Yes, it's come to this: Teyana Taylor's "Google Me" may be the first song that's wholly built around the singer touting her sheer number of search-engine results as a reason to wine her and dine her. So what does come up when you search "Teyana Taylor"? Well, among the more than 200,000 results—and that's
with the quotation marks around her name!—there's her MySpace page (good!) and a blog post calling her "Teyana Taylor from
My Super Sweet 16" (bad!) and a lot of mentions of this song (recursive!), The song is a sorta islands-tinged boast that's made even sillier by the fact that the omnipresent search engine may have one of the silliest Web site names around (take that, all you vowel-less Web 2.0 upstarts), meaning that it'll probably be inescapable by, oh, Thursday. Also: the odds on there being a Ron Paul remix of this song within the next month are about 5-1 at present. [
Chris Picks]
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In Norway, apparently The National Bank are some sort of supergroup, with members of Jaga Jazzist and a bunch of groups I'm not sure quite made it over to the States. While they can't quite coast here on their previous merits, any band that lists both Yes and the Notwist in their influences is worthy of a least one spin around my house. To my surprise, they're a really enjoyably smooth pop/rock band, residing somewhere between America and Air, which would seem to be the perfect combination to woo your indie rock man- or lady-friends when the scarfs start comin' off. Sadly, neither of my favorite tracks from their newish album Come On Over To The Other Side ("Let Go" and "From That Day To This") have made in on to the internet in a manner than I can legally get away with posting, but the check second single "Family" after the jump.
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Google is shutting down Google Video, and the few people who purchased videos from the site will see their downloads rendered inoperable come Wednesday. Sure, they get a Google Checkout credit to make up the difference, but that's probably cold comfort to those people who actually wanted to 
