In one of the oddest music related stories in recent memory, an Australian artist named Natascha Stellmach plans to smoke the ashes of Kurt Cobain during an upcoming art exhibition.

Ronnie Radke, formerly of Escape The Fate was sentenced to 4 years in prison in a Las Vegas court this afternoon... buzznet has the scoop.

That’s right. He writes stuff. Besides music. Sort of. I was really just gonna post a bulletin about his show on March 31st at All Star Lanes in Eagle Rock (with Mika Miko, Bad Parents, and free Dewars! which is whiskey. not a band)...

My friend posted this old Black Flag interview in my MySpace comments yesterday (see item #1), and it made me realize that Henry Rollins has pretty much been a bad ass since, like, forever. So I started writing a 5 item list with examples to explain exact

Vampire Weekend will be performing in-store @ Amoeba in Hollywood on Monday....

Katie and the Pest, The Year Zero & Yellow Fever at OPEN Books in Long Beach

A band that sounds exactly like Crass and a chick who blows up cars on national TV. Not a bad deal.

Consensus: it's got a couple of pretty rad jams and musically most of it is pretty good, but for the most part it's predictable and shitty, and I want to kick the singer in the face. Definitely worth checking out.