If you are in an open relationship, (remember these from a few years back?), why not track your lover with: forget me not panties.

Though of course they're actually a hoax perpetuated by the Panty Raiders.  The Panty Raiders aim to destabalise media - to question authority in internet age and produce rebellious, political work. Any girl can be a panty raider: why not sign up?

What do you call a musician without a girlfriend? Homeless. Haha! Right, now that's out of the way, let me tell you about my fave new band of right now, Tap Tap. (There are sometimes more of them than this, but this is the only picture on their Myspace that features a man with his top off, so what are you gonna do?) Tap Tap produce this wonderfully insistent guitary music that has all the emotional pull of the Arcade Fire, the twiddly menace of Agaskodo Teliverik or Marnie Stern, and the dancability factor of early Franz Ferdinand. You can't lose! You can download their album Lanzafame
from Emusic, listen to 'On My Way' below,
or see their Myspace and Tap it!

...the i.Beat blaxx mp3 player. I mean, sorry. But what the fuck? Is this sponsored by Vice magazine? Produced by the KKK? Is ironic racism ok now? Did we just go back to the 1970s? Can you even *imagine* the marketing meeting in which the copy writer unveiled her or his ideas for this little beauty? "We're going to rip off Apple AND be incredibly offensive in just three little words. And then bloggers across the blogosphere will write offended posts like this one and we'll get loads of free marketing! We can't fail!" And then the copywriter will be heartily congratulated and probably win some kind of 'Advertising - It's Great!' award, and then go on to produce a range of 'iRape hoez' for a gardening manufacturers or something. WAY TO GO, dudes!

Either I'm having a dream or there is a boy/girl duo from out of LA who drive around in an ice cream truck - a pink one, no less - which is stocked with ice cream and candy and toys, which they give out in the street or at impromptu dance parties, and they also make electronic music, and they've done a glitched-up little remix of Huggy Bear's 'Her Jazz' which makes me just desperate to dj again so I can play it somewhere, and they are all neon and pink like that little cloud that Monkee used to whizz around on. And guess what? It is the latter.

Heh - this is totally my favourite bit of the viral internet marketing explosion. When some marketer tries to harness the internet to push their product or whatever to "the kidz", and "the kidz" go 'this is bollocks' and ruthlessly take the piss. So here, right, Mentos decide they're going to procure an intern and sit him in front of a webcam and let people interact with him all summer on chat etc. But instead people just get on there and abuse him - and Mentos - all week for being from Kentucky and thus, by extension, probably a God-fearing, creation theory believing racist lynch-mobber. Ah, freedom of speech. Don't you just love it?

Toronto indie band Stars have decided to deal with the inevitability of albums leaking before their due publication date by simply releasing their whole brand new record for legal download, four days after its completion. See the Stars Myspace page for more details. They hope, of course, that you'll buy the album anyway in its physical format in order to support its creators. Will it work? It's certainly a canny move, and will help generate some decent positive publicity. But will it actually serve to increase sales of the album? Time will tell - it's due out 25th Sept.

Wow, this might just be the lamest advert I've ever seen. Is it a spoof? It has to be a spoof. The mis-spelling of fashion (fashioin – like, eh, heroin?); the look on the girl on the right’s face; even the idea that, like, fashion’s so edgy and we’re all soooo addicted to it and – ooh! Drugs! We’re so haemorrhage-edge here at Sisely! Even in 1993 (circa heroin chic) this wouldn’t have been cool. And even if it is a spoof, it’s not funny. Sisely, get to the back of the class, you wieners.