Okay, so we stole music and the industry lost a few billion dollars

Chuck Klosterman wonders "Where did all that money go?"

This live wire kills fascists

An unexpected live record by one of my all-time heroes. If you buy it, it helps others.

Fun music video game

Junior Senior - Move Your Feet (One mildly NSFW moment, all in good fun.) (video: 56k acceptable)

Music and Muppets

Two great tastes that taste great together.

The second-biggest disaster on September 11

The ringle, ladies and gentlemen.

Drums without vision

I have no idea how someone could be such a talented drummer with four senses. (Video: 56kers, it's worth it.)

The future of pop music

Anonymous cooing and shameful repetition.

Daft Hands

Has to be seen to be believed... (Video: 56k, do it!)

I know what you're thinking...

How could Gnarls' Barkley's "Crazy" get any better? Theremin. (Video: 56k, go for it!)

Records? Video games?

Why not both?

Homemade music videos

Are almost always awful: 84% of them are anime, 7% are home movies, and the rest are tolerable. Here are two that are enjoyable and, as an added bonus, typographical:

• A misheard lyrics version of Pearl Jam's Yellow Ledbetter. Usually, these aren't as funny as the makers think, but this is enjoyable (to me.)


• A typographical version of Obadiah Parker's cover of Outkast's Hey Ya!, a song that should probably have a seven-year moratorium, but nonetheless is a fun cover. I can't tell if it's ironic or not - any thoughts?

(Video: 56k, watch!)

Either something is very wrong or very right in the world

When a blind man is released from a mental care facility and becomes a Gospel singer. Probably both.

Guitar Hero: The Band

Wired got it right: It was inevitable.

Review: (George Martin and) The Beatles - Love

There are those to whom the Beatles are sacrosanct, and inviolate. For them, nothing will ever be good post-Abbey Road (excluding Let It Be, of course, and possibly Anthologies and Let It Be... Naked.) I say: listen to it. That's the real judge. Listen to Hey Jude, and hear George Martin take a great song and make it better (different/new/fun/exciting again, etc.) Listen to Help! and hear George Martin leave a great song virtually untouched. Hear the whole thing, and you've got some new music, and more importantly, a new musical context in which to enjoy said music. Judge for yourself, of course, but I say kudos! It's a fine album. Furthermore, I'd like to think of this album as a gesture of good will on the part of Paul, Ringo, Olivia Harrison, and the other one to give George Martin his own little Beatles album - unfettered access to the rich musical legacy they had to do anything he wants, and a fitting coda for a dignified and simply enjoyable working career. Furthermore, Martin has more of a right to this music and to re-mixing it than do Olivia and the other one, as he actually did compose some of it (uncredited, of course), and was instrumental in shaping the sound of the Beatles as we know them. He's probably the ninth Beatle.