When all the drama on the front pages on our daily newspapers eventually get to us, there’s very little that can brighten our politically and culturally dour days. It’s days like these that we skip the national and local news, overlook the sports section, toss the classifieds and go straight to the comics page. If Hagar the Horrible’s misanthropic behavior can’t help us forget about Turkish elections, little else will.

Houston musician Joe Mathlete seems to feel the same way. Marmaduke is Joe’s comic of choice, and why not? One-panel cartoons about human-like Great Danes are great.

Here’s a sample:


By the way, Joe is what Hollywood likes to call a triple threat. He also keeps up a blog titled “Joe Mathlete Will Draw Anything You Ask Him To On An Index Card,” where he does just that. Also, you should probably check out Joe’s band, The Mathletes. Frighteningly fun, if we do say so ourselves.

Featured song: “Rasins” – The Mathletes
Featured song: “Your Wings Are Made Of Gold (I Remain Unimpressed)” – The Mathletes
Featured song: “Pinocchiobot” – The Mathletes

It’s humanly impossible to not have heard or read the name “Feist” over the last two weeks. I mean, even we ogled over her video series a few days ago. Can we help it, though? Leslie Feist can do no wrong. No, really. NO. WRONG.

Her new LP, “The Reminder,” was released today, but if you haven’t heard her debut, “Let It Die,” then we don’t know how you can say that you were alive in 2005. Not only is she Canadian (reow…), but she has played with both Broken Social Scene and Peaches. She is, as we were told long ago, the white Sade.

Anyway, music producers and disc jockeys have remixed her. They have the technology. They have the capability to make the world’s best Feist remixes. Dancier than they was before. Dancier…stronger…faster.

Featured Song: “My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix)” – Feist
Featured Song: “Sealion Woman (Cromeo Remix)” – Feist