I will always have a soft spot in my heart of hidden hearts for Fat Wreck Chords figureheads NOFX, despite the fact that my pubescent, nascent punk rock months were really short-lived. Here, Mike is bored with life and music, hates the usual spots he plays, hates TV people, and yeah, likes drugs and shit.

“Hey I’m Jewish, I can say ‘goddamned jews.’”

He says he likes Tat, who I met for a second at the Four Seasons. They were nice dudes. Fat Mike is a lovable jerk, isn’t he?

$175 3-day “Early Bird” passes are on sale now, so you better get on that shit before you’re paying a scalper with an eight ball and your 3-week old baby. After the “Early Bird” tickets are sold out, $190 “Advance” 3-Day passes go on sale…followed by Regular Old “Jacking Up The Prices For the Fuck of It” $205 tickets.

So quick, go here and SPEND early birds, SPEND. But on what, exactly?

Details haven’t really been announced, but the main speculation in the blogosphere (blech) is that Radiohead will be headlining. The date of the show is August 1st - 3rd at Grant park in Chicago, that’s for sure. Otherwise, it’s a big question mark with a bigger dollar sign attached to it. The 130-band lineup will be announced on April 7th. Talk about rolling the dice! Yes, the possibility of Radiohead headlining makes for a good pitch, and given the Lollapalooza track record there’s most likely going to be some awesome groups announced. Still, that does not leave out the possibility of Radiohead playing for an hour, and Satellite Party doing handfuls of ecstasy pills and playing the rest of the weekend…

Go Perry GO!

Proving there’s no such thing as bad press and that face and neck tattoos make for a killer mug shot, rapper Lil’ Wayne (born Dwayne Michael Carter) was arrested by border patrol at a US Border checkpoint on Interstate 8 in Dateland, AZ, on Tuesday night around 11:30 PM. Drug-sniffing dogs alerted officers that something might be afoot and Wayne’s bus, which was transporting 11 other people, was pulled aside for a consensual search.

Officers found:

Carter faces local possession charges (the feds passed on this one), and two other passengers are looking at narcotics charges. Wayne was released on bail, but has a court date set for Friday morning. In other news, his new album, The Carter III is due out in February.