Musical Taste: Pomplamoose cover the ‘Angry Birds’ theme
I love Pomplamoose. Their videosongs are adorable, brilliant and fun. This latest one is pretty darn funny as well. I haven’t played Angry Birds myself, but I hear it’s a tiny bit popular.
View ArticleMusical Taste: MTV gets back to dealing with music…sort of
MTV is trying, slightly, to get back to their roots. While their relaunch of Beavis & Butthead has gotten most of the press, Pitchfork reports that the network will be bringing back one of it’s...
View ArticleQuick Cuts: Amazing Spider-Man sequel scheduled, Young Money rappers join Ice...
From the department of ‘that was quick’ a sequel to the released-next-summer Amazing Spider-Man has been greenlit. The film will be hitting on May 2, 2014, less than two years after the release of the...
View ArticleMusical Taste video of the day: Spike Jonze directs Jay-Z and Kanye West in Otis
So it’s likely at this point that you’ve heard about the new Jay-Z/Kanye West collaboration The Throne and their debut album, Watch the Throne. Whether it’s the controversy around the rappers odd...
View ArticleMusical Taste’s Best Thing Ever: OK Go featuring the Muppets – The Muppet...
I stayed up late last night, hoping this would be posted before I crashed. Alas, I had to wait until this morning for the awesomeness that is this music video, which manages to be both Muppet-acular...
View ArticleMusical Taste Review: Jonathan Coulton – Artificial Heart
Jonathan Coulton – Artificial Heart Jonathan Coulton has been around for a while now. Most people (including myself) first became aware of him with the end credits song for 2007′s Portal, though he had...
View ArticleMusical Taste: Jonathan Coulton is “officially living on Main Street in Crazy...
So, if you click over to the Billboard Heatseekers chart right now, you might notice a familiar name hanging out in the number one spot. Geek singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton has claimed the number...
View ArticleMusical Taste’s Best Thing Ever: Girl Talk film Girl Walk: All Day
Last year, famed mash-up DJ, Girl Talk, released his latest album, the awesome All Day. Starting with Black Sabbath and Ludacris bleeding together, the album never lets up for it’s entire running time...
View ArticleGeeking Out About Gift Guide 2011: Musical Taste
So it’s the last week before we’re forced into close proximity with our families. The snow is falling, the parking lots are icy, and the malls are a hellscape of screaming infants, cacophonous carols...
View ArticleMusical Taste: The Hunger Games OST to go the Twilight route?
Say what you will about the Twilight films (I like to say they’re terrible, but that’s just me), but you have to admit that whoever put together the soundtrack albums to them knew what they were doing....
View ArticleLincoln’s Video of the Day: Yep, it’s OK Go again
How many times does this make OK Go getting video of the day? Not sure, but this new one is awesome. It apparently premiered in short form during the Super Bowl but here we go. The full video. Made in...
View ArticleMusical Taste Video of the Day: Banjo/Musical Saw Zelda Medley by Frontier...
So, I went to college with a few of the members of folk-rock band Frontier Ruckus and I have to say, I’m not at all surprised to see them showing their geek credentials. Check out this excellent medley...
View ArticleTrisha’s Music Video of the Day: “Gangnam Style” by PSY
Yes, I know I’m a little late to this, but my recreational browsing has taken some hits recently and I haven’t been able to goof off on the Internet as much as I’d like to. I did finally get a chance...
View ArticleLincoln’s Video of the Day: An Unexpected Parody
If you’re familiar at all with The Hillywood Show, you know that Hilly and Hannah Hindi, the pair of clever sisters behind it, make musical parodies skewering pop culture icons, always with...
View ArticleTrisha’s Music Video of the Day: “Might Get Up Slow”
In the same vein as Punks Not Dad, I present to you No Small Children, composed of three schoolteachers from Los Angeles, California named Lisa Parade (lead singer, lead guitar), Nicola B. (drums),...
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