The GUM team has found some music-related links to help you goof off at work today. Not that we found them while goofing off at work ourselves. No, no...
Happy procrastination!
· Surprise endorsement: Observer columnist Nick Cohen's book What's Left? has been given the thumbs up by Radiohead - or Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood anyway. The other Greenwood calls the book "excellent" on the Dead Air Space blog. Does this mean the band led by outspoken Iraq War opponent Thom Yorke has joined the Euston Manifesto left?
· Weird Al's comeback continues apace with a brill parody of R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet.
· Our humble home on YouTube. Look! We're directors!
· Prepare for our Swedish podcast special tomorrow, by getting to know some of the country's toppest poppest acts.
· A legendary 1977 interview with Iggy Pop conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by a man a little less square than his specs make him appear: "I've not met Johnny Rotten but I'm sure he puts as much effort into his work as Sigmund Freud did."
· Music blog Said the Gramophone introduced us to a lovely song of lover's revenge called I'll Kill Her. Somehow the French group SoKo manages to make this sound like a cuter sentiment than Eminem ever did.
· Over on the Zoilus blog, a rousing debate has erupted over whether Avril Lavigne's new video for Girlfriend means she has turned into a Mean Girl.
· Eurovision's "controversial" UK winners: Can you see them miming?
· We like the video for the new single Ordinary Day from ex-Cranberries frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan (an homage to Don't Look Now).
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