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YouTube Tuesday: Your Own Life Edition
It’s that time again: YouTube Tuesday, your weekly countdown of the best web videos. If you missed us last week, fear not; vacations happen. Now we’re back with the Your Own Life edition, complete with a bonus video for your enjoyment. Let’s get started…
Number 5:
It can be tough to balance work and raising a baby, [...]
Blink-182 will tour with the Greatest Man That Ever Lived (and friends)
Fans might be wondering who is the master and who is the padawan when Blink 182 goes on tour this summer.
The legendary band is going to be accompanied by another great group—Weezer. I’ll give you a second to catch your breath. OK, ready to go on? Good.
Well…actually, that’s pretty much all the info we have [...]
YouTube, Universal plan new music video site
YouTube is teaming up with Universal Music to launch a new video site.
Apparently, Universal has decided that high-class music videos just don’t belong in the same league as clips of sneezing pandas and skateboarding dogs. The new site, Vevo.com, will launch later this year and will contain every music video ever released by Universal.
I’m not [...]
Nine Inch Nails: Serious business
You might have heard that yesterday was April Fools’ Day, a holiday devoted to lying to your friends and family and then pretending you’re clever when you reveal that the truth is the opposite of what you said. It’s my favorite day of the year.
Nine Inch Nails completely fooled its fans yesterday by saying they [...]
Weekly Blog Round-Up: Stolen Diamonds Edition
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Blog Round-Up, where we spotlight the best articles on our blog this week, plus five awesome things from elsewhere online that you need to see.
From the News Blog
5) Unless you’ve been living under a rock (a rock furnished with a computer for accessing the WBRU News [...]
Bono is overpaid and offended
U2’s Bono says he has plenty of money from his lucrative music career, but that illegal downloading is still a huge problem in the industry.
He tells USA Today that his secure finances don’t make it OK to pirate U2’s new album. “No Line on the Horizon” was downloaded 445,000 times before it was officially released, [...]
Green Day plans to re-release catalog on vinyl
Green Day is going retro.
The band is re-releasing their entire catalog on vinyl records over the next few months. And that includes their brand new album, “21st Century Breakdown,” which they haven’t even finished yet!
Here’s the release schedule:
March 24: “39/Smooth” and “Kerplunk”
April 18: “Dookie”
May 12: “Insomniac”
June 16: “Nimrod”
July 14: “Warning”
August 11: “International Superhits”
September 15: “Shenanigans”
October [...]
