Second only to Tim Curry’s 8-bit adventure on the “best Halloween content involving a suave Brit that I found while scouring my RSS feeds today”: Jarvis Cocker reads the creepy story “Rats”–“a tale from a book taken from Jarvis’ grandparents’ house, by M.R. James”–in celebration of Halloween. More »
Second only to Tim Curry’s 8-bit adventure on the “best Halloween content involving a suave Brit that I found while scouring my RSS feeds today”: Jarvis Cocker reads the creepy story “Rats”–“a tale from a book taken from Jarvis’ grandparents’ house, by M.R. James”–in celebration of Halloween. More »
– The Game has been charged with three felonies–including possession of a firearm in a school zone–as a result of February incident in Los Angeles. All jokes aside, he’s basically just a big asshole, right? Are we missing something? Nope? Okay, then: Asshole. More »
Earlier, a tipster let us know that an unreleased song by Relaxed Muscle–the electro-spook side project undertaken by Jarvis Cocker and Jason Buckle in the earlier part of this decade–had, under the innocuous title “left over relaxed m…..,” surfaced on Buckle’s MySpace page. More »
– Rumor has it that Britney Spears is pregnant again; unconfirmed reports are saying that X17.com is the father. [The Scoop] – Jarvis Cocker throws his hat into the Eurovision ring, setting up a clash with Morrissey that will surely inspire 9,543 Britpop-fan flame wars. More »
Blogs Are For Dogs has an MP3 of “One Hell Of A Party,” the latest from the reed-thin somnambulists known as Air. More »
The blogger behind Under the Rock was kind enough to let us know about his $7.26 purchase of A Heavy Night With Relaxed Muscle–the 2003 full-length by Jarvis Cocker’s electroclashy collaboration with Mercury Prize nominee Richard Hawley, Relaxed Muscle–at Tower’s downtown… More »
The more time we spend with Jarvis Cocker’s to-be-released Jarvis album, the more smitten we become. We’ve received requests of a BitTorrent link, but alas, there’s none to be found (feel free to post it below if you find one). More »
Former Pulp lead singer Jarvis Cocker’s new album, Jarvis, comes out in the UK on Nov. 13; we haven’t heard anything about a US release date, but if the shoddy treatment received by Pulp’s final album is any indication, some Stateside label will probably wait six months or so… More »