If, by chance, you’re near a computer on Saturday at 5pm est, I’d like to suggest something for you to do: watch the Lumineers — an amazing new band whose debut album (available for $5 on Amazon) lots of people are crushing on right now — perform a set at my house that will be livestreamed on Liveset.

(In case you’re wondering why the Lumineers are livestreaming a show from my house, and I’m sure you are, let me just say this: it’s an old (built in the 1840s) house that was abandoned for a number of years and portions of it still are raw/in need of renovation — but, at the risk of sounding immodest, it’s gorgeous in an aging starlet sort of way, and it looks great on film. Think of it as the Helen Mirren of houses. Hence, Tom Lennon and Ben Garant just filmed the majority of “Hell Baby,” their directorial debut about a young, expectant couple who move in to “New Orleans most haunted fixer-upper”, here. More on that next week, btw.)

ANYWAY, the Lumineers are pretty great so check out the show tomorrow if you’re on the internet. Below is an embed of their performance on Conan a few days ago. Enjoy, and y’all have a great weekend!

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It’s not a BEAUTIFUL DAY, it’s a DIRTY DAY, because numerous reports claim that Bono, lead singer of U2, is about to become the number ONE richest musician in the world (though Bono denies it). I wish you could WALK ON from this news, to WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME (like, space or somewhere), but you’re STUCK IN A MOMENT YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF.

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The Douchebag Guitarist meme has been around for a while, but it was based on a less interesting photo and wasn’t really catching on. Then, this past Tuesday, a Redditor found the perfect storm of guitarist stereotypes embodied in the photo above, and the meme was resurrected in its new, “sensitive guy” form. Gee, I hope he plays “Wonderwall” by Oasis. Nobody who’s recently purchased a capo ever plays that one.

The Douchebag Guitarist is the guy who only knows four chords but wants to make sure every woman in the room hears them. We’ve all had to ignore this guy at a party or perhaps when he was an upstairs neighbor who played one awful song five times in a row every day for ten weeks straight, yet somehow never improved. I hate you, Paul. I hate you so much.

Our favorite 45 Douchebag Guitarist macros are collected here courtesy of Quickmeme. Remember them when you run into a douchebag with a guitar, say, this weekend. Thanks to Pleated-Jeans for the assist.

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Okay so it’s well established that Jack White is ““the coolest, weirdest, savviest rock star of our time,” right? Everyone knows this. So what is White doing now to uphold the reputation he’s crafted for himself? Trying to get himself into the Guinness Book of World Records, of course.

The whole thing started with Guinness turning down the White Stripes’ bid for the record of World’s Shortest Performance with a one-note concert in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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It’s impossible to cover every bit of new music that comes out during the week, so every Friday, we’ll be doing an end of the week music roundup. It’s called Final Track, and we’ll count off a few songs released during the week that are worth giving a listen to. (Banner via)

Today we’ve got: Joey Ramone, R Kelly, the xx, Leonard Friend, and more.

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As you may have heard, Mick Jagger is hosting and performing on SNL this weekend, where he’ll be joined by Arcade Fire and the Foo Fighters. So, naturally, Jagger is appearing in a number of spots NBC is running to promote the occasion.

In the spots, Jagger is joined by Kristen Wigg and the two just seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. Seriously, their chemistry is just great and the spots, which you can view in the video below, come off as engaging and funny — they actually make me want to make a point to watch SNL this weekend, which says a lot.

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To be a true rock star, in the most Almost Famous meaning of the term, you need to do three things: 1) Rock and roll all night, 2) Par-tay ev-er-y day, and 3) Have a ridiculous sex life. You think Megadeth became a huge band because of their musical ability? Ha. It’s because the ladies told true stories about how Dave Mustaine is a “considerate lover.” How do I know this? It’s not because my mom told me. Rather, I read about it on Groupie Dirt, a website last updated in the early 2000s that chronicled the sex lives of famous musicians, as told by the people who’d know best: groupies. And your mom told me.

Here are my 10 favorite “stories.” You’ll never think of Billie Joe Armstrong in the same way again.

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TMZ, the definitive source for celebrity deaths, is reporting that Donna Summer, the “Queen of Disco,” has died from breast lung cancer. She was 63.

Sources close to Summer tell us … the singer was trying to keep the extent of her illness under wraps. We spoke to someone who was with Summer a couple of weeks ago … who says she didn’t seem too bad. In fact, we’re told she was focused on trying to finish up an album she had been working on…We’re told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death.

Summer was the subject of controversy back in the 80s when she condemned homosexuality after becoming a born-again Christian. She was quoted at the time as saying that AIDS was “God’s retribution” for the “sinful lifestyle” gay people — who played a big part in propelling her to fame — led. She later apologized for those remarks and performed at numerous benefits for gay and lesbian causes.

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When the cheeky jokesmiths at Bad Lip Reading aren’t lipdubbing political ads with inappropriately silly statements, they’re writing songs with new lyrics to match the music videos of Gotye, Michael Bublé, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, and Jay-Z. Now they’re back to let us know it’s “Time To Rock” with their lib dub of “Hot Problems” by Double Take.

One month ago, Burnsy introduced us to the song Old Bailey Productions produced “as a favor for a younger sibling of one of our friends,” which is how all the greatest music gets made. Thankfully, Bad Lip Reading spotted another potential Hot Problem: being so noticeable that people will add new lyrics to your songs. Don’t feel bad, Double Take. At least now you’re singing on key.

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