Top Chef, continues to mesmerizes with its faux-real amalgamation of culinary school, rehab, group therapy and sleep-away camp rolled into one supersonic pupu platter for the senses.

It also produces celebre-chefs the entire country conspires to either hate or adore (or both, as is the case with Sam Talbot, who recently got the fawning, barftastic New York Times Style section treatment–”When two nonmodel women came up, stammering and giggling, he politely helped them talk”).

Harold Dieterle, the winner of the first season of the first iteration of Top Chef, is one of the lucky beloved. Probably because he got in on the ground floor, when we were still young and innocent, before Marcel, Lisa and Howie slithered onto the screen.

Not convinced? Check out his appearance on Nightline, where he chats about the importance of giving grandma the all-star treatment (in the form of magnum-sized Beringer white Zinfandels on the rocks, natch).

WHY? are holding an eBay charity auction to benefit Hands on Tokyo, a volunteer organization currently providing disaster relief after the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Up for grabs are original handwritten lyrics, mixing and mastering notes from recording sessions and test pressings. Bidders can head to Josiah Wolf’s eBay account, and all proceeds go to Hands on Tokyo.

The grand prize is “Golden Ticket #4,” a personalized song written for the winner. The highest bidder sends WHY? a few details about themselves, then Yoni Wolf cyber-stalks them for inspiring lyrics, and Josiah produces the song. Check out past winners on WHY?’s website.

Though supporting relief efforts in Japan was a no-brainer, peep other causes they’ve considered in the past.

Searching for a unique live show amid the tiresome ubiquity of tight black jeans and ironic posturing? You’re in luck, kid. Inspired by the The Vegetable Orchestra, students at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University will be performing entirely with vegetables as instruments.

Set to play at the ungodly hour of 11 a.m., this archipelago of randomness, brilliance and aggressive oddness–reminiscent of Yoko Ono during her “Grapefruit” phase–is as refreshing a break from the current scene as the first balmy day of spring.

The Long Island Vegetable Orchestra plays on “instruments” completely made of vegetables. There’s the eggplant clapper, hollowed out carrot flutes, turnip bongos, bell pepper trumpets and leek violins. The weirdest part? It’s actually pretty awesome.

If you can’t bear to roll out of bed before noon for a show, check out the original Viennese band, in all of their glory, below.

Big Boi, De La Soul and Atmosphere are heading the fourth annual Soundset Festival May 29 outside Minneapolis at Canterbury Park. Also performing are Curren$y, Slaughterhouse, Brother Ali, Doomtree, Macklemore, Rubberoom and dozens more.

Spearheaded by Rhymesayers Entertainment, the festival also features b-boy and MC battles, live art, skate demos and a custom car show. Tickets go on sale this Friday.

Atmosphere will release their newest full-length The Family Sign April 12. Check out Pitchfork’s recent interview with Slug on the new record, the Minneapolis sound and whiskey poisoning.

To promote their new surprise album, The King of Limbs, Radiohead will release a newspaper “The Universal Sigh” March 28 internationally and March 29 in the U.S and Canada.

“Dedicated teams of newspaper delivery people will be handing out copies” of “The Universal Sigh,” in select locations across the globe according to paper’s website. Find your nearest location here.

Physical copies of the new album will be accompanied by an entirely separate newspaper in May, though no details have been released on that just yet.

Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner still hasn’t been swayed by Radiohead. Maybe this is the band’s attempt to convert anybody still holding out?

Indie artist Andrew Belle currently straddles Chicago and Nashville, two of the best indie music/food cities in the country, and his down home, rustic, wry style reflects the comfortable literary wit evoked by his surroundings.

Belle’s work is selling like hotcakes on iTunes, and cheesy/tweeny TV shows are picking him up (One Tree Hill, The Vampire Diaries, Keeping Up With the Kardashians), but food is an equal passion.

Belle enthusiastically embraces the zeitgeist-y space that exists between the overlapping worlds. And he somehow finds the time to update his website almost daily, constantly blogging about food, posting gorgeous, beautifully plated photos of his experiments–plus recipes.

In fact, he’s so committed, he launched his own cooking channel on YouTube called ABTV, devoted to cooking every recipe in Jamie Oliver’s “America” cookbook.

Join him in his quest to make creamy bacon and cider mussels, below.

Cult dubstep musician Burial (William Bevan) will release the 12″ “Street Halo” on March 28 via Hyberdub, which includes two b-sides, the twenty-minute long “New York” and “Stolen Dog.” The single marks his first release of solo material since the highly regarded Untrue in 2007.

Just last week he appeared on a collaboration with Thom Yorke and Four Tet, the 12″ “Ego/Mirrors.” Burial previously worked with both musicians, including a remix of Yorke’s “And It Rained All Night.”

The elusive artist rarely gives interviews, and his identity was unknown until 2008. For insight into the low-key producer’s sound, FACT magazine got the scoop from the man himself.