Jon Graboff

​He was 42. The Nashville-born multi-instrumentalist had been a New York fixture for more than a decade, producing and writing for artists as varied as Albert Hammond Jr. and Fat Joe. In 2006, he became the bassist for Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, who dubbed him "Spacewolf." Feinstein recorded three records with the band-- Easy Tiger, Follow The Lights, and Cardinology. "This is the saddest day of my life," Cardinals drummer Brad Pemberton wrote on the Lost Highway website. "I lost my best friend today...things will never be quite the same."

​Musician-in-hiatus Ryan Adams debuted a whole host of work at the Bowery's Morrison Hotel--that old CBGB-gallery-turned-confusingly-low-ambition-purveyor-of-"fine art music photography"--last night, in a balloon-drenched bacchanal of paintings of arcade games and self-portraiture. Today, the gallery's display stares accusingly outward:

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​--The onetime musician Ryan Adams, whose next new book of poetry, Hello Sunshine, just landed on top of his last one, Infinity Blues, at SOTC HQ, is taking his act to the Awl, where he'll be reviewing video games. Ahem: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wasted: It's loud, it's confusing, there are a bunch of lights going off, people (robots) are shooting at you, you need pizza, etc., then its game over. Of course you just play the thing again but as my pops once told me 'You lose when you drop the quarter in.'"

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​--Jay Z, who released a new track with Drake yesterday, is expected to announce today that he will play Madison Square Garden on September 11th, the day Blueprint 3 is scheduled to come out. The show will benefit the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund, created in 1985 to "support families of firefighters and police officers who have died in the line of duty," the New York Times reports. Jay's one of the best massive live acts out there at the moment: his last-minute addition to All Points West last month provided the highlight of the muddy festival. We don't recommend missing this.

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It being April and all, we feel compelled to announce that the long awaited Infinity Blues, the poetry collection by Ryan Adams, is in finally in stores. To the left: a poem drawn from the "Lower Class Mythology" section, one of five chapters that also include "Bad Ideas," "Infinity Blues," "Chapter 11," and "Tomorrow Happens," which it most definitely usually does. At the moment, however, we are mostly hung up on the acknowledgments page, which to our knowledge marks the first instance of the words "Voivod" and "the Dalai Lama" showing up in such proximity to one another. Full scan below.

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