What? To support the Sept. 13 release of the band's yet-to-be titled 13th record, Robert Smith and his don't-call-'em-goth-cronies are releasing a single each week for four consecutive months.

Who? Chicago's Joe Pug admittedly sounds like the wooden stool and mic-less icons before him, but it's all in genuine homage to days spent confiding in his father's record collection.

The Inglish-Rocks team -- Cool Kids' Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll and Antoine "Mikey Rocks" Reed -- opened with a little fiscal advice on off-album track "Gettin' It," telling last night's (May 8) be-seen crowd "there's no pocket full of cash to be thrown in the air," before slathering clunky-ill beats over trademark odes to BMXs and Fruity Pebbles.

Fallen alt-rock pinup Evan Dando put the shred on nostalgia last night (May 1) at Chicago's Abbey Pub as the Lemonheads' 1992 breakout album, It's a Shame About Ray, turns old enough to drive.

What? Despite its blasphemous denunciations of rock's most prophetic figures -- the Beatles, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, and many others -- this British MC and DJ duo's breakout Mike Skinner-meets-Fatboy Slim key-plunker "Thou Shalt Always Kill," is more a sprawling attack on pretension and hype than a too-cool-for-school declaration.

Ground control tried to touch base with Major Dan Bejar last night (April 17) at Chicago's Logan Square Auditorium, where scores of indie-literati whooped in glee as the multi-tasking -- Frog Eyes, Swan Lake, New Pornographers -- Canadian virtuoso surveyed tunes from his eighth studio record, Trouble In Dreams, with team Destroyer -- but unfortunately Bejar was lost in rock'n'roll space.