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Former KLF Dude Dismembers Your Childhood Memories

Regular readers know that Idolator loves dance-pop provocateurs the KLF, and ever since KLF members Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty "disbanded" the musical end of their cheeky program in 1992, they've been jamming their thumbs into the eyes of the art world, both together and separately. Cauty's most recent exhibition at the Aquarium Gallery in London, inspired by his teenage son, has produced a series of paintings that take the slapstick comedy of the Looney Tunes characters into the avert-your-eyes realm of splatterpunk horror. And anyone who's ever wanted to see that damn Tweety get his will appreciate Cauty's gross-out vigor. More »

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Compare And Contrast: Justice Versus The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu


So everyone is posting this clip of french house duo Justice on Jimmy Kimmel, and as I'm not made of stone, I'll admit it's a pretty cute way to recreate a dance record for a late-night talk show. But it did get me thinking, and as a counter-argument, I'd like to post just three examples of why Justice are still total pikers when it comes to finding batshit ways for electronic duos to perform live for a studio audience: More »

"There is nothing worse than a middle-aged man thinking the music of his youth is somehow vastly superior to what is being made and played today," muses Bill Drummond of the KLF just before he commits an act of sacrilege against a Bob Dylan record in his automobile. While I don't share his conflicted ire for Mr. Zimmerman, the brat in me certainly appreciates the gesture. [Guardian]