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By now, you've probably seen the Goldieblox toy commercial that reworks the Beastie Boys track "Girls" into an anthem for aspiring girl engineers and scientists...or, at least, we hope you have because you won't get a chance to now. The company has pulled the ad, citing pressure from the rap group and a desire to respect their wishes. Read More »
Miley Cyrus is wearing far more clothes than we've seen on her in a while on the cover of December's Cosmopolitan UK. Look at that, sleeves! It's shocking how not shocking it is. She's literally wearing the same sort of rhinestones that come hastily glued to grandma shirts. Read More »
Eminem has released the music video for his controversial Marshall Mathers LP 2 track "Rap God", and the nostalgia-soaked video is at least twice as interesting as the song it contains. Read More »
When Destiny's Child's "Bills" came out at the turn of the last century, you would have been laughed out of the room if you described a remix by a pale Englishman who makes moody bedroom music as "hotly anticipated." However, this is 2013 and, as James Blake's glitchy reworking of "Bills" shows us, all bets are off. Read More »
The saga of Greg Ginn's Black Flag continues to get stranger. We've already covered the legal battles with FLAG, the other Black Flag-spawned outfit, and the terrible artwork of their new album. Now, Ginn has decided to alienate yet another person by firing lead singer Ron Reyes mid-concert. Read More »
Migos are really good at two things (and neither of them are rapping): branding and self-mythologizing. Every Migos song we've ever heard sounds exactly like a Migos song and contains no fewer than five references to Migos songs that came before it. The result is a level of quality that people expect as well as an interesting web of interconnectivity for diehards to dissect. On top of that, sh-- effing rides. Read More »
Billy Joel has something big up his sleeve, but we'll have to wait until next Tuesday (December 3) to see what it is. The singer has called a press conference at the Madison Square Garden for an "exclusive and historic announcement." The moment, whatever it may be, will be broadcast live on Fuse, MSG Network and BillyJoel.com. Read More »
As we've already reported, Kanye West had a bit of a heated interview on Shade 45's Sway In The Morning this morning. The rapper got incredibly angry with host Sway Calloway and went off on a rant about how he spent $13M trying to break into the fashion industry. (Also, I think we should all marvel at how good Sway is under pressure, refusing to let West storm over him and take over the show. He's been doing this for a while and it shows). Read More »
Superchunk have been around long enough to go from playing to a crowd with a few conspicuous olds sprinkled in, to being the oldest people in the club themselves. They address going to punk shows and getting older in the excellent video for their I Hate Music track "Void." Read More »
As part of her desire to make sure the Mariah comparisons never, ever stop, Ariana Grande is releasing a series of sky-scraping holiday tracks as we get nearer to Christmas. Last week, the "The Way" singer debuted a cover of Wham's "Last Christmas" and this week she has dropped an original tune titled "Love Is Everything." Read More »
It's no secret that Kurt Cobain and godmother of riot grrl Kathleen Hanna were close friends (after all, Hanna is the one who wrote "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the wall of his apartment- an act that lead to a sea change in '90s mainstream music). Still, it is interesting to hear Hanna detail her relationship with the late Nirvana frontman in the new Kathleen-centered documentary The Punk Singer. Read More »
Morrissey and British singer-songwriter Jake Bugg have been added to the already impressive line-up of the 20th annual Nobel Peace Prize concert. The famed Englishmen will join Mary J. Blige, James Blunt Omar Souleymen, Swedish acts Timbuktu and Zara Larsson and the Norwegian rap group envy for the December 11 concert in Oslo, Norway Read More »
"Faded" is the latest from Atlanta-based superproducer Mike WiLL's MikeWiLLBeenTriLL mixtape. Where "Whippin' A Brick" showed rappers doing what they do best (namely, Migos repeating themselves), "Faded" asks guest star Future to do something he rarely does, rap outright without a wall of squealing abandoned-android-winding-down-in-The-Wastelands vocal tricks between his delivery and the listener. Read More »
