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Get the Pomplamoose holiday album for free when you donate a book to the Richmond Book Drive.

Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, member of the highly influenced industrial/experimental groups Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil, died yesterday in Thailand at the age of 55. No cause of death has been disclosed. I was never much into Throbbing Gristle, despite their clear and often-cited lineage to Nine Inch Nails, one of my favorite bands ever. But it was Coil’s horrific …

The Human Centipede meets Slither. Very super NSFW and beyond creepy. If this disappears from YouTube, Buzzfeed is hosting a copy.

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker provides the vocals on this great track from French dance outfit Discodeine. I ran across this yesterday on the excellent Pop In Stereo, which is totally going on the blogroll.

I posted one of the remixes a few days ago, this is the production video. None of the band members appear, possibly due to their ages, which is a shame. Good clip, though.

The album version of Cher’s first single from Burlesque is rather standard Diane Warren bombastic schlock. This Almighty mix is actually pretty great.

Their first new single in a decade and this remix is by legendary French disco star Cerrone! Night People will be available on iTunes this Tuesday and the full-length Credo, their ninth studio album, comes out in March.

The Orlando-based Superions are a side project from B-52’s frontman Fred Schneider. Their holiday album Destination: Christmas is now on sale. UPDATE: JMG reader Hightemp suggests you might like this one better. I do.

Grammy winner Adele appeared on the UK’s Later…with Jools Holland to debut a new single from her upcoming sophomore release, which is due in January. She’s only 22.

Punk legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for Just Kids, her “sweetly evocative” memoir of her life with the late legendary gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Accepting the award to applause and cheers, Ms. Smith — clearly the favorite of the night — choked up as she recalled her days as a clerk in the Scribner’s bookstore in …

The Glee cast’s cover of Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream, sung memorably on last week’s episode from one boy to another, has debuted at #8 on Billboard’s top ten, becoming the highest debuting single of the show to date. The single has also bowed at #1 on the Digital Sales chart with 214,000 downloads in one week, become the show’s first …

Nicely understated electro featuring LCD Soundsystem vocalist Nancy Whang, who gets rotoscoped through the unlovely landscape of Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Slog’s Wm. Steven Humphrey on this “train wreck” from next week’s Glee: “This particular train leaps off the tracks, barrels through a kid’s chemo treatment center, runs over 37 baskets of puppies, and then explodes in a firestorm of WHAT THE FUCK. (Or rather, what the ‘forget.’)”

Former child star Jessie Cornish, who at age 11 appeared on the West End in an Andrew Lloyd Weber production, is all growed-up, raunchified, and rechristened Jessie J. This record isn’t my style (at all) but according to the interweb, which is never wrong, it’s The Big Single of 2011. That doesn’t seem impossible, as Jessie J wrote The Big …

After making her cry because he wouldn’t let her perform it on America’s Got Talent, Lou Reed made amends and personally directed the video of Susan Boyle’s cover of his classic, Perfect Day. (Apparently it wasn’t such a perfect day at the shoot, with violent Scottish weather blowing the wig off of Boyle’s stand-in.) And in the same way that …

I really like this. Stand by for the remixes. (Via – Buzzfeed)

Openly gay former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman Bob Mould has launched a solo concert tour beginning with dates in New York City. Mould is also currently one-half of the DJ team behind the wildly successful Blowoff parties, which tour the nation on most weekends. Nov 05 / New York, NY / City Winery / Buy TicketsNov 06 / Brooklyn, …