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New Doves Single: “Jetstream”

January 28th, 2009

Finally! Stereogum is reporting that Doves have posted a free new download of Jetstream, a track from their forthcoming album Kingdom Of Rust. When you enter your email/country of origin in the appropriate fields and get the link to download the song, a Google map pops up showing you where the song’s been downloaded (U.S. [...]

Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Kat

Sarah: To Surf Is To Smile

January 28th, 2009

I spend a lot of time online. Researching, watching, reading, writing and sometimes I find myself disappearing into my laptop completely. But then I find my way out, and sometimes before I do I find some small ineffectual nugget that puts a huge smile on my face for no reason at all. Because I love [...]

Posted in Just For Fun | Posted by Sarah Taylor

Artists on Twitter

January 27th, 2009

Now that Twitter is experiencing a sort of explosion (think Facebook circa fall 2006, but maybe not quite that magnitude), artists and celebs are popping up all over the place with new accounts. Some caught on early, some are just joining the club but the coolest thing to see is that many of them are [...]

Posted in Celebrities & Pop Culture | Posted by Wendy

Exclusive: We Chat With Duncan Davies From The City

January 27th, 2009

Photo from Duncan’s MySpace We’ve seen Lauren Conrad and Whitney Port’s fame skyrocket thanks to their starring roles on MTV’s The Hills and The City, but what are the benefits for the extended cast of these shows? In an exclusive interview with MuchNews, Toronto native and musician Duncan Davies talks about his band, how he [...]

Posted in Celebrities & Pop Culture | Posted by Celine

New Video: Beck – Youthless

January 27th, 2009

Beck‘s video for the most excellent Youthless, my favourite song off 2008′s (slightly underwhelming) Modern Guilt popped up in my subscriptions feed today and it’s great. It’s directed by Australian director Kris Moyes, who also did Sia’s Buttons video (see the similarities) and a bunch for The Presets (for his brother Kim), Cut Copy and [...]

Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Kat

Real Life Couple From “Once” Break Up

January 27th, 2009

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, the real life musically gifted couple that starred in the much-beloved movie Once have broken up. Noooo. This is like when real life couple from The O.C. Rachel Bilson & Adam Brody broke up. Or when The Notebook couple Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams did the same. I hate it [...]

Posted in Celebrities & Pop Culture | Posted by Kat

Taste-Testing Pickled Pig Lips

January 27th, 2009

Well not me, personally. But the folks at The Onion A.V. Club. You may recall that the team over at the A.V. Club has been taste-testing random chocolate bars and curious candies for a while now, but now they’ve branched out to try all sorts of foods, which readers are happily mailing them. The latest, [...]

Posted in Just For Fun | Posted by Kat

Meryl on 30 Rock?!

January 27th, 2009

*EXPLODING* *RE-FORMING* Holy ess-balls, The New York Post says that Alec Baldwin approached Meryl Streep about appearing on 30 Rock – and she was down for the idea. Even if this is just an inkling of an idea, even if this is just a mere possibility, my happy radar is through the roof. Meryl Streep [...]

Posted in Blog, We <3 TV | Posted by Wendy

New Video: The Killers – Spaceman

January 26th, 2009

Brandon Flowers loves his feather jacket. Transformer Brandon loves his robot feather jacket even more. This is the only sure thing in The Killers‘ new music video for Spaceman. Everything else is questionable due to the fact that there is just SO MUCH GOING ON! Backwards dancing man? Candle light dinners? Dancing rainbow people? Do [...]

Posted in Music & Videos | Posted by Kate M.

ABDC 3: Episode 2

January 26th, 2009

HAY. If you missed the latest episode yesterday, you can watch the dealie right NOW, as in nnnnnOW. Last week: New crews! Girl breakers! Freaks! G.O.P. eliminated! This week: Tough physical challenge, JC is back! The show is just getting started and already I feel like I’ll be sad to see any group leave. Alas. [...]

Posted in America's Best Dance Crew, Blog, We <3 TV | Posted by Wendy