I haven't booked any tickets to Lollapalooza either, as I may have some work committments that I won't be able to shake off. Glad to hear that you no longer have that pesky CFA to worry about, Bri. Do you know for a fact that you failed? Or is it just that every fibre in your being is screaming out that you couldn't possibly have passed? Because if it's the latter, there may be some slim, snowballs-in-hell type scenario where...okay, enough...

Looks like Joe and Bob have some competition. Though he appears unrelated to the two Scud Mountain Brothers, Mike Pernice and his band, Come Down, have some nice little shimmery, twangy pop ditties. There are some free downloads at their site.

The new Pedro the Lion disc also has some nice pop tracks but I haven't purchased anything lately that's really blown my socks off. The Franz Ferdinand disc has some kick ass tracks but every time I listen to it, I can feel the clock ticking on its relevance and/or hipness. I'm thinking once their Toronto show is done, the knives will be out in the alternative press.

Does anyone still do the NXNE festival? My cousin gave me a wrist band but I don't know if I have any free time this weekend to check out the shows.