It’s WTF Friday at Axehole, and you know what that means - we’ve dug up something spectacularly stupid from the world of music to share with you!

Wei-Lieh Lee and Kevin O’Callaghan are the designers behind the dog-jacket iPod dock, a doggy jacket which converts your pup into a mobile boombox. It’s got tiny, underpowered speakers on each side of the jacket, sure to deliver high-frequency torment to your dog, and a remote built into the leash.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals should be all over this. Fortunately for dogs, the dog-jacket iPod dock is still just a design concept….

Tom at Music thing shows off how you can use a $1000 Akai MPC1000 to play Pong. Just load an experimental OS and you can play Pong and let the “ball” trigger your samples.

It’s all pretty stupidtastic, until you realize that this could be a fun way to get your glitchtronica on…..

Here’s Aphex Twin’s Aparatus:

Think there could be a little MPC Pong going on there?

Paris Hilton’s music career is over, according to reports.

“You don’t need to worry about listening to any more music from Paris - there won’t be any,” according to one report. “Her career as a singer is going to be allowed to quietly go away.”

The American socialite released her debut single Stars are Blind earlier this year to a lukewarm reception, and her subsequent album bombed in the charts, despite her notoreity from television and Internet films (aka, p0rn).

Feel free to sing along in the chorus:

Even though the gods are crazy
Even though the stars are blind
If you show me real love baby
I’ll show you mine

Actually, you already showed yours….and it scarred me and half the Internet for life.

Was this one song enough to permanenly sink her music career?

Here’s something you might have missed if you only read legitimate news sources….

Rockers are reportedly dumping the guitar and switching to the ukulele.

The uke shows up on recent recordings by artists such as Jack Johnson, Andy Partridge, Nickel Creek and Jens Lekman. Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder has recorded an entire album of ukulele music.

Even Bruce Springsteen — the Boss — has been playing the ukulele onstage.

In case you’re not sure what that means for the future of rock, here’s a reminder, courtesy of Tiny Tim:

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Actually - despite the story’s publication in a major newspaper, The Houston Chronicle, we’re not convinced that this is an important trend in rock, yet.

It’s hard to imagine the gods of metal transferring their sturm und drang to the uke…..

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It’s the holidays - so we thought we’d look for something nice on YouTube to get us in the Christmas spirit. But instead of finding some nice and cheery Christmas videos, all we found were disturbing ones.

So….we’ve collected the most truly disturbing Christmas videos for you as a cathartic exercise. We feel better, and after viewing these creepy things, you may just feel better about dealing with the holidays, too!

The Seven Most Disturbing YouTube Christmas Music Videos

It’s Beginning To Look Like A Burnt Christmas Tree

Johnny Mathis brings holiday joy to the tradition of your next door neighbors incinerating their Christmas tree twenty feet from your house.

No Christmas Music Video

This one starts out nice enough, until the guy starts singing about poor little kids. I think he just ruined Christmas for us.

Black Christmas

We can’t figure this one out - maybe you can. Somebody skewers a hunk of meat, and then there’s some chick screaming. Then 15 years pass, and the hot chicks of Delta Alpha Kappa are getting their Christmas on, and then the girls start taking their clothes off and there’s an eye in the floor and a scary phone call and the bodies hit the floor and the faux punk rock singers are singing “You’re all dead…you’re all dead.”

Ahhh - now that’s holiday spirit!
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