On the day of the band’s debut release on Wind-Up Records, Madeline, Tickle Me Pink bassist Johnny Schou was found dead this morning at home in Fort Collins, CO. No details have been given. Check back for updates as they are received.

Sort of. The Bronx put up a video of a performance they gave recently as Mariachi El Bronx. Didn’t think they were actually gonna go through with their threat of putting out a mariachi album? YOU’RE WRONG, DUMMY!

The music is pretty damn good, to tell the truth. Makes me just that much more excited about the forthcoming album, “El Bronx,” which yours truly told you about just a few months ago.

Speaking of the badassness that is The Bronx, have you heard their new song “Knifeman?” Check it at their Myspace. They’s ’bout to blow the eff up.

Just got done posting a couple of new interviews to the music page, including Adam Clair’s comprehensive chat with Philadephia up-and-comers Drink Up, Buttercup, and Lily Moayeri’s interview with UK neo-folkster Fink. Check that shit out, and click on a few banners while you’re at it so we can stack cheddar like a Safeway stockboy in the dairy aisle PLAYA!

If Canadian crackheads are too frail to harm anyone, British crackheads are bitch-slapping monsters. As we already know, don’t f*ck with Amy Winehouse.

… Belongs to Jeremy Kipnis, a music producer who put together this monstrosity of an entertainment center which features a Sony SRX-S110 Professional Video Projector (4,096-by-2,160 resolution), Stewart Snowmatte 1.0 Gain Laboratory-Grade Motion Picture screen (18×10 foot), Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray Player, Toshiba HD-XA1 HD DVD Player with SATA Drive (72 HDTV Hours Total) and Mark Levinson N° 51 DVD/CD Media Player, HLD-X0 Hi-Vision HDTV MUSE Laserdisc Player,VC HMDH-5U D-VHS recorder. …And a compass and a stock and this thing that tells time.

Show off.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but our resident video savant, the aptly named Video Matt has a boner the size of Rhode Island for Paramore. In fact, he has a personal archive of fap videos that he hoards like gold nuggets, locked away in a safe deep inside his family compound in the hills above Gridley. However, we are slowly convincing him to release some of this footage for the greater good of humanity. Check out these two clips of Paramore back before they were the biggest thing since sliced wrists, playing at the legendary Boardwalk in Orangevale, CA.