Check out the 11-song track-listing of Fever to Tell, the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, at their great fansite, Bang! Our favorite of the songs that we remember are “Rich” and “Black Tongue.”

Oh yeah, and they were lying about the Andy Taylor thing as of 1/31/03.

PSSSH! We totally scooped-out Page Six on the Claire Danes thing. Yesterday’s news…whatever man. We’ve got the picture.

Sure, why not. Why ARE The Selzers a God-like band?

Ryan Adams reports that he will be wearing brown this spring. “Brown is the new red,” quothe he.

Hey, who the fuck is Alley (onairlibrary) ?

Ikara Colt is the support act on Sahara Hotnights up-coming US tour.

Oh boy, look who’s coming to a college near you courtesy of the CMJ tour: The Ravonettes, Mooney Suzuki, Longwave, and White
Light Motorcade. They kick off at SXSW on March 13 and end in SoCal in April.

…So happy togethhherrrrrrrrr!

But watch out, Matt gets kinda protective. Link from Sea of Angels.

“That homegirl can sing.” – Justin Timberlake on Christina Aguilera.

Supergrass dig strippers. They so know how to party.

The reason this LA crowd wasn’t into The Donnas was because they have ears and eyes, fool.

C’mon, Kate Hudson’s a 12-year-old boy, right? A very pretty 12-year-old, but girl’s still got no boobs. We love her.

If you were pimped out in a red velour tracksuit, you too would just want to “eat a fucking burger.”

Hahha. Oh man. You gotta click on this link just because this picture is so freaking embarrassing:

Look, it’s National Geographic, the Swimsuit Issue.

Ahem, the LA Times did a reeeaaaallllllly lloooooooonnng article on Long Gone John. Yeah, ok. Link via Catherine.

…AND NOW FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE, ANGELA CHASE ON DRUMS!

Hahahah. Holy shit, you people are funny. Julian Casablancas on Howard Stern.

IT’S THE WHITE STRIPES SNEAK PREVIEW…
PART 1

John Peel played three tracks off of the new White Stripes album, Elephant, on his Wednesday night Radio 1 program. The songs were: “Seven Nation Army” (sorta “Black Tongue,” YYYs), “Black Math,” and “There’s No Room For You Here.” Here’s the playlist, for easier fastforwarding. Special thanks to Lennat for the link.

It’s an Aussie news day!

The Vines get slammed in the Aussie press for Big Day Out 2003.

Although the thought of heading over to Lit last night and asking people if they were there to see Badly Drawn Boy would have thoroughly amused us, we quickly realized we’d have to give two shits about Elliot Smith to want to bust into his “secret” guest-list-only show. So instead we went all OZ and hit up Ben Lee at Fez @ The Time Café, with our peeps in tow. (They totally repped.)

Lee made like a white boy and “spun” tunes before his set. This included Jewel’s spoken word poetry and DMX. He keeps it real.

Lee opened his set with a Sinead O’Conner cover, but then he played “Pop Queen” next and we wigged out. Now we can’t remember the rest.

Oh wait, here we go… we do remember something.

Mid-set, Claire Danes pulled a Meg White, filling drum duties. Too bad she wasn’t part of the Frozen Embryos — judging from 30 Seconds From Mars, Jared Leto looks like he could use a little help. (ED. NOTE: Danes has been going out with Lee for as long as we can remember… since 1997 or something?)

Danes, along w/ one of Quincy Jones’ daughters, Rashida Jones, and Mark Ronson joined the Aussie pop singer onstage for a rendition of Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold.” Dawson’s Creek sweetie, Michelle Williams, looked on from stage right. Girl Rashida can sing!

Lee played a new song he co-penned with Phantom Planet’s Jason Schwartzman. It was some song about love, or a girl, or some other sissy, bleeding-heart topic. We cooed like pigeons… just to coo like pigeons, not because of the song. Our apologizes to the man sitting in front of us whose head we crapped on.

During intermission Lee subjected us to what we’d assume to be an “ironic” playing of “I Should Be So Lucky” by Kylie Minogue.

After intermission, Evan Dando graced the stage, proving to everyone he’s still very much alive and kickin’. He was sporting scruffiness which passed for a beard, lookin’ hot.

Oh yeah, and he played songs too. About 3 on his own, then Ben came back on, then Evan came on with him again.

Lee closed with his “Marry Me” song, which we really liked except for the weak lyric-writing of the verses. We like the chorus, but yeah, the verses were lame. There was one where we think he rhymed “mad” with “dad,” and no one really wants to hear a tune mentioning someone’s Dad, do they? Unless it’s about turning your Dad on like a Gorillaz song.

So did we like it? Yeah, it was aight for a saccharine-sweet Land Down Under singer/songwriter. We have friends that totally dug it. We also have friends who left during intermission. All we can say is, at least he’s not Canadian.

Sadly, no new Terminator 3 news.

Ben Lee “and Friends” will be performing the second night of the residency next Wednesday at Fez.

Rock-ify the vote and keep clicking on us for us for Best Music Blog at the 2003 Bloggies. We’re way too lazy to vote for ourselves.

Artist profile on Jet.