Legendary American rocker Iggy Pop canceled an upcoming concert in Sarajevo following violence at the city's first gay festival.

Activists there were forced to retreat last week after a gang of nationalist trouble-makers attacked the festival's opening night, sending ten people to the hospital. Obviously displeased over the upset, Pop says he will not be appearing:

"The concert is canceled," Rajko Bogdanovic, an organiser, told Reuters on telephone. "The main reason lies in negative images that went out of Sarajevo in the past days."
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Sarajevo is still on the list of the world high-risk places," said Bogdanovic, the director of the Art Zone agency. He added that ticket sales were also poor.

Yeah, we can't really see Bosnia's nationalists or Muslim activists going for Pop's flamboyance…

A little known pop singer called Madonna got the recognition she deserves at last night's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

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Did Out "gay bash" former Factory boy Danny Fields? Fields says "yes," and he's out for the mag's money.

The drama started back in October of 2006, when EIC Aaron Hicklin interviewed the music manager for their '70s issue. In the piece, Fields chats about decade's free loving.

The quote seems to intimate Fields used his famous connections, which include Iggy Pop and The Ramones, to bed younger lads. Fields, however, says Hicklin and his magazine misrepresented him:

My reputation is ruined because Out has called me virtually a sexual predator. It is atrocious… I never said that. The implication is while my bands were playing, I was trawling the audience for kids… like I used the performances as an excuse to cruise and pick up underage teens. The quotes are also so ungrammatical. I would never even talk like that. I have advanced degrees in English literature…They gay-bashed me.

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