Skip to content

Tag Archives: music

Molly Lewis Transforms Lady Gagas “Poker Face”

Between Lady Gaga and LMFAO, I hold out little hope for the future of American popular music. Molly Lewis’s cover of Gaga’s “Poker Face,” on the other hand, fills me with joy and happiness. link » Molly Lewis Official Site link » Molly Lewis on Twitter link » The Vigilant Citzen, “Lady Gaga, The Illuminati [...]

“Are You There Jah, Its Me Ras Trent?”

I may be biased because of the five years I spent in the Trustfarian mecca that is Boulder, Colorado, but I think this “Rastafarian melody for the Quad” might be the funniest SNL Digital Short yet.

Rage Against the Machine A Capella at RNC Protest

This video of Rage Agaist the Machine performing a capella in between offering nuggets of political discourse over a megaphone after the police shut down their PA during an anti-RNC protest is downright inspiring.

LA Weekly’s Coachella Number Crunching

It’s no Earl Boykins, but “Coachella by the Numbers” on the LA Weekly’s music blog Play should be of interest to the information design freaks out there. This one is by far my favorite because, as they point out, it’s such a perfect metaphor for the state of the music industry.

FEAR on SNL?

Yeah, if you can believe it, that’s motherfucking FEAR on the Halloween 1981 episode of Saturday Night Live. The destruction and obscenity apparently got them banned from playing SNL again (and you can tell right at the end that they cut the set short by going to a commercial), but it’s surprising that they invited [...]

Softlightes’ “Heart Made of Sound” VS Sagmeister’s “Things”

Here’s the awesome video for the Softlightes “Heart Made of Sound,” by director Kris Moye: Can’t help but think of Sagmeister‘s “Things I Have Learned” project when I see this. For example: Sagmeister, for the record is Austrian. Moye, Australian. And yes, I had to read that a few times to make sure I was [...]