The Modern Age

Remember how we kept hearing about this book of photos of The Strokes’ Nick Valensi that Amanda was going to publish…but to the best of my knowledge it never came out? Well apparently someone is actually threatening to come out with a book of Amanda DeCadenet pictures, and the title is Rare Birds. Judging from [...]

Do you believe in magic? Well how about Spinal Tap? According to an interview Noel Gallagher gave to the Observer, brother Liam once thought that Spinal Tap was a real band. The hilarious story follows below:
DW: Ricky Gervais told me there’s a story that Liam thinks Spinal Tap are a real band. Is that true?
NG: [...]

Helping out your fellow hack is a good thing…
***Just added: Murray Hill and the World Famous *BOB* to host, Crossover
to perform special late night set!!***
Jason Loewenstein (of Sebadoh), Northern State, Supagroup, and DJs
Eugene Hutz (of Gogol Bordello), Fancy (of Fannypack), and Tommie
Sunshine to perform at Village Voice Union Strike Fund Benefit!
Village Voice Strike Fund Benefit
Wednesday, [...]

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Er, weird how I didn’t get one email from the White Stripes official mailing list or the ticketing agent about the White Stripes pre-sale that started about 10 minutes ago for their Keyspan Park show in September. The regular sale is this Saturday at 9am. Tickets are general admission field or general [...]

Some weird/funny/interesting links for y’all:
More clips and photos from the White Stripes Fader cover story.
Ben Brantley wets his pants writing about Billy Elliot: The Musical, now on the West End in London.
Chris Martin brings his tour of psychotic looking faces to Germany and talks about Usher being his gay lover.
Adopting a poor Chinese baby is [...]

I’m really am not sure how these rumors get started in the first place, but the frequently wrong Contact Music has decided to report that Lindsay Lohan is secretly dating the King of Softball Throws himself, Diego Garcia of Elefant. Forget the whole eating disorder nonsense, does Lindsay have a serious Latino addiction? Has Diego [...]

I’ve been so busy seeing Show Business at Rock Center and Batman and talking about Cilian Murphy all weekend that I haven’t been checking up on the White Stripes official site. (There are so many hours in the day!) But luckily other Web geeks have managed to devote some time to ‘net research this weekend [...]

Check out these photos of “Hilary Duff and friend” trotting around Manhattan yesterday. But take another look–that “friend” is my friend Mr. Greg K, who you may know as being one of the fierce MisShapes DJs or as a fixture on the New York socialite scene. Hilarious! Link from Audrey.
In other entertainment news, I saw [...]

A lot of times I get so busy with work, eating, and going out I don’t have time to report on all the things that I do. Here’s some of the stuff you’ve been missing because I haven’t had time to put up the pictures.

On June 2, I got to see The Redwalls perform to [...]

My spies reported that last night Tim Wheeler was eating pizza with some friends at the Magician–which is right next to La Caverna, the spot of last night’s Interpol after party. I know a while back I wrote that I had a story about Tim Wheeler from Dublin, but I never wrote about it. (Nor [...]