Alright I’m back and I still love you. Thank you to all those who e-mailed and said they missed me! Now that I’ve made my triumphant return to unemployment (my contract expired yesterday) I expect to have lots more time on my hands and no more excuses not to update!
I offer you a blend of old and new news and gossip below to catch everybody up before we start fresh again!

Albert Hammond Jr has told the NME that The Strokes comeback single will be “12:51” (known already to some by its working title, “Supernova”). The single will be released October 6 followed by the album two weeks later (October 20, for those of you who can’t add and/or just don’t like to think).

Now you too can drink Pimp Juice!!!

Tim Burgess launched his solo career at V Festival last weekend.

Pete Doherty’s new band is going under the name “Babyshambles”.

Elton John = still cool… “There are a lot of great rock‘n’roll records out these days, thank God. Kings Of Leon, The Darkness, the new Black Rebel Motorcycle Club record… I don’t think there’s been a more exciting time. It started with the White Stripes record this year and it seems to have taken off from there, and hopefully all these miserable fuckers like Staind and Creed will go out of the window."

The Strokes are the cover story on the new issue of MOJO! (Miss Modern Age has few amusing concerns!)
In the article: “Julian Casablancas arrives back at his apartment building at 9am. In the lobby is his neighbour, Ryan Adams, guitar in hand, trying out a batch of new songs. He asks Casablancas how the album is going, but elects to sing the questions, turning each and every one into yet another new Ryan Adams song until Casablancas has to shout, "Will you just put that fucking guitar down." Even the hardest working boy in New York has to turn off at some point.” Read more at YHNR.

Sondre Lerche on Chartattack.

Kate Moss is a sexy stripper in the new White Stripes vid for “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself”. Check out how well she works that pole!

New issue of Let Them Eat Lead!

Marlon Brando is Courtney Love’s granddaddy.
FIN!