Allow me to begin this week’s recap with an unrelated plug for those of youse in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tristate area (yeah, more East Coast bias). We caught a preview of a provocative new play on Friday night, an incredibly well-performed one-man show from fellow Northwestern alum Dan Hoyle.

Tings Dey Happen vividly portrays Hoyle’s account of his year as a Fulbright scholar in the Niger Delta researching oil politics — and it’s so well-done you’ll get over the fact that it’s a one-man show very quickly. The show sold out six months worth of shows in San Francisco, and it’s playing in SoHo for at least six weeks. Check it.

Alright, now let’s take a look back at the week that was ’round these parts…

• Awww, that’s really cute: Vegoose thinks it’s Coachella
• Girl Talk brings out the drunken vomit in Widespead Panic fans
• ?uestlove gets the “Not Now, Friend” from his high school alma mater
• ACL announces (already sold-out) late-night shows
• Starbucks will release an album called Shine (no, not that Shine)
• Crowded House makes its triumphant return to New York
• Get your saliva glands ready for The Darjeeling Limited
• Improve your iPod: MP3 Boot Camp and Grousing The Aisles
• And don’t neglect the sweetness of the Pullin’ ‘Tubes archives