Even though Jinkx Monsoon was just crowned America's Next Drag Superstar, and Detox isn't going to ever let us forget how amazing she is, RuPaul apparently plans to keep on keepin' on in the pop-culture sphere. 

After the fun that was "Peanut Butter," Ru's booty-shaking record featuring Big Freedia, Ms Charles recently released a single with her Drag U co-hort Lady Bunny. Called "Lick It Lollipop," the video is a rather steamy mix of Bunny, Ru and a bootylicious model named Miles Davis Moody.

Check out the video below.

After hinting at and finally releasing what is the hottest single this spring, "Get Lucky," the members of Daft Punk aren't about to let the hype end on their upcoming album.

A little over a month ago, videos entitled "Random Access Memories: The Collaborators" started popping up on YouTube. The first featured multi-instrumentalist/producer/songwriter Nile Rodgers. If Rodgers's name doesn't ring a bell, his songs might. This is the man behind Chic's "Le Freak" and David Bowie's "Let's Dance," to name a few. If you haven't watched the series, it's probably one of the smartest promotional tools put out in a long time, because although these videos are interviews with "The Collaborators," they are essentially a series of 10-minute commercials, enticing and exciting you about an album you have yet to hear.

Today, Daft Punk released a video showing what the new abum will look like, along with a teaser of the new track. The video looks like it came out of collaborator Paul Williams's movie Phantom of the Paradise, (a film that the duo have openly revered in interviews), and once again, whets our appetites for a new Daft Punk album.

After pulling off hilarious hits such as "Boy Is a Bottom" and "Chow Down at Chick-fil-A," recent RuPaul's Drag Race alum Detox Icunt and Willam Belli, along with their good friend Vicky Vox, have come up with another great parody of/homage to pop culture.

Entitled "Silicone," this love song to all things plastic surgery features Detox at the forefront, tongue planted firmly in a self-deprecating cheek. Take a peek.

And while we're on a musical tip, the recently crowned winner of this season's RuPaul's Drag Race, Ms Jinkx Monsoon (#teamjinkx), has recently paired up with Two Dudes in Love to create a track called "Schizophrenic."

I remember the first time I saw the Pet Shop Boys. It was after school, and my sister and I were sitting down to watch Video Hits, CBC's suppertime music video program. 

There was something about those opening notes on the synth and the construction of a record so completely digital. It was pop music for ears that wouldn't normally dig a record constituted from keyboards. I was too young to understand the significance of the lyrics, but there was something there. Something that resonated in me.

Almost 30 years later, the Pet Shop Boys are still putting out records and are still master craftsmen in the creation of pop songs. Their latest single, "Axis," sounds like a trip into the land of Moroder, circa "I Feel Love" while still bringing to mind the sounds of Patrick Cowley, a mastermind of Hi-NRG, one of the queerest forms of dance music. 

Meanwhile, the kids from Shit Robot have just put out a new single on DFA Records, featuring Sylvester-esque vocals provided by JENR (also known as Luke Jenner from The Rapture). Vocally, this track is a killer, and musically, the remixes -- especially the Larse Remix -- harken back to the blissful parties of the 1970s. Listen below.

When she's not picking fights on Twitter with Perez Hilton or ASAP Rocky, Azealia Banks finds the time to put out interesting videos.

Her latest, Yung Rapunxel, is a dark ditty with NFSW language, tight edits and spooky visuals. Ms Banks even transforms her face so that all her mouths can open wide to let out her lyrical assault.

Personally, it reminds me of the Corinthian character from The Sandman.

In any case, check out the video below.

Njena Reddd Foxxx is not someone you want to cross.

The grand dame who delivered "What, bitch, you don't like my shit?/What, bitch, you wanna fight me trick?/In the back of the classroom sittin' talking shit/Better shut yo ass up before I reach you real quick" in Zebra Katz's "Ima Read" is razor sharp in her rhymes, cutting up the competition before they even get a chance to respond. In "Silly Bitch," Foxxx boasts about her brains and beauty, but it's in "Hold My Purse" that she creates a sharp tune with smart lyrics. This record is made for drag queens who can dip and snap. Listen and be delivered.

After explaining the fundamentals of reading, Zebra Katz is now trying to learn why he does what he does.

In his latest video, the openly queer MC rhymes over a spacy and dubby beat, with his wonderfully gravelly voice and smooth delivery.

You can check out more of Katz's videos at his YouTube channel. In the meantime, check out his latest video.

When I was 14, I had a friend who played me what was, at that point, the craziest record I had ever heard.

It was called "Touch Me," a single by Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band. Jangly guitars and syncopated beats rang out of the speaker, and Yoko's voice soared over them, a screaming thing unlike anything I had ever heard before.

I giggled, a little. I didn't know how else to react.

But I didn't laugh for long. The more I listened to her, the more I started to feel like here was someone who did things her own way and who wanted to say things in a way that was true to her. I bought albums like Season of Glass and Fly. And when I would meet people who liked her, it was like sharing a secret. A secret that we knew the goods about, that other people just didn't get.

Ono's career has followed many interesting waves. A tribute album to her came out in the mid-'80s, and the early 2000s saw a large interest in her recordings as remixes and collaborations of her old records were released by such artists as The Pet Shop Boys and Peaches. 

In 2004, Ono even rereleased her song "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" as "Every Man Has a Man Who Loves Him" and "Every Woman Has a Woman Who Loves Her" in support of same-sex marriage.

And so today, on her 80th birthday, Down East would like to wish Yoko Ono a happy birthday and to extend thanks to her for doing what she does best: being open and honest in being herself.

If you thought 2012 was a good year for bounce MC Big Freedia, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

After a big North American tour, including stops in Toronto and Montreal (but no Halifax, womp womp), Freedia was recently featured in a documentary on Pitchfork called The Queen Diva, and bounce music was recently featured in a great piece in The Atlantic. The mini-documentary discusses the large queer bent found in bounce.

After pulling out tracks like "Excuse" and "Y'all Get Back Now," Freedia is back with "Feelin' Myself," a barrage on the dancefloor.

Take a gander.

Ten years ago, two friends from separate musical projects decided to collaborate. But they lived in separate cities, and so their musical endeavour became subject to the mail, as they would send each other lyrics, melodies and chords. That collaboration would become named, aptly, The Postal Service. Their album Give Up featured such beautiful songs as "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" and "We Will Become Silhouettes." It would become Sub Pop Records second-best-selling album, after Nirvana's Bleach.

Unfortunately, there was never a second album. There were rumours, but nothing ever really materialized. Until now.

Sub Pop is putting out a 10th-anniversary edition, along with two new tracks, featuring Rilo Kiley alum (and she of the immortal line "He touched my breast!" from The Wizard) Jenny Lewis. Today, one of the tracks, "A Tattered Line of String," was released on YouTube.