Out there
• I can't hear this song without thinking of Guitar Hero, but it's still a great song. I forget what made me think of it, but there you go.
• LA Times talks to Rick Astley about Rickrolling. He seems like a pretty cool guy, actually.
• This Gawker headline pretty much speaks for itself: 18th Century Pop Music Sounds Remarkably Like Joanna Newsome.
• We just had a convo in the office the other day about how everyone should know Bob Mould but they don't. Well, study up guys, The Onion AV Club delves into his iPod. Apparently he's so influential his own songs come up on shuffle.
• I don't know if even the Kanye factor saves this. This guy's shtick is that he paints while music is playing. OK.
• A new Al Green track! Produced by ?uestlove!! Unfortunately, it's kind of meh. Good beats, but Al seems kind of, I don't know, underutilized ... misutilized. He sounds like he's trying for a James Brown impression or something. After all these years, Al Green, you should be OK with being yourself.
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