Oh the raw britpop vim and vigor of the Arctic Monkeys! Now we can watch the quartet take the Apollo stage (repeatedly) and get a bonus live CD (only available on the US version of the release - take that limeys!) with the release of the appropriately named DVD/CD set Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo.

You want to arm wrestle me for a copy? To enter the drawing, e-mail us at tig at threeimaginarygirls.com with the subject line "WrestleForMonkeys" before 9a on Friday, June 5th (no arm wrestling required).

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"I think they're doing this to demonstrate that Americans have poor taste."

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After months of searching for the NME top 10, I did finally find it on the MTV2 website, or at least what it claims is the NME/MTV2 Top 10.

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This was ridiculously hard to do! Without further ado, I present my top ten picks for 2007 releases (in no particular order)...

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NME has posted their "Cool" findings for 2007 on their website and has opened the voting for the Readers' Top 10 on their website.

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at The Paramount

I just can’t help shake the feeling that the Arctic Monkeys treat rock stardom as a job. They put on a (wait for it... good, solid show – so no one should feel cheated. They are definitely good at their jobs – but I’m good at my day job, too, but I still do just enough to get by.

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This Saturday night the ever-hyped but always big fun Arctic Monkeys will play at the Paramount with long-time TIG faves the Coral and Voxtrot. The show is all-ages, and the lineup, completely swoon-worthy.

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Because it does.

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The Arctic Monkeys are the Toyota Corolla of modern Britrock.

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The Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future walked away with the 2007 Mercury Prize. For those of you who don't remember, the likes of Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys, Bats for Lashes and Dizzee Rascal were nominated, yet somehow the remarkably blah Myths of the Near Future. The Brits just keep on baffling me, I guess.