Hot Potato! 2007 Lollapalooza line-up announced!

No bells, whistles or snarky asides, here is the line-up for the 2007 edition of Lollapalooza, happening in Chicago August 3 - 5:

Pearl Jam (pictured, only U.S. date for 2007), Daft Punk, Ben Harper, Muse, Iggy & The Stooges, Modest Mouse, Interpol, My Morning Jacket, Satellite Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snow Patrol, The Roots, Patti Smith, Kings Of Leon, The Black Keys, Regina Spektor, Spoon, Lupe Fiasco, TV On The Radio, Pete Yorn, G. Love, Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silverchair, Femi Kuti, Yo La Tengo, Hold Steady, Jack's Mannequin, Stephen Marley, STS9, MIA, Slightly Stoopid, Blonde Redhead, Sparklehorse, Sean Lennon, !!!, Blue October, Son Volt, Motion City Soundtrack, Polyphonic Spree, Peter Bjorn & John, Silversun Pickups, CSS, The Rapture, The Wailers, Roky Erickson, Tapes N Tapes, Heartless Bastards, The View, The Cribs, The Fratellis, Ghostland Observatory, Tokyo Police Club, Rhymefest, Soulive, Cold War Kids, Annuals, Fields, Electric Six, Jim Noir, Elvis Perkins, Sam Roberts, Black Angels, Charlie Musselwhite, Aqueduct, Juliette & The Licks, Dios, Viva Voce, David Vandervelde, Los Campesinos!, Chin Up Chin Up, Ryan Shaw, Colour Revolt, Satin Peaches, Illinois, Arckid, Mickey Avalon, The 1900s, Bang Bang Bang, Bound Stems, High Class Elite Carey Ott, Matt Roan.

WHEW!

Dare I say better line-up than 2007 Coachella? Discuss.

First Look At What An Icky Thump Looks Like

Icky Thump out on 7/18 via Warner Bros.

And Jack needs to stop watching ¡Three Amigos! so many times.

Taste of Scarlett

If you’re old enough to remember what was going down sonically way back in the year of our lord 1985, The Jesus and Mary Chain’s cataclysmic debut Psychocandy was a revelation. It all but birthed the shoegaze sound with its fuzzed-out guitars juxtaposed against sugary pop melodies. One of the coolest bands to emerge from that era, J&MC is still revered by many, and rightfully so. Which is why their appearance at this year’s Coachella is the only reunion news that really matters, since a lot of us (well, me) still blame Rage Against The Machine for causing such nonsense as Korn, Limp Bizkit and the whole unfortunate debacle that was “rap-rock.”

Younger charges will know J&MC as the band behind the song “Just Like Honey,” which was used to devastating effect at the end of every middle-aged man’s fantasy, Lost in Translation. This is where things get weird.

To tune up for the big Coachella show, J&MC are doing a not-so-secret show at the Glass House in Pomona on Thursday, April 26 (good luck scoring tickets, slowpokes). But the real news is that joining the band onstage to sing background vocals will be none other than Lost in Translation star Scarlett Johansson.

Has the voluptuous Hollywood nymph moved on from the likes of Josh Harnett, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Reynolds to snuggle up with an alt.rock legend like one of the Reid brothers? Stranger things have happened. Not in my life, but still.

Also, shoegaze aficionados like our own Tatiana will be pleased as punch to know that this current incarnation of J&MC features former Lush bassist Phil King and ex-Ride drummer Laurence “Loz” Colbert, making them something of a shoegazing super-group. Word.