Mark Ruffalo is in a Brooklyn band?

Brooklyn's Shark? are a greasy splat of post-garage splendor, a remarkably consistent four-man blast of dive-bar jukebox rock who've been kicking around your Cake Shops and Don Pedros for a minute now--if we were in the business of using words like "underrated," we might consider slapping it on these guys. After giving away two homespun EPs at shows and online, Shark? crowd-sourced finances to record their first studio full-length last summer, ultimately raising more than $1500 and offering benefactors who donated more than $100 the chance to choose song subjects. So what topics did people pick? "Numbers, The Best Day Ever, Chicken N' Eggs, and a dog named Winston," frontman Kevin Diamond writes over e-mail. The tracks, he says, are "weird and fun, we're having a good time writing them. The song about The Best Day Ever is about meeting The Replacements."

This is not Christopher R. Weingarten, it's our host Todd Barry. Notice a pattern?

We here at the Village Voice are in the final stages of preparing for our first annual Web Awards, which takes place this Tuesday, December 7 at Santos Party House. Comedian, funnyman, all-around rad dude Todd Barry will host. An award for New York's Best Music Blog will be presented, based on your votes and the infallible expertise of SOTC's triple-threat tag-team. (Nominees announced Friday.) And it is with tremendous pleasure that I take this moment to announce that . . . our very own YIMBY/F2K10 columnist Christopher R. Weingarten (a/k/a @1000TimesYes) will be recreating Eric Harvey's 44-second edited clip of his 140 Character Conference Twitter rant, live! Yes, you can see Whiney curse like a syphilitic sailor and say things like, "Wet spitballs of non-news" and "Fucking Keyboard Cat," and "You're gonna wanna shoot yourself in the fucking face" right before your very eyes, while enjoying free Dogfish Head beer. Plus, there will be Four Loko. Yes in your backyard!