THE MOLDY PEACHES: No, really, who’s got the crack?

If you’re like us and figured “Anyone Else But You” was written as a spit-swapping duet between the Moldy Peaches back when they still liked one another, the following Kimya Dawson clarification might shock you:

“Me and Adam Green wrote this song while sitting on a bench in Tomkins Square Park,” Dawson explains in an e-mail to S/T headquarters. “We didn’t write it about each other. We both had other imaginary people in mind. Like our dream best friend/dates.

She continues, “We used to call our crushes hippies. We would wander around NYC in the cold all night long ‘looking for hippies.’ I guess this is kind of what we would have sang to our hippies if we ever found them. We didn’t find hippies back then. But the song’s still nice. I am 9 years older than Adam so he was still kind of kid back then. It would have been gross if we were singing to each other. It is cute to see Juno and Bleeker sing it to each other though. It feels right. It’s a song for awkward kids. We’re old hags now. Pass the torch.”

Wow. We now blame the media for placing the Peaches on an indefinite hiatus. (You know, all that ‘anti-folk’ nonsense way back when?) In related news, Green’s latest solo LP, Sixes & Sevens, is out on March 18 through Rough Trade, and it’s way better than that whole Juno thing with the forced cool kid dialog and low Michael Cera quotient.

MP3s and some awkward videos (including the duo’s recent View ‘reunion’) after the jump …

THE BLACK CROWES: Scarier than ‘The Birds’

The Black Crowes have lashed out at Maxim for publishing a two-and-a-half star review of Warpaint, their first studio record in seven years. Not because they simply didn’t like it; because they only heard one song (“Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution”). According to a press release from the band’s reps, advance copies of the album haven’t been released, a fact Maxim itself has confirmed. And their defense for slamming their disc? The ‘review’ was an “educated guess preview.”

“Maxim’s actions seem to completely lack journalistic integrity and intentionally mislead their readership,” Black Crowes manager Pete Angelus said in a statement. “In an email correspondence, Maxim went on to state, ‘Of course, we always prefer to (sic) hearing music, but sometimes there are big albums that we don’t want to ignore that aren’t available to hear, which is what happened with the Crowes. It’s either an educated guess preview or no coverage at all, so in this case we chose the former.’”

Angelus added, “It speaks directly to the lack of the publication’s credibility. In my opinion, it’s a disgrace to the arts, journalism, critics, the publication itself and the public. What’s next—Maxim’s concert reviews of shows they never attended, book reviews of books never read and film reviews of films never seen?”

CAT POWER and DEVANDRA BANHART do the twist

Tickets for the much-hyped All Points West Music & Arts Festival go on sale next Friday at noon EST through Ticketmaster. Surprisingly, given the relatively small lineup of around 40 acts over three days, single day passes are $89 and three-day tickets are $258. As rumored, the show’s headliners include Radiohead (on Friday, August 8, and Saturday, August 9) and Jack Johnson (on Sunday), the latter of which is already headlining the (arguably stronger, sans Radiohead) Coachella festival in late April. Other key acts include Cat Power, Underworld, the Roots, Animal Collective and Kings of Leon.

The full rundown for now after the jump …