Best lead-in sentence I've read in a while:

"If you want to buy the new album by the Dave Matthews Band, 'Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King' (RCA), next month, you have some choices to make."

This album title is even worse than the Coldplay one. It's reverting to the seventies. Also, another music-related fact I learned from the Times today ... Marilyn Manson's brand of absinthe is called "Mansinthe."