[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWdLundJzU&feature=player_embedded] Sure, why not? First let me take care of the next twenty years of my life, then I'll be on the first flight out of JFK to Siem Reap, Cambodia.
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Your summer jam of 2010: This mash-up of Mos Def with Dub (reggae) music is blowing my mind. You can stream or download the entire album College Humor presents: Galactic Empire State of Mind.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9RodAn0pVw] I don't know how long this video will be good before suits get it pulled from YouTube, but here's Neil Diamond finally singing in person Sweet Caroline at Fenway Park in the Red Sox season opener against the New York Yankees. One of the coolest traditions in modern sports IMHO.
Your single serve tumblr link of the day is Gifs of Popular Rappers. It's like jumping into a time machine back to TRL.
While browsing Amazon's bargain bin of 100 mp3 albums for $5 each, I unearthed this gem of a Hall and Oates album cover. Did someone take a bite out of John Oates' hair?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXfpiUtF5c] Here's Chris Isaak performing "Wicked Game" (before it became an awesomely topless Helena Christensen music video and Billboard top 10 hit) on Art Fein's cable access show on December 26, 1990. Cable access! This song would eventually reach #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1991.
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[vimeo http://vimeo.com/10371115] Wait What Music mash Notorious BIG classics with songs from The XX's debut album. The above is Biggie's Juicy and VCR by XX.
Download the entire mash-up album here.
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Add one part flash mob, one part synchronized dancing by kids in a public setting and you have the latest viral marketing effort from H&M. I've said it before, but if the future of advertising and marketing involves massively synchronized dancing then I TOTALLY CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FUTURE. Also, an Asian high five to the kid who kicks off the whole event.
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Wow, its been awhile since I've done one of these. Without further adieu, here are a few photos from last Thursday when I went to Brooklyn Bowl with a few friends for some Blue Ribbon fried chicken dinner, bowling, beer and watching Rahzel and ?uestlove kill it on stage. Incidentally, someone in the audience and then Questlove Rick Rolled Rahzel. INTERNET BEATS HIP HOP.
Note the beer glass in the middle with like five slices of lemon. Wow, someone (*coughnnamdicough*) likes their beer fruity sour.
Ctoy and Nnam tied while, as expected MRod led the way eventually with a perfect score, which may or may not be true.
We were astonished at what a dude-fest it was that night. Look at this photo. I think the ratio of guys to gals was 100:3.
And here's the human beatbox doing his thing:
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Ella Fitzgerald's "Spring Can Really Hang You Up" is a perfect listen on a very rainy Saturday in New York City.
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It's not as good as my version of it on Rock Band, but Moby did a pretty nice cover of Radiohead's classic "Creep." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-VY75Fzu9c]
An alphabetical list of rappers who've each released a song titled "I'm Back." [Via]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A08Gsv5DEBk] Even more hilarious than this performance to Nirvana's "Smells like Teen Spirit" is the on-air commentary.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Photo of a busking Boba Fett snapped by Zach Hilder.
There's the 2010 Whitney Biennial. And there's the Whitney (Houston) Biennial.