Still Not Over Last Week: Top Ten Cool Happenings From The Week That Was

• Little Steven started a wicked cool record label

• Someone on eBay paid $155,401.00 for an acetate made during the Velvet Underground & Nico recordings. The seller was a Canadian dude who got the record for 75 cents in 2002 at a flea market in Chelsea.

• Speaking of the Velvets, RBally posted an excellent soundboard of a NYC Lou Reed show from '73.

• Tom Waits 3xCD package Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards was the top seller at Amoeba Records, beating out single-disc releases from pop culture VIPs The Beatles & Jay-Z.

• Captain's Dead posted A LIVE FUCKIN' FIGGS SHOW from SF in 2001, hot off the heels of Sucking In Stereo.

• Sly & The Family Stone are playing a one-off show together, with Sly billed as special legendary guest "coach" at the Disneyland House Of Blues in January. Book your flight now.

• Nigel Goodrich launched his music television show From The Basement, a web-only pay-to-download live music/studio program with all audio recorded by Mr. Godrich himself. Check out previews from Show #1, featuring Thom Yorke & The White Stripes.

• David Fricke was nominated for a Grammy.

• The Stooges announced they've wrapped the recording of their forthcoming reunion album. Slated to be released this March .
IGGY: "The one thing that kind of amazes me is that it sounds like us, But it doesn't sound quite like Fun House, Raw Power or our first one. You put it on, and right away, you'd know, well, that's them. There they go."

UNCOOL: High Fidelity: The Musical opened on Broadway.
Silver Lining: NY Post theater critic Clive Barnes panned it as "material that hits a Top Five list of what should never have been used in a musical."