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• Peaches Geldof is annoyed she was sat next to The Enemy at the NME awards last night. [DS]
• Owen Gibson at the Guardian wonders if NME will be successful at making money off the awards. (This is the first time they’ve paired the awards with a gig punters could get into.) [Guardian]
• Loads of random gossip, my favorites being: Alex Kapranos giving his number to Glasvegas’ James Allen, and Kate Nash and Billy Bragg crashing Vampire Weekend’s table to sing along to the Cribs. [NME]
• Yet more random gossip: Pete Doherty was bleeding from a cat scratch, and Alexa Chung got food poisoning, but her Arctic Monkey boyfriend Alex Turner held her hair back in the loo. [Guardian]
• And Vampire Weekend got in a car crash. Drummer Chris Thompson is awake and will probably be released from the hospital this afternoon. [NME]
• To round out the NME awards detrius: pictures! [DS]
• A Heroes soundtrack will be released next month. It will include: Bob Dylan’s ‘Man in the Long Black Coat’, David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’, Wilco’s ‘Glad It’s Over’, Panic at the Disco’s ‘Nine in the Afternoon’, ‘Not Now But Soon’ by Imogen Heap, and ‘He’s Frank’ by Brighton Port Authority featuring Iggy Pop. [DS]
• Did you know Ja Rule was born on February 29th? So was Antonio Sabato Jr! [DS]

• Blur drummer Dave Rowntree to stand for election to Parliament for Labour, for the Cities of London and Westminster seat. [DS]
• Prince needs hip replacement surgery. [DS]
• The Prodigy, Panic at the Disco, and Stereophonics have all been added to the Oxegen festival this summer, July 11-13 in County Kildare. [NME]
• Winehouse to get her own lines of fashion and makeup. Hell, I’d buy her eyeliner, that stuff lasts for DAYS. [NME]
• Spiritualized and Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. lined up for Dot to Dot Festival in Nottingham, May 24 - 25. The 1990s and Caribou are the only other bands on that list I recognize, and I will refrain from making a crass, American joke about Robin Hood. [NME]
• The Von Bondies have completed their 3rd album, ‘Love Hate and then There’s You’ set for summer release. They also completed a 4-track EP entitled ‘We Are Kamikazes Aimed Straight For Your Heart’ which is available from their MySpace now. [NME]

• Full T in the Park lineup. Includes: The Verve, Rage Against the Machine, REM, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, The Fratellis, Interpol, and Panic at the Disco (Really?) (NME)
• Radio 1 Big Weekend will be May 10-11, Scouting for Girls is first act announced. (DS)
• Massive Attack will curate this year’s Meltdown Festival June 14-22. (DS)
• The Melt! Festival (Jul 18, 2008 - Jul 20, 2008 - Gräfenhainichen, Germany) includes: Bjork, Franz Ferdinand, Editors and The Teenagers.

That’s what some girls were crying in the women’s restroom yesterday at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles. Why? Brendon Urie had just waved at the balcony, where an assortment of fans, including myself, were observing Alan Ferguson direct Panic at the Disco’s newest music video for “That Green Gentlemen.”

Their video for “Nine in the Afternoon” premiered during the Grammys on MTV’s website, a ballsy move that drove home the song’s Beatlesesque alarm clock ringing for anyone that had just watched Cirque du Soleil’s Beatles tribute.

Alas, there was no playback during the parts of the shoot we saw, so I have no nifty song clips to leak. Fortunately, Brendon decided to perform a short, two-song acoustic set in the they-wish-it-were-trendy Nokia Lounge set up on the roof of the Theater. Those, I can share with you:

Brendon Urie Nine in the Afternoon Acoustic

Brendon Urie Big Sweaty Tears Cover Acoustic

The second song is a cover of a Ziggens’ song, but Brendon probably knows it from when Sublime covered it. The audio isn’t the best in the world, and definitely has some crowd screaming moments in it, but is solid.

Below the jump: my live twitter reactions from yesterday at the Henry Fonda.

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Two of my favorite bands are fucking with my head using only the power of html.

Panic! At The Disco and Franz Ferdinand are both, in theory, releasing albums in the first quarter of 2008. They are two of my favorite bands of, oh, let’s say the last four years.

They’re also making me want to squish their little faces in glee as I delve into their html and css.

Panic!’s site, at the moment, has a fill-in-the-blank image which is rumored to read “You Don’t Have To Worry!” The exclamation is to make the extra space at the end make sense. I kind of hope it’s something else, something incredibly obscure and literary. Yesterday there was no image, just an adorable note in the html. Look at the page source to find it.

Franz’s site has an adorable picture of the band, backs to a wall, and a page title of “notyet” which, presumably, refers to the fact that they haven’t yet announced a release date for the new album.

I will admit I’ve spent more time than is probably expected looking for hidden clues inside the code of the sites. Panic’s was clearly hand done by someone who knows html and css. The link to the picture is hidden in the css and images are stored in a subfolder. The image name is just ohidontknow1.gif, prompting Sarah to ask if there was a ohidontknow2.gif.

Franz’s site was either done by someone who loooooves xhtml or is using a client. The stylesheet doesn’t have its own page and there’s a doc type declaration.

Summary? These boys make me love being a geek.