For the casual fan, a greatest hits collection can be a great way to get all your favorite tunes without having to plod through the obscurities of an artist's blue period or their ill-advised country phase to the turds from their shameless band-wagon-jumping disco album. Nothing but the golden radio gems. And, like I said, that's fine for most bands, lesser bands, sub-standard bands, bands who are fine defecating on their fans by foisting artless garbage on them. But other bands, superior bands, just aren't capable of writing anything isn't an eargasm of perfection and when one of those bands releases a best of that isn't just a box set of their entire works, then that band is doing a disservice to the planet, to humanity as a whole and to any alien civilizations that may visit our planet in the future looking for choice music, dank marijuana and weapons grade corn dogs to reload their snargle blaster death beams. Unfortunately one such band has released a greatest hits album… that band? Everclear. For the first time, Everclear’s best studio and concert recordings have been gathered for a new collection, The Vegas Years, to be released April 15^th. Of course the “best” in this “best of” refers to the original versions of these songs from which this album of covers is derived. The disc features fourteen covers the band recorded between 1994 and this year, including versions of Hall & Oates’ “Rich Girl” and Paul Revere & The Raiders’ “Kicks,” and more.

Hey, tubby goth girls who want to get skinny, but only if you still get to guzzle Grey Goose Vodka like Louie Anderson shotgunning a bottle of bacon fat after doing the caterpillar across the Bonneville salt flats, I have good news for you. Kelly Osbourne plans to release a fitness tape. Yes, shimmy off that muffin top with Kelly and her entourage of drag queens. Seriously.

Kelly Osbourne has dramatically slimmed down since playing Mama Morton in the London theater production of 'Chicago' and is eager to share her weight loss tips and has asked her drag queen pals to join her for the exercise routines.

"She wants it to be a hedonist's guide to toning up. So many exercise DVDs can be boring, cynical and useless - she wants this one to be different."