Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Quirky rockers THE FLAMING LIPS have smashed 2006 records at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl by selling out their 23 July (06) show faster than any other. All 17,500 tickets for the Oklahoma group’s show have been snapped up – beating PINK FLOYD star ROGER WATERS’ DARK SIDE OF THE MOON concerts as the season’s biggest pull. Meanwhile, the trio has followed up the Hollywood Bowl news with the announcement of a full US tour with acts like SONIC YOUTH, WEEN, WOLFMOTHER and THE MAGIC NUMBERS alternating support slots.

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The British Broadcasting Corp. announced Tuesday that it is canceling "Top of the Pops," its flagship music chart show, after more than four decades on the air.

BBC director of television Jana Bennett said the show, which first appeared in 1964, would air for the last time on July 30.

"We’re very proud of a show which has survived 42 years in the U.K. and gone on to become a worldwide brand, but the time has come to bring the show to its natural conclusion," she said.

"Top of the Pops" has featured everyone from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to Nirvana and the Spice Girls. At its peak, the weekly rundown of Britain’s best-selling acts attracted more than 15 million viewers.

The show has suffered flagging ratings in recent years as it faced competition from cable and satellite music channels and the Internet. Last year it was moved from the main BBC1 channel to BBC2, which attracts a smaller audience.

In a statement, the BBC said that "in a rapidly changing musical landscape ‘Top of the Pops’ no longer occupies the central role it once did."

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Campaigning RADIOHEAD frontman THOM YORKE has confessed he is a hypocrite, because it’s impossible for him to be a world-travelling rock star without damaging the environment. Yorke is a vocal ambassador for the charity Friends Of The Earth, but admits he isn’t "flawless", since big concerts, tours and festivals rely on fossil fuel and create tons of unrecyclable waste. He says, "I don’t drive a big car, but I don’t come out of it dirt-free. "The whole apparatus of big festivals is not cool. If we could go to them and say, you can only use paper cups, you can’t use generators, you have to use solar panels. "You technically can’t make it happen. That stresses me out, because I am a hypocrite. As we all are."

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Seriosuly he needs to get over it. 

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Arctic Monkeys have purchased fake IDs in America.

In a country ridiculous enough to appoint George Bush as president and stipulate that everyone over the age of six should own a gun, it is still illegal to drink alcohol until you reach the age of 21.

But rather than accepting their unfortunate plight, Arctic Monkeys – all aged 19 or 20 – have purchased fake IDs, reports the Daily Star.

Jamie Cook (guitarist) said: "We’ve all had to buy fake ID cards for ourselves off a couple of students at one of our gigs. It’s either that or don’t go out and get stuck in, which isn’t really on."

"We’ve got away with it so far and no one’s questioned us at the bar, even though the pictures on them don’t look like us at all," he added.

Naughty boys!…

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TOKYO (AP) – When Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi tours Graceland later this month with President George W. Bush, he will be representing a big constituency – Japan has droves of Elvis Presley fans, and the biggest Elvis fan club in all of East Asia.

Koizumi, of course, is the most famous of those fans.

Last year he serenaded Bush with I Want You, I Need You, I Love You at a birthday party for the president. Apparently it made quite an impression – Bush and his wife, Laura, will accompany Koizumi on his June 30 visit to Presley’s estate in Memphis, Tenn.

"It’s exciting," Jack Soden, chief executive of Elvis Presley Enterprises, said Wednesday of the upcoming visit. "Two world leaders, plus Elvis, plus Graceland."

The prime minister is just one of thousands of diehard Japanese Elvis lovers.

The Elvis Presley Fan Club in Japan claims to be the largest in Asia with a 5,000-strong membership. Another 2,000 people or so belong to the recently formed Elvis Presley Society in Japan, said society president – and occasional Elvis impersonator – Tomikazu Taguchi. The even newer C’mon Elvis Fans in Japan is on a much smaller scale, with a membership in the dozens.

Some Presleyites are concerned, though, that interest may be waning as Elvis’s fan base ages.

"Young people here don’t really hear much about Elvis anymore," said Yoko Hika, the 64-year-old president of C’mon Elvis Fans in Japan. "I hope the attention from Koizumi’s visit to Graceland makes them curious and want to listen to his music," said Hika, who travels to Graceland several times a year.

Koizumi, whose Graceland trip was announced earlier this week, has been helping to rekindle the flame.

Fans snapped up all 200,000 copies of a limited-edition charity CD released in 2002 that featured 25 Elvis songs personally selected by Koizumi as his favourites, said Takuya Matsuyama of BMG Japan, which released the disc.

Koizumi, who notes with pride that he shares a Jan. 8 birthday with Elvis, will be in the United States June 28-30. He is scheduled to visit the White House on June 29.

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