Selling Out? Modern musicians were ALWAYS selling products

I always have to laugh when people talk about musicians, authenticity and selling out, the act of artists promoting products through advertisements or product...

Video: Teenage Michael Stipe As Rocky Horror’s Frank-N-Furter

Among one of the coolest pre-rock star videos I've ever seen is this one - it's from a St. Louis news broadcast from...

Here are some AWESOME musical answering machine messages brought to you by the good people at Radio Shack

Here are some AWESOME musical answering machine messages brought to you by the good people at Radio Shack. 1. 21st Century Funk (0:16) 2. Rappin (0:17) 3....

BadBadNotGood on Ghostface Killah collaboration: “It’s a completely different style of songwriting”

It all started with a YouTube video. Three young men flipped Odd Future songs into a jazz medley in an abandoned apartment. The drummer...

12 hit songs and the original track they sampled

A collection of hit songs from the past 2 decades which have sampled songs of previous eras or different genres. https://youtu.be/mU7kdal_-jI

Rock Paper Scissors Championship Announcers Are Amazing

Check out the $50,000 final match at the 2007 USARPS Championship in Las Vegas, the biggest throwdown in hand sport history. https://youtu.be/_eanWnL3FtM

Read the FBI file kept on comedian George Carlin

Documents from the FBI reveal that J. Edgar Hoover took personal offense to comedian George Carlin following his appearances on “The Carol Burnett Show"...

Beat 1’s Zane Lowe on Trent Reznor: ” He’s one of the most intelligent, eloquent, passionate people I’ve ever...

Beats 1 was basically Trent Reznor's idea?  Zane Lowe: Yeah. I'm not sure if you've had a chance to sit  with Trent, but he's one...

PEANUT BUTTER WOLF’S COVER OF “BOYZ IN THE HOOD” FROM 1987

In 1987, I had just graduated high school and moved from San Jose to Long Beach, CA for college. I chose Long Beach State...

The New York Times on laptop computers, 1985

WHATEVER happened to the laptop computer? Two years ago, on my flight to Las Vegas for Comdex, the annual microcomputer trade show, every second...

Seven hours of guy lip-synching during a long road trip

White Rhino's sister is not too excited about his lip-synch performance during their 7-hour road trip or his choice of music. https://youtu.be/OClAfGo_9wQ

Brian Wilson On World Cafe

You'd think it would be difficult for Brian Wilson to pick his favorite Beach Boys song, but he's decisive: It's "God Only Knows." In...

How The Beatles Changed Album Covers

A great look at the most iconic visual supplement in the history of music. https://youtu.be/_st4diqjpis

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Why ska is the mother of reggae

If there's one musical style that epitomizes summer, it might be the loping island style of ska. It caught fire in early '60s Jamaica,...