>>NEW ANDREW WK ALBUM SEPTEMBER 8TH IN THE UK NEW ANDREW WK ALBUM SEPTEMBER 8TH IN THE UK NEW ANDREW WK ALBUM SEPTEMBER 8TH IN THE UK NEW ANDREW WK ALBUM SEPTEMBER 8TH IN THE UK NEW ANDREW WK ALBUM SEPTEMBER 8TH IN THE UK NEW ANDREW WK ALBUM SEPTEMBER 8TH IN THE UK . (I specify UK because the article doesn't mention a US release date, and his last album came out in the UK first. Oh, and it's not called Blow Your Bone anymore either...)

>>British Museum headed for calmer waters. Wish I'd learned some of this stuff about the Museum while I was studying literally next door to it...

>>R.E.M. are taking song requests, date by date, for their world tour. They are officially The Coolest Band In The World. Via Prolific (who's seeing the first show tonight and I am so. goddamn. jealous.) They redesigned their website, too, and it looks spiff...

>>Can I just go on record as saying that "Velvet Revolver" is one of the most ridiculously shitty band names in history? I liked "The Project" better, honestly. Anyway, that's the new everyone-from-Guns 'N' Roses-except-Axl / Scott Weiland band, and Scott and Slash are chatting to Rolling Stone. Highlight:

RS: When you're singing Gn'R songs in rehearsal, if you are, do you have to make sure you don't fall into the way Axl Rose does things?

Weiland: You mean that I don't fall into the wig that he wears?

>>New Elvis Costello album of piano-based songs due September 23rd. Give me eleven "Almost Blue"s and I'll be ecstatic.

>>This Radiohead Hail To The Thief Winamp skin is craaaaay-zaaaay. I just can't give up my Depeche Mode Violator skin, though... (Scroll down, it's "Violator Skin #3")

>>Pandas in Memphis. Good article.

>>Top 10 Pictures Of Thom Yorke Looking Pretentious. Via (sigh) Kottke (I'm so lame).

>>Despite what people think, I've never been the kind of person who burnt candles and summoned in the dark forces and that kind of shit. God, Nick Cave gives great interviews. And we share a love of penguins!

>>Spike Lee is winning the battle against Spike TV so far. Aaaaawesome.

>>The good news is, ClearChannel has been hurt by the FCC's regulatory changes. The bad news is, consolidation's getting worse in newspapers and TV, and what's bad for ClearChannel is turning out to be bad for whoever's competing, too...

>>Dave Gahan says he'll quit Depeche Mode if Maaaaaartin doesn't let him write some songs. Sigh. I've only heard three Paper Monsters tracks ("Bottle Living," which sucks, "Dirty Sticky Floors," which is OK, and "Black & Blue Again," which is quite good), but as much as I love the man, I'm not sure I can back him up on this one...