Check out some Amy Winehouse

For those of you who've been living under a rock, or, on the West Coast, the next great thing is Amy Winehouse (for everyone else, she was the last great thing). She's British. She's Jewish. She's anorexic/coke addled. She sings like the exact opposite of a British, Jewish, anorexic/coke addled woman. Last January this neo-soul/motown crooner had to abruptly end a concert after the first song because she was so drunk she needed to throw-up. And she refuses to go to rehab.

I guess she is also doing remarkably well for a brit trying to break into the US market, with her album Back to Black topping the iTunes and Amazon charts for a few weeks, and making it up to #7 on the billboard 200.

It also looks like she is performing at Popscene in SF on April 26 if you'd like to cruise the door for anyone selling. Apparently, in an attempt to thwart the e-bay and craigslist-ploitation of fans for ticket prices in excess of $200/ticket for her upcoming new york show (and this from what seems like a real person who is open to "trade if you have an interesting offer" as opposed to your run-of-the-mill ticket scalper who only traffics in $100 bills and/or human kidneys...) Popscene has imposed a will-call only on the day of the show photo-id policy...

Anyway, see her for free on Leno tonight. Well, not quite 'free' if you count how much you should be getting paid per hour to watch Leno. Actually, you should watch Letterman until about 12:29, and then start flipping back and forth until she comes on. I'm actually a bit upset that I am suggesting that anyone watch Leno, but we already missed Amy's appearance on Letterman from about a month ago, and it wasn't exactly exciting. At least, not as exciting as this unbelievably drunk cover of Beat It.

Here is her video for Rehab