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Robert Galbraith / Reuters The Death of the iPod
The Apple player transformed the way we listened to music over the past decade. But with the birth of the iPad, it's time to bid farewell to the device
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When You Left, You Took All Of Me With You...
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Song of the Day: Gorillaz, "Superfast Jellyfish"
The band posts another track from its hotly anticipated new album, which will be released next month
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Graphs of the Day: Getting Back at Lady Gaga
Critics of the ubiquitous singer take out their rage in pie charts lampooning her limited skills set.
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List of the Day: 45 More Ways to Leave Your Lover
A blogger helps Paul Simon finish the work he started in his 1975 hit song.
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Playlist of the Day: How To Make It In America (The Mixtape)
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Mark Lennihan / AP The Tragedy of Biggie and Pac
If you know hip-hop, then you know the story of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls).
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J. Cole Shows The Tea Partiers How To Do It
The positive anthem is a genre of hip-hop song Talib Kweli mastered with "Get By" and then beat to death an album later with "I Try." "Get By" is sort of plugged as an option for the emcee who's more lyrically than musically inclined, who's trying to show intellectual depth and draw a certain kind of audience.
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The Black and the Jews (And In This Case, the Greek-Norwegians and the Nazis)
Did you guys know that there's an entire genre of Yiddish Swing? Perhaps you did, but it was news to me.
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Reaction Roundup: 'We Are the World' Remake for Haiti
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Jay Smooth Is A National Treasure
Seriously, guys. On, the "We Are the World" remake / announcement of his new website:
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Laurence Fishburne set it off, though...
I don't know a whole lot about country music. The overwhelming popularity of pop country acts like Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood has done nothing to pique my interest.
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Try a Little...
I mentioned Rock Band in passing in yesterday's post, but I wanted to return to it for a quick second to make a point: Video games have become the primary way I discover new music.
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In Defense of Selling Out
I think Scott Lemieux is absolutely correct to identify huffiness over artists who"sell out" as a factor that frequently produces bad criticism. But perhaps that's because I don't really understand why "selling out," or finding a way to steadily monetize your artistic output, is such a terrible thing.
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"Let your pants sag, but your thoughts gotta pull up..."
I know MF Doom gets a lot of love around these parts. Obviously, Ta-Nehisi's a big fan. I am, as well. Still, the constellation of indie-hop burns bright beyond the masked Villain. I'd like to call attention to the dimming of a once-white-hot star cluster.
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Proceed To Move The Crowd Like An Old Negro Spiritual...
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That's Postracial!
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The Live Litigator
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Hip-Hop Is Dead
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I Know What I Know
