Today In Music News: MCA Has Cancer, Chris Brown Is Still Sorry and The Killers Hate Trafficking

Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 21, 2009... Looks like all those years of Zen, snowboarding and clean livin' didn't do Adam Yauch any good--he's been diagnosed with cancer. The band;s tour has been canceled, and its album has been put on hold. Chris Brown wants us...

By Lance Lester

July 21, 2009

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Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 21, 2009...

Looks like all those years of Zen, snowboarding and clean livin' didn't do Adam Yauch any good--he's been diagnosed with cancer. The band;s tour has been canceled, and its album has been put on hold.
Chris Brown wants us all to know he's "truly, truly sorry" for the "incident" with Rhianna. He must mean it since he made a video, right?
When I think of The Killers, I often think about how I shouldn't traffic anyone into the sex trade. Looks like The Killers think the same thing.

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