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Morrissey will release "Years of Refusal" in the US February 17, 2009 on Attack/Lost Highway. "Years of Refusal" will be Morrissey’s first studio album since 2006’s UK #1 "Ringleader of the Tormentors". In February, Morrissey will begin the US leg of his world tour that includes rare intimate club dates.

As of tonight I have a lot in common with the Arctic Monkeys, Kate Nash, the Klaxons, and Facebook. We are all 2008 Shockwave NME Award WINNERS! Muwahahah.
YOUR VOTING was the key in helping this lil’ ol’ blog win a 2008 Shockwave NME Award for Best Music Blog.
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Pete Wentz just posted a video of himself and his lady love, Ashlee Simpson, making fun of celebrity folk (perhaps the Spears sisters?) doing something for the world by making babies.
In one telling scene, Ashlee screams to Pete to get her the Cheetos and then they go on to say…

Yes, they are playing coachella.
now go to their myspace to hear the new shit.

This week, the only two new releases I can wholeheartedly recommend are the Magic Numbers' sophomore release, Those the Brokes and Mick Harvey's Two of Diamonds. M.I.A. releases her first single, Boyz, from her new album, KALA. I haven't heard the Meat Puppets reunion album, Rise To Your Knees, is...

The Criterion Collection box set of five early Ingmar Bergman films is clearly the standout DVD release for me this week, and was accompanied on my preorder list by two documentaries to be added to my local liberal lending library, Gitmo - The New Rules of War and Of Civil...

Go ON with your BAD SELF, PETE WENTZ. Look at you being all supermodely with your very own NYLON Guys cover.
ROTFL More pics over at ONTD.
Big ups to reader Aric for pulling me out of...

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
The new cover of Rolling Stone has been revealed–and Fall Out Boy are the cover boys. Oh, and you might have noticed something a little bit disturbing…
PETE...

Hit or miss? My personal take: Hit. From Under the Cork Tree cover < Infinity on High cover. Flying sheep finally out of the closet = awesome…discuss.
And what about the official press photo? Why does...