Sam Richards 

Walken in the jungle and 2 Chainz is a zombie – plus the rest of today’s breaking pop culture news

Regularly updated scrolling news, videos, gossip and time-wasting malarkey, from the people who brought you the Guardian Guide. Coming up today: Karen O, Joy O, Jackie O (maybe) and Christopher Walken wants to be like you-oo-oo
  
  

They finally made a monkey out of him.
They finally made a monkey out of him. Photograph: Jemal Countess/Getty Images Photograph: Jemal Countess/Getty Images

That's yer lot

Thanks for reading today. I’ll leave you with a tantalising snippet from the new Run The Jewels album, another autumn release to be very excited about. Lanre Bakare will be here tomorrow to solve all your thorniest dilemmas via the medium of pop culture gossip. Night.

Stuff to do tonight

If you're in Glasgow, go and see the imperious FKA Twigs at Stereo.

If you're in Bristol, go and see the one and only Public Enemy at The O2 Academy. We think they've still got it.

If you're in London, go and see Judah Friedlander (AKA Frank from 30 Rock) at the Soho Theatre. Last year, he kindly made up some celebrity trucker hat slogans for us, which you can see here.

If you're in Leeds, go and see America's hardest-partying man Andrew WK at the Wardrobe.

And if you're in Brighton, why not catch nu-school riot grrrls Perfect Pussy at the Green Door Store?

On telly tonight: dog rescuers, undercover bosses, suave serial killers and of course the excellent Utopia.

Back on the radio

Here's some news to make your day: soulful art-rockers (and former Guide cover stars) TV On The Radio will release a new album in the autumn, their first since 2011's Nine Types Of Light and the sad loss of their bassist Gerard Smith to lung cancer.

This teaser trailer for Seeds doesn't give much away, but the fact there is an album at all should be cause for celebration.

Why not listen again to one of the greatest love songs of the 21st century?

You Can Call Me Aldi

Bit of a disappointing return on the supermarket song puns front…

Of course, you could also have had You Can Call Me Aldi, Aladdin Sainsbury's, Don't Make Me Waitrose or anything by Van Morrisons or Jamie Lidl. You're welcome.

Arrows of love

As we all know, celebrity challenge shows (ski) jumped the shark back in January with Alpine shambles The Jump. Hopes are consequently low for BBC One's new gymnastics-based effort Tumble – especially now that one of the few contestants we recognise, Mr Motivator, has had to pull out after dislocating what remains of his dignity his knee.

But we hadn't reckoned with the corporation pulling the pro-celebrity darts zinger out of the bag. Gabby Logan will host Let's Play Darts as part of Comic Relief next year, and while no celeb participants have yet been confirmed, we are promised that each will have "their own darts persona, complete with nickname, costume, props and the all important walk on music."

Let's Play Darts will be staged at Frimley Green, home of world darts. And if it can capture just a fraction of the drama, passion and excitement of when Steve Davis stepped up to the oche to take on Neil 'Razor' Ruddock on ITV4, then it will surely be epoch-making television.

Supermarket sweep

Given that I tend to go supermarket shopping with my headphones on as loud as possible to block out the voices telling me to buy more custard creams, I wasn't aware of the bizarre news that the Co-op has recently overhauled its in-store music policy, replacing familiar pop hits with music from unsigned artists. They say it's to support emerging artists, although presumably it's also a great deal cheaper in royalties payments.

Either way, the move has proved understandably controversial – especially with Co-op staff, who have variously described the music as "soul destroying" and "rubbish". After all, it's one thing to be open to new music but quite another to have to listen to crap demos all day. The sad truth is that most bands are unsigned for a reason.

Anyway, if you happen to be getting your lunch from the Co-op today, please do tell us what the hell they're playing in there. And then suggest your alternatives for our supermarket playlist. Aisle Be There? Papa's Got A Brand New Bagging Area? I'm sure you can do better than that but I had to start it somewhere…

The Joy of summer

Earlier we presented you with some music from Karen O, now it's the turn of her brother (not really) Joy O, AKA Joy Orbison, AKA south London's finest selector Peter O'Grady. I'm not sure if a sunny Tuesday lunchtime is the best time to digest his recent essential mix full of crucial techno and bass bangers, some even too new to be named. But you will need to listen, so save the link for later, yeah?

If that's not enough cutting-edge UK bass scene DJ business for you, here's another equally zeitgeist-thrashing mix from Kode 9 AKA Steve Goodman (we interviewed him about his excellent Hyperdub label just the other month). Not quite sure why they've chosen to superimpose Steve against a backdrop of random gurners but I guess it makes a change from painfully self-conscious Boiler Room head-nodders.

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Middle Earth goes to woooor!

Peter Jackson's Hobbit saga is inching towards its climax. Here's the trailer for the "defining chapter of the Middle Earth saga", The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies.

It features various actors giving their best war-face:

Sadly, Martin Freeman lets the side down on that score…

Little Thriller

In more scary news, 2 Chainz's new video is a nice little tribute to Michael Jackson's Thriller, complete with red leather jacket and zombie moves. OK, so the song might not contain any kind of horror theme (unless you count the all the references to shitting and constipation), but it's one of 2 Chainz's best, and who'd begrudge a man the opportunity to throw on the prosthetics and start doing the monster mash?

Junglist massive

Jon Favreau's new Jungle Book film is shaping up to be the scariest Disney movie ever. Christopher Walken has just been added to the voice cast, playing simian ruler King Louie. He joins Giancarlo Esposito (wolf pack leader Akela), Ben Kingsley (black panther Bagheera) and Idris Elba (evil tiger Shere Khan).

So that's Vicenzo Coccotti...

...Gus Fring…

...Stringer Bell…

…and Don Logan…

…in the same movie!

RUN AWAY MOWGLI!

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O my goodness

Morning all. Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs releases her debut solo album Crush Songs in September. Keeping the early-00s Lower East Side scene camaraderie alive, it's being released on Julian Casablancas's label Cult Records.

Here's the first, stripped-back taster, complete with drowning-in-love video metaphor.

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