of college students across the country. Last night, co-hosts Machine Gun Kelly and Tegan and Sara led the crowd through performances by headliner Zedd and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, pausing between performances to hand out awards. The showcase will be edited down to a half-hour telecast set to air Saturday night at 8 pm.

The day party included sets by Pusha T, Atlas Genius and Travi$ Scott (who brought out T.I. for a cameo appearance). Tegan and Sara took the stage to kick off the award show just as the sun set over downtown Austin. Opening with "Back in Your Head," the twin duo with a four-piece backing band ran through a short four-song set (which included "Body Work" and "Closer") before heading to the small host's stage, where Machine Gun Kelly delivered the Breaking Woodie to Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt. Earl, whose major label solo debut Doris is set to drop this year on his vanity imprint for Columbia, jokingly thanked R. Kelly for getting him to come down to SXSW.

Video: Machine Gun Kelly 'Takes Over the Rucker'

The awards show gave the showcase a bit of a stilted feel, with a few longer waits between artists and the bizarre sight of MGK and Tegan and Sara speaking into cameras from the host's stage without being able to hear a word they were saying. Danny Brown was on hand to collect his Woodie Award for Best Music Video (for the coming-of-age tale "Grown Up"), while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis shared the Branching Out Woodie and MGK himself took home the Woodie of the Year honor, delivering a prepared speech in which he decried the backlash against him from critics and journalists and thanked his fans for sticking by him.

The average age of the crowd unsurprisingly skewed young, with a number of fans crowded near the backstage barricade before the show started, trying to get a glimpse of Macklemore and Lewis. But the band that surprised most was the Ohio-based SXSW newcomers Twenty One Pilots, who caused more than a few audience members to utter a double-take "Who?" But their genre-mashing electro-pop-rap-rock combination was received with enthusiastic praise. "I know you don't know who we are," said singer/keyboardist/aerial stuntman Tyler Joseph self-deprecatingly before he and drummer Josh Dun jumped all over the stage – Dun executing a backflip off a raised dais – and performing their song "Holding On To You," a Passion Pit-inspired indie synth-pop track with rapped verses.

The crowd packed in for Macklemore, who appropriately came out wearing a poncho he claimed to have bought at an Austin thrift shop, a story he related to the crowd after performing his near-ubiquitous chart-topping hit "Thrift Shop." "Same Love" was a sermon tearing down homophobia in hip-hop and the church, while Schoolboy Q and Hollis emerged to help out with "White Walls" and Macklemore went walking out on top of the crowd's hands a la Method Man during his set-closing "Can't Hold Us."

Much of the audience streamed out after his last song – another unsurprising twist, considering how rabid his fanbase has become – leaving plenty of space to dance around during Zedd's closing set. His massive screen and video game-esque light show helped energize the crowd, which wound up covered in beach balls and the residue of Zedd's fog machine by evening's end, a celebratory ending.

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'Red Bull Kluge' Turns Athletes Into Extreme Rube Goldberg Machine

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When Adam Sadowsky was 11, he built a simple contraption above his bedroom door to capture monsters. "You'd basically open the door, which would trigger a string that would drop a net on whoever was coming in," he says.

Sadowsky is the founder of Syyn Labs, the high tech geek collective behind a new frenetically paced Red Bull video called The Athlete Machine, which has generated over six million views on YouTube in less than a week. In the video, elite athletes like Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones and pro skater Ryan Sheckler are put in the middle of a Rube Goldberg machine (think the device Pee Wee Herman built to make breakfast), in which one interaction – a bowling ball smashing light bulbs, for example – triggers another. But it's the athletes who make it go.

"In very much the same way these bits of inanimate objects that make up the machine pass energy from one thing to the next, we really like the idea of athletes passing that energy to each other," Sadowsky says. "But we didn’t want it to be like passing a baton. We wanted it to be much more elegant and sophisticated an interaction."

The video opens with skydiver Sean McCormack dropping from the cargo bay of a helicopter. When he lands several seconds later he hops on what looks like a giant target, which starts the machine, spinning pro skater Joey Brezinski onto a ramp, triggering a reaction that includes a chain saw buzzing through two by fours, a golfer hitting a hole in one and a motocross rider doing a backflip off a 20 foot ramp. Each interaction propels the next. It's sort of like the monster trap Sadowsky built as a kid, just a hell of a lot more complicated.

"It's like watching a NASCAR wreck in slow motion," Sadowsky says. "It's physics in action." It took Sadowsky and his 23-person crew – which included NASA engineers and Disney theme park vets – about three weeks to build the machine, which sprawled across eight acres of the old El Toro Marines base in Irvine, California. Sadowsky then walked its length about 400 times to make sure the machine would work, and to figure out how his cameras would capture it in action. They then filmed the whole thing in about four hours, with a crew of six crammed into a Mercedes SUV with a camera mounted on the top, sometimes zooming in reverse to get the right shot.

"We wanted to start small in energy, and then have it build from there, but we also wanted to put the unreliable stuff up front, because you don't want to get towards the end, have someone screw up, and have to start the whole machine over."

Sadowsky says the athletes were so entranced by the machine they stuck around to watch once their parts were over. "I think there's something really wonderful about the authentic, and really captivating about seeing the implausible happen," he says. "We wanted to show how even though the sports may be different, we're all connected by the same energy stream."

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Machine Gun Kelly on His DMX, Avenged Sevenfold Collaborations

Rapper Machine Gun Kelly worked with acts including DMX, Avenged Sevenfold, Lil Jon and Young Jeezy on his debut album, Lace Up (due October 9th), he and is signed to Bad Boy/Interscope. Still, he views himself very much as the underdog.

"We never had what Mac Miller, what A$AP Rocky had, what any of these guys had – we never had the hype to where we were getting covers of fucking magazines," MGK tells Rolling Stone. "The 'wow' factor should've been I'm just an average kid who speaks for fucking hundreds of thousands of kids who feel just like me, and [are] all willing to live and die by the lifestyle that I portray and project and live myself."

If it seems like a stark juxtaposition between how MGK sees things and how others might view them – after all, he won mtvU's Breaking Woodie award this year and was named MTV's Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2011 – that is his weird world right now.

"I live in a house in Cleveland, Ohio with all my best friends. Other than that, we're on a tour bus. I have no Internet and no way of really seeing what is going on, as far as hype goes," he says. "I'm not paid at all. I'm not rich, I don't have a car."

Yet the executive producer for his album is P. Diddy. "I've seen Puff do impressions of me – that shit is pretty funny," he says.

He's also struck up a close bond with DMX: "He kind of became like an older brother to me. He'll give me advice, he'll tell me when I'm tripping," Kelly says. That friendship was born out of their memorable first meeting, when the two teamed up to record "Demons."

"He really didn't have any idea what he was getting into, so I was worried about the first impression," Kelly recalls. "But it was the best first impression ever. He came in the studio when I was on top of the table rapping the last song ['Niggaz Done Started Something'] on It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, which a lot of people in the mainstream world would not know. But it's the L.O.X., Mase and him, and I was rapping his verse right when he walked in, so he was like, 'Oh, shit, this energy is crazy right now,' started clapping his hands."

Kelly's pairing with Avenged Sevenfold on the song "Save Me" is the opening track. "In my opinion, they're the best in the metal world of this generation," he says.

The rapper points out proudly that every collaboration on the album was booked before he got the Bad Boy/Interscope name behind him. "A lot of the people did it strictly off the love for what I was doing," he says.

What those artists see in Kelly is what thousands of kids see in him – an artist who is also a diehard music fan.

"When I was running away, I didn't have somebody there to help me run away. All I had was DMX's voice or Eminem's voice or Tupac's voice. It's not like I ran away from home and a motherfucker would just pop up at the train station, 'Hey, everything's gonna be OK, I see you're going through some shit,'" he says. "I didn't have that. All I had was those two headphones and that three minutes of music."

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Machine Gun Kelly Tempers His Rage on 'Half Naked' EP

Machine Gun Kelly Tempers His Rage on 'Half Naked' EP

Machine Gun Kelly is more vulnerable than his "wild boy" persona lets on. The Cleveland, Ohio rapper, whose clamorous live sets and fanbase of "ragers" have branded him a contender for hip-hop's resident rocker, reveals a softer side on his Half Naked & Almost Famous EP, his first official release through Diddy's Bad Boy label and a companion piece to a 90-minute documentary.

On cuts like "See My Tears" and "EST 4 Life," Kelly points the pen inward, reflecting on his mainstream ascent and questioning what the future holds. The five-track set also includes two previously released tracks – the blistering "Wild Boys," featuring Waka Flocka Flame, and the Cassie-assisted "Warning Shot," where Kelly barks over bombastic soundscapes.

"I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry," says the 21-year-old, who was arrested for disorderly conduct in January after a gig in Florida. "I don't give a fuck about the masses; I'm not here for them. I'm here to make an impact on the kids who truly care. I'm not going to beg for attention and shit."

MGK is at his most raucous in the documentary, which was shot during last year's Warped Tour and features footage of him coughing up blood from a throat infection ("We fuckin' bleed this shit," he boasts) and tripping on mushrooms ("I'm definitely a boomer").

"I was a huge punker growing up," says Kelly, whose real name is Richard Baker. "On my body, shit, if you want to talk about rock stars, I've got Tommy Lee's Mayhem (logo) tattooed on my wrist. I got fuckin' Chili Peppers on my elbow. I got scars all over my fuckin' hands from fighting and just dumb shit. Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were. That's why drugs also got involved in my life. I idolized the wrong people, like Nikki Sixx and Kurt Cobain."

Kelly's rise has caught the attention of Tech N9ne, who invited the rapper to join his Hostile Takeover; the trek will hit 90 cities in 99 days and kick off on March 24th in in Kansas City. The rapper's history of road rage preceded him, resulting in an imposed list of guidelines for him to follow over the three-month run. "No afterparties, no clubs, no smoking...We have a very bad road reputation," Kelly says. "Rules are meant to be broken."

Kelly, who is diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, also plans to showcase his more extreme and subdued sides on his upcoming summer debut LP, Lace Up. Recorded before he signed with Bad Boy last August, it features a collaboration with Tech N9ne – but the rapper remains tightlipped about the rest. When asked why "Warning Shot," which originally featured Livvi Franc on its hook, now features Cassie, his tongue turns cold. But he assures that he maintained creative control over the project.

"Lace Up is going to be recognized by the Grammys. It's going to be one of those things that goes down in history as one of the best albums, period. It's kind of like Adele's 21. It was this perfect time in a person's life, and she made a soundtrack for it. Lace Up is the same way," says Kelly. "When it's time for you to know who I am, it'll be the right time. I'm not going to convince you to know who I am. I don't care."

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Machine Gun Kelly Tempers His Rage on 'Half Naked' EP

Machine Gun Kelly Tempers His Rage on 'Half Naked' EP

Machine Gun Kelly is more vulnerable than his "wild boy" persona lets on. The Cleveland, Ohio rapper, whose clamorous live sets and fanbase of "ragers" have branded him a contender for hip-hop's resident rocker, reveals a softer side on his Half Naked & Almost Famous EP, his first official release through Diddy's Bad Boy label and a companion piece to a 90-minute documentary.

On cuts like "See My Tears" and "EST 4 Life," Kelly points the pen inward, reflecting on his mainstream ascent and questioning what the future holds. The five-track set also includes two previously released tracks – the blistering "Wild Boys," featuring Waka Flocka Flame, and the Cassie-assisted "Warning Shot," where Kelly barks over bombastic soundscapes.

"I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry," says the 21-year-old, who was arrested for disorderly conduct in January after a gig in Florida. "I don't give a fuck about the masses; I'm not here for them. I'm here to make an impact on the kids who truly care. I'm not going to beg for attention and shit."

MGK is at his most raucous in the documentary, which was shot during last year's Warped Tour and features footage of him coughing up blood from a throat infection ("We fuckin' bleed this shit," he boasts) and tripping on mushrooms ("I'm definitely a boomer").

"I was a huge punker growing up," says Kelly, whose real name is Richard Baker. "On my body, shit, if you want to talk about rock stars, I've got Tommy Lee's Mayhem (logo) tattooed on my wrist. I got fuckin' Chili Peppers on my elbow. I got scars all over my fuckin' hands from fighting and just dumb shit. Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were. That's why drugs also got involved in my life. I idolized the wrong people, like Nikki Sixx and Kurt Cobain."

Kelly's rise has caught the attention of Tech N9ne, who invited the rapper to join his Hostile Takeover; the trek will hit 90 cities in 99 days and kick off on March 24th in in Kansas City. The rapper's history of road rage preceded him, resulting in an imposed list of guidelines for him to follow over the three-month run. "No afterparties, no clubs, no smoking...We have a very bad road reputation," Kelly says. "Rules are meant to be broken."

Kelly, who is diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, also plans to showcase his more extreme and subdued sides on his upcoming summer debut LP, Lace Up. Recorded before he signed with Bad Boy last August, it features a collaboration with Tech N9ne – but the rapper remains tightlipped about the rest. When asked why "Warning Shot," which originally featured Livvi Franc on its hook, now features Cassie, his tongue turns cold. But he assures that he maintained creative control over the project.

"Lace Up is going to be recognized by the Grammys. It's going to be one of those things that goes down in history as one of the best albums, period. It's kind of like Adele's 21. It was this perfect time in a person's life, and she made a soundtrack for it. Lace Up is the same way," says Kelly. "When it's time for you to know who I am, it'll be the right time. I'm not going to convince you to know who I am. I don't care."

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Skrillex, Porter Robinson and M Machine Throw OWSLA Dance Party

Porter Robinson and Skrillex perform during a showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Skrillex  may be the boss when it comes to his DJ/Producer-heavy label OWSLA – the label is named for a military caste of rabbits in the legendarily intense 1970s children’s fantasy novel Watership Down – but on Thursday the deafening bass pioneer showed he's also just one of the DJs during the label's first SXSW showcase. Launched only this past August, the label has nine EDM artists to its credit, including up-and-coming DJ acts Nick Thayer, Zedd, Kill the Noise, Alvin Risk, Child in Disguise, the mysterious M Machine and 19-year-old DJ phenom Porter Robinson, the latter two who played otherworldly DJ sets Thursday night.

"It's cool. We're just having a party," Skrillex told the sweaty crowd during a pseudo DJ battle with Robinson that was more about hugs than trying to one up each other. The two switched off between tracks during their back-to-back set. The bass was turned up to full blast, hitting the fans like wind blowing from the house speakers. "Drink cold beer…and water," Skrillex yelled to the crowd.

"OWSLA is a community of the youngest, most excitable kids who consume the most aggressive, crazy music of all time," M Machine's Ben Swardlick tells Rolling Stone. The San Francisco-based indie electronic outfit met Skrillex in November 2010, after the now-Grammy winner played a show in Santa Cruz behind his breakout EP Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, and needed a place to crash. There wasn't a label then but they kept in touch. "He was really into 'Trafalgar,' Swardlick says of the free track M Machine initially released. M Machine's set soared with laser beam sythns that would drop any moment and comeback to automatic fist pumps and cheers from the audience.

It's obvious that the OWSLA family's main objective Thursday night was to have a good time. The bass-heavy dubstep with which Skrillex and his clan have become synonymous has often been called the new heavy metal – that held true last night with the dance party looking every bit like a dance-fueled moshpit.

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Skrillex, Porter Robinson and M Machine Throw OWSLA Dance Party

Porter Robinson and Skrillex perform during a showcase at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Skrillex  may be the boss when it comes to his DJ/Producer-heavy label OWSLA – the label is named for a military caste of rabbits in the legendarily intense 1970s children’s fantasy novel Watership Down – but on Thursday the deafening bass pioneer showed he's also just one of the DJs during the label's first SXSW showcase. Launched only this past August, the label has nine EDM artists to its credit, including up-and-coming DJ acts Nick Thayer, Zedd, Kill the Noise, Alvin Risk, Child in Disguise, the mysterious M Machine and 19-year-old DJ phenom Porter Robinson, the latter two who played otherworldly DJ sets Thursday night.

"It's cool. We're just having a party," Skrillex told the sweaty crowd during a pseudo DJ battle with Robinson that was more about hugs than trying to one up each other. The two switched off between tracks during their back-to-back set. The bass was turned up to full blast, hitting the fans like wind blowing from the house speakers. "Drink cold beer…and water," Skrillex yelled to the crowd.

"OWSLA is a community of the youngest, most excitable kids who consume the most aggressive, crazy music of all time," M Machine's Ben Swardlick tells Rolling Stone. The San Francisco-based indie electronic outfit met Skrillex in November 2010, after the now-Grammy winner played a show in Santa Cruz behind his breakout EP Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, and needed a place to crash. There wasn't a label then but they kept in touch. "He was really into 'Trafalgar,' Swardlick says of the free track M Machine initially released. M Machine's set soared with laser beam sythns that would drop any moment and comeback to automatic fist pumps and cheers from the audience.

It's obvious that the OWSLA family's main objective Thursday night was to have a good time. The bass-heavy dubstep with which Skrillex and his clan have become synonymous has often been called the new heavy metal – that held true last night with the dance party looking every bit like a dance-fueled moshpit.

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Rage Against the Machine to Rush Limbaugh: 'Stop Using Our Music in Your Right-Wing Clown Show'

Tom Morello demands that Rush Limbaugh drop Rage tunes from his playlist.

Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine is the latest rock star to demand that Rush Limbaugh stop using his music on the air. "Rush Limbaugh played "Sleep Now in the Fire" as a bumper on his show today," Morello told Rolling Stone last night. "Our response: 'Hey Jackass, stop using our music on your racist, misogynist, right wing clown show." (He later tweeted the same message.)

Peter Gabriel, Rush and the Fabulous Thunderbirds have made public statements asking for their music to be pulled from Limbaugh's syndicated talk show following the host's personal attack on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, whom he called a "slut" and a "prostitute" for defending women's reproductive rights.

Though artists can certainly make their feelings known about the use of their music on the radio, they have no real legal power in actually enforcing demands to cease and desist. Radio networks are covered under blanket agreements for "public performance" of the songs in major publishing catalogs, and so long as those networks pay their licensing fees, they are allowed to play whatever they like within the bounds of FCC regulations.

Attorney Larry Iser, who successfully had music by Jackson Browne and Talking Heads removed from political ads by John McCain and Charlie Crist, tells Rolling Stone that while artists have limited rights in this matter, they still have plenty of influence in the court of public opinion. "The Constitution is the Constitution, and thank goodness for it," says Iser. "They do have a legal right to stand up and make as much noise as possible about how appalled they are."

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Rage Against the Machine to Rush Limbaugh: 'Stop Using Our Music in Your Right-Wing Clown Show'

Tom Morello demands that Rush Limbaugh drop Rage tunes from his playlist.

Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine is the latest rock star to demand that Rush Limbaugh stop using his music on the air. "Rush Limbaugh played "Sleep Now in the Fire" as a bumper on his show today," Morello told Rolling Stone last night. "Our response: 'Hey Jackass, stop using our music on your racist, misogynist, right wing clown show." (He later tweeted the same message.)

Peter Gabriel, Rush and the Fabulous Thunderbirds have made public statements asking for their music to be pulled from Limbaugh's syndicated talk show following the host's personal attack on Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, whom he called a "slut" and a "prostitute" for defending women's reproductive rights.

Though artists can certainly make their feelings known about the use of their music on the radio, they have no real legal power in actually enforcing demands to cease and desist. Radio networks are covered under blanket agreements for "public performance" of the songs in major publishing catalogs, and so long as those networks pay their licensing fees, they are allowed to play whatever they like within the bounds of FCC regulations.

Attorney Larry Iser, who successfully had music by Jackson Browne and Talking Heads removed from political ads by John McCain and Charlie Crist, tells Rolling Stone that while artists have limited rights in this matter, they still have plenty of influence in the court of public opinion. "The Constitution is the Constitution, and thank goodness for it," says Iser. "They do have a legal right to stand up and make as much noise as possible about how appalled they are."

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Machine Gun Kelly Arrested for Disorderly Conduct

Machine Gun Kelly at S.O.B.'s in New York City.

Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly was arrested over the weekend for disorderly conduct following a gig in St. Petersburg, Florida. The rapper, who is signed to Bad Boy Records, was busted at 4:12 a.m. by police in Pinellas County, and was released a few hours later after posting $100 bail.

Kelly tweeted about the arrest, saying, "Just spent my entire night in a fucking Florida jail . . . shit escalated way too quick last night, it always does with us though." Specific details of what Kelly did to get arrested have not been released. Speaking of his jail experience, the rapper wrote, "The weirdest part of it was how many inmates in there knew who I was and knew about the movement. It was some trippy shit."

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Machine Gun Kelly Arrested for Disorderly Conduct

Machine Gun Kelly at S.O.B.'s in New York City.

Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly was arrested over the weekend for disorderly conduct following a gig in St. Petersburg, Florida. The rapper, who is signed to Bad Boy Records, was busted at 4:12 a.m. by police in Pinellas County, and was released a few hours later after posting $100 bail.

Kelly tweeted about the arrest, saying, "Just spent my entire night in a fucking Florida jail . . . shit escalated way too quick last night, it always does with us though." Specific details of what Kelly did to get arrested have not been released. Speaking of his jail experience, the rapper wrote, "The weirdest part of it was how many inmates in there knew who I was and knew about the movement. It was some trippy shit."

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