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Tom Waits previews his upcoming album! Also has a go at internet music pirates, in a good way. It’s called ‘Bad As Me’, and is apparently “his first studio album of all new music in seven years”. I am excited.

Ce Jeu, by Yelle

This is the song from the Rage Guy video I posted earlier (“FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU” on 15 June), I looked it up because it is catchy. It goes a bit weird around 2:40, but not for long.

If you find that you like the sort of positive-energy French pop that this seems to be, I’d recommend looking up the Yelle page on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/artist/Yelle

Neat!

Jeremy Clarkson Beatbox, by Swede Mason. I can thoroughly recommend all of Swede Mason’s videos in fact!

Duelling Cellists play “Smooth Criminal”

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Each one of these guys is too cool for me.

Flight of the Conchords - Carol Brown.

I just really like this song and video. Good stuff.

“Carol of the Belts” by Here Come the Mummies.

I wholeheartedly approve.

Ghost Inside, by the Broken Bells.

The music isn’t completely what I would normally look for, but with spaceships, alien planets, an android, and Christina Hendricks I’m sure there are a lot of people who will like this.

I am currently listening to all of my music on iTunes, in order from shortest to longest

Starting with a few one-second soundbites I recorded from Futurama (which is excellent, by the way), and ending with… let me see now… something called ‘Crimson’ by someone called ‘Edge of Sanity’. I’m quite sure that I don’t know what that is, but it weighs in at an impressive forty minutes and one second.

Ah. Thinking about it, it’s most likely some of the black metal I once borrowed from a friend to see what it was like. I didn’t form a lasting attachment.

At the time of writing, I’m listening to tracks at the 1:45 mark.

Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer - Straight Outta Surrey. This… is similar to the work of MC Elemental that I have posted below, but, I feel, isn’t quite up to the same level. Still, good for a laugh.

Flight of the Conchords - Sugar Lumps. FotC are a real weakness of mine, it will be difficult for me not to simply post every single thing from there here.

MC Elemental and Tom Caruana - Cup of Brown Joy. Related to the below and a work of genius.

The hiphop that my friend Dan performs with his band, check it out in particular if you like MC Elemental and his ilk.

Muse - Knights of Cydonia. Saw this for the first time a little while ago, simply amazing video.