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  • 96 Million People Like CSS's "Music is My Hot Hot Sex". Or Maybe Just One Robot.

    CSS's "Music is My Hot Hot Sex" -- y'know, that song from the iPhone ad -- is the most popular video ever on YouTube, probably thanks to the work of some hipster robot.

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  • Holiday Gift Guide: Compact iPod Speakers

    Because I like nothing more than to force my iPod library onto unsuspecting passers-by (it’s quite eclectic; even includes the theme song to Reading Rainbow), I've hinted to loved ones that these compact speakers, available at the MoMa store, would be a sort of awesome gift. ($28, momastore.org) — Steph Auleri


  • Admit It: You've Done It to Zeppelin

    As you no doubt know, last night was the big Led Zeppelin reunion show in London, and the press is going nuts over it, calling it "enormous, nasty, [and] glorious," which frankly makes us wish we were a Zeppelin reunion show. You know, between this and the My Bloody Valentine reunion next year, we're thinking of moving to London; anyone got a couch we can crash on for, like, ever? Anyhow, Stereogum's got a full set list and some brief video clips from last night's show, 10 Zen Monkeys has a rundown of the Zep ethos (the less said about the mudfish, the better) -- and we've got a question:

    How many of y'all done it to Zeppelin? We feel like "Zep IV" is one of the great doing-it records of all time. Is that true? Not that we've used it ourselves, you understand. Whenever we do it to music, we find ourselves adopting the beat, and then we start to wonder what beat that is, and then we wish we'd had drum lessons when we were young, and then we wish we'd done anything constructive with our youth, and then we're all like "this isn't sexy, this is pitiful" and we turn off the music and get back to business.

    But you guys probably don't have such wack OCD-type issues, right? So? Zep? Doing it? Music? Thoughts? Other candidates?

    (Thanks to David and Jo!) 

     


  • My Bloody Valentine to Tour UK, Make US Exchange Rate Even More Painful

    In news that will excite roughly 15% of you more than enough to cover the remaining 85, legendary shoegazers My Bloody Valentine will play 3 tour dates -- their first since 1992 -- in London, Manchester, and Glasgow next summer. The shows will presumably be done on the heels of their new album, which has been rumored to be near release since sometime in like 1993 but may finally see the light of day this year after all. Anyway, tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday, which means that babies conceived tonight could almost be out of the womb by the final show. Just warning ya, in case you want to keep your schedule open. 

    To be clear, it's uncertain as of yet how much when we say "My Bloody Valentine," we actually just mean "Kevin Shields" but hopefully we'll see details on that soon. Also, there have been so many years of disappointment on this front that it's hard to rule out it going, yet again, straight to hell in an ear-splitting, feedback-and-MDMA-laced handbasket.

    But still, for someone (um, me) who considers missing a February '92 show of theirs one of the great failures of his life (stupid debate team!) -- and who remembers people coloring their CD's of Loveless with green marker because they swore it made them sound better -- this is all pretty heavy news. Not that I could go or anything, the dollar being totally in the john and all.



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