Move over Golden Globes, Lana Del Rey's horrible performance on Saturday Night Live (watch below) is the hot topic of the weekend. We know what Juliette Lewis, Brian Williams, and Bob Lefsetz (most random list ever) think. What's on your mind?

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1:00 PM :: The Princess of Hogwarts
1:15 PM :: The Hungarian Horntails
1:35 PM :: The Cedric Diggorys
1:50 PM :: Fred and George the Band
2:10 PM :: DJ Luna Lovegood
2:35 PM :: SURPRISE GUEST!!
2:50 PM :: Nagini
3:15 PM :: The Butterbeer Experience
3:40 PM :: Split Seven Ways
4:15 PM :: Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills
4:50 PM :: The Moaning Myrtles
5:15 PM :: Celestial Warmbottom
5:40 PM :: Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls
6:25 PM :: Swish and Flick
6:55 PM :: The Remus Lupins
7:45 PM :: The Whomping Willows
8:35 PM :: Draco and the Malfoys

The Sidewalk Cafe schedule reads, "Fri. March 28- Wizard Rock Night: (All the bands play songs influenced by the world of Harry Potter) 8-Catchlove, 9-The Moaning Myrtles, 10-The Whomping Willows, 11-The Malfoys". Also, tickets are on sale for June Harry & the Potters shows at Bowery Ballroom and Southpaw. Related video below...

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EW: What did you do when you finished reading Deathly Hallows?

Daniel Radcliffe: I was in a car at the time. I had my iPod in, and I was listening to Sigur Rós. I don't know if you know them. They're a band who do sort of instrumental music, but it's just amazing. I think they're from Scandinavia somewhere. They've got an album called Takk...I was listening to, and it's very, very appropriate [for the end of Deathly Hallows]. I was listening to it and I remember I was sort of turned away from everybody else in the car, just so I could be in my own little world when I read it. What did I do when I finished? I think I just put the book down and carried on listening to the music. Just looked out of the car window, 'cause I couldn't think of what else to do. I'm still struggling to really take it in. It doesn't leave you in a hurry [EW.com] (thx Jeff)

Harry Potter also likes The Hold Steady, and Art Brut:

"Very very cool...the most entertaining [band]...they're great" - Daniel Radcliffe on Art Brut, to Conan O'Brien

Whether Feist will be reading Harry Potter at the 826NYC benefit is still unknown, though some of you were definitely spotted reading it at the 2007 Village Voice Siren Festival. Photos of Art Brut playing the 2006 Siren Festival, HERE. Some recent Sigur Ros & Iceland news, HERE.

Craig Finn at Hi Fi. Photo: Lee Pelligrini

It has been brought to my attention that the free show at Barnes & Noble will actually just be frontman Craig Finn solo. It is one of B&N's Upstairs in the Square events, and will be hosted by NPR's Kathryn Lampher. For all members of The Hold Steady, check out the shows in Prospect Park, and by the World Trade Center.

Hold Steady @ Shake It, Dec 9, 2006 (CRED)

'Harry Potter' favorite The Hold Steady have a big, free, headlining show coming up in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on August 9th. They also have Craig Finn also has a much smaller, free, NYC show coming up - inside a Harry Potter-selling Barnes & Noble on September 13th.

Want your (photobooth) picture to appear in the artwork for the next Hold Steady single? Details on how you can make that happen, HERE. All tour dates below....

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DOWNLOAD: Harry & The Potters - Save Ginny Weasley (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Harry & The Potters - Wizard Chess (MP3)

and again....

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a Harry Potter tree on Mercer St., NYC - July 20, 2007 (CRED)


Saturday is of course the Siren Festival in Coney Island. Are you going?

Also in NYC - during or after
* Sudanese music @ Summerstage
* Hal Wilner does Doc Pomus @ Prospect Park
* Cadence Weapon & Muggabears play Galapagos
* F'd Up & Pissed Jeans are at Southpaw
* Gogol Bordello plays Irving Plaza again
* Matmos & So Percussion @ Lincoln Center again
* Scissors for Lefty are at Union Hall
* Aimee Mann plays Warsaw
* Stay home and read Harry Potter

What else?

Tickets go on sale Friday for Revenge of REVENGE OF THE BOOK EATERS: a benefit for 826NYC

THE COUNTRY’S MOST CELEBRATED SONGWRITERS, WRITERS, AND COMEDIANS COME TOGETHER FOR AN UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT OF LITERATURE-MEETS-MUSIC TO RAISE MONEY FOR 826NYC, A CHILDREN’S WRITING CENTER IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. IN WHICH:

A.C. NEWMAN (New Pornographers) sings alone. GRIZZLY BEAR is a band. FEIST reads from a book. JIM JAMES (My Morning Jacket) croons. SARAH VOWELL speaks. DEMETRI MARTIN hosts.