Ryan Adams, the only guy in rock who's as prolific as Prince, is ready with a new album in September. However, this time the musical genius will release under the name Warren Peace (geddit?) and as a part of the band The Finger, which also stars Adams' protege Jesse Malin (who's featured as Irving Plaza on the record). So with this release, the solo record he's working on for Lost Highway, the Pinkhearts record, and the 5 CD boxset he wants to release chances are he'll have a new record out every month for the next year. But unfortunately according to his website the Whiskeytown reunion is not going to happen, which is a bummer considering that would've been the most interesting of all his projects.

Irish boy Damien Rice was on Letterman recently and played his excellent song Volcano. You can (and should) download it at Neumu and then after you've fallen in love with it and bought the album you should lend it to me seeing as I can't afford it right now.

Jack White follows up his acting gig in Cold Mountain with an appearance alongside Meg in the Jim Jarmusch flick Coffee & Cigarettes. This will be the fourth part in Jarmusch's series of weird short films, where famous people play themselves.

Top Ten Reasons Why Ralph Wiggum is God.

It's not just on paper the new Pernice Brothers record sounds really good. The actual songs are really good as well.

I was looking for a link to the video for the new Junior Senior single Rhythm Bandits, because it's a fun video and I like the song a lot better than their other stuff. But instead I found the video for Kings of Leon's Red Morning Lights. It's a good song and I've been dying to hear the record since I heard Molly's Chambers. So I think they could go a long way if someone pointed them in the direction of a decent tailor.

I don't really read a lot of books and when I do I tend to read stuff by depressed 30-something men, who are way too fascinated with urban life, models, and pop music. So I've decided in order to maintain my self proclaimed status as an intellectual I needed to start reading books that have been published before I was born and was considered classics by others than the reviewers at Q Magazine.
So I read Voltaire's Candide and I'm currently reading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. Candide was a blast, not only because it's so short, but also because it's really funny. And it was interesting to see the similarities between Voltaire and Danish author Ludvig Holberg.

But The Sound and the Fury is a completely different story. I've read about half so far and there have been a lot of hinting to all kinds of tragedy. But the way it's written it is really hard to tell what's going on and especially when it is going on. I'm hanging in there, though, as it is an interesting read and I'm very curious to see how far he can take this writing style without revealing everything in one blow. After The Sound and the Fury I might pick up something a bit lighter, although I'm determined to read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man soon as it has been sitting on my shelf for a few years now.