So yeah, Avril Lavigne’s Best Damn Thing is still on top of the charts. She sold 121,630 copies of the record this week, down 58 percent from last week’s sales but still good enough to put her ahead of Joe’s Aint Nothing Like Me (which sold 98,090 copies) and Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero, which sold 57,666 copies.This evening, on your local PBS affiliate station, you can watch Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner be interviewed by Charlie Rose. Tune in.Check out Us Weekly’s play-by-play account of Britney’s surprise performance last night in San Diego. It’s worth marveling at the fact that she actually went through with it.Panic! At the Disco have aped much of their performance style from the Smashing Pumpkins circa Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, so we guess it makes sense that the cabaret emo boys will be contributing to a forthcoming Pumpkins tribute record. Details re: the album are currently sketchy but it seems My Chemical Romance will also be participating in the project, which will be released by Myspace Records.Check out the cover art for the Beastie Boys new album The Mix Up. We wonder what it would have looked like if the record was called “Thick Like Beyonce’s Legs” as originally planned.This time the Fratellis are too exhausted to continue rocking. The band has apparently canceled the remainder of their scheduled U.S. shows because they are “knackered.” This = not very punk rock.