The Modern Age

The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. spends his spare time writing music and appearing in his girlfriend’s music video. In the new Pierce sisters video Albert spins his main squeeze Catherine around and then smootches her. Move over Enrique Iglesias!
Link and screen cap stolen from the ever obsessive Strokes LiveJournal.

We just wanted to say that we’ve been totally freaked out by the murder of Nicole duFresne near the corner of Clinton and Rivington on Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Especially because we were at that intersection a mere hour or two before the incident occured. It’s totally not awesome. Please everyone, be safe out there!

Even super-partying supermodel Kate Moss. Reports MSN Gossip: “They said it wouldn’t last … and they were right. Kate Moss, 31, and musician Pete Doherty, 25, are kaput after less than two weeks of togetherness. The London Sun reports the supermodel dumped the former Libertines frontman by text message. “He’s just too wild,” Moss was […]

Riding on the F train down from Midtown (where we had just seen the new Woody Allen movie), we watched the clock carefully. We were supposed to be at the Lansing-Dreiden/Diamond Nights Delancey show at 9pm, which was only 25 minutes away. We were looking through the windows of the subway doors around the 20s […]

Drew Barrymore recently spotted checking out wedding gowns with a friend. She must be getting married to long-time boyfrined Fabrizio Moretti! Our spies also told us they saw her checking out bags of white rice at the supermarket, so it must be totally true.
UPDATE: A Gawker-savvy reader reports that the unidentified friend that Drew was […]

Check out the new video for “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House” on the new LCD Soundsystem Web site.
The song is perfectly dancable, but shouldn’t we be pissed off that video director Chris Cairns’s “homage” to Michel Gondry’s “Around the World” video for Daft Punk borders on non-ironic imitation?
Also view the new Internet-only video […]

Ok, you didn’t need the New York Times to tell you that Friendster has gone into a Rip Van Winkle-like slumber. But it’s still fun to read. Knowledge is power.

The Golden Fiddle gives a run down of what The Strokes have been up to for the last few weeks, reporting on the progress of their new album, the closing of their Fan Club, and the dumping of Gordon Raphael for a “mildly-super producer.”

Sarah Flynn of SpinART Records and Impose Magazine has been in the hospital since November with Wegener’s Granulomatosis. On January 25, there will be a benefit show at Rothko for Sarah.
Tuesday, January 25
A Special Benefit Show For Sarah Flynn Of spinART Records:
Ted Leo 11:30 PM
Benzos 10:30 PM
The Head Set 9:30 PM
Apollo Sunshine 8:30 PM
Chinese Stars […]

The Sights rocked the snowballs off of Bowery Ballroom last night. The Detroit rockers had lots of energy and mid-way through their set the ground floor turned into something like American Bandstand, with about 10-20 people dancing (some with partners!) along to the music. Awesome! Our favorite song of the night was “Scratch My Name […]