Yeah, we know: Beyoncé covered Alanis and Slash added the “November Rain” solo to that Jamie Foxx summer jam and Ke$ha slurred an announcement alongside the kid that plays Harry Potter and Taylor Swift even embarrassed herself next to Stevie Nicks and and and… there’s a whole lot of Grammy to discuss around the water cooler today. But one thing you might consider injecting is a quip about Coldplay’s sorely missed/heavily DVR’d appearance on The Simpsons last night. As announced last July, Chris Martin and his merry (Read: weirdly silent) men were invited by Homer to play a private show for him and Bart in Springfield after the former won the lottery. Unfortunately, their set didn’t go so well: one of a few interruptions, Bart stopped the fivesome in the middle of “Vida La Vida” to use the bathroom.

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Simpson’s creator Matt Groening is set to curate the first weekend of All Tomorrow’s Parties, May 7-9 2010 at the venerable Butlins resort in Minehill, England. Unlike Pavement, who curate the next weekend, this isn’t Groening’s first rodeo, as he curated the second Stateside ATP in 2003, selecting acts like Cat Power, !!! and Sonic Youth to round out his lineup. ATP, so incestuous. No stranger to musical guests or whats expected at ATP, let’s just hope that Groening pulls out all the stops for the UK installment, including, and believe me our fingers are crossed, Lisa Simpson and Bleeding Gums Murphy performing Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew as part of ATP’s longstanding Don’t Look Back series.