If Rachael Ray has her way (and she generally does), Brooklyn will be ground zero for a half-baked cooking/music fusion experience hosted by none other than the inimitable Ray of sunshine herself.

Mark your calendars for June 19th, when Brooklynites will be graced with Ray’s food and her hubby’s band (aptly named the Cringe); the festivities are set to commence at The Bell Jar in Gowanus. The substandard chow-o-rama is sponsored by Snapple and will be free to enter for any and all unwitting members of the public who happen to suffer the misfortune of stumbling upon the culinary and cacophonous catastrophe.

In addition to the Cringe, Justin Townes Earle, Freelance Whales and J-Roddy Walston and the Business will be cranking up the tunes as Ray dishes out her, er, signature creations. Somehow Pizza Moto, Daisy May’s BBQ, gelato purveyor G.S. and Aaron Sanchez got roped into providing sustenance to the sweating, traumatized masses as well.

(THE RAY INVADES BK)

!!! will release Strange Weather, Isn’t It? on August 24 via Warp. It’s the band’s fourth full-length and first release since 2007′s Myth Takes, and was produced by Eric Broucek, also behind the boards on recent LCD Soundsystem and Hercules and Love Affair records.

The album also features a new lineup, with Nic Offer, guitarist Mario Andreoni, horn player/keyboardist Daniel Gorman and saxophonist/percussionist Allan Wilson. The first release since the death of drummer Jerry Fuchs, Fuchs plays on one song.

Check out the new single “AM/FM” over at Pitchfork, and here’s to hoping the band is just as proud of this album as they were the last.

I’m a big beer nerd. Nothing gets me quite as irrationally exuberant as the prospect of cracking into a Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, an Ommegang Rouge Grand Cru or a Three Floyds anything. I drink beer for the little party of bubbling texture and rich, malty, fruity, brambly notes it creates in my mouth; I drink it because it’s yummy; I drink it because it’s fun. There’s no room for sturm und drang when I grapple with suds.

But when I crank open a bottle of wine, I’m generally either a) celebrating something with a loved one or b) so far down in the dumps only a proper slog through a glass or two of the purple stuff will do. So the notion of pairing wines with my mood, music or movies seems obvious, but it didn’t fully occur to me until a few geniuses down under launched the wine/DVD pairing service called oovie.

Leave tiresome pairings of chardonnay with fish and nice pinot noirs with steaks to the blue hairs. Check out oovie’s brilliance!

Vice and Intel have launched The Creators Project, a series of events featuring interactive art, screenings and music performances. The series kicks off in New York City on June 26 at Milk Studios, where music guests include Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Martyn Ware of The Human League, Mark Ronson and more. They’ve also spent time chatting it up with Phoenix, Richie Hawtin and Sulumi.

The event will then move to London, Sao Paolo, Seoul and finish in Beijing, with year two already in the works. Tickets are free and available through The Creators Project website.

T.H. White gives props to Mark Ronson, who will be playing at all five parties.

Musicians’ obsession with food is well-documented–from Moby, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Sammy Hagar, Huskur Du and Jay-Z , it seems there’s no end to artiste’s fascination with the notably greasy, gritty and inglorious industry of ingestibles.

Their success, longevity and talent in said industry? Let’s just say most of them shouldn’t quit their wildly glamorous, lucrative and be-glittered day jobs to sweat with other members of the hoi polloi over flaming burners anytime soon.

That’s with the highly conspicuous exception of Kelis, who recently released the new record Flesh Tone–but not before taking a four-year break from the music world to become a saucier, one of the most difficult and uncelebrated posts in the kitchen.

(MORE FLAVOR AFTER THE JUMP)

Think you’ve done some crazy shit? No, son. Keith Richards has done some crazy shit. All the juicy details are forthcoming in his first autobiography, due out in October via Little, Brown & Company.

The Rolling Stones guitarist tells The Independent, “Talking to some of the people that were there and their version of events to try and correlate it all was very interesting, a kind of kaleidoscopic bunch of experiences.”

In other Rolling Stones news, their 1972 classic Exile on Main St. will be reissued on May 18 featuring 10 outtakes, including “Plundered My Soul,” “Dancing in the Light,” “Following the River” and “Pass the Wine,” as well as alternate versions of “Loving Cup” and “Soul Survivor.”

Check out Mudhoney on the legend of Keith, and see the man recall a thing or two on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

Haute peasant food–best embodied by the omnipresence of sophisticated interpretations of street food dispensed by gastro-hipsters the country over–is here to stay.

Not only are creepy press releases being issued on the subject (a sure sign that the “trend” has officially entered the Bible-thumping, Cadillac-driving mainstream), but entire festivals supported by, arguably, the world’s most talented living chefs (Daniel Boulud, David Chang, Eric Ripert, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Michael “Bao” Huynh) are being spawned in its honor.

Brooklyn’s DUMBO recently hosted a night market inspired by the street foods and markets of Asia, from Taipei to Kuala Lumpur. They dished out endless samples of food, tea, beer and cocktails for bloated revelers.

(STREET MEAT!)