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Mouse on Mars Are Smart, Developed Their Own Software For New Album

Germany's electronic duo Mouse on Mars have long been experimenters. Over 11 studio albums and countless collaborations Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma have played in their own corner of the sandbox, allowing a furious amount of sonic investigation into strange realms without pretentiously denying the ... More >>

Drunk Online Shopping Will Save This Wretched Economy!

Credit card debt? What credit card debt? Oh, pour yourself another drink. The latest fun -- and healthy! -- thing we're all doing under the influence of a little boozin' is...shopping on our own personal computers, from home, at night, after a hard day's work, with the jug of wine next to us. In a f ... More >>

Yonder Mountain String Band

Ryan Sutton and the Union Square Hospitality Group Agree to Disagree

​If you thought nobody could rain on Danny Meyer's publicity parade, then Ryan Sutton would like to hand you an umbrella.

Curren$y's High Productivity

What's the secret behind the rapper's immense output?

Best Buy Thinks It Owns the Word 'Geek'

Baby Geek.​In this day and age, when Palin family members trademark themselves, corporations want to own words, particularly, words used for marketing purposes. So, while "geek" used to be just a techy offshoot of "nerd," something you could call the smartest guy in your computer class, now it ... More >>

Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, And The Shifting Nature Of Pop-Star Fandom

​Today is the official release date for Lady Gaga's long-incubating Born This Way, and it's being accompanied by aggressive efforts to move copies--today the album's retailing for 99 cents at Amazon MP3, while Best Buy is doling out free CDs to anyone who signs up for a smartphone contract thi ... More >>

Huge Email Hack Reveals Customer Info From Target, JP Morgan and 50 More Big Brands

​The digital marketing firm Epsilon told its clients on Friday of "an unauthorized entry into Epsilon's email system," insisting it "was limited to email addresses and/or customer names only" and that no other information was at risk, but it's only now becoming clear just how widespread the ha ... More >>

Super Bowl Aftermath: What Was The Best Commercial?

​There were so many celebs filling up the valued time between touchdowns at last night's Super Bowl that it almost made the long, laborious evening worthwhile for me. (I said almost.) Jazzing up all the high-powered commercials were starry names like Joan Rivers, Eminem, Adrien Brody, Timothy ... More >>

The Craziest Black Friday Moments of All Time

Avoid this at all costs​Everyone knows the Friday after Thanksgiving is the "best time" to buy gifts for the holidays (can't beat a $3 toaster!) but it seems that people just keep upping the crazy ante in such a way that makes us want to stay the hell away. Like the two women in Florida who st ... More >>

Q&A: The Foreign Exchange's Phonte Coleman On How To Make Grown Up R&B That You Can Listen To With Other Men In the Car

​When Phonte Coleman, the singing, songwriting half of r&b duo the Foreign Exchange (the other half is producer/multi-instrumentalist Nicolay Rook), talks about the group's new album Authenticity, he's close to apologetic. That's because unlike 2008's Leave It All Behind, the group's Grammy-no ... More >>

Win Two Tickets To See Kruder and Dorfmeister At Best Buy Theatre Tomorrow Night

​Downtempo remix giants Kruder and Dorfmeister have not graced an NYC stage in nine years, but that drought ends tomorrow night at Best Buy Theatre (nee Nokia) as part of the "The 16 F***king Years Anniversary Session," and we can get you in for free.

Week in Review: Report Gang Activity

Have seen you seen this man?​In the week we wondered if it was still possible to sell out in 2010 (short answer: no), we also found ourselves introduced to the horrific new term "rape gaze," about which the less that's now said, the better. Cleanse your palate with the six best things you can ... More >>

Live: Drake And Trey Songz Sneak Into Best Buy Theater, Purr Some Innuendos

Hopefully Drake got a free camera out of this. Pic by Puja.​Drake/Trey Songz Best Buy Theater Tuesday, October 5 Secret, invite-only hip-hop shows don't exist, even if we went to one last night. Then again, with a lineup of Drake, Trey Songz, and Pitbull, we couldn't be too surprised at the l ... More >>

The Five Best Video Arcades in New York City

​Spurred by this morning's rad New York Times piece on one of New York City's last great video arcades in Chinatown -- and in the Styles Section, no less! -- we present a nifty little roundup of the best places to play Video Games in New York City.

Pressuring 'Rat'-ner in Brooklyn

​Either this rat really can't wait to get shop at Best Buy, or somebody hasn't negotiated with the union. It is of course the latter. Local 79 was protesting this morning outside of the old Circuit City in the Atlantic Mall in downtown Brooklyn, which went belly-up last October. Like the Cir ... More >>

David Perez Is Currently Doing Anything You Tweet

David Perez, Now on Demand​David Perez, who we told you about last week, wanted to go to the Advertising Festival in Cannes, and his employer, ad firm Leo Burnett, agreed to send him under one condition: He must do whatever people on Twitter tell him to do for a five days.

It's Courtney Love's Big Week--and Frenemy Billy Corgan Is Having Fun Trying to Ruin It

Nate "Igor" SmithCourtney Love at the Perez Hilton SXSW party 2010 It's a big week for Courtney Love. Tomorrow is the major-label release of her five-years-in-the-making Nobody's Daughter. There're two Hole headlining shows at this week at Terminal 5, one late-night rendevous at Union Square Best B ... More >>

Adventures in Grizzly Bear-Related Licensing

​If given the choice between debuting a new song on a music blog, Twitter, your own website, etc., why not choose the Washington Lottery? Starting today, an ad will start running in that state, featuring a new, unreleased track by Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear. Cole & Weber United, the ad agency tha ... More >>

A Studies in Crap War on Christmas Special: '30s Kids Crave Toys, Neglect Jesus, Attempt Minstrelsy

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ St. Nicholas for Boys and Girls Date: December, 1932 The Cover Promises: Exa ... More >>

Week in Review: Bros4Life

Not even the 15th worst record this decade. Have a good weekend!​In the week our F2K crew quantitatively decided that though Nickleback and Gym Class Heroes are bad, William Hung and Hinder were a whole lot worse, we continued to count down the worst songs of the '00s. That Santana song keepin ... More >>

Times Talks Vinyl with J&R, Best Buy; Downtown Record Store Owner Has a Different Take

​The New York Times says vinyl is hot again. Not only old-fashioned record sales but also turntables sales are up. (The 35 percent lift in LP sales still doesn't put vinyl above 1 percent of the music market, but it's exciting nonetheless.) They talk to J&R Music, which normally sells CDs, an ... More >>

Italian-American groups, Jerseyans object to MTV's Jersey Shore "guidos"

​Italian-American heritage groups and residents of the Jersey shore are threatening boycotts over a new reality series, Jersey Shore, which MTV is promoting as a look at nine of the "hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos" displaying big hair, good abs, and various forms of lack of continence in a ... More >>

Cam'ron Would Like You To Buy the Clipse's Till the Casket Drops (Which Has, Ahem, Leaked)

Sean C & LV may well have performed some kind of successful triage on this thing, but boy could next week be a pretty tough one for the Clipse. Having the record leak all over the internet probably doesn't help, but then again, whose doesn't at this point? If you want to be scrupulous about it, gr ... More >>

Michael Douglas Collects a Paycheck for Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Paradiso Girls & Their Patron--A New Tequila Song Hits The Clubs

Maybe we've been too focused on devastating food industry documentaries and robots taking over the restaurant industry to notice, but it appears that Paradiso Girls, a sort of Spice Girls 2.0, has the hottest new club anthem... and it's about getting wasted on Patron tequila. The refrain goes: I ... More >>

Why Chinese Democracy's Fine Print Is Way More Fun Than the Record Itself

Axl Rose amuses his delusion

Best Buy Opens Bronx Store Before Inevitable Bankruptcy

All Night and Down the Block, Gamers Wait for "Warcraft" Add-On

Ten Favorite Moments on Kanye West's Graduation

Is Sellout Even a Dirty Word Anymore?

Clipse: Critical Love Doesn't Mean Pop Success

Sailing the Seas of Ys

Joanna Newsom is nobody's pixie, sprite, bear, fairy, or folk freak

Good Riddance, Tower Records

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Lupe Fiasco

Post-Kanye Chicago Rap Saves Rap

Burn Baby Burn

Pop Your Phunk

Spawn of multiculti L.A. underground serve up Wal-Mart hip-pop to iShuffle Generation

Store Wars

Indies battle chains over product as industry kicks John Doe

Sick and Mortar

Real record stores open, close, move, struggle, and thrive

Combo Platter

Going from videotapes to discs is a snap with two-in-one vhs/dvd machines

A Brooklyn Radiator's Negative Dialectic of Computer Play

A Void Named Sued

Driving independent retailers, and you, out of business

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Many Manly Returns

Marketing Department Shootz Blooz in the Foot

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Are Computer Warranties Rip-Offs?

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