By the end of every week there are a bunch of music-related stories, cool links, videos, and other internet ditties that we haven’t managed to get to throughout the week.
And here is where they land, in a glorious, gossipy stream of the web’s tastiest tidbits for your trashy pleasure.
Benedict Cumberbatch Gets Sexy With R. Kelly Lyrics
In the latest instalment of ‘Jimmy Kimmel is a music trolling genius‘, the late night talk show host had everyone’s new favourite English character actor Benedict Cumberbatch (seriously Sherlock, Star Trek, AND J.R.R. Tolkien!? Lad’s got range) to lend his dulcet tones to some romantic lyrics. If by romance you mean the lothario ‘word play’ of sexed-up RnB singer R. Kelly, and his ‘Genius’ single from new album Black Panties. The Emmy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominee giving lines like ‘I’mma hit that thing again’ just the right tantalising amount of curdle. Genius? Definitely. As Kimmel notes, “watch your back 2 Chainz!”
Haim Start A Twitter War With Los Campesinos!
Thanks to the ever-watching eye of social media, chances are you’re going to get caught out the more often you cat-call others. Just ask Gareth Paisey of Los Campesinos! who started up a beef with sibling band Haim after he tweeted “Playing a gig across the road from a Haim gig tonight” with a picture of himself flipping the bird towards the venue where the Cali-sisters were playing. Haim, who were performing at The Ritz – opposite where Los Campesinos! were playing at Gorilla – responded with a mirrored tweet of their own, but with the added ‘up yours’ might of their packed audience. ‘Bass face’ specialist Este Haim later adding to the beef by tweeting: YOU FUCK WITH ME I FUCK WITH YOU HARDER. AND I LOVE EVERYONE THAT WAS AT THE SHOW TONIGHT.” The moral of the story? Keep your enemies close, and your tweets even closer.
Simon Cowell Says “What’s A Jake Bugg?”, Calls Westlife Ugly
The list of reasons to severely dislike X Factor judge Simon Cowell is already pretty long, but a vocal slip-up from Mr. Manufactured Music has given reason to add to it. Hitting back at critics of the British ‘talent’ show, Cowell demonstrated he has no idea who Britain’s fastest rising 19-year-old singer-songwriter is. When asked about Jake Bugg, he replied: “What’s that?” But then almost immediately redeemed himself a little by slagging Irish boy band Westlife on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno; “When they first came along, they were the ugliest boyband in the world. Seriously, like you couldn’t get uglier,” remarked the 54-year-old mogul of the group he helped sign. Didn’t anyone tell you Simon, ‘you say it best when you say nothing at all’. (Hang on. That was Boyzone, never mind…)
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Beatle’s Wife Gets Beatles Tribute Band For Her Birthday
What do you get for the man who has everything? Forget that, if you’re the man who has everything – including a multi-million dollar fortune and a reputation for shaping the landscape of contemporary culture – you get your wife a damn funny surprise. While on tour in Japan to promote his new album New, Sir Paul ‘see what I did there’ McCartney organised for a Beatles tribute act to perform at a surprise 54th birthday party for his wife Nancy Shevell. Not only did the Tokyo mop top cover band, called The Parrots, perform live at the b’day bash – with Macca joining in for a rendition of ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ at the b’day bash, but so too did a Queen tribute band called Gueen. There is no official word if any of Mr. Freddie Mercury’s former partners were in attendance.
Macauly Culkin Forms Pizza-Themed Velvet Underground Cover Band
Of all the pizza/music cross-overs that have sprung up recently (re: Tame Impala’s margherita simile, Foo Fighters secret pizza parlour gig) the greatest of them has to go to former child star Macauly Caulkin. That’s right, the kid from Home Alone and My Girl is all grown-up and has simultaneously paid tribute to Italy’s greatest food export (sorry Cannelloni) and the late, great Lou Reed in one *ahem* slice. Caulkin fronts The Pizza Underground, a Velvet Underground tribute band in which he sings and plays kazoo. They’ve even got an entire album of in-jokery over at their bandcamp page, complete with lyrics and song titles that re-fashion the famous leather-bound New York outfit’s music into a ream of pizza puns (eg. ‘Take A Bite Of The Wild Slice, ‘I’m Waiting For Delivery Man’ *slow clap*). Watch a 15-minute doco on Macauly Culkin’s The Pizza Underground below.
