If you're not already a fan of the Self-Righteous Brothers -- which means, for starters, you're not Pitchfork or AOL -- we invite you to partake of this exchange, from a recent interview with thephoenix.com:

"Jake is way too poppy for his own good, and I’m way too not poppy," Koepke notes.

Since about eight zillion people have emailed us the Harptallica clip, we're giving in and joining the fray. Our contribution: we're starting an online petition to require, by law, that Joanna Newsom join the group immediately. Sign it or you're soft.

To get an idea of what it might sound like, press play on both the videos below (and crank down the volume a little on Joanna).

So yeah, we've been bunnyhopping jacked links all morning, hot on the trail of the recently-leaked new M.I.A. album Kala. Given that our track record on leaks this season hasn't been so hot -- sorry, Axl googlers -- we didn't want to post anything until we were absolutely, positively sure that the message boards weren't juking us and whatnot.

Fire up the iPod, new ish is on the way:

Jamaica Plain transplant (via Baltimore) and Spank Rock DJ CHRIS DEVLIN drops for-the-headphones mpfree mixtape to Discobelle, we're out of town so we're missing his guest spot tonight when the Hearthrob dudes take over Milky Way JP. We have half a mind to chop out the "Mr. Devlin's Jamaica Plain Humpbacks Remix" of Panda Bear's "Comdy in Nautica."

Queens of the Stone Age
At the Orpheum Theatre
Friday, October 12, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $35.00
Tickets go on-sale Friday, July 27, 2007 at 12:00 NOON

Tori Amos
At the Orpheum Theatre
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $39.50, $45.00 and $49.50
Tickets go on-sale Friday, July 27, 2007 at 10:00 am

On Wednesday, I had a show in Boston opening up for Widespread Panic. I had never heard this band before, but I knew they were in genre of "jam band." I don't know anything about the jam scene really, which is part of the reason why I wanted to do the show. I knew it was going to be weird, which I guess was also part of the allure of doing it.

DOWNLOAD: The Organ Beats, "Dan Gilbert" (mp3)

Noelle LeBlanc has been singing other peoples' songs since she was 12, and while she's blossomed from thrift-store sprite to Lita Ford Joan Jett temptress,
frontwomaning Damone into the premiere pop/glam-metal band of their era, she's still shy about showing people her own songs.

As we were leaving Thunderdome last Friday, we passed by our bowler-clad ace shutterbug John Nikolai -- a man who has photographed more punk legends than you've listened to, probably -- and, as he swept past, we hoped that a) he was headed in the direction of that long line snaking out of T.T.'s, and b) that he had his camera with him.