Welcome to a music-intensive post.  What, you expected sordid tales here?  That kind of squalor will not stand.

1. No-talent assclown Scott Stapp got into a bar brawl over Thanksgiving weekend with the boys from 311.  Apparently, Scott wandered into the bar and was drunk and belligerent, and in the words of one of the 311 guys, “Scott was looking for a fight—and that’s what he got.” Full details here.

2. Bootie returns to L.A. this Saturday!  Are you ready for a night of ass-shakery?  You better be.  It all goes down starting at 10pm at the Echo.  Details on the Bootie L.A. website.  Be there, or someone will do something horrible to you with numbers.

3. For those of you who weren’t aware of the American Edit project, it was a collaboration between two mixers who called themselves “Dean Gray” to make mashups out of the entire American Idiot album by Green Day.  They succeeded spectacularly, and the tracks were put online the week before Thanksgiving.  This was a free project—the people who put it together did not ask for money for their work; instead, they asked that in exchange for downloading the tracks, people donate a few dollars to one of the charities Green Day has linked on their website.  Sadly, on Monday, the mixers were hit with a C&D (that’s cease-and-desist for you non-legal types) from Warner Bros., demanding the tracks be taken offline.  Since then, an underground movement—much like the “Grey Tuesday” protest when Danger Mouse was shut down for mashing up The Beatles’ White Album with Jay-Z’s The Black Album into his Grey Album—has begun to make December 13 “Gray Tuesday.” People all over the world will make the American Edit tracks available for download as a show of solidarity to the mashup community in the hopes that it will get record labels to recognize and begin authorizing this kind of work instead of squashing it.  More details on Gray Tuesday here.

In the meantime, to prepare you for Gray Tuesday and to galvanize you into coming to Bootie, here’s a little somethin’ somethin’ to right-click and save as.
Loo & Placido - “Should I Stay or Should I Boogie” (Jackson 5 vs. The Clash)