Monthly Archives: February 2012

You may have heard Vancouver’s Kutcorners. Maybe not by name but certainly by sound. He’s been supplying bass lines and remixes for the likes of U-Tern, DJ Eleven, DJ Ayres, The Kickdrums, and Keys N Krates for the last few years as well as touring with Canada‘s The Freshest DJ crew. Originally from New Zealand, [...]

Wyatt Cenac is a comedy person. That means he tells jokes in exchange for laughs. He’s won fancy TV awards doing comedy person things as a writer and performer on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” On one particular night, he personed comedy in front of a live audience in New York City and filmed [...]

Big Pooh – Dirty Pretty Things Sampler Big Pooh can hardly wait for November 1st to release his upcoming album, Dirty Pretty Things. Neither can his fans, so, in giving loyalists a chance to get an early glimpse at his sophomore solo effort, the North Carolina MC is releasing an official album sampler. Clocking in [...]

By Amy Chua Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back? A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and [...]

Music Playlist at MixPod.com So the story goes that #ClassicFriday was just a trending topic that I made up one day to make fun of Nick Cannon. The term “classic” is overrated these days & is thrown around like “N*gga” or “Swag”…recklessly. The irony in Nick Cannon (or most of these other current artists) being [...]

More than three-quarters of Illinois high school graduates aren’t completely ready for college, based on their ACT scores, state results of the college-admission test released Wednesday show. Only 23 percent of Illinois‘ 2011 high school graduating class – public and private – met college readiness standards in all four ACT subjects tested: English, reading, math [...]

Episode Synopsis: When Britta (Gillian Jacobs) runs anonymous personality tests on everyone for a psychology class, one of the test results seems to indicate that someone in the group is deeply disturbed. At the group’s Halloween pre-party, she enlists Jeff (Joel McHale) to help draw out the potential sociopath and the two of them lure [...]

With his signature wide-eyed humor and treasure trove of voices Godfrey asks the questions that plague the depths of our being. Why do people duck in the rain and protect just one ear? What if guido bouncers ran the TSA? Filmed live at New York City’s Gramercy Theatre, Godfrey brings the house down in this [...]

Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com The first official video released from Chill Moody’s latest “The Gam3Plan Stage ONE” featuring Dilemma presented by BabylonCartel. Download “The Gam3Plan” Here—-> Chill Moody – The Gam3Plan Stage ONE Feat Dilemma (3P/EP) Directed by @SUKKATASH follow @ChillMoody  @HelloWorldMusic  @BabylonCartel #nicethings [...]

Few subjects get people riled up like that of the “post-PC era”that Steve Jobs called the era ushered in by the iPad. Too many folks are in no hurry to give up real computers for the slate or gadgets of other forms, and they get downright testy if you tell them they must. I agree [...]

SKILLZ ft Travis Barker | Celebrate Life from Cristopher Schafer on Vimeo. Coming off a great performance on the BET Hip-Hop Awards Cypher, Skillz releases a new video for “Celebrate Life“, which is the latest visual off of his “The World Needs More Skillz” album.  DJ Jazzy Jeff makes an appearance in the music video as Skillz chronicles Las Vegas as the [...]

Following two rough years of drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia. According to the UN, a famine means more than 30% of children in an area are malnourished, at least 20% of households face extreme food shortages and more than two people per [...]