Thirsty? We thought so. After all, it’s Friday afternoon. How about a crisp, refreshing glass of End Hits, the Mercury’s music blog?

Here’s a little taste of what you missed this week by NOT reading End Hits.

A splash of reviewin’:
• Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks LIVE with the Joggers!
• Throw Me the Statue! Also LIVE! (But not with the Joggers.)
• The Night Marchers at the Hawthorne Theatre! …you guessed it: LIVE!
• The new split 7-inch by Hey Lover and Cafeteria Dance Party! This is a record! NOT LIVE!

A dash of news and information:
• Our thoughts on blog upstarts the Black Kids!
• Roger Waters loses his hog!
• Cut Copy talks about classic TV mini-series The Thorn Birds!
• The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle blogs for Powell’s!
• The Muslims rock! (Is that allowed?)
• A look back at outdated video format VHS! (What’s that? Oh, it’s VSS the band?)
• A preview of the Goodbye Babylon box set!

A jigger of pretty things to look at:
• Sons & Daughters and Bodies of Water! Lots of pics!
• Cut Copy and the Black Kids! Even more pics!
• The gates of Hell open up at a Christian rock show! Hilarious!
• Either I am on acid or the Shins are visiting a children’s TV show! (Or both.)
• Hutch & Kathy hit the Oregon Coast!
• Santogold’s fantastic new song on Conan!
• A trailer of the Darby Crash biopic!
• Phosphorescent on Black Cab Sessions!

And a squeeze of MP3 juice all over the place:
• Lil Wayne!
• Quasi!
• Cryptacize!
• Basia Bulat!
• A song from Forgetting Sarah Marshall!
• Vetiver!
• El Cerdo!
• Viking Moses!
• Peter Moren!
• Hayden!
• Lyrics Born!
• VHS or Beta!
SO MUCH MORE!
This is what happens when you don’t read End Hits.