Entertainment Weekly confirmed shortly before the weekend that Perez Hilton, lover of celebrity gossip blogging AND semen graffiti, has been given the green light to begin work on a record imprint of his very own. Working under the Warner Bros umbrella, Hilton is planning to announce details on his first signee by the end of July and had the following bit of intensely personal info to share:

I have an ear, which is really important in the music world — to be able to hear a hit and to be able to know who has a good song or not… I’m more than just an A&R person. I’m also a marketing person. I’m also a manager.

Do you have any idea how much more good music is going to be seeing the light of radio day now that this dude is on the clock? We’re all going to be okay.

In his opening column, Michael Cranston — the IM Solipsist — voices meta-concerns of how to be interesting in a market already grossly oversaturated in blogs and opinions to Tripwire Editor Derek Evers.

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She’s been a lot of things in her life. She’s been the crazy lady who drove on the freeway with a baby in her lap, the bald-headed woman beating a vehicle with an umbrella, the barefoot chick at the gas station. But one thing Britney has never been? A supporter of drug use. She told her Canadian fans in Vancouver last night that she’s all about hugs, not drugs.
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Words, video and photos by Meiyee Apple

Tripwire correspondent Meiyee Apple takes us through her guide of SxSW day parties with her search for free music and drinks on Saturday, March 21. Check out her Thursday and Friday installments too — her liver appreciates it.
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