NME.com dishes on the new Coldplay and Yeah Yeah Yeahs albums.

Also, read about why The Futureheads love Kate Bush and her “Hounds of Love.”

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This one’s for you, Brooklyn Vegan: Some lovely “Go Vegan Or Die!” t-shirts from HERBIVORE. May we suggest another slogan for y’all: “Kill a Meat Eater, Save a Cow” or “Bite a Carnivore, See How He Likes It.”

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Now are our eyes betraying us, or is Interpol’s indie-goth Carlos D. on the cover of URB? That’s right, the same magazine that recently put Kanye West, the Beastie Boys, and The Roots on covers of their magazines have now put the most hip-hoppingest of DJs on the front page (who just took the ones and twos at MisShapes this weekend).Are we the only ones who find this a little bit odd?

Read what fans have to say about the magazine on the official Interpol Web site.

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More on the Kaiser Chiefs performance at the Tribeca Grand (January 15, 2005) later.

For those curious, the setlist was exactly the same as the gig they did in LA:

Na Na Na Na Naa/ Everyday I Love You Less and Less/ Hard Times Send Me/ I Predict a Riot/ Modern Way/ Oh My God/ Saturday Night/ Time Honoured Tradition

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The Killers strike a pose for the February 2005 “Next Big Thing” issue of Spin. Brandon looks like a cross between Morrissey and Pee Wee Herman. We miss his longer hair.

In more Killer news, they will be appearing on SNL this weekend (with Topher Grace as host) and TRL on Tuesday, January 18th.

If you notice, The Killers are an extremely pale band. That made us recall all the other covers of Spin magazine over the last few years. Does Spin have a vendetta against tan people? The White Stripes, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Moz, Eminem, Greenday, Franz Ferdiand…they’ve all appeared on the cover of the mag, and they’re all as pale as f-ck. Could Spin be the most white-washed (literally) music magazine in America? Is Vibe given the only allotment of color for covers in the house of Vibe/Spin Ventures?

Please guys, let’s get some self-tanner going on over there. You’re eerily starting to look like a monthly digest of NME.

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If Franz Ferdinand are the current Big Thing and Bloc Party are the Next Big Thing, then the Kaiser Chiefs are the Next Next Big Thing, and they’re hitting New York this Saturday at the Tribeca Grand downstairs at 10pm. You can get in free with an invite from Flavorpill.

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What’s a drag queen doing on the cover of Allure? Oh wait–that’s just Ashlee Simpson looking hideous. You would think that her plentiful experience with being filmed and photographed would have clued her into the fact that she looks horrible in head-on shots…or shots where she’s not covering up half her face. Ugh! Big thumbs down.

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Ok, so it’s no “Throw the Jew Down the Well,” but the Ali G. character Borat is at it again–this time mangling the Star Spangled Banner during a rodeo and almost producing a riot.

Also, where can we pick up a copy of the new Vice? (NOT the Design issue.) The usual spot we pick it up at didn’t have any…probably b/c we waited to late. If you know of any place on the east side that still has ‘em, let us know. Thanks.

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We realize some of you may have been wondering what the hell we’ve been doing since we haven’t been updating the site. Well this weekend we made a renegade trip to Washington, D.C. in which we spent more time traveling than we did actually being awake in D.C. We saw Bethesda, Georgetown, and College Park in the dark.

In music news, we just spent the last 24 hours listening to Tori Amos over and over and over. Yeah, we can’t believe it either.

Best thing we’ve heard all week is the first track off the new self-titled Sights album. You may remember The Sights from such things as…being from Detroit. We’ve seen them maybe 3 or 4 times before and The Sights really are a great live rock ‘n’ roll band. But anyway, the new song is called “I’m Gonna Live the Life I Sing about In My Songs” and it f-cking rocks!

Today we also checked out the Kings of Leon video, “The Bucket”, which is the first single off their new album Aha Shake Heartbreak [128 ram | 128 mp4.mov | 128 asx]. (The album drops Feb 22.) Patrick Daughters directed the vid. Can anyone tell us when KoL decided to sound like The Strokes meets Aerosmith? Holy crap! So much like The Strokes they even went to the trouble of re-creating the video for “Reptilia.” Lord knows why, because that video was pretty awful. Hopefully the rest of the album lays off The Strokes and brings back the patented backwater hick sound the KoL are so good at.

Ok, we just watched the “Reptilia” video again. It really isn’t that bad.

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