Music Buzz I've got a Gold Star for anyone dedicated enough to make it through the first hour.
Music Buzz The second single off the upcoming Watch The Throne samples Otis Redding and is much better than H.A.M. Check it out below before they scrub it off of YouTube.
Culture Buzz Somehow this has gone under the internet's radar the last couple weeks as 80s heart-throb Joey Lawrence released a dance single at the end of June. This actually isn't half bad…I think we finally have a real contender for song of the summer!
Music Buzz In a recent interview about his upcoming collaboration with Kanye West, Justin Bieber claimed Kanye West wasn't the “asshole” everyone makes him out to be. Maybe tweens will finally forgive Kanye for the Taylor Swift incident and start accepting My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was the best album of 2010. (via nymag.com)
Music Buzz The “What are you listening to?” street game has gone completely viral and copycats of the original New York video have sprouted up all across the globe. Watch them all below to see which small sample of an entire city your music taste fits in with the best. If you're like me you'll think to yourself, “Oh that one guy listens to LCD Soundsytem too?!” and you'll get far too excited.
Kids these days are apparently using “digital drugs” to simulate the feeling of ecstasy. MP3s are a gateway drug!
These portraits of rock gods were created with cassette tape spools, which is pretty rad. Just try doing that with an mp3.
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Folksy troubadour Sufjan Stevens released his eighth (eighth!) Christmas EP. On the eighth day of Christmas, your true love gave to you eight illegal downloads.
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Now you can listen to Barack Obama’s acceptance speech on your iPod.
Music Buzz MoreCowbell.DJ is an application that automatically adds more cowbell to your uploaded tracks. If you haven’t heard Paper Planes, Changes, or I Can’t Dance given the Blue Öyster Cult effect, then you truly haven’t experienced music, man.