It's Friday, so do you really have anything better to do than follow these music-related links? Come on... Your boss won't notice - he's called in "sick".
Here's what the GUM team has found trawling the 'net:
· The new Mark Ronson album will be great. That much is (pretty much) for sure. Here's the vid for his latest single, the Smiths cover Stop Me (albeit on a terribly tiny screen).
· Amy Winehouse seems to have cracked America. Or, at least, her album's shifting a few copies. Watch her first US TV appearance, on David Letterman, and wonder whether she's deliberately crooning out of sync with her backing singers.
· Sure, we love Amy with all our hearts. But even tastemaker Perez Hilton is having a hard time getting bloggers to adjust. Our favourite comment? "THIS DRUNK DRAG QUEEN IS GOING TO BE HUGE!!!!!"
· And here's another Amy link, this time a US angle on a familiar theme: Why didn't she play that concert?
· Sufjan Stevens has been (sort of) returning to his writerly roots, here.
· At age 60, Elton John has finally wised to what's going on in music. He's finally let Apple sell his tunes on iTunes.
· Our favourite news story of yesterday.
