Angel Haze bucks her label, leaks new album on the Internet
Is “pulling a Beyoncé” the new business model for musicians? On Friday, Bey pulled off quite the feat, and covertly released her latest album online. She made people dust off their iTunes account, and...
View ArticleHere's a proposed cast list of the future Twitter TV show
In yet another attempt by Twitter to infiltrate every screen you own, Lionsgate announced today that it’ll be turning Nick Bilton’s book Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power and Friendship...
View ArticleThe Best Show on WFMU was its own social network
Last night marked the end of the Best Show on WFMU, after 13 years on the air, and the Internet support around it showed just how special and influential the Tuesday night radio show was to many...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg puts some bow wow wow in your ho ho ho
Fans of such festive classics as Eazy-E’s “Merry Muthaphuckking Xmas,” and Afroman’s “Deck My Balls” are in for a special treat this Christmas season. To raise money for his non-profit and spread some...
View ArticleThis guy proves helicopter hockey should be Canada's national pastime
Vancouverite Bradley Friesen has an enviable life: being featured in the Huffington Post for having the coolest apartment in town; getting rushed by investors when he announced his anti-hangover...
View ArticleThe top 10 must-watch YouTube videos of 2013
This year, YouTube’s influence was found not so much in specific personalities, but in pop-culture virality and suspension of disbelief. The parody video was unstoppable, namely the countless takes on...
View ArticleWhy this Twitter TV show is a very, very bad idea
Lionsgate Television announced yesterday its latest project in development: a TV show based on journalist Nick Bilton’s book Hatching Twitter: The True Story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal....
View ArticleFan film reimagines upcoming X-Men movie as a mini-musical
The next X-Men movie, Days of Future Past, looks like it’s going to be hideously complicated. A mashup between the X-Men trilogy of the early 2000s and the recent prequel movie set in the 1960s, it...
View ArticleKevin Smith blasts YouTube for new Content ID policy
The YouTube gaming community now has an ally in the fight against YouTube’s controversial Content ID policies: Kevin Smith. The filmmaker and video game enthusiast stopped by George Stroumboulopoulos...
View ArticleNetflix's 'Fireplace for Your Home' will make you weep with holiday cheer
Take a moment and think about the sort of film you traditionally watch once a year, around Christmas. It’s a Wonderful Life? A little heavy on the dialogue. Love Actually? Too many actors. Die Hard?...
View ArticleThe surprising findings from Pornhub's year-end review
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: PornHub, which received around 15 billion hits in 2013, just released its year-end data. Earlier this year, the site released info on state-by-state viewing...
View ArticleWe're about to find out why Miley Cyrus is touching herself on Instagram
Hey, how was your Saturday night? Good? Cool. Miley Cyrus touched herself and Instagrammed it. The 21-year-old former Hannah Montana, last seen flashing Twitter to support a campaign called Free the...
View ArticleEvery country song in 2013 was the exact same
They say country music is just three chords and the truth, and in 2013 the truth was a repetitive pastiche of pickup trucks on old dirt roads and the women in tight jeans who were persuaded to slide...
View ArticleWatch LeVar Burton read 'The Night Before Christmas'
We just got a fantastic holiday treat from the man who made reading fun for an entire generation. Former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton took to YouTube to read a Christmas classic for his viewers....
View ArticleFandom uproar ensues after 'Once Upon a Time' actor insults shippers
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a member of a creative team steps too far over fandom's "fourth wall," says a few ill-advised things about the show and its large contingent of slash shippers,...
View ArticleIron Maiden had a fantastic response to new fans pirating their music
Legendary heavy metal band Iron Maiden has a secret, and the government probably won’t like it. These days, in order to succeed in the music industry, you have to know how to reach your fans—even the...
View ArticleHere's everything you need to know about contemporary dance in one video
You’re now only 15 steps away from fulfilling your contemporary dancing dreams. Contemporary Eric (aka Robert Hoffman) and his assistant Bich (Krystal Ellsworth) want to pass on their knowledge of how...
View ArticleWhat happens when an Internet-famous cat becomes an improv comedian
Chicago’s Second City theater is a special place in the comedy world. Bill Murray, Jim Belushi, Chris Farley, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Steve Carrell, and basically every comedian ever...
View ArticleWatch Beyoncé grant this little girl's dying wish
Beyoncé has had a pretty spectacular December. She quietly released her self-titled album on iTunes and it shot to the top of the charts overnight. She embodied the holiday spirit and gave 750 people...
View ArticleDon't watch Miley Cyrus's new video with your mom
After a lot of teasing, vestal virgin Destiny Ray Cyrus released the music video for her latest single, “Adore You.” It is the mainstream media equivalent of a low-ranked X-Art porno. It is also the...
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