Music - Alt. rock update

• Thom and co are going to be active next year, with gigs, downloadable tracks and hopefully even an album. Also it looks like Nigel Godrich has been fired - perhaps it has something to do with this here:
• Thom: That song's pretty throwaway, really. It's got guitars in it...we did it in a hurry, because it was a test. Nigel (Godrich, producer) wouldn't let us eat anything until we'd done it. It was four in the afternoon, and we were all starving. I didn't have any of the words, so I had to write them all down quickly.
• The Lips have an album out in April, although I can't say I was overly impressed by their last single/internet track
• A highly decent video by the White Stripes, featuring our favourite late night host