Sure, you're outside, the sound is lousy, and he bands are terrible. But if you're one of the attendees at a European music festival, you have to admit that the experience has gone from "stuck in a torrential downpour in a field full of fecal matter" to something more sophisticated.
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How could we allow this to happen in America? The Klaxons have been accused of keeping an award won by the Arctic Monkeys at the NME Awards USA last month. The Next Big Things behind "Fluorescent Adolescent" couldn't make it out to the LA event, so a Klaxon and Mark Ronson ambushed the stage when model Agyness Deyn announced the Monkeys had won Best "International" Album, swiping the trophy and shouting "We're up for it and we're having a laugh!" When I ask how could this happen in America, I'm not saying we don't allow people to jump the stage at award shows. I'm noting that an stateside award ceremony controversy involving Klaxons, Arctic Monkeys, Mark Ronson, and a model named Agyness Deyn obviously breaks the Third Amendment. Throw a Shawn Colvin or a Kanye in that mix, NME, or keep it on your damn island.
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What we're currently missing at this evening's Brit Awards thanks to the almost-up-to-the-minute magic of the Guardian's (snoozy) liveblog: "20.10: Despite actually showing up this year, and doing so in fancy dress, Take That just won Best Live Act over the Arctic Monkeys." Ah, sweet justice. [Guardian]
- The Verve is reuniting, with a few catches: Guitarist Simon Tong will not be performing, and on select dates, Richard Ashcroft will be replaced by John Ashcroft. [NME]
The Arctic Monkeys' Favourite Worst Nightmare is making history on the charts across the pond, and it's currently at No. 3 on the US edition of iTunes and No. 6 on Amazon. But will US audiences' recent warming-up to Brit artists like Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen translate to a big first-week tally for the NME darlings?
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Thanks to the new rule governing the UK charts that counts single-song downloads alongside "proper" single releases—and the fact that the singles charts across the pond count 200 tracks, instead of the States' paltry 100—the Arctic Monkeys are on the cusp of making chart history once again. Every song from the NME darlings' new album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, is set to make its mark on the UK singles chart:
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Every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is Arctic Monkeys' just-released Favourite Worst Nightmare:
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Shameless Complacency has another track from the Arctic Monkeys' forthcoming Favourite Worst Nightmare. The road-trippy "505" is a bit of a downshift from "Brianstorm"—those of you hoping for another maniacal Monkeys track might want to adjust your expectations accordingly—but we have to say that its shimmery, pretty guitar line reeled us in:
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- The Arctic Monkeys will sell tickets for its upcoming U.K. tour with an experimental lottery system, which both Blender and NME have declared the greatest ticketing system in twenty years. [Billboard]
Arctic Monkeys' "Brianstorm" first leaked on BBC a few weeks ago, but it wasn't until this weekend that callmeMICKEY posted a non-radio rip of the song. It's the jittery first single from next month's Favourite Worst Nightmare—an album that all of us will be sick of reading about by mid-May—and at least one of your Idolators just still doesn't get the fuss:
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Hearing the news that Supergrass would be one of the opening acts for Arctic Monkeys' July shows in Manchester made us wince a little bit, but at least it was an excuse for us to pull out the band's fine 1996 album In It For The Money. And yes, we're 
- The Arctic Monkeys' new album, tentatively titled 1,000,000 Overly Excited Music-Magazine Editors Can't Be Wrong, will be released 
In a development that will not shock anyone who's glanced at an NME in the past year, the Arctic Monkeys' "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" has nabbed the 2006 Mercury Prize, giving every hot-on-the-Internet act a much-needed shot in the arm. The official site for the best-UK-album award hasn't yet been updated with the news, but you can catch some post-mortem teeth-gnashing ("Winner of the most Generic Student Guitar Album of the Year") on I Love Music.
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