- Is a lineup change for the Cure really news? The latest adjustment came Friday with Roger O'Donnell (keyboards) and Perry Bamonte (guitars) leaving the band. Or they were fired. Or Robert Smith got hungry and ate them with a nice Chianti. Whatever, Robert Smith is the Cure and always has been. Next.

- Kraftwerk are in town tomorrow night at the Hammerstein Ballroom and Newsday has a preview. I did some research and found that this will be only the fourth time the band has played in New York. Kraftwerk played their first Manhattan show in 1975, returned in 1981 and didn't make another appearance until 1998. So if you have a ticket, this may be your only chance to see them for quite some time. Thanks to TwingoKraftwerk.com for the tour facts.

- Another interesting Kraftwerk site is the Kraftwerk F.A.Q. If you need to brush up on your history before tomorrow night, this is the place to start.

- The Guardian (UK) reviews Coldplay's X & Y and is not impressed:

as the umpteenth song swells from a lone piano and mournful falsetto vocal into a rush of drums and echoey guitar clang, you start to wish Coldplay had done something, anything, a little unexpected: accepted visionary producer Timbaland's public offer to work with them; recorded something quirky and lo-fi; called in the Dagenham Girl Pipers for a jam. Instead, the uneasy feeling that their ambitions may now be more commercial than artistic is difficult to avoid.

- If you've seen Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, perhaps you'll agree with me that the most cheesy moment in the whole film (and there are many) comes at the end when Darth Vader screams "nooooooo" after stumbling around like Frankenstein's monster. Well, someone has mixed this lame wail with the Liam Lynch song "United States of Whatever" and the results are hilarious. Check it out here.