JAYHAWKS OLSON AND LOURIS REUNITE IN AMES, IOWA: Why did I have to read this from Reuters!? Next time I come through town, heads will roll!KINGS OF LEON: PC people (i.e., non-Mac…

KINGS OF LEON get a rave review for their new disc from Rolling Stone.ROBERT POLLARD is auctioning stuff from his personal collection o­n eBay.CAT STEVENS: The singer turned Muslim activist Yusuf Islam,…

NEIL YOUNG: The Thrasher's Wheat blog has started an online petition to have Young's 1973 album Time Fades Away released o­n CD. Young can be a stubborn guy, but On the Beach…

CLAUDE PATE AND THE GRAMMYS: ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION!One of the areas where the Grammys did well this year was in its awarding of Lifetime Achievement Awards. Among the honorees were Janis…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:FRIDAY TIME-WASTER: Band to Band interactively charts the degrees of separation between bands.RYAN, BRYAN AND ROBBIE: Ryan Adams recently had someone booted from his Nashville gig for requesting “Summer…

JOE STRUMMER has a locomotive named in his honor.PETE DOHERTY UPDATE: He's trying to rehab, so the Babyshambles have pulled out of their NME awards gig.GLENN REYNOLDS (the Instapundit) takes a well-deserved…

WILCO is the future of music, according to an article in Wired by Larry Lessig. That's not a musical opinion, however; rather, Lessig is talking about the band's use of the internet…

DAVE GROHL is going to be everywhere, releasing a Foo Fighters double-disc (half acoustic, half electric) and playing o­n forthcoming discs from Garbage and Nine Inch Nails.LUCINDA WILLIAMS, who guests o­n o­ne…

THE ANSWERS to Friday's Movie Game can be found here.NIPPLEGATE: Mickey Kaus of Slate (and formerly The New Republic argues that it wasn't the nipple that was the problem.ARCADE FIRE UPDATE: Having…

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: YOUR FRIDAY TIME-WASTER: The Movie Game! Fans of Fark’s Photoshop Fridays should be doubly amused. Do I have the answers? Yes; I’ll link to them… Monday. Heh heh…