(Un?)Constitutional Rap Tuesday

We aren't saying whether we are for or against this new health care legislation. However, one thing comes to mind:

How funny would it have been if right after President Oballa signed the bill, he got up and started strutting around to this:



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Happy St. Patrick's Day

Top O' The Mornin' To Ya!


This week's (Un?)necessary Rap selection involves one of the all-time classics:




Self Explanatory.


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Alternative Awesomeness

Lots of new stuff for everybody today. The first one is what would happen if Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear ever had a one-night stand and forgot to use protection (albeit the baby would have John Oates' mustache):



Yes, this is Peter Gabriel. Yes, this is a Bon Iver cover. No, Gabriel has nothing to do with Hot Tub Time Machine.



Catchy song, plain and simple. This is what they should be playing on mainstream radio. OK, we're off of the soapbox.



Brand new MGMT. Still can't believe they opened up for Paul McCartney on his 09 US stadium tour. We haven't seen more confused 65+ people since Al Gore first invented the internet.



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(Un?)Necessary Rap Wednesdays

We aren't going to even justify this with an explanation.

Wacka Flocka Flame - O Let's Do It






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Alternative Awesomeness

This week's entry comes from True Story reader and SMC alum Young Albatross:


"I don't know if you like these guys, they are Boilen favorites and "Home" has been playing on 102.7 (which I listen to going to and from work now that I know it comes in pretty clear down that way). Definitely cultish, definitely interesting, but pretty damn cool...

"Also......I'm pretty sure we could join the band if we just "let ourselves go" for a month or two...and learned how to play a tambourine or something... "



Also check out this live performance in the NPR music office in Washington, D.C. NPR sets us up for this spectacle:

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros can't exactly slip into an office building unnoticed: Clad in the same clothes they'd worn at a concert the night before, the L.A. band's 10 ragtag misfits would have fit in far more seamlessly at, say, Burning Man. Seeming to exist in a blissed-out alternate universe — during the wonderful "Home," singer Jade Castrinos exclaims, "Good morning, everybody!" as the clock behind her reads 2:10 p.m. — this is a band whose performances beg to be seen as well as heard, not to mention shot through a wide-angle lens.

The biggest band to play a Tiny Desk Concert - the 10 members of The Magnetic Zeroes played three songs from their debut album (Up From Below).

The set included:
- Janglin
- Home
- 40 Day Daydream



(Editors Note: Is it too late to take accordion lessons???)

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And thus starts the great month of March.....

-This will happen from time to time. I mean, whenever Broadway Joe's kind-of-intimidating, semi-smokeshow(?) daughter gets caught with more weed on her than the cast of Chapelle's Show, we feel obligated to report it. We juswanna kisserr.



Speaking of Chapelle's Show....this is the only Tiger Woods press conference we remember:



-First mention of hockey in this blog's history? Yessssir. Congrats to the USA for the effort, as well as for the first time a non-Patriots/Red Sox/Celtics(for 1 of us) affiliated sports moment made us jump out of our seat. But as we read yesterday, we can't wait to celebrate when the U.S. shocks the world and beats Canada in basketball. Bitter? Kind of.

-Why does everyone in this country go absolutely haywire when a tragic story involving an animal occurs? Does anyone else find it slightly absurd that a serial-killer whale is getting probably just as much coverage as one of the 5 largest earthquakes of all-time? What in the wide world of sports is going on here?



Too soon?....

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