Andy Langer, writing in Esquire, offers up some advice to mediate/settle some feuds in the music industry.

Jeff Tweedy vs. Fans of Jeff Tweedy: On YouTube, you can find a clip from an October Wilco show where Tweedy clocks an affectionate stage-trespassing fan in the face. And on his new solo DVD, he awkwardly chastises the crowd for talking and calls for a moment of silence. (”Can you shut up for once in your fucking life?”) Jeff’s absolutely right: People talk too much during shows. 

Courtney Love vs. Dave Grohl: Spats over royalties and legacy control are rarely pretty, but there was never much love to lose between these two. We like a good drummer joke as much as the next guy, but Grohl’s innocent here, just a bystander caught in the crossfire of a far more dangerous feud: Courtney vs. Courtney.

Beck vs. Esquire: In 2003, Beck took issue with a feature on the Flaming Lips, in which we concluded, “Beck is a dick.” The diminutive songster wrote a classic letter to the editor promising that after managing his “beard pruners and back scratchers,” he would “do something meaningful with [his] life now, like publish a magazine with Britney Spears’s butt on the cover.” Here’s our review of The Information: It’s really good. We’re all gangsters here, Mr. Beck. Shit has gotten out of hand.