GOOD AT MUSIC, RUBBISH AT PHOTOSHOP

As anyone even passingly familiar with a wireless will know, Tinchy Stryder is shortly to race up the pop charts with a song about a woman whom he has mislaid. So today we have a special treat from brand spanking new Lipster contributor Stuart - who has fearlessly embarked on an Epic Web 2.0 Quest to track her down.
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That man there is called Mike Bones. Mike Bones, you say? What a good name for a muso type. Staid yet piratey. Reassuring but spooky. We have heard his album, A Fool For Everyone, and it is all of those things, and super super good. Even more good is that Brian from Gang Gang Dance has remixed new single What I Have Left and we have got an mp3 for you to have...
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You might know Findlay Brown's Come Home, particularly if you stayed in and watched a lot of telly over Christmas, for it was one of those pretty little advert songs that was on every 34 seconds or so. Well, Findlay Brown, the man responsible and presumably a bit better off thanks to Mastercard, has made a mixtape of stuff he listened to when he was making his brand new album. If you are a fan of dreamy old-fashioned soul, R&B and pop from the 1950s and 60s - Roy Orbison, Roberta Flack, The Ronettes and charming Serge G - then click through, download and admire the man's taste.
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The cover for BPB's new album is remarkably beau, featuring as it does an absolutely delicious pen and ink drawing of folk's Toppermost Beard-sporter. But it would still look better with some neon on it.
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If you are feeling crap, you should watch this.
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While sitting comfortably watching Derren Brown last night, we came across the advertorial disaster that is Iggy Pop, in his 'spot' for Swift Cover car insurance. If you can bear it, we have a youtubulation after the jump, as well some suggestions for other non-advertising shy Old Men of Rock.
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Last week Santogold revealed she had received a message on MySpace that said, "I hate your lesbian techno rap". "It means I am pushing some boundaries, I guess," she responded. Thing is, we think lesbian techno rap just rolls off the tongue and more genres should be forced into a length of three words. In the spirit of old music mags like Select, we have built a Random-Genre-As-Insult Generator.
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Remember when Lily Allen said that stuff about drugs? (It was only last week, so you should.) Then everyone took the very worst bit and pretended she said she bloody loved fistfuls of filthy bloody drugs, yeah? Then EMI said she didn't say that, thank you? ANYWAY. Franz Ferdinand's new song Ulysses has cleverly avoided the same outrage by making a video for a song about drugs, sorry, "the chemical surge in your bloodstream" ((c) Kapranos), and making it look like a bad idea in all sorts of ways.
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When we met up with Tom out of Keane before Christmas, he had just come back from LA where they had been on the telly lots. After exchanging pleasantries as to the advancement of our respective present buying, we discussed expensive Italian man shoes and Tom Out Of Keane fansites, on which some persons are rather enamoured with his bottom.
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Microsoft's new songwriting software is called Songsmith. And it is a bit like Garage Band, with the functionality (ick) of layering tracks, instruments and vocals together to create pop music, except crap. They have also chosen to advertise it with a commercial what is four (very painful) minutes long.
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This week's singles imagined as high street retailers. After the jump, some retrograde sauciness, a White Wedding, the Biggest Fashion Store In The World, hipsterish leggins and a big shout-out for fidgety records in which words are spelt out via the medium of song.
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Here is a short list of why we're not really into Lady GaGa's whole "thing" at the moment, despite the momentous hype/radio bombardment..
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A quick plot summary of last night's Hollyoaks (Channel 4 not E4): neon brain drain Michaela sold some mp3 players to students so they could get their rave on at the SU bar without the Dean getting annoyed about the noise. (There was a lot about how sleeping with your boyfriend's daughter might not be a good idea as well but that is less relevant to what we are talking about now.) The music Michaela had put on said mp3 players sounded like cossacks gone wild, and everyone complained, and she was supposed to give out refunds. This extremely tenuous link leads us to the fact that if she had gone to this site here and downloaded this mixtape here, she would not have had any complaints...
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Look everybody, it is 2009. And because a New Year = New Us, we are throwing our regular interview feature The Questionnaire up for discussion. So that little old YOU can suggest some shiny new questions for us to ask pop personages.
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