from le NME:
The Hives recording new album
Yeah Yeah Yeahs video for pin. Shit is off da hook. Karen O + claymation + pins = creepy
Dexy's Midnight Runners to reform for UK tour
Dave Grohl : Probot :: Santana : Supernatural ?

Will Ferrell's Class Day Speech For Harvard Class Of 2003
from Stereogum

The Rapture in Montreal
!!! in London
from thewicked

"Me and Giuliani" review
I'm so sick of all of this English press refering to the "punk-funk" movement. What a terrible, terrible name. Punk-funk. Pitchfork is much better, calling it "dance-punk." Much better. Doesn't have to be funk.

If yer in NYC be ahead of tha game and check out Surefire at Don Hill's tonite.

Oh, I have another analogy.
Ozma : Weezer :: Robbers on High Street : Spoon.
IT'S SO TRUE! ROHS sound SO much like Spoon, just like Ozma sounds SO much like Weezer. But I'm really digging ROHS. Check out some of their free downloads, good stuff.

Kraftwerk to Release First New Album in 17 Years
Gossip review on Pfork. I think I'm going to catch them in early July...
...before I SEE SPOON THIS SATURDAY. YES.

and finally, the first remotely interesting thing I've found on Gawker:
Josh Hartnett spotted at gay bar with... Mr. A. Hammand Jr.?

Listening: my new mix CD, IE Le Tigre's "Deceptacon" OVER AND OVER AND OVER