Tag: Things That Are Awesome (91-100 of 404)

Apr 9 2012 11:37 AM ET

Drake drops videos featuring Rihanna, Lil Wayne, and his own bar mitzvah: Watch them here

Under the cover of darkness, Drake released not one but two music videos last Friday night, quickly turning G.O.O.D. Friday into Double Drake Day.

One of the clips is the arty  “Take Care,” the Rihanna-featuring title track off Drizzy’s latest album, featuring the pair giving one another moody embraces and jumping around in slow motion, alongside a bull and a bird (metaphors for the singers? Maybe, I dunno) also doing slo-mo stuff, with intercuts of snowy nature vistas.

The second video, “HYFR,” is much more festive, kicking off with vintage footage of a young Aubrey “Drake” Graham becoming a man at his bar mitzvah. What follows is his re-bar mitzvah, full of celebration, cake, and Lil Wayne with a panda head.

Check out both videos below:

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Apr 5 2012 06:07 PM ET

Simone Felice: The ex-Felice Brothers member on his new album, near-death experience, and Courtney Love

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In May of 2010, singer-songwriter Simon Felice should have been feeling on top of the world. His band The Duke & the King was preparing to release their second album Long Live the Duke & the King, the follow-up to 2009’s critically admired Nothing Gold Can Stay, And Felice’s wife was heavily pregnant with their first child, a double blessing given the couple had previously suffered a late-term miscarriage the previous year.

But Felice, who first gained a following playing alongside his siblings in folk-rock act The Felice Brothers, was not feeling on top of the world in the early summer of 2010. In fact, he was feeling like hell warmed over. “If you look at pictures of me, I was just pale and grey,” says the singer, 35, over the phone from his home “on a cliff” in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. “I didn’t have insurance, I never went to the doctor. I didn’t know it, but I was slowly dying.”

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Apr 5 2012 12:45 PM ET

Jack White's new 'Sixteen Saltines' video: Teens gone wild

The video for “Love Interruption,” the first single from Jack White’s forthcoming solo debut Blunderbuss, was an understated affair — it matched the song’s energy, but didn’t come  close to the standards set by the guy who helped craft cornerstone videos like “Fell in Love With a Girl,” “Blue Orchid,” and “Seven Nation Army.”

But “Sixteen Saltines,” White’s new video, makes up for the lack of action in “Love Interruption.” The clip follows the exploits of a handful of teenage thugs who have apparently taken over the world.

Are they in a war zone? Is it after the apocalypse? And why is there so much blue stuff around? Have these kids decided to worship Avatar, or perhaps Big Fat Liar? It’s unclear, but that doesn’t stop them from smashing stuff, getting drunk, and setting fire to a car that contains a bound White.

It’s as intense as one of those British movies about how harsh kids can be, and just as entertaining and compelling. Give it a look below. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 5 2012 12:43 PM ET

Beyonce unveils new Tumblr page

Any Beyoncé fan worth their leotard knows that “4” is a special number to the Carters. Besides being the title of Queen B’s fourth solo album, she’s been vocal about her special connection to the single digit.

(It’s the day both she and husband Jay-Z were born, the date of her mother’s birthday, and her wedding day. The couple even rocks matching IV tattoos on their wedding fingers to prove it.)

So there’s no way the couple’s four-year anniversary, on the fourth day of the fourth month, was going to pass by without a diva-sized celebration.

You can now feast your eyes on a Bey-Jay-apalooza. Beyoncé unveiled an official Tumblr today, chronicling the more personal part of her life. For the swarms in the Beyhive and soldiers of the Roc Nation (a.k.a. fans — to those of you less obsessed), it’s a special treat from the duo who’ve been notoriously mum about their private life.

Even Baby Blue made her official Tumblr debut before her mogul parent. Brace yourself; the 100+ intimate images might just send you into a Beyoncé-induced spiral — at least that’s my excuse for the revival of my search for the perfect freakum dress and a playlist heavily padded with 4 and B’Day. 

Tells us what you think — between sharing pictures of Baby Blue only a month after her birth to this new tumblr, are you crazy in love with this new more accessible Beyoncé? Or do you like your superstars to retain their mystery?

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Apr 5 2012 08:30 AM ET

Mark Foster, Kimbra, and A-Trak team up for 'Warrior': Watch the video premiere here -- EXCLUSIVE

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When we last left Converse’s “Three Artists, One Song” project, Damon Albarn of Gorillaz went to the mat with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy  and OutKast’s Andre 3000 on “DoYaThing.”

For their next trick, the company has gathered together Foster the People frontman Mark Foster, “Somebody That I Used To Know” guest sprite Kimbra, and Canadian turntable mastermind A-Trak for a song called “Warrior.”

The song will be available for download for free at the official website for shoe store Journeys, but you can take a first look at the video for “Warrior” below.

The colorful, kinetic clip stars Foster and A-Trak as less-than-willing Mexican wrestlers (or luchadors to those who follow the career of Dr. Wagner Jr.), with Kimbra fronting a mariachi band

Give the exclusive premiere a look below.

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Apr 2 2012 02:29 PM ET

Kendrick Lamar premieres new single 'The Recipe,' featuring Dr. Dre: Hear it here

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Dr. Dre’s Aftermath imprint has two hotly anticipated albums in the works — his own 4evaNaDay-delayed Detox and newcomer Kendrick Lamar’s major-label debut. “The Recipe” combines the best of both worlds.

Lamar, the rising star of California’s buzzy Black Hippy collective, went on L.A.’s Power 106 this morning to bow the Dre-assisted track, which will serve as the lead single off his upcoming debut. (Alternately, Dre’s Detox is supposed to include a Lamar cameo, but who knows when we’ll hear that.)

Produced by Scoop Deville, the six-minute slow rider is a thoroughly West Coast affair, with the two Compton rappers highlighting what they consider to be the ingredients to Southern Cali’s greatness: “women, weed, and weather.”

Give the track a spin below and let us know if you agree with all the hype surrounding the West Coast’s post-Game comeback.

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Mar 27 2012 12:10 PM ET

Pitbull drops 'Men In Black' soundtrack tune 'Back in Time': Hear it here

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The summer of 1997 was pretty much ruled by Will Smith. The original Men in Black was a gigantic box office hit (it was the second-highest grossing film of ’97, behind a little flick called Titanic), and the Fresh Prince’s soundtrack tune “Men in Black” was ubiquitous on MTV and radio (it never charted on the Hot 100 because it was actually never released as a commercial single, but it dominated the Airplay chart all summer).

Five years later, Men In Black II hit theater screens, and Smith dropped another movie-centric single in “Black Suits Comin’ (Nod Ya Head).” Neither the film nor the single were as adored as the first versions, though both still did well.

Perhaps sensing his grip slipping, Smith has handed off the soundtrack duties on the forthcoming Men in Black III to Pitbull, who delivered “Back in Time” yesterday. It’s a song that plays on the new film’s time travel plot, and no, it is not just a cover of Huey Lewis & the News’ song from Back to the Future (though that would have been both ballsy and awesome).

Instead, it’s Pitbull speed-rapping over a sample of Mickey & Sylvia’s “Love Is Strange,” which you’ll recognize from yet another film soundtrack. Give it a spin below. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 26 2012 12:42 PM ET

'Mad Men': The 'Zou Bisou, Bisou' song is already available on iTunes and vinyl (!)

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You have to hand it to Matthew Weiner: The man knows how to get people talking. Even though Sunday night’s long-awaited fifth season premiere of Mad Men was scattershot (as most two-hour episodes of television tend to be), it’s owning the water-cooler scrums this morning.

The thing that sent people diving toward their Google machines was the new Mrs. Draper’s performance at her husband’s surprise party. “Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo” was a huge Google trend around midnight, though for people of a certain age, that only inspired memories of this candy-colored nightmare from childhood. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 21 2012 01:31 PM ET

R. Kelly confirms the return of 'Trapped in the Closet,' brings Sylvester, Twan, Big Man and the rest back into our lives

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As the Transformers movies have taught us, there is such a thing as too many sequels.

Some series live on well past their expiration date, clinging to scraps of relevance: Those Sookie Stackhouse books keep happening; Meat Loaf still dusts off Bat Out of Hell every decade or so; The Office is still inexplicably on television. There’s an air of sadness in going back to the well, and it often kills the stature of the original great idea that spawned so many bad ones.

Then again, some series should never die, and will always be greeted as conquering heroes upon their return. This is a long-winded way of expressing the importance of and glee associated with the return of Trapped in the Closet, R. Kelly’s soap operatic R&B opus. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 21 2012 01:25 PM ET

Madonna releases full 'Girl Gone Wild' video -- WATCH

Hints of “Vogue,” “I’m Sorry,” “Human Nature,” and “Like a Prayer” thread through Madonna’s new video for “Girl Gone Wild,” released 12 days after the Material Girl first teased it.

The black-and-white clip shows Madonna looking the best she has since at least 2005′s video for “Hung Up.” Of course there is the requisite writhing, hip grinding, a rousing dance sequence, and a smoldering mantourage. It is, in a word, awesome.

Watch below.

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