A catch-all of the day's music news.
The cause of Jay Reatard's death has been revealed -- cocaine toxicity, with alcohol as a contributing factor. Not altogether surprising, but sad nonetheless.
No plans tonight? Get your benefit on at the Philly Rocks for Haiti show at The Trocadero. Acts include West Philadelphia Orchestra, Black Landlord and Get the Led Out.
The She of She & Him, Zooey Deschanel, is starring in an upcoming HBO drama called I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie. The show's based on Pamela Des Barres' memoir. Des Barres' gaggle of groupies, the GTOs, was also the group Cameron Crowe's Band Aids were based on in Almost Famous. Hey, Zoey was in that, too!
Raekwon, Ghostface and Method Man still haven't come up with what to call themselves, but they do have a title for their upcoming album. Three the Hard Way comes out March 9.
The 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival will be help in Chicago's Union Park July 16-18. Tickets (and the first round of acts) come out tomorrow.
A new Philadelphia art festival was announced earlier this week. The Philadelphia International Art Festival will be held April 7 through May 1 2011, drawing inspiration from the art of Paris from 1910-1920.
Men at Work, known pretty much exclusively for writing that 80s song "Down Under" didn't actually write that 80s song "Down Under." An Australian court ruled they ganked the flute line by Marion Sinclair's 1934 dance-party hit "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree." The band may have to spork over up to 60 percent of its earnings from the hit song.
And finally, Girls made quite the splash with their debut, Album. Check out this video of the band playing a new song in New Orleans.
