Weezer’s latest video for their song Pork and Beans is chocked full of internet superstars, many of whom I’ve linked to in the past, all of whom can be found throughout YouTube. Hilarious and recent-nestalgic (if something can be nostalgic after only a few months) this video is a must-watch for anyone that laughs at […]
Jessica Delfino gives some great advice in this song about how to get famous. I think it is genius.
[thank jay for cheering me up.]
It’s been a fun Beatles cover morning for me. First, you should have a look as ukulele phenom Jake Shimabukuro performing “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on Conan. This guy is simply brilliant. I wrote about his original YouTube video once before. I guess Conan liked it to. I also have some trouble spelling ukulele/ukelele. […]
While I was away in Dubai I had opposite forces of pop culture pulling at me. On one side, there was the ever present influence of British culture and music which opened my ears to some new-ish artists I might never had heard in NY. We’ll talk about some of them another time. On the […]
This version of Guns & Roses Sweet Child O’ Mine performed by Indians with electric sitars is amazing. That song really holds up, still one of my all-time favorites.
[via neatorama.]
Conan O’Brien has started up new shows this week despite the continued writer’s strike. In this clip he shows how the staff passes time playing Rock Band and how he plays along with a real guitar. It is pretty funny but quickly turns to side-splitting classic when he performs the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage in the […]
Whoa, another amazing human beatbox (see previous), and another amazing video from one of these reality talent show things - this time from France. You have GOT to watch this.
I am still and forever partial to Kenny Muhammad, especially this semi-famous performance at Columbia University.
Mad skillz yo.
[from derek.]
Where has the young, beautiful and talented Miss Lauryn Hill gone?
I didn’t write about it at the time, but a few months ago Lauryn Hill played here in Dubai and I had the unique pain of attending the concert. After several hours of delay due to throat illness or soreness or something, she came out […]
I rarely comment on this blog about new Apple product announcements. There are hundreds of sites that do it better than I could, and even though I geek out about this stuff, I don’t find it all that interesting to write about.
This morning, US pacific time was another Apple “special event” dubbed “The Beat Goes […]
Yuri Lane tears it up with a harmonica and microphone in this YouTube clip. Good shit.
Hip-hop meets bluegrass. I like it.
Finally, western culture has completely infiltrated the Arab world. We’ve won. Or lost. I’m not sure. Tik Tik Taktaka will confuse you too.
[thanks hind.]
Here’s a pretty great animated advertisement for Microsoft’s Zune (that’s a music player thing) called “Dogfight”. It was done by a company called FullTank. (Here’s interview with them about the Zune Arts Films.)
I wish it was an ad for a new game on XBox because I would buy it tomorrow. Nice work.
[via gizmodo.]