A Nor’easter one weekend, a glorious spring day filled with tank-tops the next. I played a little indoor bocce, caught four bands and stood in the, what’s this?, sun for a few hours at an Earth Day street fair outside Grand Central. I smell a new season arriving, and it’s the season of awesome.

- Williamsburg Hipsters fired a shot across the wookie bow
- Page McConnell fails to share details about the layout of his basement during his interview with us
- Hot Carl continues his McGruff routine at a Widespread show
- Mariachi Metal comes to town: Rodrigo Y Gabriela hit Webster Hall
- Cops arrest Marc Ribot and Tonic shuts down — just another night on the Lower East Side
- Chris Cornell came to kick some ass and drink some beer
- And our usual departments, as usual, usually wasted everyone’s valuable time: great torrents from Grousing the Aisles, sweet videos from Pullin’ ‘Tubes, Saturday Night Live clips from The B List, Idol Worship from I Love Bad Music, and some free tunes from the Friday Mix Tape
Another week down, another one coming…get ready for the bloom.