In each of his... 32 (?) bands, Jack White makes a point of sharing, or even ceding, the spotlight with his collaborators. This is especially true with the Dead Weather, where Alison Mosshart handles the vocals and the vamping while Jack attempts to keep a low profile in back behind the drum kit.

Talk about a gig that couldn't have existed at any other point in time. Serial nonsense-espouser Courtney Love has begat her own much-needed translator to decipher her fat-fingered, stream-of-consciousness tweets, named, aptly, CLTranslated.

When news broke Friday evening that Oasis' show in France was cancelled suddenly, not simply due to the "altercation" that the promoters, hilariously, cited to the 40,000 disappointed fans in attendance, but because Noel Gallagher up and quit the band, initial reaction was somewhat muted: Hadn't we seen this movie before?

Nope, oddly enough.

Sonic Youth have always straddled the line between high culture and low, equally at home with John Cage as with GG Allin.