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● Lindsay Lohan says she can't afford to pay for her court-ordered psychological treatment. Or, more likely, she'd just rather not have to. [People] ● Painter Lucian Freud, grandson to Sigmund and psychological portraitist extraordinaire, has died at age 88. [NYT] ● No Doubt has called in Major Lazer to the studio, we imagine to show them what the kids these days are listening to while they ready their first album in ten years. [P4K]

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Lil B stole the show this week by dropping his controversial I’m Gay (I'm Happy) album with no warning on Wednesday night, but there were a few other noteworthy releases including the video for Drake’s “Marvin’s Room,” the “Mind Your Manners” single from Chiddy Bang’s debut album, and some new cuts from Duck Sauce and Major Lazer. Here’s are a few thing you might’ve missed.

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What do you get when you pair a Philly-based DJ with a penchant for dinosaurs and a British producer whose pseudonym was once changed from Solid Groove to Switch?

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So this is weird. A few weeks ago we published an interview with the mysterious Major Lazer, a Jamaican zombie slayer who may or may not be the creation of DJs Diplo and Switch. The interview was cryptic, and written in Lazer's broken patois, making it hard to decipher. We thought that was the end of it. But today, I got a surprise e-mail from someone claiming to represent Lazer. It led me to a video recreation of my interview with Lazer, which was initially done via e-mail. Check it out after the jump. How they got that picture of me, I'll never know.

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Amazing Baby Rewild (Shangri-La) - Maybe it’s because their songs owe a great debt to the Stone Roses and Frank Zappa, or perhaps it’s because all five of them have long, messy hair, but Amazing Baby, the Brooklyn-based heirs apparent to MGMT, have been pigeonholed as “drugged-out nudist hippies” -- even before the release of their debut album. Rewild is, however, a major acid trip down psych-pop lane, flitting between synthesizers and traditional instruments, a playfully (and deliberately) regressive bathtub brew of escapist melodies. On tracks like “Bayonets” and “Kankra,” one gets the sense that these babies are moving one step forward, and two steps back -- in the best way possible. -- Bryan Levandowski

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The Diplo and Switch collaboration project interviews with us in character.

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