By the end of every week there are a bunch of music-related stories, cool links, videos, and other internet ditties that we haven’t managed to get to throughout the week.

As a remedy to this, we’re happy to introduce our new column  Trash Can– our avenue for sharing cool music tidbits we’ve come across for you to nibble on before the glory of the weekend. Dig in!

Watch 60,000 Sing ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Sometimes, and it doesn’t happen too often, something happens that reminds everyone exactly how powerful and uniting music can be. at a recent Green Day concert, 60,000 punters decided to belt Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ word for word along with the PA while waiting for the gig to start. That’s pretty special.

People Go To Music Festivals To Take Drugs & Have Sex


SHOCK HORROR! Did we seriously need to conduct a study to tell us this? MSN polled 2000 festival going individuals and according to NME, had found that ound that a quarter of them had slept with a stranger at a festival while 21% had taken drugs and 13% had been in a fight. We could have told you that! What a colossal waste of time.

Crowd Sourced Festival Documentary Being Made With Help Of Instagram


Bonaroo Music Festival, one of the largest music fests in the US, has partnered with Instagram and Facbook by launching a campaign called ‘How Do You Roo?”. The organisers say it will be “the official post-event crowd sourced video,” adding, “we want the nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes footage that you think makes Bonnaroo the living, breathing, beautiful, four days of awesome that it is.”

David Letterman Really Likes Drummers


Is it just us or is Letterman becoming less of a joke-teller and more of a joke? A video has been circulating of the late night host’s obsession with the drummers of the band’s who close the weeknightly show. Aside from acknowledging  the oft-forgotten member, his continuing joke is complimenting the drums and asking if they’re rentals. Hilarious…

Insane Clown Posse Get Their Own Reality Show


Juggalos of the world unite! Rappers, festival organisers, doco facilitators, and now silver screen stars! US television network Fuse has okay’d the show to start on July 24th and will be titled Clown Posse Theater.  No word yet on exactly what the show will actually be abou, but we’re anticipating lots of face paint and ‘Whoop Whoop!’s.

Katy Perry Raps  About Junk Food Now


We know she’s a bit of a promo-whore, but who knew Katy Perry was also a rapper? In a new add for some new junk food, Perry raps about the chips with some help from her kitty friends. In between taking shots of milk and pouting at the camera, she even manages to actually promo the product.

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