Marrying soaring guitar pop and dazzling harmonies with electronic atmospherics, The Republic Tigers manages to straddle the contemporary and vintage. And while you might hear glimmers of the Shins or Caribou, this Tigers’ roar is distinctly original.

May’s turning out to be pretty sweet for the Missouri-based Tigers. The band released its first record, Keep Color on Chop Shop Records, a new label from Alex Patsavas, who, as the savvy music supervisor for prime time guilty pleasures Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl and dead-and-buried teen soap the O.C., made indie rock commercially viable.

And, as if that's not enough, Queerty recently showcased the Tigers’ first single, “Buildings and Mountains." That is a pretty high honor, yes, but the boys are especially jazzed for their television debut on tonight’s Late Show with David Letterman.

Queerty correspondent and fellow Missouri native Megan Metzger spoke with Kenn Jankowski, the Republic Tigers ringleader, about rock ‘n’ roll in the Heart of America, road life and stealing from Sarah Jessica Parker.

Read all about it - after the jump.

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The Sex And The City gals stepped out in London today to premiere their new movie.

Yes, you read that right: a film based around New York City came out in England first. That sort of stings a bit. And we think this geographical diss has our colleague Whitney Little a bit bitter: "As expected, Sarah Jessica Parker stole the spotlight — much to the other stars’ dismay — with a ridiculous bird on top of her head." We, meanwhile, think the hat's fab!

More pictures over at Mollygood.

Here it is, readers: the much-anticipated trailer for the even-more anticipated Sex and The City: The Movie You life will never be the same. Ever.

The poor GOP. First they get their asses pummelled (in a bad way) during Tuesday's election, thus ushering in the first Democratic Congress in 12 years, now Ken Mehlman's resigning from his post as head of the Republican Committee.

Mehlman insists he made the decision over the summer. He tells The Washington Times: "It's something I decided over the summer. No one told me I needed to. In fact, folks wanted me to stay." Lt. Governor Michael Steele of Maryland, an opponent of gay-marriage, has been asked to replace Mehlman: a job that will require to peel the GOP off the pavement and reconstruct the party.

Hmmm. We believe this almost as much as we believe Bush decided to give Rumsfeld the boot before the election. We tend to think that Mehlman's resignation stems more from BlogActive's tenacious questioning and Bill Maher's Larry King outing, which - as you may know - later got censored by the good folks over at CNN.

Now that he won't be heading the RNC, does that mean Mehlman can spend more time at Roxy? We hear he absolutely loves to dance (even more than Sarah Jessica Parker in Girls Just Want to Have Fun, if you can believe it).

Although, we suppose it doesn't really matter, as long as he's gone.

• Is the world ready for Paris Hilton, recording artist? Rumor has it, she's alright…or she paid enough money to make it sound good. [SocialiteLife]

• Not-a-friend-of-the-gays Senator Bill Frist is throwing a hanky-code party and he doesn't know it. Poor boy, he's in for quite the surprise when the boys show up with their latex gloves and humongous tubs of lube. Although it's quite the catchy way to remember his name, as Frist and fist do sound an awful lot a like. We'll always think fondly of Frist when we see red hankies now. [WashPost]

• Matthew Broderick thinks his son is already starting along on the yellow brick road. How much fun would it be for a gay kid to have Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker as parents? And then 10,000 Broadway actors constantly running by, who would each be called "Uncle ___." Not to mention SJP's undoubtedly immense collection of shoes, at your disposal for dress-ups. Who are we kidding? She doesn't let ANYONE touch those shoes, you know it. [PageSix]

• A review of Rosie O'Donnell's documentary, All Aboard! We missed it last night, but we are looking forward to watching it–and luckily HBO plays its shows more often than VH1 repeats So NoTORIous. We're so glad Rosie is back. [ColumbusDispatch]

"We all wanted to do a movie but I think that time has passed. There was a script, there were sets, there were costumes, there was a crew, and that's all gone now. The sets are all broken down or sold or in a dumpster or, I don't know, on eBay. It'd be hard to buy it back. All the shoes, we have. We all have our shoes and they can have them back."

Sarah Jessica Parker on the demise of the Sex And The City movie. Doesn't it break your heart? The movie was was scrapped because Kim Cattrall dropped out to pursue career diversification, and accepted a role in the dismal kid movie The Ice Princess. We'll never forgive her.

Read the whole interview at FemaleFirst; page 2 is more interesting.

Sarah Jessica Parker onFailure To Launch [Female First]

Also: SJB interviewed in Andy's Blog [Bravo}