Here’s Jimmy Page in iconic record emporium Rough Trade West, on which he is about to place a tribal curse because it was constructed atop his ancestors’ graveyard.

Not really, he’s promoting the fact that Royal Mail are taking a break from being all strikey to release some stamps based on “classic albums”. Incidentally, is there a more beardy phrase in all of musicdom than “classic album”? Negatory.
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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Monday January 11th, 2010 at 9:00 am

If you don’t know who GG Allin is (was), you have a fun journey of discovery ahead. He was a singer of sorts I suppose, but his Wikipedia entry puts it a bit better:

Allin is best remembered for his notorious live performances that typically featured wildly transgressive acts such as Allin defecating and urinating onstage, rolling in feces and often consuming excrement, committing self-injury, performing naked, and committing violent actions toward the audience—often doing many of these things simultaneously.

GG Allin shows were not 14+, then.

If you’d like to see the man himself on The Jerry Springer Show, meanwhile, check this out. Choice quote: “If you get raped at one of my shows you’re probably better off for it.”

With charm like that it’s understandable why people would want to possess a little bobblehead GG, and now they can. It retails for just $14.95, and comes complete with bloody forehead and a light sprinkling of fecal matter.

GG Allin Bobblehead doll from Aggronautix.com

[via The Daily Swarm]

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

That’s a musical instrument, that is. I don’t know what parts of your body go where. Maybe you’re supposed to ride it?

It was designed by someone called Victor Gama, but beyond that I’m lost. Any ideas?

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Saturday April 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pm

From the same people who brought you the now-legendary (and yet somehow not sold out) 20-inch canvas print of TV’s Paul Ross comes this simply darling jigsaw of Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder.

Currently languishing with a sales rank of 50,703 in Amazon’s Kitchen & Home section, this portrait of Shaun quite literally smashed to pieces would make an ideal gift for someone you really fucking hate.

Only £14.99 from Amazon.co.uk

[via b3ta]

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 10:00 am

So, someone you know has iPhone. You’re happy for them. You’ve emitted an acceptable number of “ooh”s and “ahh”s over iPhone’s shiny loveliness. You’re a little bit jealous. That’s perfectly natural.
Then iPhone starts impacting on your social life. Nights in the pub become distinctly iPhone-centric. If your friend isn’t showing you what iPhone can do, they’re Tweeting, Facebooking, emailing, YouTube-ing.
Go to the toilet and you know that when you return you’re going to need to wait about another half an hour before your companion can tear him/herself away from iPhone. You left them alone with iPhone, you see. Never leave anyone alone with iPhone.
Well, pretty soon your friend’s antisocial iPhone use is going to extend beyond social networking - to creating music. And for that, you will need to thank technoBox.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

Next month is a big one for thirtysomething conscious hip-hop sneaker freaks, for it sees Nike release an Air Jordan collaboration with none other than A Tribe Called Quest. To the left you can see the trainer in question (click image to enlarge).
Looks like they’ll be retailing for upwards of $100, but if your budget is more two-digit-y maybe you’d be better off with a t-shirt inspired by the sleeve design of Tribe’s classic Midnight Marauders album. Click through for a pic…

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Do you know someone who “likes music”? Do you need to buy them a gift? Have you found yourself gazing glassy-eyed at the CD section in Tesco? Then you will be pleased to hear that this collection of gift suggestions is for you.
I’ve attempted to assemble a slightly offbeat list of (at times highly tenuous) music-related gifts, so hopefully this will provide some inspiration.
Musical Instruments
Coloured Musical Instruments
I just asked the boss if, when our website traffic reaches 5 people, I can have my own My Chemical Toilet colour-coded violin duo to stand by my desk and surround me with melody throughout the working day. She said no, and gave me some kind of formal warning.
But that hasn’t stopped me identifying the precise instruments my fantasy duo will play. If these red and yellow items aren’t your chosen recipient’s thing, you can always try one of the other myriad shades available at Karacha.com. There’s even a black one for the teenager flirting with gothism.

£54.99 from Karacha.com

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Tuesday December 9th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

If you know someone who is an ironic/unironic/”oh God I don’t even know if I’m being ironic anymore” David Hasselhoff fan, you might want to bookmark the shit out of universalposter.com. And/or cut said David Hasselhoff fan out of your life like mould from a block of cheese.
But you can’t really do that if said fan is your Nan, can you? What you can do is get a special message wroted onto a poster of (sigh) “The Hoff”. Because that’s what universalposter.com does - it takes messages and prints them digitally “on your poster in handwriting style that accurately mimics the celebrities’ writing style, accompanied by a digital facsimile of their signature.”
See after the jump for some of the lovely poses The Hoff strikes on his posters.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Wednesday November 26th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

I wonder if the solution to the CD’s seemingly inexorable decline is ever more elaborate ways of packaging the little blighters. You know, making them “collectible” and all that. It probably wouldn’t work for me, but you must never underestimate folks’ desire to collect things.
And if those things are rare handmade CD sleeves lovingly crafted by the artists themselves, there will always be at least a few rabid fans keen to get their hands on them.

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Posted by Stuart Waterman on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 11:05 am

I can’t believe I haven’t seen this t-shirt on sale somewhere before. Which leads me to believe that actually, maybe I have seen it before, and my memory is just slowly turning to mulch.
As worn in the timeless This Is Spinal Tap scene where he goes on about amps that “go up to 11″, this version comes either with or without sleeves, depending on how closely you wish to resemble Tufnel.
The shirt is available from founditemclothing.com, where you can also find numerous other tees from more 80s films like Teen wolf, Tron and Caddyshack among others.
[via Pop Candy]

Posted by Stuart Waterman on Thursday October 30th, 2008 at 10:24 am