Saturday Morning Reading Material

Gas & the effect it has on the touring band.

The Strokes have recorded a cover of Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me" with Eddie Vedder and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age). It is expected to be the B-side to their next single, "You Only Live Once."

This should be interesting. The Mars Volta and Trent Reznor are collaborating with indie hip-hop artist El-P on his latest album.

This Billy Bragg v. MySpace will be worth watching.

From CokemachineGlow.com:

I can’t help but feel a little sheepish granting recent positive reviews to albums by both the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam for fear of being perceived as a nostalgia hound unable to shake free of the bands he danced to at his Bar-Mitzvah. And little has changed with the Peppers since then; they still know their way around a killer chorus, Kiedis will never hang up the rhyming dictionary, and they’ll never stop writing songs with the word “California” in the title. But Stadium Arcadium is the first post-Blood Sugar Chili Peppers album that actually sounds like it was reasonably fun to make; a source of mindless summer entertainment that people really shouldn’t feel ashamed to enjoy. Eh, for some reason I find this band impossible to completely dislike, despite every bone in my body telling me otherwise. That probably makes me lame. Whatever.

CMG's PJ Review | RHCP Review I can't wait for 11th row seats in Albany. The Mars Volta and then John MFing Frusciante. Tasty.