Jason Segel Offers Digits, Penis To Swell Season Fans • Oscar-winning ex-lovers Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová invited the actor to perform a very "personal song" with them in LA. Some might say TOO personal! It included his phone number. Watch here and let's agree not to call.

Morrissey Ejects Heckler In Hamburg • A fan yelled "fuck you" while Moz was telling a joke onstage, and the recently beleaguered singer had him removed from the venue while adding "and you can fuck yourself." The irony? Next he sang "Ask." Guess shyness really is nice, sometimes.

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The Big Pink Cover Beyoncé

After Solange covered Dirty Projectors, a band on Domino, it's only fair the Londoners who sing "Dominos" have a go at a song by Knowles' sister. Fitting into A Brief History Of Love's romantic aesthetic, they put their mark on Beyoncé's "Sweet Dreams." It was recorded on Radio 1. As mentioned, Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell easily move between clattering post-Suicide, icy synth balladry, and radio-friendly electro-anthems (often with Jesus & Mary Chain and Happy Mondays echoes). So, which Big Pink do you get here? The moody, stripped-down result actually goes better with B's '80s-inflected cover art than the original.

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November 19, 2009

Photos, Video From The 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards

When MTV's college-obsessed little sister station mtvU announced the nominations for this year's Woodie Awards, we had some fun trying to make sense of the logic underlying the way in which they had grouped together bands and pit them against one another. The logic being: their demographic is college, and college is the time when our tastes change! This is the time to experiment with our sexuality, or at least with the contents of our iPods. The apparent Viacom dictate, then, is to be all things to all people, and so the awards followed suit. Your winners:

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Matt Friedberger Responds To Beck • The Fiery Furnace is indeed fiery in his "Unedited Blog Post" and "Imaginary Response!" to Beck's "Harry Partch." Note: The sentence "That was written in a style I associate with a certain sort of Zappa fan" appears in one of them. Grab your decoder ring.

Micachu And The Shapes Melt Down Crayola Crayons

We're already well aware that Crayola wants your kids to listen to hip music while they do their coloring. So far we've seen Animal Collective take us down a sweet road to vibrant color, pre-sciatica Dan Deacon brandish his Glow Station, and Unicorns offering up "I Was Born A Unicorn" for Color Explosion 3-D. This time? Micachu and her shape-shifting Shapes appropriately tell us that melting and molding your own crayons is fun. (Thanks for the tip, Michael.) It's sorta how she composes songs, really. It's also good for recycling: "worn crayons" become "new color-swirl mini crayons." As with the previous Crayola commercials, there's something psychedelic going on here.

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Dirty Projectors/tUnE-yArDs @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC 11/18/09

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Not that Dirty Projectors' set of four shows at Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall Of Williamsburg this week needed any help selling out -- that was handily accomplished simply by releasing one of this year's best (and most misunderstood) albums -- but after NY Mag's attempt to survey the Brooklyn scene by crowning David Longstreth its king, and Solange's making an honest R&B track out of "Stillness Is The Move," your prospects at some Craigslist action got slightly more dire. The run kicked off last night at Bowery with support from ascendant BTW tUnE-yArDs, whose shift-key shenanigans are no longer keeping people from tuning in. Which is a very good thing.

Tonight and Saturday the scene shifts to Williamsburg for the MHOW shows before closing out with a return to Bowery on Sunday night. Check these shots of the bands plus early opener Glass Ghost by photographer Jessica Amaya, and here's a list of what Dirty Projectors performed:

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Interpol LP4 Coming Early 2010 • Looks like the guys weren't so happy with 2007's Our Love to Admire and, as a result, "the new record falls back towards the first." Drummer Sam Fogarino also notes: "That big wash of reverb? It's back ... It's there." More good news for Interpol fans at Paste.