Lately I've seen a lot of things online about what it's like to date a writer. As a writer and a single narcissist, I was intrigued! On the one hand, there's this post on The Gloss that tells you not to date a writer. What are some of the reasons? The poetic license that writers take with fact when creating fiction seems to be the worst one. And on the other hand, there's Thought Catalog (which is how many sentences of mine begin), which ran a post by a young woman who proved that one should not date a writer because they are full of themselves and may use "poetess" as a description for themselves. Ew!

On Wednesday night after devouring a deliciously colorful macrobiotic plate at Souen, my friend and I took a leisurely stroll on over to The Studio at Webster Hall to check out the Danish songstress CallMeKat. Her set started minutes before we were inside, and I could hear her soft yet boisterous voice emanating beyond the door. I wanted the ticket lady to sort her biz out with a bit of urgency so we could get inside.

Every day there are some topics that are trending. Since many of them don't make sense, we provide easy contextualization. Also, this way, you won't actually have to know anything about anything.

Hang on to your straw fedoras, gay guys and 14-year-old girls, because the first official trailer for Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation of Les Misérables, the most spirited musical telling of poor French people in the history of Broadway, is finally online! And everyone's here! Hugh Jackman! Russell Crowe! Emaciated Anne Hathaway! Amanda Seyfried! That guy from Savage Grace (J/K, no one saw Savage Grace) who kind of looks like a snake! Everyone but Taylor Swift, thank God. (Remember when we were all worried that Taylor Swift was going to be in Les Mis? We dodged a bullet there.)

Just days after Watch The Throne's commanding introductory track "No Church In The Wild" appeared in the trailer for Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby adaptation, the Jay-Z and Kanye West anthem gets a video of its own, the third from the album after Spike Jonze's playful clip for "Otis" and West's flashy spot for "Ni**as in Paris." 

It has been an absolute bummer of a year so far in terms of deaths of amazing musicians. Unfortunately, the sad news continues today as folk icon and guitar virtuoso Doc Watson has passed away at the age of 89. He was a pioneer of American roots music, giving new vitality and intricacy to blues and gospel classics, occasionally featured on A Prairie Home Companion, and a collaborator with many important musicians of the past half-century. 

When he's not acquiring vials of Ke$ha's DNA or announcing grandiose plans to break Jay-Z's world record for most concerts played in the span of 24 hours, Wayne Coyne is always repping for his hometown of Oklahoma City (their New Year's Eve hometown shows are the stuff of legends). The relatively-new Oklahoma City Thunder NBA franchise is doing pretty well in the playoffs, in case you haven't noticed or aren't into that sort of thing, and the Flaming Lips have proven to be quite the cheerleaders for the team and the city. Today, Coyne unveiled the Lips' re-recorded, Thunder-centric version of their hit, "Race For The Prize," retitled "Thunder Up:Racing For The Prize!!!"

As you can see in the below newly released clip from the upcoming mafia flick Killing Them Softly, Ray Liotta gets beaten up in a mobile home. People being beat up in trailers has a long and hallowed history in the anals of American cinema. Also in the annals of cinemas! But as one used the internet to research this hallowed history, one finds that things didn't go as planned. In fact, one breaks the internet.

LCD Soundsystem broke up last year, sending scores of middle-aged music fans / aspiring middle-aged music fans into dire straits over the state of things. (For argument’s sake, let’s define “middle-aged” in music fandom as anyone over the age of 22.) A movie called Shut Up and Play the Hits was filmed concordantly with the band’s last show at Madison Square Garden, showing their final days and playing their career in context. On July 18, you’ll be able to watch the movie at a number of theaters across America for a very special one-night-only engagement, along with a roomful of other sad boys and girls. (It’s a winning idea, except for the fact that July 18 is a Wednesday which means it’ll be a real drag going to work the next morning with that blinding hangover.)