My Bloody Valentine Reunion Shows: OMG it's seriously happening

When I was a kid, my friends told me that this hot girl in school liked me. And you know, unlike most usually dumb kids, I did not believe them. Then one day, she walked all the way from the other end of the canteen to my end just to say hi to me. And I said, hey, maybe she is just friendly, you know? Then three days later, she asked me if I wanted to go watch a movie with her. I asked her is it with her friends and she said, "No, just the two of us." And I thought, hey, maybe she respects the fact that I am like, and I seriously don't like to brag, the most knowledgeable person when it comes to movies on this side of the whole galaxy and the one beyond it, so I said "Why not?"

On the date, during the movie, which I think was Death Wish 65, she leaned over and put her head on my shoulders and stole a kiss here and there during the pivotal scene where the hero launches the main baddie out of the window with a photon launcher, and I thought, hey maybe this girl gets turned on by violence. Some people are so weird. As I pull up to her place to drop her off for the night, she lifted her legs and wrapped them around mine and spoke in a hoarse-voice "Can I see you again?" And I thought, maybe she wants to ask me some chemistry questions seeing as I am like a scientific wizard as well so I said, "Why not, I have nothing to do usually anyways?"

The next day, I told my friends what happened and they said, "Told you she liked you, didn't we?" And I said I still wasn't sure. It could be still be subjective you know?

A week later she bought me a Godzilla 6-DVD box set from Amazon and it was love at first sight. We've been married for five years now. True romantic story.

Next up, The Smiths please.

My Bloody Valentine - Blow a Wish (from Loveless)

Radioh... I mean, The Charlatans give away new album

No, it's not quite news on the level of some other Brit band (virtually) giving away their new album. But then again, for the past two days nothing much in the music world is. I mean, there was this one time when I released a killer cover of 'Three Blind Mice'. Man, it was the most buzzed about song on Hype Machine for 19.56 whole seconds. Like, that was news. Like, "Thom, Johnny, Ed Colin, Phil will be the names of my babies even if all of them are girls"-kind of news.

Anyways, the Charlatans aren't exactly aliens in the give-stuff-away universe. The Britpoppers let everyone download their live album Live At Delamere Forest in July. Any now, it's studio album number 10, available January 2008, free and peachy, from British online radio site Xfm. It's a beauty of an idea; after all, generosity kills the fat.

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The Charlatans - Muddy Ground (from Simpatico)

Tony Wilson: 1950 - 2007

The man, the legend, clocked out at 6.05pm on August 10th, 2007.

The mogul behind the seminal careers of Manchester heroes Joy Division and The Happy Mondays, Wilson constructed the Manc club empire, drawing largely from his experience of watching the Sex Pistols show at the Lesser Free Trade Hall.

He leaves behind his legacy as the founder of the now legendary Factory Records, the also equally legendary Hacienda club, a movie based on his life (24 Hour Party People) and tons of scathing remarks about Morrissey ('A nasty human being' who 'treats people like shit').

In bucking the trend of posting songs by either the Mondays, Joy Division or New Order, we instead bring you two songs by two rather seminal bands who were obviously a bi-product of the man's legacy.

Mr. Manchester will be missed.

Interpol - Pioneer to the Falls (from Our Love to Admire)
Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning (from Evil Heat)