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Solange Takes On Dirty Projectors’ ‘Stillness Is The Move’

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Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca was released only five months back, and already Solange Knowles has offered up a slow groove cover of the New York band’s “Stillness Is The Move.” Pitchfork posted an MP3 of the new version yesterday, but got their wrists slapped by Universal and had to yank it off the site.

Check out Solange’s rendition of “Stillness Is The Move,” which samples Soul Mann & The Brothers’ “Bumpy’s Lament,” and Dirty Projectors’ original after the jump. Good thing we found another clip on YouTube! MORE »

11:31 AM on Fri Nov 13 2009
By Robbie Daw
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Latest by ChicagoSaphique: You can get the mp3 pretty easily on hype machine. MORE »

apropos of nothing

Live-Blogging One Hour Of MTV Hits: Here’s What You’re Missing When You Say You Miss Videos

mtvhits Come with me as I chronicle an entire hour of MTV Hits, MTV’s digltal-cable channel that deigns to show pop videos during non-early-morning daylight hours. Why? Well, why not, really. Come join me in the upper reaches of the Optimum band after the jump. MORE »

3:00 PM on Thu Aug 6 2009
By Maura
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Latest by solanine: I really like the idea of MTV Hits, but it seems as though 90% of the time it's broadcasting Hitlist, the idea behind which is basically a given artist presenting his or her own songs mixed with a few other artists'. Most of these artists aren't creative/interesting enough to come up with anything beyond their collaborators, scenemates, and direct, obvious influences, so you get a succession of pretty dull half hours. MORE »

putting the pseudo in pseudo-event

MTV Panders To The “Remember When MTV Showed Music Videos” Crowd With Throwback Video Music Awards Category

weareold Perhaps realizing that a good chunk of the people who still care about its brand wouldn’t know a 3OH!3 from a GaGa, MTV has added a new, retro-tastic category to this year’s Video Music Awards: Best Video That Should Have Won A Moonman, in which an overlooked clip from years gone by gets its space-statue due. (I do wonder if the presentation of said award will be shown on VH1, if only because it can then be blown out into an hour-long special about Loving The Videos That Lost At The Video Music Awards or somesuch.) There are 10 clips up for this honor, and they hail from eras as long-ago as MTV’s earliest days and as recent as the YouTube Age. My biases in this category are probably given away by the above screen grab, but you might think^* differently! MORE »

1:30 PM on Tue Aug 4 2009
By Maura
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Latest by cheesebubble: I am a big fan of Michel Gondry and he lucks out with two great videos here - Human Behaviour and Everlong. I think Spike Jonze's work on Sabotage will provide a good race, though. Plus there will surely be some extra votes for Adam Yauch and the boys. MORE »

(intentional) leak of the day

Dr. Dre Detoxes With The Only Carbonated Beverage That Shares His Title

Continuing in the tradition of Dr. J, Kelsey “Dr. Fraiser Crane” Grammer, and Gene “Dr. Love” Simmons, Dr. Dre has lent his expertise to a Dr Pepper commercial–and he’s also allowed them to use a few seconds of a track from his forever-delayed Detox. (It’s not the song playing in the first bit of the ad, in case you hit play and got worried.) MORE »

10:00 AM on Fri May 29 2009
By Maura
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Latest by rinjo njori: Wow! I never thought Dr. Dre would be cool again.. MORE »