Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, and Jimmy Fallon’s jobs at NBC might be a big ol’ question mark at this hour, but the Roots/Late Night with Jimmy Fallon drummer Questlove has already lined up at least one safety net gig. Welsh singer Duffy is in the middle of a 3-week NYC recording session for her second album with Questlove, aka ?uestlove, and the Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s father Albert Hammond… Sr.!

Reuters reports that Questlove, born Ahmir Thompson, and Hammond, who wrote “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” (?!), have already laid down early material that “feels like it was born in 1963.”

Perhaps I’ll come around to Duffy at some point, but, for now, let’s root for this project in the name of Questlove and Albert Hammond’s dad, so long as he stays out of the Strokes’ way while the boys have a tiger by the tail.

Wayne Coyne sure doesn’t censor himself. The Flaming Lips frontman, and inflatable ball crowd surfer, has snubbed 4 of the UK’s top music acts. In an interview with the Daily Star (via AngryApe) Coyne said:

“I’ve never got Arctic Monkeys - they seem too much like a British thing to me. They’re like Oasis whereby Americans can’t really relate to them. Lots of British people like it but not for me, and I don’t like Razorlight or Duffy much either.”

Possibly realizing he came off as an anti-Britite, Coyne clarified his statement by saying some of his best friends are British: “I prefer Radiohead - they deserve to win a Grammy. And I’m still a fan of Amy Winehouse but hope she doesn’t become too much of a drug addict.”