Did you know that the Kelis album - you know, 'Milkshake' - is one of the top 50 albums of the year? Rolling Stone told me. You can just see Toure in the meeting where they voted: "Ted Leo? Who's that?" Ohio is to the electoral college as Toure is to the top 50 list of the Rolling Stone albums.

Good Charlotte Singer Heats Up Duff/ Lohan Beef: Good Charlotte's Joel Madden has allegedly gotten into the middle of the beef between Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff.

Backstage at last Friday's Z-100 Jingle Ball radio festival in New York, the pop-punk singer refused to give Lohan's 8-year-old brother an autograph until she publicly apologized to Duff for their ongoing war of words, according to an eyewitness.

Waits Cast In 'Domino' Film

Tom Waits has taken a role in the film 'Domino.' Tony Scott ('Man on Fire,' 'Enemy of the State') is directing the movie, which is based on the true story of model Domino Harvey, who gave up a life in the spotlight to become a bounty hunter.

Fire destroys cabin that inspired `Love Shack'

The tin roof and a burned-out frame are all that remain of a cabin believed to have inspired the B-52's '80s party hit "Love Shack."

Athens-Clarke County fire officials said Thursday they considered the fire that gutted the unoccupied five-room cabin set back in a field "suspicious" and hadn't ruled out arson.

"I love pillows. I need three under my head. I also have the air at fifty degrees. I need to have a fan blowing in my face. I need to wear an eye mask, always. I can't sleep if I don't have an eye mask. I'll tie a T-shirt around my face. I'll look crazy."

"I cannot see any light, or else I will not sleep."

Pogues' Tune Named Top Christmas Song

LONDON - A bittersweet ballad awash in drink, drugs and regret was voted Britons' favorite Christmas song in a poll released Thursday.

The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" was selected by British viewers of music channel VH1, beating standards including Bing Crosby (news)'s "White Christmas."

"We were both so amazed at the chemistry that was going on... that suddenly it seems blindingly obvious that there was something happening here"

NOISE AGAINST FACISM: Featuring: ANDREW W.K. and members of SONIC YOUTH, MIRROR/DASH (Kim Gordon/Thurston Moore), METALUX, DOUBLE LEOPARDS, 16 BITCH PILEUP, MONOTRACT, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN LA (w/ Andrew W.K. and Thurston Moore), MAGIK MARKERS, WOLF EYES, LIGHTNING BOLT $12 mainstage 8:00

This year's concert will feature an original musical play featuring all twenty four members of the band as actors, dancers, and live soundtrack. "The Polyphonic Christmas Carol," written and directed by Spree French Hornist, Louis Schwadron, unfolds the could-be catastrophe when frustrated lead singer Tim DeLaughter decides to quit his own band on Christmas Eve, wishing he'd never started the band in the first place. With a comedic spin on the classic Dickens original, Tim will be visited by a slew of spirit guides tossing him into a tempest of his own cloudy Christmas wish. Will Tim save himself, The Polyphonic Spree and Christmas from utter destruction?

Did Lindsay Lohan pull an Ashlee Simpson on 'Good Morning America' Monday? Viewers say that, at least at one point, Lohan appeared on camera with her mouth closed while, on the show's soundtrack, her voice continued to belt out the words to songs from her new album, 'Speak.' A spokeswoman for Lohan's label insisted that 'Lindsay sang completely live, the band was live and the background singers were live,' but added that 'the first song had some background. It's a little more rock and roll and needed it there. It's about how you make the song sound exactly like the record.' A 'GMA' spokeswoman commented, 'All musical acts that perform on 'Good Morning America' are required to perform live. On occasion, artists will have backing tracks to support their live vocals.' An unidentified insider tells Page Six that it would have been 'dicey to use [Lohan's] straight vocals.'

All four bands will play songs from all four of Anderson's movies. They'll even play a few of their own songs, which we're sure you'll want to hear too. All you have to do is show up Dec. 15 at Metro (3730 N. Clark St.).

Springsteen to Boost Local N.J. Economy

Springsteen is offering 10 people a pair of tickets to his Dec. 19 show at Harry's Roadhouse, along with the opportunity to meet him. But the only way to enter the contest is to visit a shop in Asbury Park.

The contest is the latest effort by Springsteen to help local businesses, said Eileen Chapman, president of the Merchants Guild of Asbury Park.

18hr Wicked Awesome Le Monde:
The Pixies in Lowell
by Mr. Sheena Easton

When putting my foot in mouth, happens often, I really like my little toes. Something about being 6'3", well over two-hundred pounds—I like small things, and I really get into my pinky toe for some reason.

Did I say the Pixies were cashing in? That Charles Thompson perhaps would not give soft brown things for the popularity of his own rock band? That they could do without a live act? Heh, me dumb—will that do?

They played the Tsongas Arena last night... and blew the roof off that shoddy little Market Basket-sponsored rickshaw. More than that, Black talked to the crowd, shook things up with Kim (lecturing her on David Lynch—Jesus!), and even Joey Santiago walked up to the mic and said good night to the audience (he showed some face—rocking crazy new solos left and right). They were frisky, putting weird stops in their songs (mostly so Black could mop the flood of sweat off his pate) and slowing "Nimrod's Son" down to a dirge. And funny enough—no Disc Live (which smacked of the depths of the blackest psych-ops capitalism)!

Compared to Montreal: their set was not as heavy, but it sounded a bit more like music. Whether or not that was a good thing, they showed a heck of a lot of emotion. And late last night, they added a show to the Avalon for next week, basically saying (subliminally): we love our fans, we love what we're doing, it's 1989 all over again.

Of note as well: the audience was awesome.

Ghost, I know you secretly hold the band at arm's length—suspicious that this tour could really turn on its supporters and make them look feeble-minded and semen-colored. But if you can make a show, you better.