NEWS OF THE WEEK

• Matt Skiba (of Alkaline Trio) and Chuck Ragan (formerly of Hot Water Music) go out on some (tour) dates together

• Nine Inch Nails explores new avenues for promoting Year Zero and RIAA jumps the gun

• Comedians Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer debut new show Human Giant for free on iTunes

• Fall Out Boy delay the start of tour

• Daft Punk to tour with The Rapture

• Michael Mayer and Gui Boratto team-up and head to the U.S.

• The Dears become most recent target for indie rock burglary

• Cute Is What We Aim For loses bass player but gains valuable life lesson

• Victory Record's latest signing 1997 post new track "Garden Of Evil"

• The Cure's Robert Smith working with Ashlee Simpson... NOT!

• Ska Is Dead coming to CD

• Victory and Emusic end commerical internet romance