advanced news ticker (warning! some non-music items): Kenyon playing at 169 bar next Thursday....hearing Bon Jovi's new single over the PA in Stop n' Shop is not cool, cause, well, the song ain't no "It's My Life"....Busy Phillips of Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's Creek fame is not as cool when producers want her to seem kinda black in a dumb sitcom called Love Inc....new DVDs from Jesus Jones, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and other washed-up early '90s bands are at MVD....ticketmaster/MSG has been releasing single seat tickets for U2 (I tried the other day and a seat for $169 on the floor right behind the stage came up, I passed)....Kenyon seeing U2 at MSG this Monday; tickets for Depeche Mode at MSG go on sale the same day just to make things more complicated....Fischerspooner is playing at Irving Plaza on Halloween; band will not be looking very special given that it's NYC....stellastarr* hosting Subterranean on MTV2 November 6....these re-envisioned film trailers for The Shining and Titanic are mad surreal.