Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: 1. The Hives - The Black and White Album: The first song, "Tick Tick Boom" opens up with clanging of the drums and guitar tuning following with a huge guitar and drum entrance. Instantly your head starts to bob up and down. As the song progresses the bobbing turns into a rocked-out-90's-head-bang. We absolutely love the climax into the......

The Hell's Angels are throwing themselves a three day celebration in Oakland this weekend in honor of it being their 50th anniversary and it's going to be fabulous. There'll be a Tupperware party and a Sandra Bullock film festival plus such classes as "Fixing Your Hog," "How to Rekindle Romance with Your Old Lady While on the Road" and "The Semiotics of Tattoos." ...

Sorry, PJ Corkery, for our terrible maligning of your gossip source-ery yesterday! As you may remember, Leah Garchik and the Chron on the one hand reported that the Gavin-Kimberly divorce was final, where PJ and the Ex on the other reported (.pdf, page 5) that the divorce paperwork was actually on hold. Your Political Junkie here at SFist speculated that maybe Leah's version of events was "more correct" because the Examiner had mysteriously refused to put PJ's article on its website yesterday. Well, eggs on faces and dishes of crow all around for Leah and for the Junkie, as the Chron nicely retracts its story in today's TIC, reporting that PJ was right and they were not. (No credit to PJ, but we suppose that's par for the course in the cutthroat SF gossip scene!) Leah also throws in the tidbits that Gav and the still-Mrs. Gav actually left North Beach to go to the Ferry Building, Soma, and Noe Valley to celebrate their ambivalence. (Hooray, we aren't sure how we feel about each other! Skoal!) We're sorry, PJ! We'll never doubt you again! Please forgive us! (While we're still pulling for the Celine Dion style renewal of vows by Gaverly, we'll only believe it when we see it -- in PJ's column!) ...

Duelling gossips in today's San Francisco media! On the one side, we have the Chron and Leah Garchik's TIC column, reporting that the Newsom and the Guilfoyle are now officially kaput as of today (despite a sighting at Enrico's Friday night -- do these people ever leave North Beach? Heck, do these people ever venture north of Broadway?). On the other, PJ Corkery's Examiner column reports (.pdf, page 5) that Gav and Kim decided not to finalize the paperwork and furthermore, they've put the whole divorce thing on ice to think it over some more. Maybe Gav forgave Kim for all those banana in the pants comments from last year -- or maybe Kim (whom we've always suspected to be PJ's source) is just engaging in some wishful thinking. Or maybe, like the media's been pointing out all week in regards to other matters, this is more of Gavin's famous indecisiveness coming through again. Given that the PJ Corkery column is now missing from the Examiner website, we're thinking maybe Leah's reporting is more correct. (Everyone seems to agree that PJ's reporting that the divorce was final two weeks ago was wrong, so we'll retract that as well.) Well, either way, we totally hope there's a Gavin Newsom-Kimberly Guilfoyle space-alien themed wedding vow renewal, just like Celine Dion! ...

We'll admit it -- we've been watching a lot of movies this week, and our reading has fallen by the wayside. However, our blissfully empty weekend is almost within reach, which means a trip to one of our local independent bookstores, as well as to the library to pick up our online reserves. Right now, all we want to do is lie in bed with the pets and a good book or three, so......

You probably remember that brief brouhaha about the CD price-fixing antitrust case, where that judge was going to give everyone who'd ever bought a CD from 1995 to 2002 $14.99 if they sent in their name and address, right? Well, as part and parcel of that settlement, all the CD companies agreed to send free CDs to public libraries across the land. Well, hey -- our beloved San Francisco public library just got its Columbia Record Club shipment, and received: 91 copies of Ricky Martin's Sound Loaded, 81 copies of Jessica Simpson's Irresistible, and 68 copies of Celine Dion's greatest hits. We're going to reserve ours online right now! Jaundiced athenaea-nauts are grumbling that the record companies appear to be dumping poorly-selling records on libraries (Irresistible, for instance, is the second Jessica Simpson album, the one that came out before Newlyweds), but cheerier librarians are storing, say, their 106 copies of Lenny to give away as prizes for summer reading contests. Check out what everyone else in California is getting. (For instance, San Francisco Unified (.pdf) is getting 51 copies of Whitney Houston's "Star Spangled Banner," 7 copies of "Carmen: A Hip Hop-era," 5 copies (clean) of The Wu Tang, and a smattering of Kronos Quartet and John Adams CDs, among many, many others)....