These music-related links - chosen especially for you by the GUM team - are so Fresh that they must be a prince from Bel-Air. Here goes:
· Okay, this really-young-kids-playing-pop-music thing has officially gone too far. Proof: Clique, composed of Destinee, age 12, Ariel, age 11, and Paris, age 10. What pushes them over the line? The fact that they have a song called Worth the Wait. Ewwww... Creeptastic! [via Radosh]
· Hilarious/terrible: Paul Theroux meets the folks at Pen N' Pixel, graphic artists to many hip-hop thugs now behind bars.
· Jean Baudrilliard: mp3 blogger
· Industry insider Bob Lefsetz usually blogs about numbers in an almost unintelligible-to-the-outsider way. Today he's pondering Alanis's My Lumps, which we've covered here, but seems to have become news in the States.
· Ever wanted to see Owner of a Lonely Heart hammered out on a violin? Hah! Us too! Well, finally, all our fantasies have been gratified by this bloke Alex Depue. Who also does a cracking version of Smooth Criminal.
· Augh! The music sky is falling! The industry is collapsing! The... hold on a second. According to this report, CD album sales went up 8% in Australia this year? Digital sales went up, too, AND Australian bands made of seven of the top 10 albums?
Got links? Send them to kelly.nestruck@theguardian.com and win, uh, the satisfaction of a job well done.
