ThePhoenix.com's editorial staff was found cowering under its desks this afternoon after pre-teen fans of the kidz-bopping pop band Jonas Brothers launched an all-out flame war against the site, many screaming in ALL-CAPS and threatening to crash the servers -- all this because editors added Kevin, the eldest Jonas Bro, to the site's annual list of the 100 Unsexiest Men in the World

As recent history suggests, internet arguments about Boston DJs can turn pretty damn ugly. Allow us to introduce a more civil form of combat: the 2008 WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll. Advantages? No name-calling. No unsubstatiated accusations of train-wrecking. No people-fake-posting-as-other-people

The Ontario-born, London-dwelling, math-whiz musician Dan Snaith has been kicking around the electronic music world since 2000, when he released an EP called People Eating Fruit, under the moniker Manitoba. Originally, music was a part-time gig, pursued on the side while Snaith taught and pursued a PhD in math.

This week in the Phoenix, Susannah Bolle remembers Boston critic and DJ Tim Haslett, who passed away earlier this month. After we went to press, we got the following from Check the Technique author Brian Coleman, who'll be hosting a tribute to Haslett tonight at Enormous Room. Drop by if you can...

Tim and I did a radio show for years on WZBC (starting in '92) and we also did a fairly longstanding gig at the Linwood Grille, way back before it was even booking entertainment, really.

Mountain Goats w/ the Moaners
Live at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Sequel albums can be suspect: just ask Metallica fans if anyone liked Re-Load better than Load. But the Dresden Dolls' hastily-arranged No, Virginia -- a followup to their Yes, Virginia -- has a couple of things going for it. The Dolls are due for a rarities disc, anyway, and rather than just limit the scope to recent B-sides, they're tossing in some old-school nuggets (including a demo from their brief stint as a four-piece), some choice covers (including their previously released cover of "Pretty In Pink"), and five new songs: "Dear Jenny," "Night Reconaissance," "Ultima Esperanza," "Sorry Bunch," and "The Sheep Song."

So, Best Music Poll is a little thing we do with our brothers and sisters over at FNX every year, as yet another way of drumming up bragging rights for local rock/rap/pop/jazz/dj/etc supremacy. It's a time-honored tradition to bitch about who got nominated, talk shit about how your favorite band is way better, and stuff the ballot box for the Dresden Dolls -- or at least, that's what we do in-house.

Above: new snaps of the Courtney Love-sanctioned Kurt Cobain-model Chuck Taylors, due in May, first in a collection that'll be drawing on art from the Cobain diaries. According to the Nirvana Internet Fan Club: "To further pay tribute to the late singer, three of the Converse shoes that Cobain was often seen wearing will be reflected in the new collection which includes versions of Chuck Taylor All Star, Jack Purcell and One Star shoes."

What goes around (goes around, goes around) comes all the way back around

We have no idea who pitched who on having the Stooges covering Madonna's "Burning Up" at the RNRHOF induction last night, but we want to have this person inducted into the Rock N Roll hall of fame, and quickly. Ironically, we missed this live last night because we were watching a rerun of last year's "Fashion Rocks," on which the Stooges play "I Wanna Be Your Dog" -- and, later on the same show, the Gossip turn the end of their "Yr Mangled Heart" into an impromtu disco cover of "I Wanna Be Your Dog."