Zombie Blondie made a video featuring zombies! OK, it may not be fair to call Blondie "zombie" since the band's ratio of original members to replacement players is nowhere near that of Zombie Guns N' Roses. The band's current personnel includes three originals (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Clem Burke), a member who joined when they first reunited in 1997 (bassist Leigh Foxx), and two newish faces: guitarist Tommy Kessler and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen. In September, this Blondie will release Panic of Girls, their ninth studio album and first disc since 2003's The Curse of Blondie. And from a listen to first single "Mother" (aforementioned zombie video above), producers Jeff Saltzman and Kato Khandwala have helped the band recapture a swaggering new wave disco vibe. It sounds great!

According to the band's reps, "Mother" is an homage to the notorious Manhattan nightclub, where presumably patrons were not consumed by zombies on a regular basis. The disc also features a song performed

Tomorrow, May 19th, marks what would have been the 60th birthday of Joey Ramone, the mop-haired frontman of one of the greatest punk bands ever. Ramone passed away in 2001, but the Village Voice is commemorating the occasion with a whole bunch of Ramones features, including an incredibly in-depth interview with director Allan Arkush, who helmed the band's 1979 cult classic Rock N' Roll High School. If you're a fan of the second greatest music film in rock history (Purple Rain FTW), this interview is a must-read, but here are some of the highlights:

• The film was originally planned as Disco High, but disco was dying and producers wanted to cast... Cheap Trick and Van Halen. Both bands were first considered to bring rock & roll to high school, but in the end the Ramones won out. "The Ramones' name came up, and I smiled, and I remember thinking, 'Now, that fits in with my theme of certain kinds of people who define their lifestyle by the bands that you love.'" Arkush told VV.

• Producer

Who's Number One: Adele cruised to an eighth week at the peak of Billboard's Top 200 with 156,000 more copies of 21 sold, bringing her grand total so far to 1.7 million according to Nielsen SoundScan. She's the first and so far only million-seller of 2011 and we are almost halfway through the year. That is a scary stat. It also explains why Interscope is going through such great lengths to sell Lady Gaga's Born This Way in every outhouse, henhouse, and doghouse in America. The music industry needs another hit. Now.

Who's Probably Firing Off Profane Victory Speeches Right About Now: SNL jokesters the Lonely Island and Tyler, the Creator of the L.A. rap collective Odd Future. Andy Samberg and Co. managed a Number Three debut with Turtleneck and Chain -- 68,000 copies sold, which is solid for a comedy disc -- and despite a leak and some bad karma, 45,000 people decided Goblin was the right album for them, landing the badly behaved MC Number Five.

So That Means ...: The 38th retread of

The handwritten lyrics to John Lennon's maybe-ode to acid, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," hit the auction block this week, and like all things involving the Beatles, the demand was very high for this unique item. In fact, the lyric sheet sold for slightly more than expected; $200,000 was the estimated high bid, but it ended up selling for the Pick Six-looking figure of $237,132, the BBC reports. Why the losing bidder didn't offer $237,133 is beyond us.

As The Amp previously reported, the lyric sheet contained a few verses from the classic song -- including "the girl with kaleidoscope eyes" line, with Lennon amazingly spelling "kaleidoscope" correctly in a pre-Spell Check era -- as well as a Lennon sketch of "four people in a room with windows draped in curtains." As an added bonus, the "Lucy" lyric sheet also featured the opening lines of the Sgt. Pepper track "She's Leaving Home," one of the last "Lennon/McCartney" songs to actually be written by both Lennon and McCartney. The