RONNIE DUNN

This guy used to be half of Brooks & Dunn, an ultra-cheesy pop-country duo I never had much time for. This is a single from his first solo album, and it's pretty powerful stuff.

F.E.O. (FRIDAY EVENING ORANGUTAN)

I don't know if Friday Evening Orangutan will become a regular feature or not; I just know that this particular orangutan knows how to keep cool, right down to never sharing your cool-keeping device with anyone else, no matter how much they beg. Get your own washcloth, Junior.

HOW DO YOU SAY "PANTS ON THE GROUND" IN YORUBA?

This video, for the song "Bling Bling Panda," by Lágbájá, is pretty awesome. It's a hip-hop/Afrobeat track criticizing Nigerian youth for copying their American counterparts with their gold teeth and flat-brim baseball caps and designer jeans and Ed Hardy-lookin' shirts, when what they oughta be doing is hanging out by the fire in brightly colored robes and beating the drum. Why, in the old days...

I don't know if they have lawns in Nigeria, but this dude would surely be telling these kids to get off his if he had one.

Check it out.