We love the idea of hip hop supergroups, except that so often they end up sounding like so much less than the sum of their parts, which is a tragic shame. That’s assuming they put out any music at all, which is not always the case. Then there are others, like The Firm, which deliver [...]

As perhaps the subculture that has embraced Internet meme culture with the greatest enthusiasm, hip hop has produced some of the most memorable cross-over mainstream web memes. StreetLevel recounts some of the funnest in their listicle of The 9 Best Hip Hop Memes, from consciously created movements like Souljah Boy’s “Crank Dat” dance or the [...]

Few seem to appreciate a far-out music video as intensely as we do, so much so that one of the crazy clips included in Brainz’s listicle of The 15 Weirdest Music Videos Ever was featured in one of our listicles several months back – that would be Tommy Sparks’s “She’s Got Me Dancing.” Among the [...]

In case you hadn’t heard, Mary Travers – one third of the hit folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary – died yesterday at the age of 72 after complications from leukemia. Obviously, for anyone raised on that group’s songs – or who raised someone on that group’s songs – today is a very sad day, [...]

Simpsonizing others or oneself is completely harmless fun (as Nelson Muntz might say: “Like punching a guy in the dark”) and it translates our real world fears, concerns and adorations into the playful, orange-tinged world of The Simpsons, where everything seems a little less threatening if not completely hilarious. Format recently commissioned Moxy Creative to [...]

We’ve been listening to a lot of chiptune lately – you know, that genre of music created using video game audio technologies from the 80s that are capable of something like 60 different notes. We’ve especially been blasting delightful 8-bit versions of some of our favorite pop songs, and one of the most chiptuned artists, [...]

We kind of have a thing for animated music videos, in that we think they combine two of the most pleasurable cultural artifacts of our time: cartoons and pop music. Of course, they don’t always have to be poppy, colorful and optimistic, as you’ll appreciate while perusing the entries in this listicle of 8 Beautiful [...]

Prepare to lose the rest of your day to a flood of obscure 80s hits and ensuing searches for the various bands’ virtually non-existent other songs with Gunaxin’s listicle of 35 One-Hit Wonders from the 80s. For instance, our favorite from the listicle, Italian New Wave group Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy” (below) was just the best [...]

Last month Lil’ Wayne protege and rare Canadian cross-over rapper Drake took a pretty serious fall during a concert, sparking a great deal of concern over his physical well-being and his bummed knee. He subsequently canceled all but his hometown (Toronto) appearance on the tour, and is resting up. Complex seized upon the highly-publicized and [...]

Yep, nothing says “We’re turning this vital urban subculture into a tool for marketing consumer goods to suburban youth” like a terrible novelty rap song. And over the last 25 years we’ve seen, heard and memorized some truly ridiculous songs that have tried (and generally failed) to make catchy rap jingles. BuzzFeed’s come up with [...]