With apologies to Arcade Fire, Cee-Lo, Hot Chip and Kanye, Nick Cave and Grinderman get my vote for best music video of 2010, for the glorious "Heathen Child." And here they go, just before the year ends, following it up with another one that feels like it was taken right out of my subconscious. Like, is there anything I could possibly like watching anywhere near as much as aging rock stars dressed in gladiator gear and leopard-print underpants, dancing in space, conjuring society's nightmares with the magical power of their laser beam eyes? Oh, yes, maybe. How about a canary having heart palpitations and [...]

Kanye West has organized an unexpected musical collaboration, recruiting Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon the Chef to rhyme on a remix of Justin Bieber's "Runaway Love." Bieber is 16 years old, the age at which Raekwon started smoking the crack-laced marijuana cigarettes called "woolies." But Rae told MTV's Shaheem Reid that the verse he recorded for the track is age-appropriate for Bieber's presumably less experienced tween audience. "I can go basic when I want to. I can go rated R, I can go rated PG. I definitely didn't give him anything that I thought was too hot to be spoken on by a 16-year-old… One thing people [...]

If you were a small mammal living six million years ago in Miocene era Argentina, something like this would have probably haunted your nightmares. (Especially if you'd stayed up late, say, watching not-entirely-safe-for-work, but otherwise incredibly awesome Grinderman videos.) It is the digital video recreation based on CT scan Ohio University scientists took of the fossilized skull of the 4-feet-tall, 90-pound "terror bird" andalgalornis steulleti. This should be the new evil-laughing-skull thing they use to show when a computer gets melted down by a computer virus.