Video Matt had a banner weekend, hitting up the Stockton, CA date of the Rockstar Get a Life Tour to meet up with The Used, Straylight Run, Street Drum Corps and artist Alex Pardee. Check out The Used performing The Bird and the Worm above, and check out the rest of the footage, including two more live cuts from The Used on our YouTube channel NOW!

Here’s a little something Video Matt and I put together for you. It’s story time, kids! Today I’ll be reading a story by Sean Daley and Anthony Davis of Atmosphere that comes with the special edition of When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold. Enjoy!

For your copy of WLGYLYPTSG, simply click here and the iTunes store should open in a new window.

Tomorrow is the first Saturday in May, which means it’s time to bust out your widest brimmed hat and celebrate the 20 galloping three-year olds of the Kentucky Derby! Go, ponies, go! Which noble steed will stand tall and proud, draped in a blanket of roses, posing for pictures in the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs? Will it be Big Brown? Colonel John? Or an upset??? Regardless, you betta be boozed up on the traditional Kentucky Derby drink: The Mint Julep!

The first full-length from New Zealanders and HBO stars Flight of the Conchords debuted this week at #3 on the Soundscan charts, the highest debut for a comedy album ever, surpassing Dane Cook’s 2005 release Retaliation. Congrats to our friends over at Sub Pop for stacking some more cheddar. As usual, I slept on Flight of the Conchords for awhile (I can’t afford HBO, man) but finally took the time to check out some of the clips of YouTube and now I realize why people go ape shit over these Kiwi bastards: they’ll seriously make you laugh your balls off.

Original gangstas of hardcore Minor Threat perform “In My Eyes” circa ‘82.

I was just snooping around MySpace, checkin’ everyone’s comments out to see what’s up, when I came across a flier promoting an N2Deep show at LaSalles, a local watering hole in Chico.

“WTF?” says I. “Why do I know that name?”

Then I YouTubed them. “Back to the Hotel” yes yes I remember. Now I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I actually wanna go to the show. And I actually want to interview Jay Tee. While some people may think the retro days of boy rap groups are wack, I’ll embrace this shit for a minute if only for the nostalgia. At least these cats are coming through my small-ass town finally! And not even to the Senator, but to LaSalles! Maybe I can even drink one of these with Jay Tee: