Does an album’s official release even count anymore? Dinosaur Jr.’s Farm is scheduled to come out the 23rd, but thanks to the web, we’ve already gotten our fair share of previews (even though “I Want You to Know” is really the only single). Well today marks the debut of yet another song “Over It” via music video. Thanks, YouTube!

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Museums have been known to put us to sleep, but never before has one looked so much like our childhood bedroom. Now, thanks to Looking at Music: Side 2, an exhibit including art by Raymond Pettibon, live footage of Suicide and the doodlings of Patti Smith, MoMA is doing just that.

Opening today, Looking at Music: Side 2 is the follow up to last year’s Looking at Music, an examination of the interaction between artists and musicians that covered the 1960s and ’70s, and takes on art and music in New York City in the ’70s and ’80s.

We caught up with Barbara London, an associate curator at the Museum and founder of the MoMa’s video exhibition talks, to dish about the new exhibition.

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Yesterday afternoon I headed over to Ohm Spa for a scheduled facial. But this was more than the typical skin treatment; it was supplemented with music—Moby’s new album Wait for Me to be exact. As I changed into my slip and robe and sat down in the waiting room (which was stocked with fruit-infused water, iced tea, both regular and uh-oh Oreos, every kind of fruit imaginable, chocolate, and the latest skin, beauty and sex magazines), I couldn’t wait for my “escape-from-the-city” therapy to begin.

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These days, Simon Cowell has more on his mind than what was wrong with the latest performance on American Idol. He’s working on a remake of John Travolta’s 1977 classic, Saturday Night Fever—but this time starring Zac Efron and featuring music from Timbaland.  Of course, this will only go down if Cowell (pictured here in the '70s) can manage to buy the rights from film producer Robert Stigwood, who may be a little freaked out. Stay tuned to find out how far the multimillionaire British judge will go to make this happen, or how much Stigwood is willing to give up.

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Ba-da bum bum bum, ba-da bum bum…I just can’t get TV on the Radio’s “Halfway Home” out of my head since the band kicked off Central Park’s SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield with a big bang this Friday. But I’m not complaining. In fact, I’m still pretty amazed by the band’s performance.

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Google & The Guggenheim invite the public to participate in their Design It: Shelter Competition. The competition opens today (inspiration: Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday) and closes August 23 (the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary). The task? Design a virtual 100-square-foot shelter using Google Earth and a 3-D modeling software for a location of your choice. There are two chances to win: the public votes on who gets the People’s Prize and a jury of experts decide who gets the Juried Prize.

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The schedule for Brooklyn's six-day Afro-Punk Festival has been announced, and it's looking like another good year. The music and film fest, which kicks off on July 3, will feature live sets from Janelle Monae, Earl Grey Hound and Pure Hell as well as an all-day Spike Lee film program and the annual block party.

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It’s a (somewhat) beautiful day in the neighborhood and New York is celebrating…Internet Week?  What better way to kick off the summer than to sit inside and stare at our computers? Oh wait, actually let’s just talk about them.  Ehh, come on now friends.  We all love our Facebook and YouTube, but this is getting a bit…pathetic? Obsessive? You decide, but while you’re at it, keep in mind the holidays that only get one day of celebration—and that this one gets eight. Like Hanukkah.  So about those priorities.

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Phil Spector has bigger problems than incarceration: prison officials have confiscated the famed music producer's wig. Apparently, the madman had a collection of over four-hundred toupees—and now he can't even wear one. It’s so unfair, he complains on his Twitter (wait, Twitter is allowed behind bars?)—and has gotten no special treatment.

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Here’s one girl who’s mastered the art of the summer tan. Leah Gauthier, an artist from Brooklyn, is planning her summer around her very own public art project and micro farming installation for one hell of a growing season. Seventeen donated pieces of land throughout the five boroughs (nine in Brooklyn alone!) will serve as her canvas. The environments vary: private residences, office buildings, schools, small business, non-profits, hospitals, galleries, museums, community gardens, government facilities, and vacant lots are all fair game. The project called Sharecropper utilizes the old school farming style: rent will be paid with a portion of her harvest, while the balance will be shared with local soup kitchens.  How's that for some modern art?  Or maybe we should say traditional. [via BB]

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