Steven Drozd on Wayne Coyne sacking him from Flaming Lips: “I went back to treatment, and he just stopped communicating with me”

Steven Drozd has opened up about being fired from Flaming Lips, saying that frontman Wayne Coyne “just stopped communicating with” him after he “went back to treatment”. Uncertainty about Drozd’s place in the indie band arose last year, when the multi-instrumentalist was absent from their live shows and replaced by AJ Slaughter. At the time,…

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They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud.

Reporting Highlights A Prosecutor’s Calling: Tim Robinson said God told him to start a drug treatment program in hard-hit Kentucky, which grew to the largest in the state.  The FBI Investigates: Former staff and investigators allege the drug treatment center falsified invoices to bill Medicaid for millions.  The State Acts: After years of warnings about…

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EU ambassador to Azerbaijan condemns inhuman treatment of Azeris in Russia

Shorouk Express Azerbaijan later reportedly canceled all cultural events linked to Russia “due to the demonstrative targeted and extrajudicial killings and acts of violence committed by Russian law enforcement agencies against Azeris,” the country’s Culture Ministry stated. The Russian Investigative Committee of the Sverdlovsk region, whose capital is Yekaterinburg, admitted two suspects had indeed died…

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