Check Yo Lip Gloss

Barely 17, rapper Lil Mama has already been at her game for five years, signing to Jive Records this year and releasing the hit single "Lip Gloss." That means that at the age of 12 she was already cooler than you. Kind of seems like that rap that you had about GI Joes wasn't such a bad idea, huh?

Lil Mama raps with the attitude that you would expect from someone that would've grown up listening to more LL Cool J than 50 Cent, sassy but playful. She's basically that really awesome girl that makes you think that you wasted your teenage years. Get ready to pop open the lip gloss later this year when her full length The Voice Of The Young People releases via Jive Records.

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God Hates Indie Kids.

And here's the proof, my friends: Behold the 10-day forecast for the Coachella area. Good weekend to be a Grizzly Bear.. not such a good weekend to be a Teddybear. Even worse weekend to be a Stephen Colbert.

"Secret" Shows Surrounding Coachella

Missed your chance to see this years nostalgic for the 90's lineup? Skip the filler and check out the following bands:

Arctic Monkeys at the Troubadour Sunday, 4/29
Tickets: $25 through fax only
Doors @ 10pm, onstage @ 11pm
Fax form: Troubadour Fax Form
Fax # (310) 247-4896

The Cribs at Dimples, Burbank Wednesday, 4/25
FREE - band on at 7:30 pm

Tapes N Tapes at Spaceland Thursday, 4/26
Tickets: $12

Crowded House at Glass House Friday, 4/27 -not secret, but still amazing
Tickets: $25

Ed Banger Records Showcase feat. Justice at Ex-Plex Monday, 4/30
Tickets $10

Spankrock and Flosstradamus at Check Yo Ponytail Tuesday, 5/1
FREE!!
RSVP: rsvp@iheartcomix.com

See ya at Spaceland this Thursday...

Fantastic Looking Men In Tights Set To Lure 18-34 Male Demographic To Musical Theater

Marvel announced that Spider Man will jump from the big screen to the theater, apparently having not made enough money through films. Helming this task will be the easy-to-work-with director Julie Taymor, fresh from making songs from the White Album even more unbearable.

This news bears good news for other superhero projects set to hit multiplexes soon, as Jake Gyllenhaal can easily make the transistion from yelling "Shazam!" to crooning it sweetly towards his adoring fans so many times before.

Julie Taymor to direct Spider-Man Musical | /Film

Will Farrell Manages To Be Funny Without Running From Imaginary Flames, Not Without Enabling 2-Year Old

In this brave new world where 8 million digital monkeys on typewriters crank out his new plots, Will Farrell managed to remind us how funny it can be when he breaks out of his usual stereotype and argues with drunken children. Expect the sequel to be greenlit soon, before his young co-star undergoes a meltdown of Osment-like proportions.

Funny Or Die

New Feist Video for "1234"

Most of us watch Michel Gondry videos and think "Damn son! THAT looks amazing!" Feist watched them and said "Choreography? Bright outfits? Fuck it. I got this."



Reminder is out April 24th.

Tatiana's lurid encounter with a vintage bondi blue iMac.

Hey dudes,

Reporting on the road from NYC. If I were on my laptop right now and not my friend's geriatric 1997 turqouise iMac (that runs Mac OS9...don't get me started) I would do a sweet photo splice showing Marcia Cross during the O.J. trial before and after her flattening of hair and then Phil Spector before and after his.

And Phil, considering how the trial went for Marcia, I think you're screwed.

But hey dude, you'll always get props for the ol' wall of sound technique.

and c.) Scott, thanks for name checking me on the JAMC bloggage below. Too bad I think the only people that are going to be stoked by Scarlett singing with JAMC are people who have no idea who the f*ck JAMC are. I'm pretty glad I'm not going that night now. What a huge ass bummer.


--Tatiana

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.