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Crystal Castles is going on tour, and playing a free show at Studio B! I’ve already seen them twice, and trust me its a show you don’t want to miss

Scarlett Johansson has an AOL Session video of her new song “Falling Down”. Its…uh…kind of painful. on Dlisted

 Aaand we’re back on drugs. Check out Pete and Amy’s cracked out YouTube vids. Baby mice? I don’t even want to know. At least Pete makes a joke about Johnny Borrell and Amy uses a mouse to beg Blake not to divorce her.

FINALLY. A reality show for the rest of us hot trannys. RuPaul is on a search for Americas Next Top Drag Queen

The Raconteurs and Bon Iver have some awesome videos from their acoustic performance on Live with Jools Holland.

Are you a Morrissey fanatic and know that his birthday is coming up? Just can deal with the fact that you won’t be hearing another live show for awhile? Well, tribute band Sons and Heirs are playing May 22nd at Union Hall in celebration of Moz’s 49th bday. Music Slut has the deets. 

Metallica has a new album coming out! Yay! or not yay if you don’t like Metallica. Spin.com has da exclusive scoop.

I can’t fucking believe that I forgot to post Andrew Borin’s fucking incredible Dolly Parton review. He’s so funny, that I think he will have his own column in the coming weeks on this blog. If you know what’s good for you, you’ll continue reading for his review AND a video from the night! WARNING: he wrote this while drunk. I didn’t ask him to re-edit it because then you’ll get to feel as fucked up as he was:

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If you missed American Idol last night, you missed (and this is putting it mildly) one hell of a performance from former Idol contestant Fantasia Barrino. Too bad hers is the most exciting performance of the season thus far. Gawker has the vid.

Conor Oberst is realeasing a solo album, out on August 4th. I’m glad he’s branching out, it’ll be interesting to see how he fares now that he’s escaped from under the shadow of….all those other influential people in Bright Eyes.

Oh la la. Looks like Lily Allen has been doing some all over tanning work in the south of France. And I mean all over.

So…a “fat girl” finally wins America’s Next Top Model. Only Dlisted doesn’t think the fight was quite fair. Rumor has it that winner Whitney didn’t start out as the curvaceous babe she purports herself to be.

The latest installment of the addictive 3 1/3 Series that features in depth analysis of seminal albums in mini-book form is out with their latest installment (#56), Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality. Author John Darnielle will be doing a reading at Housingworks Used Book Cafe on Saturday at 7pm. Get out your devil horns.

We all remember the times we laid on the floor of our bedrooms and stare at album covers all day long, but did you ever wonder what was going on outside the frame? Well, this guy did and came up with some pretty hilarious ideas.

Hot Chip are going on tour….again! I would say that I’m getting tired of them…but their just too damn catchy. They are coming to NYC in October to Terminal 5 (best venue ever!….NOT). You can get more info on Spin.com

Erykah Badu is a live wire of epic proportions and the Roots are the best major chilled out Hip Hop group-featuring-a-live-band. Almack contributor KJI went to Radio City to check out the scene while we were getting our eyeliner-cryface on at the My Chem/TBS show:

The collective successes of Erykah Badu and the Roots are nothing short of a cultural phenomenon – cultivated by the dramatic opening of the Hip-Hop mind over the past decade or so. The living legends’ abilities to seamlessly weave Hip-Hop with live instruments, singing, and constant reinvention made them a divine pairing from the start. Couple that with a long-lasting mutual kinship, and the Vortex Tour was born.

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(While Ultragrrrl is out conquering the universe, we’ll be having some guest reviews, like the following awesomeness from Andrew Borin)

Has anyone ever been to Trailer Park Lounge on 23rd St? Seriously, a pitcher of margaritas is $42 bones and I nearly let out a gay squeal in shock and awe, that is until the bartender told me the pitcher was for 8 people. So that would explain the rest of the events for the night.

After my margs I headed over to Yelle with my friend Katie. Thank Yahweh I found Glen and his friend Daniel in line because the line for ticket HOLDERS was two blocks long. Besides the drinks being overpriced at Highline, I really do enjoy the actual space. Even with that many people waiting outside, the show never seemed that crowded.

Heartsrevolution opened for Yelle; I had seen them open for Crystal Castles at SXSW and was even more impressed this time around. They have a very electronic DIY feel but their lead singer LO has an aggressive stage presence that really ties the group together. Although absent this time around was the Perez Hilton looking girl who was with them at SXSW, not sure what happened to her. Anywho, I really enjoyed their set even though it could have been longer.

For those of you who may not be familiar with Yelle, she’s a singer who hails from France and like Lily Allen gained notoriety via myspace. In America we regard her as a cool electro import but as my nieces and nephews in France would tell you, no one over 14 listens to her, she’s “too cheesy” (ugh youth). She gained notoriety for her song “Short Dick Cuizi” later to be retitled “Je Veux te Voir” which incidentally uses the bass line from 20 Fingers’ “Short Dick Man.” Ok so let’s just stop and gay check: Electro + Bass line from “Short Dick Man” + French chick singer = yeah we’re hitting gay gold here. Read more »

Hello! While your regular editor Ultragrrrl is off galavanting in foreign lands, I Samantha Moore will be bringing you the juiciest tidbits from around the interwebz for the next week. get excited.

Death Cab For Cutie’s new album Narrow Stairs is out. And it’s kind of amazing. Brooklyn Vegan has their performance on David Letterman and a link to Spinner.com where you can stream the album for free! And after you are done shitting your pants, you can find them coming to a town near you

Music legend (and my roommate’s secret fantasy obsession) Leonard Cohen just played his first gig in 15 years at his Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction. And now he is going on tour! Happy days. Vids of the induction and tour details on Stereogum

Everyone’s favorite Kiwi duo Flight of the Conchords just released a new video, “Ladies of the World” about their mad wooing skills.

Thanks to Brianna at NuRaveBrainWave you can check out the radio rip of (totz awesum) new single “Tired of England” from Dirty Pretty Things’ upcoming album “Romance at Short Notice”. Come on, give Carl some love. Pete gets all the attention these days!

Leigh “Princess Coldstare” Lezark aka one-third of the famous DJ trio the Misshapes has just signed to IMG Models. Is there anything this girl isn’t good at? Miss Modernage has the scoop.

Jimmy Eat World is hitting the road on a US tour . Meet me there and we can relive middle/high school (depending on your age) by screaming our lungs out to “The Middle”

Did you (like me) have an unhealthy obsession with the Babysitters Club books as a child? If you did, go read What Claudia Wore and prepare to pee your pants. Was Claudia Kishi a 2008 hipster transported back to the 80s? this girl thinks so.

Not many people see the world with the same amount of blissed out joy as Jessica Parker. Reading this review of Monday’s Tegan & Sara show at Terminal 5 makes me wish I was getting lost with her on the subway and then holding her hand during “Living Room.” Click More for her review and photos!

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The new The Cure single “The Only One” can be streamed on their official website.

Sigur Ros have placed ‘E-bow’ from the Djúpavík concert on July 27th, 2006 for free download.

Bedouin Soundclash are going on tour! In case you haven’t heard the song “12:59 Lullaby,” go to their myspace page now and give it a listen. It’ll sooooo be worth it.

Jinners gave me more good news in the form of touring today! It looks like Pela are going back out on the road! Yay! Yay! Yay!

Lindsayism has the funniest encounter with hipster cops in Williamsburg. Where else?

NOFX are going on a small tour, as reported by ProductshopNYC.

Pick up limited edition Oasis Bearbricks for only $60. Or maybe save that money for a rainy day.

Asobi Seksu - Strawberries OLI
The Beatles - Rock Milestones The Beatles - The Red Album, Classic Rock Legends
Bjork - Volta, OLI
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs, Atlantic
Dokken - Lightning Strikes Again, Rhino
Duffy - Rockferry, Mercury
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan/The Times They Are A-Changin’
Filter - Anthems for the Damned, Pulse Recordings
Flo Rida - Elevator, Atlantic
Foxy Brown - Brooklyn’s Don Diva, Koch Records
Frank Sinatra - Nothing But the Best, FSA
Jools Holland - Best of Friends, Rhino
Joy Division - Maximum Joy Division, USoD
Local H - 12 Angry Months, Shout! Factory
Missy Elliott - Ching-a-ling, Atlantic
Myriad - With Arrows, With Poise, Koch Records
Old 97’s - Blame it On Gravity, New West
Paramore Tribute - Paramore Piano Tribute, CC Entertainment
Teitur - The Singer, Sidecho
The Fashion - The Fashion, Epic/RED Ink
The Presets - Apocalypso, Modular Records
We Are Scientists - Brain Thurst Mastery, Caroline

The Oohlas did an amazing cover of Bauhaus’ “All I Ever Wanted Was Everything” that is available on their MySpace. I can’t stop listening to it!

And Rhianna did a cover of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” that can be found on YouTube. I only wish she changed the song up a bit.

Stereogum has a video of the Futureheads doing “Radio Heart” from the back of a black cab.

OMFG NEW NKOTB VIDEO here.

Everyone is covering the fact that David Archuleta’s father isn’t allowed backstage at American Idol anymore, so we are too.

BrooklynVegan covered this weekend’s El-P, Aesop Rock & Dizzee Rascal show at Webster Hall.

TheModernAge went to see Adam Green live in concert and made it home in time for bed.

I still hate Metallica, but just cos of their music.

The Five O’Clock Heroes has their new video for the song “Who” featuring Agyness Dyen on their MySpace page.

I’ve been dying to see Neil Diamond play for like 6 years now. I don’t know when I became a fan of his music, but it happened and it happened strong. He’s got about 16 albums out, and so it can be somewhat cumbersome to comb through those albums for the best stuff. I put out book called The Pocket DJ which has the best of his songs in there. Or you could download the iTunes Essentials. They’re pretty fucking amazing songs and I cry every time I hear “Red Red Wine.” I like to refer to him as the Jewish Elvis.
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Samantha Moore went to see Clinic on Thursday and wrote a review:

I had never heard Clinic’s music up until last night. I had heard of them many times, in magazines, on blogs, on the street. But I had never heard a clear definition of their sound. Some people (ahem, ohmyrockness) says they sound like a “post-OK Computer Radiohead”. This means almost nothing to me mostly because Kid A and Hail to the Thief are not records I listen to very often (please don’t shoot me). Others (ahem Pitchfork) calls them “recombinant rock”….uh….okay. So I really didn’t know what to expect when I turned up at Music Hall (by myself because all of my friends are in the midst of finals….something I somehow miraculously avoided).
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Are things still monumental when you’re expecting them to happen? For instance, back in 2002 when I was seeing My Chemical Romance at small clubs with like 10 people, I always knew they would eventually be playing Madison Square Garden. I really had no doubt in my mind about it. So when they played last night, headlining a sold out show at MSG, was I surprised? No. Was I proud? You bet.

I was also beaming with pride while watching my very dear friend Matt Rubano on stage playing bass in his band Taking Back Sunday. Like a series of synchronized explosives on stage, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them play a better sounding and more energetic show. You could tell, that with out a doubt, the band was proud to be there. Fuck, they’d be ridiculous not to be.

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Photos Courtesy of: Natasha Miami and Christine Paolino

Christine Paolino is fucking hilarious and we love when she reviews shows for us cos it makes us lol. She went to see Panic! at the Disco. Check out her review:
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There’s a few things I never thought I’d ever see in my entire life, and that’s Britney Spears holding a copy of Radiohead’s In Rainbows.

World of Warcraft invite you to participate in the Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain Music Video Contest brought to you by Comcast. Simply create a music video using footage from World of Warcraft and the original song, “Rogues Do it From Behind” and submit it to us, via our submission page.

JessicaxMaria has photos from lastnight’s Honda Civic show at Roseland. Adorable!

Jiscilla has fantastic photos from Bamboozle. Between Jiscilla and Jessica, I think I’ve experience cute/pretty girl overload.

New Bayside webisode is up on Absolutepunk.net.

Remixes for MGMT’s “Time To Pretend” are on BrooklynVegan.

BrooklynVegan has photos of last night’s High Places show at Bowery Ballroom.

ELLE OH ELLE at Liam Gallagher’s new hair.

Sadly, a 13-year-old girl hanged herself , but since she was a fan of MCR, it’s assumed they were the cause.