Must be Tuesday!

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Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist owned the stage like a master, with the sex appeal of a hundred male Swedish models and the shriek of a caricature banshee.

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Two of my favorite live bands are in town on Saturday and I'm so torn!

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The Hives are one of the most energetic and entertaining bands when they are at ease with the material. They are a rock band, period. And a very good one at that.

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So, even after noticing that the new Hives song "Tick Tick Boom" isn't entirely anything different from the band, it hasn't stopped it from being #1 on the NME charts. There are a couple new songs on the top 10, including

#8 "Terrafirma" by Young Knives - Sort of Gang of Four like post-post-post-punk. Not bad as such, just sort of generic Brit rock of today. The video is kind of fun, though.

#9 "Alcohol" by CSS - We all know and love CSS, so I post this mostly to amuse Betsy. And for the fact that the video is brilliant! (I'm not kidding ... its fabulous especially if you like rabbits drinking beer through funnels).

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So for the last month or so, I've been trying to find the NME Singles Chart - it had disappeared from its weekly update on the NME website and no one would tell me why. Well, after poking around, I finally tracked it down on the MTV2 UK website. So, here is a little update on some of the songs on the chart this week ...

#1 Babyshambles - "Delivery": Ok, well, beyond the fact that I've always thought 'Babyshambles' was a terrible name for a band and I've never understood the head-over-heels love people have for Pete Doherty, "Delivery" is pretty uninteresting. Think Nirvana meets Clash but in an uninspired sort of way.

#2 Jack Penate - "Second, Minute or Hour": Another part of the "cute rock" revolution, but a big boring part. It pretty much sounds like throwback pop rock, sort of bouncy and dancy but lacking any substance - sort of like a male No Doubt. The video is kind of, er, cute.

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I was just looking over the awesome line-up of shows coming Seattle's way this fall and got daydreaming... wouldn't it be a killer bill to have the Hives and the White Stripes tour together?

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Sure, the chorus reminds me a bit of some Justin Timberlake lines of late, but Howlin Pelle is so supa fly I can't take it.

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This just in from NME: The Raconteurs have collaborated with The Hives on their new album.

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"Walk Idiot Walk," the first single off the record, has one of the catchiest riffs in years.

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