The Modern Age

Check out Earlash’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs giveaway contest. They’re giving away 5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs autographed posters and 5 limited edition Enhanced Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD singles.

22-20s sign with Heavenly/EMI and the Mooney hit Chicago. Links from John.
The Art of Getting Attention: Thinking About Madonna.
Daniel Johns = Scott Weiland?
Ughh…. Beck and Trashbored Confessional team [...]

Yeah, WHATEVER. Liam Lynch gets in the New York Times.

Liam Lynch

The best way to describe Liam Lynch is “restlessly creative.” A dyslexic, colorblind, insomniac one-man culture machine, he stays up all night making quirky songs, movies, and animated shorts in his home studio and then, when he finally crawls into bed, jumps out [...]

Iggy Pop and Peaches join forces on a song called “Kick It.”
It’s Britpop: Pale People In Love. Check out this excerpt from the upcoming book, The Last Party: Britpop, Blair And The Demise Of English Rock. Link from Mark.
From the Ben Kweller mailing list: “For all you television owners, BK will [...]

The White Stripes on Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq.
Junior Senior on Radio 1.
Check out our favorite rocker-chick-in-training, New York Doll.
Kelefa Sanneh on Hot Hot Heat.
Sondre Lerche is a cutie.

Bar Mitzvah Disco. Guess that’s Jewz fer Youze. Link from Gawker.
We’ve got a big fat red toe from all these names that be droppin’.
Electric Six @ Bowery review.
Review of Elephant by The White Stripes.
War = Sex.

If it looks gay, sounds gay, and is from Canada, what is it? Yes, that’s right — Hot Hot Heat on the cover of the NME:

Noel Gallagher is taking the year off.

Here’s a note to the A&R people: Does your label need a Sigur Ros, Mum, Album Leaf, Godspeed You Black Emperor!-type band? Or do you need another one? Well we found you one: Dirty on Purpose. You might consider re-naming them Dop and telling everyone they’re based in Iceland instead [...]

We took out our Justin Timberlake Justified album long enough to tell you that Whirlwind Heat’s album, Do Rabbits Wonder? in stores today.
For the unfamiliar — Whirlwind Heat are… noise punk funk? They’ve re-named all the songs on their album as colors… so “Decal: Sticker” (also known as “Decal On My Sticker”) is now [...]

HAWT! Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen get CosmoGIRL!ed.

When we saw Hot Hot Heat last week, we were totally freaked out by the opening band, The Sun, for one particular reason. Their drummer is the spitting image of Lester Bangs. Jesus!