the fyrehaus

• The Enemy is playing the opening gig at the Ibiza Rocks Hotel. [DS]
• Britney dumped Adnon and tossed his iPhone in a pool, the Guardian made fun of his track jacket, and Keith Richards doesn’t like cds, Oasis, or the Arctic Monkeys. [Guardian]
• Bands gather at the Roundhouse to make a charity single to raise money for Consequences, a homeless organization. Artists include Supergrass, Dirty Pretty Things, The Enemy, Paul Weller, Beth Ditto, Andy Rourke, and New Young Pony Club. Single, also named “Consequences”, will be out next month. [Guardian]
• The Dead 60s split up non-acrimoniously. [NME]
• Led Zeppelin will not tour; my roommate can continue to blame Alison Krauss. [NME]
• Kate Nash, Editors, Richard Hawley, Battles, and Lightspeed Champion get added to Irish Oxegen Festival. [NME]

• Johnny Marr made visiting professor at University of Manchester. (DS) Is there nothing this man can’t do?
• 10 Things Digital Spy thinks you should know about Morrissey. (DS)
• The UK makes your ISP terminate your for copyright infringement. (Idolator) Yes, copyright infringement is a civil offense, but it’s not stealing, and enforcing this has got to violate privacy rights. (Do the British have those? I’m not sure we have them anymore.)
• Broadway and West End musical Spamalot has changed lyrics that name-checked Britney Spears to Posh Spice because “we don’t laugh at sad people.” (NME)
• David Bowie collaborates on Scarlett Johansson’s album. (NME)
• Kate Nash to play secret gig with The Pogues in NYC sometime in March.

Have we been watching VH1’s “100 Greatest Songs of the 90s”? It’s so much fun. I’ve always loved countdown shows, but I actually know 98% of the songs on this and have my own memories of them. Go check out the list yourself, and you know if you like countdown shows, it’s exactly what you expect.

They also made (mostly) good choices on commentators. Whoever got Jai Rodriguez and Clinton Kelly are my favorites. (Apparently Jai had big-girl rage when he found out Martha Washington wasn’t in C+C Music Factory’s “Gonna Make You Sweat” and Clinton cried when he heard “My Heart Will Go On” in a diner after seeing Titanic.

The best part is that no one is hating. The closest thing to saying they didn’t like something was, “I wanted to dislike it, but I couldn’t!” To (mis)quote Sir-Mix-a-Lot, “Don’t play like you didn’t buy that record. You LOVED that record.” (Said in relation to “Mmmmm Bop,” but can apply to about half this list.

Aside: the Hanson brothers are all married? 2 have kids??? Freaky. And for the pop lovers in the audience, Christina Aguilera < NSync < Hanson < Britney Spears < Backstreet Boys, at least on this list.  And how are the Backstreet Boys higher than MADONNA?

The Guardian names their 20 top albums in print, and then makes fun of themselves over at the blog.

The Guardian’s 20 best albums of 2007 is clearly - and I’ll save you saying it - an outrage, a disgrace, a farrago. Was I really the only voter who put Gravenhurst’s incredible The Western Lands in their top five? Did no one else cherish Paris Motel’s In the Saltpetriere? Idiots, the lot of them. The lot of us. I guess, actually, those won’t be your most forthright criticisms. You might be asking: why is it so white? And why is it so male?

Well, since I can’t be arsed to listen to half the albums on their list (I am the laziest music commenter you will ever meet), I can’t agree or disagree. That’s what Megan and Sarah do. I’m not surprised Britney’s new album made it; the gays I work with say it’s fantastic.