our favorite local party-rap duo have a new album called Smoke Machines in Lazervision (Bodies of Water Arts and Crafts) — a half-hour of ass-agitatin’ analog beats, rhymes about White Russians with soy milk, text-message disses, and shaking ass, and a even a four-on-the-floor rendition of the Pixies’ “Gigantic,” which they’re dropping on Allston hipsters and assorted other freaks this evening at Great Scott.

Since you been gone.

And we quote:

"She's got Kelly Clarkson as a screen saver on her Mac," [Courtney] Love says, laughing. "Punk is for the old folks."

The above bon mot is lifted from Hilton Als' crack-licking profile of Courtney (Hilton's most embarassing fawning since Remnick let him give PJ Harvey a tongue bath), peeled from the pages of Conde Nasty's Anna Wintour-edited "Fashion Rocks" maggie tie-in -- which, fucking horrorshow, came shrink wrapped to our New Yorker this week! Other Courtney news: she's doing another record with Linda Perry, and hot on the heels of those best-selling Kurt diaries comes .

Well, we didn't get nominated for the Outstanding Boston Music Blog category. We heard from the organizers that it was close, but in the end, they went with Rob Zombie's movie blog, Godsmack's myspace blog, a cocktail napkin that Peter Wolf signed in 1987, and Brad Delp's hangnail. We tried pointing out that a hangnail is not a blog, to which the organizers sneered, "Oh, sure, and next you'll be complaining he's not from Boston!" Whatever.

Sexy: back.

Justin Timberlake
Sexy Back club tour
August 26 at Avalon

Setlist:

Cry Me a River
Senorita
My Love
Like I Love You/Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
Until the End of Time
Lovestoned/I Think She Knows
Take It From Here
What Goes Around
Last Night
Rock Your Body
Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)

Since DaCapo's now including blog posts and eMusic promo essays in the annual Best Music Writing anthology, can we also nominate a message board thread? Specifically, we'd like to nominate the thread in which Hollertronix fans eagerly anticipate the leak of Justin Timberlake's new single "My Love" featuring T.I., then fall in love with a bootleg version where a promothug chants "Atlantic Records, T.

The haikus are in, and we've got our winners (original post deleted to protect the email addresses of the innocent). Here's who got the tix to see Ms. Marshall at the MFA on September 5:

Chan, you confuse me
Your voice, just so damn perfect
Your mental state, not

-- brad | 8/21/2006 9:13:14 PM

Chan comes in the house

Oh, right, punk rock: we'd almost forgot it existed. Not like this’ll change the world, but Spitzz are really good at it: guitars that slop but also roar like airplane engines, the way the Pistols and Sham 69 did; frazzled Johnny Thunders' leads; shock-treatment sneers.

DOWNLOAD: Daughters, "Cheers, Pricks" (mp3)

"We try to sound as fucked up as possible," Daughters told us around the time of their last album. "And I think we're getting stranger musically. The hardcore kids say we're lightening up, but that's bullshit. This next time out we've decided to write the heaviest we've ever written, more extreme, more bizarre.

Could this thing be the new fashion statement for teenage hipsters?

Which is cooler, riding on electric scooters down Lansdowne Street while being chased by the police with Atlantic Records' hot new act Cute Is What We Aim For or sneaking onstage to a sold out Gnarls Barkley show? How about doing both within minutes of each other? Be jealous -- that's how OTD's token emo expert Mike Johnson spent his Friday night.

Photos by Tia, see lots more over here.

“I can’t believe we didn’t have a flying V when we started this band,” said Bang Camaro drummer Andy Dole, staring at the Middle East stage at the ungodly early hour of 10 am this past Saturday. He’s right: it’s not really a metal band without one. But Bang Camaro have got one now, and by Christ, those dudes are so metal.