CULTURE BUZZ: Remember the video game Mario Paint? If you don’t, it was that really cool game for Super Nintendo where you could compose your own songs using the little Mario voices and such. Well, thanks to Youtube, people are posting their own versions of popular songs online. Here is a collection of them. Enjoy.

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1. “Learning To Fly” Tom Petty
2. “I Get Around” The Beach Boys
3. “Lollipop” Lil Wayne
4. Jeopardy Theme
5. “Low” Flo Rida
6. “What’s My Age Again?” Blink 182
7. “Stronger” Kanye West
8. Family Guy Theme
9. “Drop it Like it’s Hot” Snoop and Pharell
10. “Blue” Eiffel 65
11. “Numb” Linkin Park
12. “How To Save a Life” The Fray
13. “When You Were Young” The Killers
14. “Survivor” Destiny’s Child
15. “Still D.R.E.” Dr. Dre
16. “Apologize” One Republic
17. “Rehab” Amy Winehouse
18. “Bleeding Love” Leona Lewis
19. “Viva La Vida” Coldplay
20. “Hey There Delilah” Plain White T’s
21. “Seven Nation Army” The White Stripes
22. “We Will Rock You” Queen
23. “Summer Nights” From Grease
24. “Pork and Beans” Weezer
25. “Mad World” Gary Jules
26. Misson Impossible Theme
27. “Take on Me” aha
28. King Of The Hill Theme
29. “Beautiful Girls” Sean Kingston
30. ” I Wanna Hold Your Hand” The Beatles
31. The Simpsons Theme
32. “I Love Rock n Roll”Joan Jett
33. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nirvana
34. “What I’ve Done” Linkin Park
35. “Chocolate Rain” Prince
36. “Thriller” Michael Jackson
37. “Bohemian Rhapsody” Queen
38. The Office Theme
39. “Don’t Stop Believin’” Journey
40. “In Da Club” 50 Cent
41. “Ms. Jackson” Outkast
42. “What is Love” Haddaway
43. “I Saw Her Again” The Mamas and the Papas
44. Indiana Jones Theme

This little remix is described as “the internet’s most famous audio samples in DJ-friendly format”. Some of the classic internetty video samplings include “Will It Blend”, “All Your Base Are Belong To Us”, and the “Australian Party Kid”, leaving me reminiscent for dear old 2007. We age so fast in these tubes, don’t we? Still…awesome!

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The Best Links:

1. Meme Breaks 1.0
2. A Demonstration
3. Peanut Butter Jelly Time is the new Amen break
4. Famous Internet Memes in Turntable-Friendly Format
5. Blackstar + (Internet memes x Scratching) = Genius

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.

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The Best Links:

1. MoreCowbell.DJ
2. Proof That Old Jokes Don’t Die With Technology
3. Add cowbell and Christopher Walken to any song
4. Lunchbreak Made Enjoyable
5. Life Saving Application, Indeed
6. Miles Davis is talented and all…
7. David Bowie - Changes
8. Genesis - I Can’t Dance
9. MIA - Paper Planes

MUSIC BUZZ: The new commercial for the 4th generation iPod Nano is out which also means the next big indie band is about to go mainstream. The song playing over all those pretty colors is “Bruises” by a group called Chairlift. By being featured in the commercial, they’ve received the Apple touch which grants one lucky, obscure band instant stardom. At this point, Apple has proven that every time an ipod is created, an indie band gets their wings.

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The Best Links:

1. Apple 4th-gen iPod nano ad
2. the official Chairlift web site
3. Brooklyn’s Chairlift
4. New iPod Nano - Featured on BuzzFeed

MUSIC BUZZ: A chart which displays the body parts we sing about per genre. Not surprisingly, hip-hop’s leader is “ass”, which is in 23.6% of sampled songs. Gospel and Hip-Hop both sing about “knees” 3% of the time, while everyone else seems to love “eyes” and “hands”.

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The Best Links:

1. Fleshmap: Studies In Desire
2. Crowdsourcing Sex
3. An Inquiry Into Human Desire
4. Everything Is Interactive
5. Body Parts and Music
6. Lots of booty in hip-hop

Taking a break from the “Biggest Online Dance Battles In The History Of Man Kind”, Miley Cyrus urges America to “Wake Up” and go green! Like all the other videos on The Miley and Mandy Show, this one’s not exempt from giggly teenagers lip-synching their own songs, but “Wake Up America” encourages her fans to do something, like leaving the cell phone unplugged at night, taking carpools, and finding other fun ways to “go green”. XOXO M&M lol!

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The Best Links:

1. The Miley and Mandy Show - Wake Up America
2. Miley Cyrus And Her BFF Release A Go Green Video
3. There’s More To Miley Than Hair Extensions
4. Listen to “Wake Up America” Free at Last.FM
5. YouTube Dance Battles
6. Miley Condoms

CULTURE BUZZ: The Talking Heads frontman designed 9 ridiculous looking bike racks for NYC streets. With names like “The Hipster”, “The Coffee Cup” and “Olde Times Square”, Byrne’s bike racks are meant to capture the essence of New York City neighborhoods and encourage people to ride their bikes.

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The Best Links:

1. New Bike Racks Courtesy of David Byrne
2. More Than A Legacy Act
3. Based Around The Personalities Of Each Neighborhood
4. Stick To Music, With Love
5. Crazy Enough It Just Might Work
6. Public Art or Public Transportation
7. David Byrne on Wikipedia

MUSIC BUZZ: The nine best songs written about getting your freak on yourself. Highlights include Devo, The Divinyls, and a post-Justin-pre-KFed Britney Spears who had just discovered the touch of her hand.

The Best Links:

1. Top Nine Songs About Self Love with Clips
2. Billy Idol “Dancing With Myself”

Feist will appear on the 39th season of Sesame Street singing a modified version of “1,2,3,4”. The lyrics of “1,2,3,4” were altered so that the song is about counting chickens, penguins, and monsters, rather than love, or whatever it was about. The 39th season of Sesame Street premieres August 11th and will feature appearances from A-Listers like David Beckham and Jessica Alba.

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The Best Links:

1. Feist Really Likes The Number 4
2. Sesame Street’s 39th Season List of Celebrity Guests
3. Watch Feist on Sesame Street
4. Feist - 1, 2, 3, 4 Original Version

“All The Way Around”, the first single off Ali Lohan’s upcoming album, has been released online. The 14-year-old sister of Lindsay Lohan describes her sound as “hip-hop. Kind of like Rihanna.” So lets recap: Ali has a single out, Lindsay has a single out, and the family has their own reality show. Big summer for the Lohans, I guess! Dina must be stoked.

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The Best Links:

1. “All The Way Around” Premier on People.com
2. Ali Lohan Interview: Living Lohan and Her Upcoming Album
3. Ali Lohan Photos
4. Ali Lohan’s Official Music Site
5. Lindsay Lohan’s New Album