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Ranking Rock Musicians’ Electronic Side Projects from Best to Worst

Things that we never expected to hear: Okkervil River’s Will Sheff has an electronic side project… and it’s actually quite good. Sheff released a song under the name Lovestreams earlier this week, and we’ve been rather enjoying it here at Flavorpill central, despite initial reservations about what in god’s name it might sound like. The track makes Sheff the latest in a long-ish line of guitar-wielding types who’ve decided that they’re rather like to twiddle knobs on the side, with wildly varying degrees of success. With that in mind, we thought we’d amuse ourselves looking at some such artists, ranking them from the very best to the very, very worst. … Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. The first trailer for Gore Verbinski’s big-screen adaptation of The Lone Ranger, which stars Armie Hammer as the title character and Johnny Depp as Tonto, has arrived online, but doesn’t give away much in terms of plot or tone. We are clear, however, on the fact that there will be lots and lots of… Read More

The Rudest Letters from Celebrities to their Fans

This week, we read a hilariously rude letter from Morrissey before he became famous on our go-to site for fascinating correspondence, Letters of Note, in which he suggested that one could only enjoy Manchester if a “bedridden deaf mute,” and hoped his pen pal was just as unhappy as he. Clearly, however, the recipient liked the letter well enough, and the two remained pen pals for a year and half, which goes to show you don’t always catch more flies with honey. We did a little exploring, and as it turns out, Morrissey isn’t the only celebrity to send out rude missives to strangers — click through to read through a few other letters from celebrities that their mothers would probably disapprove of, and let us know if any of them shock you in the comments. … Read More

The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

1. Ricky Gervais and Will Arnett will be among the guest stars in The Office‘s season finale. Should we take this as a sign of a David Brent takeover? [via EW]

2. The latest high profile firing from Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark: veteran choreographer Daniel Ezralow, who is being replaced by Chase… Read More