“Here It Goes Again,” you say? Not quite: [youtubevid id=”u3cCURh8kxI&NR=1″] OK Go is back with a brand-spakin’ new album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, and the band has kicked their record release off in style once again. As one of the entities that cemented the “viral video” phenomenon, OK Go does have a … [Read more…]
Hot indie bands, one hilarious comedic-actor and a hip-hop mixtape. Great combination, right? Well, almost. Childish Gambino’s new mixtape, I Am Just A Rapper, has so much potential. Yet, the results are a little mixed. Childish Gambino, otherwise known as Donald Glover, is someone to watch out for. When it comes to rhymes, Glover’s got … [Read more…]
This past weekend was a great weekend for playoff football. Grueling match-ups, blowouts and high scoring shootouts abound. Perhaps it was because he missed the field so much this past weekend that a video featuring LaDanian Tomlinson “made by” (according to Pitchfork) music video director Eric Wareheim the “Tim & Eric” team (of Tim & … [Read more…]
My friend’s niece is a big fan of Yo Gabba Gabba!, a brilliant brand of childrens’ programing on the part of Nick Jr. I remember finding ridiculous videos from the show and trying to show them to some of my friends. I mean, who wouldn’t want to learn beat boxing from Biz Markie? Well, at … [Read more…]
There’s a famous scene in Good Will Hunting where an arrogant Harvard student berates Ben Affleck’s Chuckie Sullivan with his in-depth historical knowledge. This is done to bully Sullivan and humiliate him in front of a couple of women Sullivan is trying to hit on. Then, in comes Matt Damon’s Will Hunting to save the … [Read more…]
Will Kanye’s new album have a riff about I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? Well, West made reference to Caged Bird author Maya Angelou today on his blog while announcing his return to the studio: IT’S FUNNY HOW SO MANY RAPPERS GET WORSE AS THEIR CAREERS STRETCH OUT BUT TRUE POETS GET BETTER. Â WE … [Read more…]
The ‘net’s been abuzz, questioning the verifiability of Andrew W.K.’s identity in music. Andrew recently opened up and let people know the attacks he’s suffered due to his musical evolution and identity in the pop realm: Since 2001, I have been accused of being part of a conspiracy in which I knowingly entered into a … [Read more…]
“Gimme something to look forward to,” Britt Daniel sang on Spoon’s 2002 album, Kill The Moonlight. And with every new year, there’s a great list of upcoming releases by musicians to impatiently look forward to with every blog post on “Band A” or “Band B.” Spoon is one of those groups that’s bound to get … [Read more…]
Happy 2010! It’s time to start off the new year with something new… Or, in this case, something old turned new. Rolling Stone has the details on the Soundgarden reunion: Soundgarden fans woke up to incredible news this New Year’s morning: the band, which split in 1997, is officially reuniting. And that’s about all the … [Read more…]
It’s hard to sum up an entire year of pop music in one concise “best of” list. Instead, here’s a tidy little look at some of the highs and lows in pop music over the past year: Hip-Huh?: The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones declared that hip-hop was dead and upset a lot of hip-hop heads. … [Read more…]