AbsolutePunk is reporting that Taking Back Sunday have found a replacement for Fred in a dude named Matt Fazzi. The color Fazzi is from a band called Facing New York. They’ve also posted artwork for Weezer’s new album HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA. (SEE ABOVE)

Check out Cobra Starship’s video for Guilty Pleasure.

A couple weeks ago I went to some NYLON party with Brad Walsh and Christian Siriano. It got really crowded so we left and on our way out we ran into Brad’s friend (and my new pal) Melissa Beck. Melissa insisted we wait for her husband to pick us up to drive two blocks cause he was driving a Benz. It was pretty amazing. Her husband is Justin Beck from Glassjaw, but I know him as Justin from MerchDirect. We went to the Maritime Hotel and I had some champagne and he drank soda and we gossiped about the music industry and false ideas. It was one of the most refreshing conversations I’ve had in a long time. It was pretty much exactly like this.

My Bloody Valentine are going on tour! They’re hitting NYC (twice), Toronto, Chicago, SF, and LA (twice). Thank God.

But even better news for me is that Sigur Ros are going on tour and hitting NYC!!!! Once I had this crazy surgery to remove a growth from my jaw and was under a lot of meds and took Vikes and drank white wine while at a Sigur Ros show with my friend Gideon and we kept on going “We feel like pillows!!!!!” It was awesome.

More tickets for All Tomorrow’s Parties are now on sale. I hate to say this, but the line-up, while great, is more like All Yesterday’s Partiees.

Jinners has the South Street Sea Port line up posted on her blog. Wire will be a fun one!

Apparently The Police will play their last ever show in a benefit to raise money for planting trees. Or so one would like to believe… it appears as if Police’s frontman, Sting, has been really bad about benefiting the charities he is supposed to help.

Perez has a new Kylie remix up.

Surface to Air and French electro geniuses Justice, are pairing up to bring you pairs of jeans and leather jackets to ensure you too can look like a French douchebag. Just kidding, the frenchies are hot.

Pete and Ashlee are engaged. That’s one lucky man.

Holy Crap! Rivers Cuomo is writing a song with fans using youtube of all things. [via AbsolutePunk.net]

Pitchfork.tv has some pretty exquisite performance by Radiohead of “Bangers & Mash” which features Thom Yorke on drums. God i love them.

Hey Lawrence, Peter Murphy is going on tour! Go see him now!

YouAintNoPicasso has an M.Ward cover of Bowie’s “Let’s Dance.”

The BatteringRoom has an interview with Superdrag!

TheModernAge has a Kylie Minogue contest going on … and it’s worth going to the site just to see the fierce photo of KM.