Produce me maybe
The strange journey of ex-Test Icicle Dev Hynes continues: after Solange and Sky Ferreira, he’s now bringing a bit of east London grit to the new record from Carly Rae Jepsen.
We keep getting older, he stays the same age
Matthew McConaughey’s extremely fresh-faced audition tape for Dazed And Confused has surfaced online. Watch: bit.ly/DCAudition.
Good news for Elbow
A professor called Terry F Pettijohn II (sold!) has deduced that the public favour baby-faced pop singers in a good economic climate and world-weary types in a bad one.
Wriggle room
Sheffield comic Tom Wrigglesworth has found a lucrative use for his likeness to Aaron Rodgers, appearing as the Green Bay quarterback’s doppelganger in an advert for a US bank. Watch here.
Join the Bezolution
Bez launched his bid to become Salford’s new MP in typically entertaining style this week, handing out free beers and referring to bankers as “the Fourth Reich”.
Once around the Dunn
In an inspired (even Oscar-worthy) bit of casting, Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds is to play Ryan Dunn in Bam Margera’s biopic of the late Jackass star.
Iambic come death
Can’t decide whether to play video games or write poetry? Developers Ichiro Lambe and Ziba Scott feel your pain: their new side-scroller Elegy For A Dead World forces players to do both simultaneously.
