Pepsi, the world’s most famous off-brand, just released this amazing commercial to coincide with Obama’s inauguration. Why the synergy? Well, probably because their new Pepsi logo looks like a tilted version of Barack Obama’s “O” logo. But even though that’s a little lame and I’m completely a Coca-Cola man (my mom used to work in [...]

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The new video for Deerhoof’s “Buck and Judy is streaming over at Blurt. It’s a wild one that was directed/created by C Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core. In other news, Obama wasn’t even President for an hour before someone hit my car. This was not the change I expected when I cast my vote. [...]

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The Daily Show’s web site is doing an awesome wrap-up of the past 8 years through a couple of short video features. Each one highlights the Bush years in one specific area: the Iraq War, the economy, “The Decider,” one for each election and, yes, one dedicated to Jon’s Dubya impersonation. If you need to [...]

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Man, this new Dark Was the Night compilation is just awesome. Everything I’ve heard from it so far has been amazing, including this new National song (arranged by Nico Muhly) that they’ve been playing live for a while. Stream “So Far Around the Bend” on Dark Was the Night’s Myspace page Gotta love the music [...]

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Shortly after posting on Madeline the first time, here I am doing it again. Cable and Tweed has a lot of info on Madeline’s new album White Flag, due out on Orange Twin March 10, including two sample songs. MP3: Madline – White Flag A part of me hates to write about female pop musicians [...]

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I’ve been posting a little bit about Clem Snide’s new album Hungry Bird. Eef Barzelay, Clem Snide’s lead singer and songwriter, noticed and sent me a nice email asking how he might repay me for the kind words. Eventually we decided that it would be too hard to get me any homemade soup, so we [...]

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I never thought I would laugh so hard at the line “Que hora es?”

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I watched King of Kong for the first time today. After a long time spent hating Billy Mitchell and Brian Kuh, it was relaxing to get to watch this spoof video made by G4. If you haven’t seen the film, it might not be funny; but if you have, you’ll laugh at everything from Billy’s [...]

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I’m not even going to pretend I have a reason for including this image. Maybe he’s driving to a show? Just a quick update for you people in Kentucky and surrounding areas. One of my (many) New Year’s resolutions was to make YANP a little more useful, hence the slow but steady design tweaking that [...]

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