The means streets of Wigan, full of gun-toting gangsters shooting each other over territory wars. Sorry, that should be the mean bedrooms of Wigan, where the kids are playing computer games that feature gun-toting gangsters shooting each other over territory wars. But, sadly, the kids think they are those villainous hardasses. Here’s Mike Rees putting [...]

Everyone remembers His Bobness’s famous hits, like “Mr Tangerine Man”, “It’s Alright Ma (It’s Just A Scratch)”, “Like A Rolling Stone”, but no one ever remembers the lesser known of his oeuvre that got ripped off by such luminaries as Sir Mix-A-Lot, the protest song singer who likes a big butt or two. And this [...]

As miniature analogue synthesizers that use a stylus go, this is pretty fly. Cart it around in your coat pocket, then when you’re somewhere and everyone’s aching for some synth-party time, you can whip out this little beauty and lay down some sounds. It’s like something a futuristic Link might use when he tires of [...]

Oh hell yeah. A Playmobil Joy Division performing on the TV show ‘Something Else’ in a pretty much shot-for-shot remake of their last performance. Even down to Ian Curtis’s head jitterings. Amazing band, amazing idea, amazingly executed. Dance, dance, dance to the radio, y’all.

Time was young boys wanted to be spacemen, cowboys, arctic explorers or some other such adventurer. No more, now the geek rules and so when a young boy’s grown up they want to be an Information/Software/Whatever engineers calculating Calculus. You’ve got to love the math.

Those death-heavy-Satan-black-metal fans get younger every year. In my day you’d sacrifice children as young as that to Golthacultmicon, the slathering, unholy demon-god of metal who only spoke in shrieks and farted distorted guitar sounds. Now they’re the ones running the operation. Still, good to see the young ‘uns projectile vomiting blood.

All those shitty pop hits that come steaming out of the hit factory like a turd falling from the sky and landing in your piano-shaped swimming pool. You could do better, right? That’s the reasoning behind this guy and his musician mate Dan Bennett aka Transit’s task to create a pop hit in under 8 [...]

And so. The great rap battle of pale white kids 2011 begins. (Pale kid raps ‘fast’ was SO yesterday!) It’ll go down in history as a time of such cultural richness, of such fertile artistic abundance that the Italian Renaissance will be a barely remembered footnote to it. Paler. Faster. Gayer.

Boxes are, like, totally dope yo. Arts and crafts is just the most pimpin’ shiz you ever do witnizz and this song pays dues to that most gangster of containers, the box. It’s about time too, we be using them for all sorts of storage since, like, 40 years or so. Maybe 45. “If you [...]

It’s almost more enjoyable watching this girl perform this in sign language than it is watching that kinetic typography version. She’s just full of attitude, so next time you’re down the local disco, drunkenly flaying your arms about while trying to rub your crotch on the girl in the tight pink dress, and this song [...]

So, it now seems the iPad is the musical instrument du jour for the discerning pop star about town. And playing live? Forget using a stage, that was so 1998. Now it’s all about an impromptu gig at your local mobile phone retailer, preferably you have a friend who works there and can grant you [...]