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  • Oh yeah, and there’s a bonus track too!

    The Gang of Four Is More Deluxe Than You
    Now this is what I call deluxe! With the CD in decline and digital downloads ascendant, a lot of artists and record companies have been going to strange lengths lately to get people to buy actual physical product. But, as evidenced by this blurb about their latest album, British aggro-dance-punk elder statesmen Gang of Four have taken the notion of deluxe (not to mention the notion of physical media – at least in a “pop” context) to a whole new level:

    As pictured on the cover of the all-new Gang of Four album C O N T E N T , The Ultimate C O N T E N T Can will contain, a CD copy of the album and, in the band’s own words, “an art piece Jon and Andy have done on ceramic tiles depicting the last 40 years of world history, a book of lyrics, a book of Rotoscoped photographs of the band’s emotions, vials of band members’ blood and a scratch and sniff booklet which reflects the key areas of human activity.” Also included is the exclusive bonus track “2nd Life.”

    Now, how much would you pay? ($49.99)

  • Kobe Bryant Owes His Mentality To Michael Jackson

    You have to read it to believe it. And even after reading it, I’m not quite sure I believe all of it, but according to Kobe Bryant, his mentality mentor wasn’t his father, Joe “Jelly Bean” Bryant, Magic Johnson, Jerry West, or even Michael Jordan. Instead, it was The King Of Pop.

    It sounds weird, I guess, but it’s true: I was really mentored by the preparation of Michael Jackson.

    Take a read of Yahoo! Sports NBA writer Adrian Wojnarowski’s fantastic interview with the NBA’s best player. Kobe still doesn’t seem too open or even all that casual, but the interview is well done.

    I wonder who MJ’s all-time favorite player was; Kobe or Magic?

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  • First Look: Kylie Minogue “Better Than Today”

    Kylie Minogue ”Better Than Today”
    It’s a little slice of 1980s heaven: Back-up girls wearing hot pink wigs for shoulder pads! Back-up boys in Robert Palmer suits and Pac-Man helmets, wielding key-tars against a backdrop of Wham-ian block lettering and Atari 2600 level video game graphics of pixelated monsters gobbling up pellets. All the while, our heroine cockteases a small army of Marshall amps. Oops. Pardon me, I’m drooling. (The keytars, people, the keytars.) Did I mention the song’s pretty good too? It’s “Better Than Today”, the third single from Kylie Minogue‘s super-awesome Aphrodite album, which might’ve been a shoo-in for the best dance-pop record of the year, had Robyn not gone totally over-achiever on all our asses.