Weezer cover Radiohead’s Creep, live in Portland from Dave Allen on Vimeo.

I stole the above video from my new favorite blog: Hipster Runoff.

A bunch of bands posted new songs on their myspace:
The Verve - “Love is Noise”
The Bronx - “Knifeman”
Lily Allen - “Guess Who Batman?”

The winners of Radiohead’s animation contest are up on their myspace.

Jinners has a wrap up of last weekend’s After the Jump Festival.

Police’s classic album (it’s classic cos people say so, but I was never a big Police fan tbh) Synchronicity is for sale on Amazon.com for $1.99.

I guess Cute is What We Aim for decided to aim for a cheaper designer when they did their new album cover. Revolt-Media.com has the comparisons for you. Whoops!

I’m starting to believe that Heidi Montag is in on the joke. You know? Like, maybe she’s super funny and clever and is coming up with all these insane ideas of things to do to be over the top ridiculous. I mean, there’s no other way to explain her new song “Fashion”.

BrooklynVegan.com has some jealous-worthy images of last night’s free Coldplay gig at MSG, and last weekend’s Cure show setlist.

Buzzgrinder has images of Alkaline Trio’s new shoe designs for Nike. They’re very Alkaline Trio-ish.

There’s this dude JP who works with us who has been claiming he’s a good writer. And since we’re talking about live shows here, he told me that he wrote a story on absurd tour rider items and asked if I would read it. So I gave him a few minutes of my precious time, read it yesterday and actually LOL’ed. I figured I’ve give him a shot. Here it goes:

Tour Riders: The Good, The Bad, and The Ridiculous

The physical and mental rigors of touring certainly can take their toll on any artist or band. Knowing full well the demands that touring can bring, tour and production managers do all in their power to make life easier for performers. Artists generally have the ability to dictate specific requests for everything from particular drinks to dressing room sizes while on tour. While many of these requests can seem perfectly ordinary, others can range from the embarrassing to ultra specific, and, sometimes, down-right ridiculous.

Read the absurdity after the jump…

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