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Toronto's Olympic Island Music Festival (June 24th) featuring Broken Social Scene, Feist and Bloc Party has major potential for awesomeness.

Thom Yorke (Radiohead) thinks the music industry are "a bunch of fucking retards". Now now, that's hardly politically correct.

Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen is facing assault charges.

Pete Doherty likes to buy/steal Burberry.

Sufjan Stevens is spawning. Which can only be good.

Leaked tracks from The Raconteurs. I like it.

Richard Ashcroft on Regis & Kelly. Great performance and a funny interview. (Link from Torr.)

Go listen to "Angst In My Pants by Sparks over at Indoor Fireworks. Classic tune.

"Wot's He Sayin'? British pop reclaims its accent." (CBC)

Why is everyone becoming so well-behaved these days? First Liam Gallagher hires a personal trainer and now Charlotte Church has quit smoking? WTF?

And since when do terrorists listen to The Clash and Led Zeppelin?