writes about

, making fun of the

. Today is your last chance to get Summerfest passes for the low, low price of $22.50. They go up at midnight.

, who only produced De La Soul's

, has signed on to DJ the afterparty. See

. Besides a new album,

,

of the Juke Jointers

! Her name is Emilee Rebecca Anne Bledsoe. Congrats to the happy family. At

, Oakland's anarcho- country folk punk band

will play with

, 8 p.m. Friday. The bossman around these parts has been

and yesterday's news is that a copy of this portrait of Hopkins, taken in 1959 by

photographer Andrew Hanson can be yours for a $100 donation to the

(plus a $15 S&H fee). There are only 50 prints, per Hanson's wishes, which were made from one of four surviving negatives from the shoot, which took place at Hopkins' Third Ward shack on Dowling Street. For more information, email Marker Fund coordinator Eric Davis at

. Houston alt-rockers

have just released "Forgetting," the fourth single from the trio's

album, with a twist: The band enlisted local translator Francesca Marzola to, well, translate the lyrics into Spanish, French, German and Italian, and recorded a version of the song in each language. Here's the

; download the other four (and see the lyrics) here.

has a video out for their song "a San Juda." They've been getting a lot of attention on blogs lately.

and

, complete with an MP3.

is on a

, thanks in part to their Houston fans, who raised enough money at the band's Continental Club gig a few months back to buy members of the band plane tickets to New York City. Front man Andrew Karnavas, whose new solo album,

, just showed up at the

offices, is driving to NYC with publicist Monica Danna. Follow their road-trip adventures

.

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