kevin.

Word on the street is that Bon Jovi's new record Lost Highway is slaughtering the White Stripes' new album Icky Thump in first-week sales, proving, once and for all, that music from the 80's is still slightly less one-dimensional than pretentious garage rock from the 00's.

In the less-relevant department, Mandy Moore's new record Wild Hope is going to be lucky to slip into the top 30 this week, further hammering home just how long ago "Candy" was a top-40 hit. I commend Mandy Moore for giving up the bubble-gum pop princess thing just about as swiftly as she embraced it, but I wish she'd be in more movies like Saved. Either way, I'll be at her show on Wednedsay at the Roxy yelling "I crashed my van into Jesus!" a lot.

memorial day '07 at the key club. awesome.

I can't think of a better word to describe my feelings for the return of MTV's Unplugged than "lukewarm."
MTV PLUGS INTO UNPLUGGED: MTV’s storied Unplugged franchise is returning with planned shows by The Police, Bon Jovi, Kenny Chesney, Mary J. Blige and John Mayer, among others. The acoustic performances will be shown on MTV, VH1 and CMT, as well as online and mobile phones. Bon Jovi, whose 1989 acoustic performance on the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, according to legend, originally inspired the concept, will kick off the newest Unplugged with three consecutive nights starting June 22 on MTV, VH1 and CMT, to launch the June 19 release of their new album, Lost Highway. Each of the shows will then be available respectively on MTV.com, VH1.com and CMT.com after the on-air premiere. [HITS]
I'm pumped on Bon Jovi, but I'm not pumped on the fact that it's highly…