• The Cure are starting work on a career-spanning documentary to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary in 2009. It’s shaping up to be a busy next two years for Robert Smith, as his band releases a new, double-disc album in October, as well as double-disc reissues of classic albums Wish and Disintegration in 2008.

• In this video, Thom Yorke says new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown better cut carbon dioxide emissions or risk being pummeled by “a ton of bricks,” as opposed to the equally heavy but less-intimidating ton of feathers.

• Check out the new video for Mastodon’s “Sleeping Giant.”

• McDonald’s is pulling a Starbucks and entering the music industry with a 10-city tour that features Ne-Yo, Kenna and maybe the guys in this commercial.

• What better way to say “Happy Birthday” than with a card that plays Tim McGraw or the Barenaked Ladies out of a magical, battery-operated speaker?

• Eager to not have a similar fate as Paris Hilton, rapper Eve showed up to court four days early as per the terms of her DUI probation.

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