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Sasha Frere Jones has a problem...and NY Mag has a problem with how he's going about solving it. The New Yorker music critic's files, photos and memories have been imprisoned by the evil LaCie 1TB, and the bail is a hefty $5K. He explains on his blog:

• Sasha Frere-Jones took first place in music criticism for his work in the The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Village Voice and others. We like his blog, too.

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While clicking around some of the blogs we check daily, we noticed a link to an article in the Guardian on the Modern Age. The article is about blogs, bloggers, music bloggers and if anyone really knows what they're talking about. A new word is made up to describe their own made up language, Blog-lish.

Last night, a man was shot outside of Hot 97. This would be scary in most cases, but the interesting thing is that the victim is a part of 50 Cent's entourage, and this happened while the rapper, who was famously shot multiple times and lived to tell and get rich, was inside. Now, the police are not sure if there is a connection between the shooting and 50 Cent, but 50 Cent was making an announcement on the radio:

The rapper was being interviewed live on the air when the shooting happened at about 10 p.m. He had just made the unexpected announcement that he was kicking out his protege The Game from his crew, G-Unit, for being disloyal.

Dunh dunh DUNH. The victim was shot in the leg and is in stable condition; The Game's album, The Documentary, is the number 1 album in the country. And this has not been a good year for Hot 97. Not only is Lil' Kim's trial for allegedly lying to a grand jury about the 2001 shooting outside Hot 97 going on now, people are still fuming about the morning show's "tsunami song." Anyway, a cynical person would say that this shooting is going to give 50 Cent more publicity for his new album, which comes out on Thursday, but given that 50 is one of the biggest stars out there, Gothamist doubts it was a record label marketing ploy.