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,...

The reason every meme uses that one font

This video explains why most internet memes use the typeface Impact, designed by Geoffrey Lee in 1965. https://youtu.be/PzySkYQNDlI

You can now buy 3D printed cochlear implants for your kid’s toys

Building on their Toy Like Me accessories, Makies has shipped 3D printed cochlear implants for your 3D printed custom doll, inwhite or pink.  Makies...

Your must-read for the end of summer: How Music Got Free

Stephen Witt's How Music Got Free is a riveting story of obsession, music, crime, and money, featuring visionaries and criminals, moguls and tech-savvy teenagers. It’s...

Miley Cyrus’s Audition tape for Hannah Montana

You can't tell me anything bad about Miley. I'm all for whatever she wants to do, she's earned it. And she's more punk than...