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Doveman
Music Buzz New York musician Thomas Bartlett covers the soundtrack to Footloose (yes, Kenny Loggins, Kevin Bacon, dance laws, etc.) in a moving tribute to his friend’s half-sister, who passed away as a teenager. The unusual circumstances naturally make for an unusual - albeit stunning - record. Problem is, the mp3’s are ridiculously hard to find now that Doveman received a cease-and-desist letter after initially posting the album on his site for free. If you know where to find the tracks, let me know and I’ll post it. (Update: GOT IT!)
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Video: Dancing Goop
Creepy and fascinating, the goop takes on a life of its own over a vibrating subwoofer.
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Kanye West’s Ghost Blogger
Music Buzz Does Yeezy actually post all those things himself? There’s a mini-mystery brewing over Kanye West’s blog — how does a multi-platinum rapper have the time to blog about exotic sneaker lines? Inquiring blogs want to know.
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Video: Hayden Panettiere’s New Video
Hayden Panettiere’s new music video, “Wake Up Call,” is the first single off her debut album.
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Video: Girl Talk - The Video
Someone’s gone and made video versions of Girl Talk’s album, Feed the Animals. They’re all on YouTube.
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Video: Radiohead, “House Of Cards” Video
Radiohead’s latest music video was filmed without any cameras, using only lasers.
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Grace Jones Is Back
Music Buzz The 60-year-old actress/model has a new album on the way and a new video for the first time in 19 years. It’s not as catchy as Alicia Keys’ “No One,” but Grace Jones’ new video is so quintessentially avant-garde early-80s, it’ll make you yearn for the days when MTV actually played videos like this.
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The Stranger: 30th Anniversary
Music Buzz Billy Joel’s breakout record is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a re-release. The toxic combination of hairspray, motor oil, and Aqua di Gio will be unavoidable when the album hits, so if you know what’s good for you (and your lungs), you’ll stay as far away from Long Island as possible. (Confession: Having grown up on Long Island, I can recite every lyric to “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” verbatim. Can’t deny your roots, right?)
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Curly Sue’s New Band
Music Buzz After a turn on Broadway, Alisan Porter’s back to making music — check out her MySpace page. She’s all grown up! Makes one wonder whatever happened to Jim Belushi. Oh, now I remember.
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Langhorne Slim
Music Buzz Not quite blues, not necessarily folk, not totally rock, this Pennsylvania-bred singer/songwriter is making indie music bloggers very, very happy. Signed to V2 records and having recently landed a gig on Letterman, Langhorne Slim (along with his drummer and upright bassist The War Eagles) seems set on his way to appearing on many Best Of 2008 lists come December.
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Sam Sparro
Music Buzz The Australian-born former child actor is making a splash with his futuristic funk that is as progressive as it is a throwback to eighties New Wave. Despite oozing a hipster aesthetic of dressing like an extra on the set of White Men Can’t Jump (and waiting for you to appreciate it), Sparro backs up his colorful style with a signature sound that proves he is, in fact, the real deal.
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Video: Jay-Z Covers “Wonderwall”
After hearing that Noel Gallagher said he didn’t want Jay-Z performing at Glastonbury, Jay-Z does a cover of “Wonderwall.”
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Beatles Video Game
Music Buzz After many years of safe-guarding their song catalog, surviving Beatles Paul and Ringo, and the widowed Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono Lennon, are in talks concerning broader licensing. The two principal companies involved are MTV and Activision, respective makers of the video games Rock Band and Guitar Hero. The agreement would mark a major milestone given the group’s reluctance to exploit their music commercially. People get old, ideological fervor fades…and, hey, it really wouldn’t be that bad if we could all rock out to “Octopus’s Garden” now would it?
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Video: Solid Gold
Synth-heavy upcomers Solid Gold’s music video for “Bible Thumper”.
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Video: Tim McGraw Tosses Drunk Fan
The country star steps in to haul an unruly fan onstage.
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Lindsay Lohan’s New Album
Music Buzz Lindsay Lohan’s new album will be titled “Spirit in the Dark”. LezLo’s album is set to drop November 4th and feature Pharrell Williams, Akon, StarGate and Bloodshy & Avant…so it better be good. The first single off the album will be Playground (which Lohan worked on with Pharrel) and should be released to radio stations in September.
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25 Worst Rap Names
Music Buzz A list of the 25 worst rap names of all time. Highlights include Hawd Gankstuh Rappuh Emsees Wid Ghats (?), Guilty Simpson, and Deadly Snakes.
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Kanye Flips Out
Music Buzz Kanye West releases a lengthy diatribe aimed at Bonnaroo detractors. After delivering an unforgivably awful performance at Bonnaroo, and being ushered off stage to a “Kanye sucks!” chant, Kanye has released a blog statement rife with sorrow, anger, and excuses. I wasn’t at all sympathetic until reading that his anger had driven him to type “so fucking hard [he] might break [his] fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!!”
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Video: Chuck E. Cheese Band Performs Usher Song
This hilarious video was created by a man named Chris Thrash who apparently bought the band and takes requests for songs.
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Video: Preview New Beck: “Modern Guilt”
Watch the trailer for Beck’s new album Modern Guilt.
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