MONDO MOJO

…B.o.B (right), a Georgia rapper, set up a $1-million crowd funder last month to raise cash for satellites to prove once and for all that the Earth is actually flat. At press time, he had raised just over $6,000 …THE WONDER STUFF and NED’S ATOMIC DUSTBIN also did inventive things with the cash supply when they announced a co-headlining UK tour for next spring: tickets were briefly available for just £7 – “1990 prices” – on September 27. “Our audience… they’re big lads,” mused The Wonder Stuff’s Miles Hunt, mildly insultingly. “Have they got the stamina for the two bands in one night?” …THURSTON MOORE has recorded a techno album which he may release under an assumed name. In conversation with LCD Soundsystem’s Tyler Pope on the Talkhouse podcast, he revealed, “I have this lost techno record… dude it’s crazy, I’ve never played it for anybody. Nobody wants to hear me do a techno record!” Oh, I dunno … when HUGH HEFNER died in September, names including Questlove and Weezer said farewell. Oddly, in 1976, his Playboy Records Inc distributed the Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers LP …NEW ORDER and former bassist Peter Hook have finally declared a “final settlement” of the legal feud over payments and use of assets that began in November 2015. In a statement, the group said, “Bernard, Stephen and Gillian (left) can continue to do what they do best, make music and perform.” Hooky tours the UK in December…