If it's seven o'clock in the morning (GMT), then this must be your daily round-up of music-related links:
American Idol spoiler alert! Don't read the last link!
· Meet the Zimmers, the oldest rock band in the world. Yes, older than the Rolling Stones.
· Jin, the only Asian-American rapper of note, is the first on the scene with a response to the massacre at Virginia Tech.
· Quickly following on the heels of the Joy Division trainers comes Johnny Marr's own range. At this rate expect to see Bez Air in JD by the end of the month.
· Good name, good tunes. The Are You Gene Hackman blog posts a seminal Manic Street Preachers set (from Reading 97) in its entirety.
· And speaking, here's a not-so-seminal performance by the Manic Street Preachers on Charlotte Church.
American Idol spoiler alert! Don't read the next link!
· What are Sanjaya's plans now that he's been kicked off American Idol? Feeling the rain.
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