Bumbershoot announced some more acts late yesterday afternoon (and one unfortunate cancellation). The new additions are Franz Ferdinand, Eugene Mirman, Os Mutantes and Janelle Monae.

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Lock up your stash of PG Tips, because our mates are coming back to town and we've got a pair of tickets to giveaway to the show. The well groomed quartet will be at the Paramount Theatre for an all-ages show on Monday, April 13th.

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So, what will he be called? Normally, when one gets knighted, you go by your first name, but wouldn't that seem odd?

Sir Stephen?

It would only be proper for him to be dubbed as only he could be:

Sir Morrissey.

Yes, indeed, I am advocating that the patron saint of modern rock be knighted by the same woman that he and his bandmates once declared dead.

Is there any other citizen of Great Britain that has been more culturally influential and significant over the last quarter century than Morrissey? No*. No one has had the same lasting legacy while still staging comeback after comeback (does that, then, count as "coming back"?) than the king of mope.

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know we just got done with the 2008 lists, but this one's clamoring for my top compilation spot for '09 already!

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I wish that I could listen to Franz Ferdinand with fresh ears.

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Just because it is now officially NME Thursday, how about we talk about the Greatest Indie Anthems ever... and what NME / Xfm and the general UK public think they are.

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Your rock and roll astrological forecast for January 2004, featuring reviews of Outkast, Rocky Votolato, Franz Ferdinand, Trespassers William, and more!

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