Blog: My Chemical Toilet

Ruarri Joseph's "More Than Most", from his Both Sides Of The Coin album, has a rather disturbing little video featuring child Thai boxers.

Fenech Soler are a bunch of lads from Northamptonshire doing rather well playing at being French electro types. Good luck to 'em, I say. Also - LISTEN TO THIS REMIX IT IS MONSTROUSLY PLEASANT.

Imperial Squad have gained zillions of MySpace and YouTube views thanks to their underground hits "Just A Link" and "Freak". They also have quite strange videos.

Peter Doherty plays at east London's Rhythm Factory on Saturday 16th May, and My Chemical Toilet has tickets to squirt away like blood from a syringe.

The Seeds' "Can't Seem To Make You Mine" is the song from that Lynx Bullet ad in which a bloke wanders around the supermarket in his pants.

To celebrate the launch of their surprisingly decent new website, EMI are throwing music-related gifts into the air like confetti at a wedding. My Chemical Toilet caught £200 worth of stuff and now offers it to you, the reader, for you are worth it.

Baddies' new single "Holler For My Holiday" is released June 1st. This is the video for that.

Mark Ronson appears in PETA anti-fur campaign with his dog Maude.

Something in Courtney Love's Twitter phrasing, and my own boredom, told me I should definitely try feeding her updates through Babelfish Translator to see if they started to make any more sense.

Entourage star Adrien Grenier is the drummer in a band called The Honey Brothers, and on this evidence they're not breathtakingly bad. Worrying signs of wackiness abound, however.

My Chemical Toilet chats to Just Jack about Susan Boyle, Twitter and Elton John, only one of which he seems that keen on.

Much sniggering was sniggered when the world learned that Adam Schlesinger of Fountains Of Wayne, James Iha ex-of Smashing Pumpkins and Cheap Trick's drummer Bun E. Carlos would be starting a new band with Taylor Hanson of, er, Hanson. Taylor Hanson is a grown man with four children, but to many he'll always be the [...]

For unAmericans, the backstory to this viral marvel is: 1. Vince Shlomi make self famous making fast-talking infommercials for ultra-absorbent cloth thing ShamWow and food-slicing thingumajig Slap Chop. 2. Vince Shlomi (allegedly) lays smackdown on hooker who tried to eat his tongue or something. Smoking Gun mugshots here. 3. Vince Shlomi gets remixed by a DJ called Steve [...]

I heard this on Mark Ronson's Authentic Shit show the other day, which I never remember to listen to unless my flatmate reminds me of its existence.

To celebrate the laucnh of their surprisingly decent new website, EMI are throwing music-related gifts into the air like confetti at a wedding. My Chemical Toilet caught £200 worth of stuff and now offers it to you, the reader, for you are worth it.

Two footballers, playing for the same club, and the same country, outlandishly gifted, named Hoddle and Waddle. And they call decide to release their single as Glenn and Chris ?

Passion Pit's Manners album will have its work cut out living up to the blog hype that surrounds the band.

The latest Levi's Ones To Watch show at east London's hang-out du jour The Macbeth promised to be a bouncy, booty-shaking affair but fell somewhere short to these jaded earholes.

The Shoes and Primary 1 have teamed up on the fantastic "Ho Lord", and it's destined to be a summer "smash".

Oceanic's 1991 hit "Insanity" for your nostalgic delectation/utter bewilderment, depending on your age.