The Modern Age

Bronques and Cobrasnake, originally uploaded by Rocco Kasby.
I guess it’s true what they say…”birds of a feather…see rock shows together.” Check out this photo taken by Rocco Kasby of Merlin “Last Night’s Party” Bronques and Mark “Cobrasnake” Hunter. A friend of mine called this picture a sign of the apocalypse.
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According to reports in Star magazine, Karen Elson’s representative has confirmed the rumors about her pregnancy. She and husband Jack White are expecting their baby in the spring of 2006. Congrats to the happy couple. Thanks to the anonymous tip.

Ryan Adams really does wants to know “how much is that doggie in the window?”

I don’t really keep up with stuff like this, but just happened upon this picture of The Shins’s Marty Crandall and America’s Next Top Model alum, Elyse Sewell, who is currently documenting her travels in Asia as a model on her blog.
Guess this report that Elyse dumped Marty because Marty had cheated on her [...]

TV star Mischa Barton (aka, the skinny chick on The OC) is the “beautifully tormented” girl in James “Farinelli” Blunt’s new music video for “Goodbye My Lover” directed by Sam Brown. The results are as unremarkable as the high pitched song itself. James Blunt is the only man capable of making Chris Martin and Starsailor’s [...]

The Strokes talk to The Guardian about their return to the music world and their new album. Here are some quotes:
“It was a depth initiated, he [Moretti] says, by a new maturity in Casablancas’s songwriting. ‘Not to dog anything, those two last records they’re like ex-girlfriends who you gotta respect and love because they got [...]

Seems as though Jenny Lewis’s new solo album with the Watson twins has sprung a leak on the internet.
DOWNLOAD: Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis
More on Jenny’s solo album here.

Could Avril Lavigne’s new status as a Ford model be the reason why she’s been dressing like an old woman of late? Er…
UPDATE: More photos of Avril. These are from a Cosmo shoot.

Win a video iPod with case designed by Ultragrrrl by coming up with the best playlist, courtesy of SPIN.com. I don’t knwo who’s judging the playlists, but if it’s Sarah, PUT MUSE AND PLACEBO ON IT!

REUTERS CAPTION: Lead singer Chris Martin of Coldplay poses during a trade justice campaign by Oxfam in a hotel in central Madrid November 22, 2005. Coldplay and several Spanish musicians support Oxfam’s campaign to demand Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to take action on unjust trade rules, which condemn millions of people to [...]