At 11 a.m., New Yorkers got their long awaited, announced in advance, ticketed-and-everything, first official Neutral Milk Hotel show (slated for October 29th) in a long, long time. And at 11:01 a.m., perhaps unsurprisingly, it was already over--if LCD Soundsystem can sell out Madison Square Garden in less than a second, then rest assured Jeff Mangum can manage to fill the much smaller capacity Town Hall in a minute or so. This time, people actually seemed to get tickets. But not many of them. And their elation was immediately drowned in the tears of their less lucky peers. Phish fans, what did you do before Twitter made every highly anticipated ticketing event such a heartrending circus of human pathos?:

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Tame by comparison, believe it or not.

Odd Future, a/k/a OFWGKTA, a/k/a Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, are a teenage L.A. rap collective who've been raising a ruckus for a few months now. Tonight they hit Santos Party House for their second-ever NYC performance, but tomorrow's the big one: They'll be making their nationally televised debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

Those unfamiliar with this crew -- the vast majority of Fallon's audience, for example -- are in for quite a surprise. To call Odd Future's lyrics offensive is to engage in wild understatement. On leader Tyler, the Creator's already acclaimed new track, "Yonkers," he raps that "This ain't no V-Tech shit or Columbine/But after bowling, I went home for some damn adventure time," and that's just one of the lines we feel comfortable quoting. Despite the track's other moral indiscretions (he threatens to stab Bruno Mars in the neck), it's pretty much guaranteed that he'll play it on Fallon -- it's one of only two OFWGKTA songs available on iTunes, after all. So here are five Odd Future songs you will most likely not hear blasting from your television tomorrow night, and thank god.

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Rhett Miller, whose name has the misfortune of rhyming with mine

​I knew this day would come. Today via mass email I learned that a piqued local musician -- aliases include CXB, Touching You, and many other charming handles deployed in emails I've been idly skimming for nearly five years -- has written a charming ditty titled "Kill Harvilla," providing both the lyrics and the instrumental MP3. Against my better judgment, I have provided both below, taking the liberty of marking with asterisks those lines I consider to be falsehoods.

Ahem:

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​Watching the Times attempt to cover profane bands, songs, and social phenomena without offending their august readership by actually using profanity remains a great joy of ours, so it is with great happiness that we announce that they've finally weighed in on... a certain song. By Cee Lo. Very popular on the Internet recently. You know the one:

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I'm not even 100 percent sure what's happening here, but it's pretty incredible. Alas, apparently Sam himself couldn't hear it, which is a shame, but given all the bleeps I guess unless you were there, you can't really, either. In the extraordinarily rare event Mel Gibson ever shows up, this'd work great for him, too.

Rad song too.

The Paper of Record's dedication to both safeguarding our sense of verbal decorum and giving shine to Toronto's finest proto-anarchist punk band is a lovely thing: The Times writes about Fucked Up a whole lot considering they'll only render the band's name as ********. (Examples here and here.) Been a while since this happened (with dismaying silence even after FU released the 2009 Canadian Album of the Year), but finally, over the weekend, a resurgence!

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