• The last five years of 80s revivalists topping the charts has not deterred The Boy Least Likely To from covering George Michael’s “Faith”. Warning: banjos and handclaps are involved. [via Stereogum]
• To prep for her upcoming turn as Nina Simone, Mary J. Blige flexes her Actors Studio muscle on ABC’s One Life to Live.
• Tool trivia: they still exist, the sell piles of records, and they are announcing a few tour dates at a time. Tool, how you tease.
• Pete Doherty’s diaries will be published by Orion books in 2007 … and there’s not even a widow around to profit from it all.
• More details emerge about the soundtrack to Outkast’s film Idlewild, set to be released on August 21.
• Culture Club go the way of INXS and blasphemously reform without their lead singer. At least INXS had no choice.
• The cop from the Village People is off to rehab.
• With help from her impossibly hot French boyfriend Olivier Martinez, Kylie Minogue has managed a full recovery from breast cancer, is working on new material and plans to resume touring in the fall.

[photo: Barry Brecheisen]