Hey New Yorkers, were you totally bummed when you found out you missed the Smiths Speed Dating? Fret not, young lovers. My friends in Brooklyn have just made your dark, mopey day a little darker. No seriously, put down the razor blade and click through. On Thursday, March 19 Dave Hill and Bla...

No need to fret, we have the morrissey myspace layout you’ve been looking for. This one sports a young Morrissey (dude is like 50 now) and has a blue background. The free morrissey myspace layout is great for new Morrissey fans who recently have discovered his music. Who Is Morrissey? For thos...

Former Bartle Bogle Hegarty U.S. chairman Cindy Gallop gave Wired a sneak peak of her new venture. She's planning to launch IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a Web site to help people organize do-gooder projects. The idea is to use social networking to turn altruism into action on a big scale. Rather than just j...

In the offline ad world, creatives are always quick to cry "rip-off." Pretty much everything strikes me as derivative of the Bible and Beowulf, but protecting the originality of "the idea" is hard-wired into ad culture. Does that translate into online? Agency.com has built a new site for Skittles th...

OK, so things aren't going so hot nowadays. We can all agree on that. Must we continue to beat the drum? JWT thinks we should. The agency has launched AnxietyIndex, a blog to aggregate how brands and consumers worldwide are dealing with the global economic meltdown/armageddon. (Example: MTV is solic...

Egads! When Taylor Swift is #1 for a 10th week, and the album only moved 62,000 copies in the past seven days, the death knell is ringing loudly for commercial LP sales as we know them. Remember only two years ago when the Dreamgirls soundtrack marked the lowest-selling week for a #1 album, with sal...

:: Matador seems to think that Victory Records head Tony Brummel is an alright dude. At least when compared to Johnny Kitagawa. :: Rawkblog has some photos of Andrew Bird during his in-studio performance at KCRW. :: Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction on tour together. Now that’s a comb...

Well, Steven Morrissey is 49, so he's only in it for a little over a half-decade to go, if what he told XFM recently is to believed.  Asked about the relationship between famed figures and age, Morrissey responded, "It's very interesting that it's very hard to think of anybody who ages and still ma...

Morrissey has turned up on The One Show. Good lord, he's pimping this album, isn't he? He's trying to look serious as they mop up a "unemployed? why not try the Job centre" piece. The One Show team are stressing there's no shame in going to the Job Centre. "Dignified, for want of a better word." The...

Morrissey's new CD "Years of Refusal" comes out next Tuesday. Here's a clip of Morrissey from a year ago on Jonathan Ross's BBC show singing "That's How People Grow Up" which will be included on the Deluxe edition as seen in the notes below. Morrissey appears on Jonathan Ross again this Friday night...