Mark Ronson and Lily Allen get animated on our asses

We're really into Mark Ronson's cover album Version right now, roughly 78 years after the rest of the world but hey, we work at our own pace. The cover of the Jam's "Pretty Green" featuring Santo Green is quite remarkable, but the record label has decided to go with "Oh My God" as the new single so that'll just have to wait.

The video is a "nod" to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a film that parents thought was funny but literally scared the shit out of every child on Earth when it was released in the late '80s. If we close our eyes we can still hear that crazy dude going "He sounded just... LIKE... THIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSS!!!" and dropping that poor cartoon shoe in the Dip--why did our mothers let us watch that shit? We think you can actually see Mark nod in the video, which we find funny.

Enjoy.

The Last Friday Of The Rest Of Our Lives

We're too exhausted to blog about how gigantically fun and amazing Kaiser Chiefs were last night. We're going to see Bonde and Klaxons again tonight at FIXED!.

While we regain our senses, here's a photo of Robyn dressed as a bee.



Lovely.

Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby

Oh man, Kaiser Chiefs. We don't care what people say, Employment was/is the fucking shit. Yes, it was basically Madness, but when Madness aren't around to be Madness anymore, what can you do? We also love the fact that they owned up to the fact of being old as fuck (read: 30's) and basically ate the world when everyone said they wouldn't amount to anything after the demise of their previous band. And really, who doesn't love an underdog?

But this video man.



We mean, we genuinely enjoy the new single, "Ruby" (out 2/19 in the U.K., out never in America because we just don't do that sort of thing), even though it does get a bit repetitive at times. We suppose that's kind of the point--and who are we to debate the friggin' point. That said, I dunno... little people building a city around the band performing? Really? Did they at least like, focus-group it or something? "Ruby" is catchy, yeah, but far from the best song on the album (brilliantly entitled Yours Truly, Angry Mob). If "Everybody's Average Nowadays" (we think that's what it's called) isn't THE feel-good hit of summer 2007, then someone didn't turn in their marketing plan or something. You heard it here first!