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THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR

During our freshman year of NYU we went to the “Mystery Concert” at Irving Plaza. Our mystery guest was Moby. Last year the mystery guest was Phantom Planet. Now we’ve heard rumors about who the mystery guest is this year, and if they are true, holy crap, we want to get in on that. So two requests: 1. Who is the mystery guest? 2. Can you get us in? The distribution of the FREE tickets (to NYU students) started yesterday at Ticket Central, so all NYUers, get your tickets. After all, if we can’t go, someone should.

HILARIOUS SEARCH ENGINE REFERRAL OF THE DAY

30 Aug, Mon, 17:59:06 Yahoo: SPIKE JONZE AND KAREN O HAVING MODERN ROMANCE. Thank you.

WE JUST WET OUR PANTS!

The White Stripes covered one of our favorite Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs, “Maps,” at Reading. We. Are. Hyperventilating. Bootleg, anyone?

GOOD STUFF FOR YOU

Read about Dave Itzkoff’s new book, Lads: A Memoir of Manhood. Sounds so awesome.

Say it ain’t so… Kylie to drop the pop in favor of smooooth jazz? Link from Beat Royalty.

The Prettiest Man on Earth, aka Paul Banks, is on the cover of the new issue of Filter. Oh and the other guys in Interpol are on it to or something…

THE GREAT MS. KATE

The remarkably beautiful Ms. Kate Winslett in the New York Times‘ new “T: Style Magazine.”

Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters talks about how to keep your pants up.

The Observer examines the success of The Streets’ phenomenal single, “Dry Your Eyes.”

MUSIC OF THE MOMENT: Duncan Sheik, s/t; The Libertines, s/t; Liz Phair, s/t; Avril Lavigne, “My Happy Ending”; Sondre Lerche, Faces Down; Ashlee Simpson, “Pieces of Me”; David Gray, White Ladder; Ryan Adams, Love Is Hell: Part 1; The Streets, A Grand Don’t Come for Free

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

This link is for one of our favorite sites at the moment, Curbed.com. The New York Times has done a piece on the “hipification” of the Union Square area. We just wonder what that Whole Foods store is going to do to the sales of the natural foods store on University Place.

Speaking of “hipification,” we went to the swanky Inouk record release party sponsored by Paper at the lounge Hiro, located in the Maritime Hotel last Wednesday. And as luck would have it, we ran into the male contingent of the stellastarr* while taking the L train to the party. And although we’re really not keen on doing shout-outs, we just have to take this opportunity to say that we think the band members of stellastarr* are some of the nicest musicians out there. (After all, they saved our karaoke birthday party!)

But back on the Inouk party…Industry people swarmed the area near the bar where they were handing out gorgeous pink-canned Sofia Minis with little bendy straws. Oh they were so so cute! And yes, the “sparkling white wine” is named after Sofia Coppola from the Coppola vineyards. It’s kinda weird how it says “Francis Coppola Presents” on all the cans, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

The Inouk CD played during the cocktail hour, and from what we heard, it was pretty good. (We’ll listen to the cd properly later on and let you know.)

Oh! Speaking of stellastarr*, Shawn appears alongside fellow New York rocker Nick Zinner in an article on arty musicians in the new issue of Black Book.

UNRELATED LINK: Article from New York about sufferers of the quick draw.

THIS IS PATHETIC


But we really really want the new Avril Lavigne CD, Under My Skin. Can anyone out there send us a copy? Arista? We’re serious about this. We’ve been singing that stupid song “My Happy Ending” ALL WEEKEND LONG. We’re even getting the Ashlee Simpson CD to curb our Avril craving. Help!

UNRELATED LINKS: We just found a CD review we wrote about Iggy Pop’s Skull Ring. Check it. Also, what’s up with all this Olympic bullshit? People getting shoved out of marathons. That’s just wrong.

ATTENTION GROUPIES: CONTACT THE MOTHERSHIP


“Pamela Des Barres is looking for a few wondrous groupie girls for her new book, “She’s With the Band…”. Please email her if interested.”

WORST BUSINESS PRACTICES


Advertising and networking intertwine with the unveiling of The Apprentice Friendster profiles. This is the stupidest piece of bullshit we’ve ever seen.

In other atrocities…

Paris Hilton has filed to trademark her name. And guess what? She has a logo. Link from Josh.

Also in Paris news, brown-eyed girl revealed. Childhood pictures of Paris (with sister Nicky) clearly show Ms. Hilton was a mousy brown until she got all platinum and color contacted up.

Britney Spears sports “Harvard” sweatshirt. Hilarious.

This new movie with the less than exciting cast of Charlize, Penelope Cruz, and Stuart “Who the hell knows who I am besides Anglophiles?” Townsend looks awful (think The Dreamers)…but awful in underwear. Hmm…

Fab reaches out and hits someone…

UNRELATED AWESOME-NESS: Sondre Lerche on Late Night with Conan O’Brien will re-air the night of August 30.