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Gregg ‘Girl Talk’ Gillis Live at Yale’s Spring Fling Festival
By Andrew Boni — May 30, 2009 — 1 Comment
Gregg ‘Girl Talk’ Gillis Live at Yale’s Spring Fling Festival

Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, has been known to frequently perform on college campuses and take over the college music scene. In fact, he got his start performing shows on the weekends while still a student at Case Western Reserve University. He eventually went on to graduate, and get a job as an engineer before [...]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Hit a Sweet Spot with Animal Collective, DAN OH, Weird Tapes and More Minimal Mixers
By Courtney Allessio — May 29, 2009 — 1 Comment
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Hit a Sweet Spot with Animal Collective, DAN OH, Weird Tapes and More Minimal Mixers

It may not need justification, but it’s become so obvious that I have to talk about it.
Artists love It’s Blitz!. They just want to get their hands around it, their fingers in it.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have succeeded in making even the alternative unorthodox with this latest album release. And track by track, the remixes pour [...]

Passion Pit’s Music Video for “The Reeling” [HD]
By Andrew Boni — May 28, 2009 — 4 Comments
Passion Pit’s Music Video for “The Reeling” [HD]

Just stumbled across the music video for Passion Pit’s hit song “The Reeling.” The effects in this video, not to mention the song itself, are completely dope. I love the vintage and gritty feel that the beginning of the video gives off. This is one of the most creative videos that I’ve seen in a [...]

Good Morning America Hilariously Fails to Censor Green Day’s “Longview”
By Andrew Boni — May 27, 2009 — 5 Comments
Good Morning America Hilariously Fails to Censor Green Day’s “Longview”

This is one of the funnier things that I’ve seen lately. To kick off Memorial Day Weekend 2009, ABC’s Good Morning America booked Green Day to perform a few of their classic songs. For some reason or another, when Green Day started to play “Longview” the Good Morning America staff forgot to bleep out a [...]

Beastie Boys Perform “So What’cha Want” with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
By Andrew Boni — May 26, 2009 — No Comments Yet
Beastie Boys Perform “So What’cha Want” with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Last night, the Beastie Boys made an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. At Jimmy’s request, they performed the classic jam “So What’cha Want” off of their 1992 album Check Your Head. What made this rendition unique was the fact that the song’s instrumentals were played live, rather than previously recorded like in most [...]

Mixtape Mondays: Kid CuDi and the Day ‘N’ Nite Remixes
By Andrew Boni — May 25, 2009 — No Comments Yet
Mixtape Mondays: Kid CuDi and the Day ‘N’ Nite Remixes

What’s up everyone. We’re going to keep it short and sweet for today’s mixtape. Kid CuDi’s stuff seems to be getting played on every radio station across the country right now. So, I figured that it would be appropriate to post up a few remixes of his biggest hit, “Day ‘N’ Nite.” On this particular [...]

Elderly People Review Dan Deacon, The Doves, Animal Collective, Young Jeezy, Bon Iver, Common
By Andrew Boni — May 21, 2009 — 2 Comments
Elderly People Review Dan Deacon, The Doves, Animal Collective, Young Jeezy, Bon Iver, Common

These are probably some of the funniest, cutest, and most honest music reviews you’ll ever see. The people over at Scrapple.tv run a weekly web TV show called Breakfast at Sulimay’s. The show takes place inside a diner in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philly. Every week, Bill, Ann, and Joe listen to some current artists [...]

Boston’s Passion Pit Releases Debut Album Manners [VIDEO]
By Andrew Boni — May 19, 2009 — 1 Comment
Boston’s Passion Pit Releases Debut Album Manners [VIDEO]

It was February 2007. Michael Angelakos, a student and singer/songwriter at Emerson College, was looking for that special gift to give to his then girlfriend for Valentine’s Day. What he came up with were six songs recorded under the alias Passion Pit. The songs failed to woo his lover, but spread like wildfire at Emerson [...]

Mixtape Mondays: Drake – So Far Gone
By Andrew Boni — May 18, 2009 — No Comments Yet
Mixtape Mondays: Drake – So Far Gone

This week’s Mixtape Mondays installment is a continuation of last week’s. So Far Gone is Drake’s latest mixtape, and many people agree that it’s his best work so far. Personally, I feel like it’s at least as good as Comeback Season if not better. There’s a whole lot more singing happening on this mixtape than [...]

Rod Blagojevich Stencil Graffiti in Chicago by Ray Noland
By Andrew Boni — May 15, 2009 — 5 Comments
Rod Blagojevich Stencil Graffiti in Chicago by Ray Noland

Graffiti is more than just a hobby for Chicago-based graffiti artist Ray Noland; it’s a way of life. He has a penchant for creating works of street art inspired by political figures. Back during the 2008 election season, Noland helped contribute to Barack Obama’s grassroots campaign by creating mesmerizing stencil graffiti pieces. More recently, Noland [...]