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Always trying to stay one step ahead of the trendsetters – or at least keep apace with Kanye West, which might amount to the same thing – Complex is predicting the rise of the bald beauty after Kanye appeared at the Grammys with clean-shaven Amber Rose.
While we’re not totally convinced this is enough to spark [...]

We here at Listicles are devout fans of the Interweb’s possibilities for the remixing and mashing up (or is that “mashupping”?) of cultural artifacts and various audio visual tidbits. We especially like such culture-jamming when it thrives on the incongruity of its constitutive elements, like, say, the well-known M.O.P.-Sesame Street mash-up. That’s why we especially [...]

London-based framing experts and album cover art gallery Art Vinyl holds an annual competition to determine the best cover art of the year. In 2008 competition was fierce as recording and visual artists collaborated ever more closely on album art and high-concept visual design. With rising stakes in mind, here are Art Vinyl’s Top 10 [...]

Moments of crisis are ripe for nostalgia, so today we invite you to take an hour or so’s refuge in the comforting pop-rock TV cartoon themes of the 80s. Judging by our audience research you, friendly reader, were either a young child, troubled student, confused post-grad or mid-life crisis-riddled adult in the 80s, so you [...]

In the shuffle of year-end lists, one of our favorites was the Huffington Post’s listicle of the 10 best YouTube clips from 2008. Bridging comedy, politics, news and entertainment, most of its entries seem poised to outlast the typical two week half-life of conventional memes. One of the most entertaining and concise of year-capping time-preservers [...]

The passionate ladies over at Feministing released a listicle today outing some feminist poseurs. Some of their entries are brave, others are obvious, some are missing. Like all sexual-political polemics, though, all the entries are conversation sparkers. So, behold, here are Feministing’s Top 5 Feminist Posers:

5. The Spice Girls: As much as their music was [...]

Pitchfork released their annual music round-up, widely considered to be the definitive music listicle of the year. So you might as well start writing “2009″ on your checks now. The top ten from their 100 Best Tracks of 2008 are:
10. Estelle feat. Kanye West - “American Boy”

9. Portishead - “Machine Gun”
8. Air France [...]

Prepare to waste the rest of your time at the office, your day off, your early holiday, whatever you’re doing basically is about to be superseded by a black hole of fun, web-based indulgence. The dudes at FHM have compiled a fairly exhaustive list of web-based curiosities, resources and time-wasters, entitled The 100 Greatest Websites [...]

In this edition of our weekly catch-up list of lists, we take an especially close look at the holiday gift list trend that is kicking into high gear. With every publication producing at least one gift guide around this time, Listicles brings you the silliest (number 5), most budget-savvy (number 3), quickest (number 4), most [...]