Sonny Rollins hits 80 today. Sonny – you’re a giant of the tenor saxophone, we salute you. Now, about those free tickets for your gig at the Barbican…

Today we discovered Bottom & Co’s “Do A Funky Thing Together” from the album “Rock Bottom”. By jove, it’s a motherfucker, you should track it down A to the S to the A to the P.

The poster for this year’s Soul Revue at Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, is pretty hip. Last year’s is also worth a look.

Pirating vinyl – hard work, pretty pointless, but tres cool nonetheless.

There’s some striking album artwork on the Creative Review Blog. This vibrant, almost eye-watering design for Chris Coco’s album is particularly nice, even if his music is absolutely shit.

Mr Old Spice just gets better and better.

Who would argue with the suggestion that everything is better with a gorilla?

Circuit Bent Furby by Ormin Factory is a curious beast indeed, half toy, half sound generation unit.

We’ve just launched a cool Flash application that uses Papervision3D to create a simple yet fun 3D modelling environment.

Developed for games publisher SouthPeak Interactive’s upcoming launch of 3D Dot Game Heroes™ on PlayStation®3, the tool has been spectacularly well received by video game fans and has led to over 2,000 designs being created and saved in the first 24 hours alone!

So why not plumb the depths of your imagination and create your very own original 3D gaming sprite. Or, if you’re old enough to look back in fondness at the old Atari and NES games of yesteryear, try recreating your favourite 8-bit game character in 3D instead. Go on, try it!

I’d kill a puppy to own this poster, it’s so very, very lovely. A fantastic piece of work by the legendary graphic designer Milton Glaser.

If you’re unfamiliar with Dave or The Count, go hide in a dark room for a while and punch yourself in the face repeatedly, then go buy some records, philistine.