The Hip Hop Chronicle — The title track from Statik’s album featuring Sean Price & Termanology. Video was produced by Smokestack Recordings. Pre-order “Population Control” album now on iTunes.   more info

Guardian Music — A TV interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1971 reveals their clash of views about rising population levelsIn terms of our ever-expanding global human population, 40 years is a very long time. Some time over the next few weeks, it is widely pr... more info

ContactMusic — Singer/actress Mandy Moore is helping the fight against malaria in Africa by handing out mosquito nets to try to combat the disease. The pop star flew to Cameroon last week (ends14Aug11) with representatives from global health organisation Population... more info

Music For Ants — I tend to gravitate towards artists that sing about geography, whether it’s Sufjan Stevens with his states project, The Mountain Goats with his various geographic odes, or The Rural Alberta Advantage’s dedication to their Hometowns. This week Bon... more info

Metalsucks — If you can’t figure out why you awoke this morning with a persistent boner (like me) or a tingly bottom (uh also like me), let me tell you it probably is related to Hydra Head’s announcement that tomorrow brings the premiere of a new Cave In jam!... more info

Totally Fuzzy — You should have figured out by now that this is not one of those blogs that always needs to have the latest scoop, eternally drooling over whatever novel or newisch fag comes along, a clip shot or a demo recorded on an iphone or even worse. You ca... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — “A kid who rats on another kid…is a dead kid!” – Ritchie White (Matt Dillon in Over The Edge, 1979) In terms of genre, when it comes to film, teenage rebellion/ennui is a veritable cottage industry. While it may go in and out of vogue, every ... more info

Guardian Music — Alan Greenspan was at the wheel, apparently asleep, when the US economy drove off a cliff. Why on earth is he still lionised?The Brookings Institution stands alongside Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, among the nation's elite intellectual institutions. ... more info

Dlisted — The Los Angeles County D.A. is trying to decide whether or not to press charges against Lindsay Lohan for walking out of a store in Venice, CA with a $2,500 necklace around her neck and without a receipt for that shit in her suction cup hands. Klepto... more info

Perez Hilton — This is absolutely out of control! New figures have shown that a record-breaking 19.4 million viewers watched the season finale of The X Factor last night, which is almost one third of the UK's ENTIRE POPULATION, and made it the biggest non-sportin... more info