Super Bowl Music Highlights

"Its the year of the underdog!" tweeted Lady Gaga last night.  Something tells me a large percentage of her fans had no idea what she was referring to.  Last night was the Super Bowl.  It's kind of like the Grammys of football.  The underdog New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in an exhilarating game.  Music wise, the Super Bowl rocked as well. 

From the half time show with the Who to Jay-Z's mash-up of "Run This Town" and the NFL theme, check out the highlights after the jump.

Album Review: Lil Wayne "Rebirth"

Lil Wayne announced his intentions to release a rock album over a year ago.  Rappers trying to rock out is nothing new.  Run DMC broke into the mainstream in 1986 with Aerosmith on "Walk This Way" and the entire nu-metal genre of the turn of the century was a fusion of rock and rap.  At the beginning of 2009 however, with 808s & Heartbreak still red hot, Weezy's plans to record an album that wasn't straight up rap sounded exciting.

After being pushed back countless times, Wayne's rock album, Rebirth, is finally out.  A year of anticipation and hype from Wayne and his label gives the album extremely high expectations, and although its not a masterpiece, Rebirth delivers.

Confessions of a Post-Millennial Pop Star: Ke$ha Vandalizes Hollywood Sign...Or Does She? And Does It Even Matter?

“HwOOD $IgN I$ oFFiciaLLY My bIZnatCH!!!!! Good work2allmyHoTCULpritss!! LOOK AT THE SIGN LA!”tweeted trashy pop tart Ke$ha at 3:20 am this morning.  The following viral video soon hit the web.  (In case video doesn't work, watch it here.)



She's ruled the charts for seven weeks with "Tik Tok", and now she rules Hollywood, refashioning it's most treasured landmark in her own trashy, glittery image. 

Some argue that Ke$ha's Hollywood sign vandalism is nothing more than an elaborate computer generated hoax.  The sign is closely monitored 24/7 and you don't have a prayer of getting in sober let alone wasted wearing a fuzzy Indian chief headdress.

Regardless of the whether or not this publicity stunt really happened, it's doing its job.  The video has gone viral, and the blogosphere is eating it up.  Ke$ha gave the Internet something it can't refuse to post.  Although the singer (and I use that term very very liberally) hasn't gotten the most glowing commentary on this site, and she seems far from the sharpest tool in the shed, maybe she actually knows exactly what she's doing.

Free Download: Major Lazer Covers Beyonce

Major Lazer, a Gorillaz type collabrotive musical project with Diplo and Switch, has recently done a cover of Beyonce's Grammy winning "Halo".  The cover is a definite reggae influenced version of the Ryan Tedder written tear jerker.  Download it here.

2010 Grammy Award Results

The 2010 Grammy Awards were one of the highest watched in years.  The show had an audience of 25.8 million people, up 35 percent from last year.

Beyonce lead the winners with six awards, the most by a female in a single night.  Her "Halo" won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" won Song of the Year.

Album of the Year was won by Taylor Swift, the youngest artist to ever win in this category.  Swift also walked home with a Grammy for Best Country Album, Best Female Country Performance for "White Horse", and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Breathe" with Colbie Callait.

Record of the Year was awarded to Kings of Leon for "Use Somebody", and the Zac Brown Band took home the award for Best New Artist.

See the complete list of winners after the jump.

Name That Pop Star

This creepy viral video hit the web a few days ago.  Can you tell which pop star is hoping to generate some buzz?
Edit: the video isn't embedding properly.  Click here to watch it.

We're All Fans

The 2010 Grammy Awards show is only a day away.  Start freaking out.  Head on over to the We're All Fans website to hold you over until the show.  I'm a big fan of the site and the entire campaign for the 2010 Grammy Awards.  Often critisized for being geared towards older music fans and being out of date, this campaign shows that they want (and need) younger viewers to tune in.  The site features a collage of social network mementos making the face of some of the year's biggest stars including Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, The Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, and Kings of Leon.  Go check the site out.  No, seriously.

Jay-Z Moves "On To The Next One" In Creepy Video

    I have recently fallen in love with Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 all over again.  It's one of 2009's best albums.  Hova recently put out the video for the album's fourth single, "On To The Next One" feat. Swizz Beatz (I've also fallen in love with saying "Swizz Beats", go on, say it, it's fun).
   The video is creepy, but it's the kind of creepy that you can't turn away.  I think Jay-Z has been watching too many Lady Gaga videos.  There are a bunch of sketchy guys in face paint, skulls, and burning basketballs.  Check out the video after the jump.

Mariah Carey Has More Camp Than A Tent Full of Boy Scouts

    Mariah Carey struggled last year.  The diva released her twelfth studio album, the awkwardly titled Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, and failed to generate much interest.  Second only to The Beatles in number of chart toppers, Mimi only managed to land one top ten hit from the album, and even that was a joke.
    Hoping to rejuvenate her career, Carey has announced the also horridly titled Angels Advocate, an album of remixes from Memoirs.  Her next two singles are remixes from the forthcoming album.  "Up Out My Face" features Young Money's Nicki Minaj while "Angels Cry" gets an assist from gentleman Ne-Yo.  The former has been compared to a tacky Target commercial and the latter shows our heroine singing in pouring rain in an alley.  Check the humorous videos after the jump.

Chart Watch: Taylor's "Fairytale" Contiues

    Country star Taylor Swift scored her third top three hit this week with the record breaking "Today Was A Fairytale", giving her yet another reason to celebrate.
    Swift, who has been nominated eight time for this week's Grammy awards, debuted at No. 2 with "Fairytale", from the soundtrack to Valentine's Day.  With digital sales of 325,000, Swift broke the record for best first week sales by a female artist.  The previous record holder was Britney Spears who sold 286,000 downloads of "Womanizer" in October 2008.
     Even with a stellar week in sales, radio airplay for "Fairytale" is non-existent, giving Ke$ha her sixth week at No. 1.  It does beg the question though, will Taylor Swift ever get a No. 1 single?