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Have you ever wondered exactly how a commercial for Real World/Road Rules Challenge set to "I Against I" would break your brain? Well, next week is your chance to find out: Bad Brains will be the next featured artist in MTV's 52/52 Bands promotion, the channel's new way of promoting musicians without actually adding said musicians' videos to rotation. Instead, Bad Brains songs will score MTV's commercials and PSAs, and the performance clips that will air during commercial breaks will singlehandedly raise the average age of musicians featured on the channel by about five years. [Bad Brains' MySpace Blog; HT Joe Gross]

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Idolator's Loving Tribute To "Pay To Cum" By The Bad Brains


Because there are days (like today) when this might in fact be the greatest rock single of your Jah-loving life, and you just have to show your respects by scouring YouTube for live clips, the original single (with boss cover), a breakcore Carlton-dance remix, a Spock mash-up, and post-apocalyptic anime bikers with the p.m.a.: More »

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Bad Brains Renew Mind-Meld, We Ask: Who's Next In Line?

Billboard is reporting that, after their three sold-out performances during CBGB's last week, the original Bad Brains lineup has decided to start working together once again; they'll be heading into the studio with the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch to record a new album. Will 2006 be remembered as the year when everyone decided to bury the hatchet? And if so, who's next? More »

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Music-Catalog Marketers Know Us All Too Well

We have no idea whether this was a mass e-mail, or an offer sent specifically to nutjobs such as ourselves, but we just received one of the most bizarrely paired special offers of all time. Apparently, nothing goes better with a little H.R. than a whole lotta Captain & Tenille. More »

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Liner Notes: That's Mr. Diddy To You, Kids

- Diddy gives an inexplicably press-worthy speech at a Philadelphia high school, during which he preaches the value of not dropping out, as well as the importance of milking your friend's untimely death for all it's worth. [People]
- For a guy who just sold a boatload of albums, Justin Timberlake sure can get angry. [Perez Hilton]
- Reggae-punk outfit Bad Brains is set to reunite and play a pair of shows at CBGB next month. Okay, now the place can close. Finally. [Brooklyn Vegan]