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bLISTerd: The Popblerd Staff Picks Their Top 10 Breakfast Cereals
The Popblerd staff ranks their top 10 cereals. Which breakfast treat did we rank as the GRRRRRRRRRRREATest of all time?
The Viewfinder: A Bunch of Kids Re-Enact the Beastie Boys “Sabotage” Video
Trust me, you need this in your day. In tribute to the late Adam Yauch, a filmmaker by the name of James Winters got his kids and nephew to re-enact the Beastie Boys’ classic 1994 video “Sabotage.” Complete with fake mustaches, even worse wigs than the Beasties wore in the original video, and some pretty decent effects, this will be the best 4-minute rabbit hole you’ll fall down all week.
RIP Adam Yauch
Friday afternoon brought the terribly sad news that Adam Yauch (aka MCA, aka Nathaniel Hornblower) had passed following a three year bout with cancer. While a lot of media are rightly looking back on Yauch’s incredible career as a musician, rapper, artist, director, and activist, I’ll not spend too much time here rehashing his litany of accomplishments over the last 26 years. Instead, I thought I’d chime in with a little reflection on Yauch’s impact on your old pal Dr. [...]
bLISTerd: The 10 Best Hip-Hop Groups of All Time
Run-DMC is arguably the most influential hip-hop group of all time, but are they the best? Check out our latest list and see where Darryl, Jay and Joe landed.
Pass The Popcorn: The Avengers
It’s hard to put into words what I’m feeling right now. I came home to my wife and had her touch my chest so that she could feel how fast my heart was still beating over 30 minutes after leaving the theater for an advance screening of The Avengers. This is a movie Marvel has been hinting at for over four years and it more than lives up to the build up. It is, quite simply, the ultimate super hero [...]
Spin Cycle: “Listen Whitey!: The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974″
“Listen Whitey!” is a compilation that unearths gems from the Black Power era of the late Sixties and Seventies. Check out our review.
The Idiot Box: 18 First-Timers Who Should Totally Host “SNL”
With the recent announcement that Eli Manning has been tapped to host weekly live comedy show “Saturday Night Live” on May 5th, coupled with the knowledge that Justin Bieber is confirmed to host before the current season’s over, NBC appears to have dropped the ball in the tail end of a season that has boasted some reasonably strong hosts. Episodes from Jason Segel, Charlie Day, and returning host Jonah Hill were uniformly strong, offsetting questionable outings from guest hosts Anna [...]
Dave Rullo Presents: Aging Hip Replacement #42–A New York State of Mind
The first time I visited New York it still had parts of it that I had read about in beat novels and saw on the television and in the movies. It was still grimy and dirty and had a certain edge to it. I loved every minute of it. I couldn’t wait to see all of the places I had read about or seen, the locations that for the last 3 or 4 years had been peppering my dreams and [...]
bLISTerd: The Top 10 Musicians We’d Most Like To See Resurrected In Hologram Form
So now that we’re over the 2Pac hologram, which celebrity should be next to get the holographic treatment? The Popblerd staff made a list!
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The Implications of Holographic Celebrity Resurrections
We live in interesting times. Over the years, The Coachella Valley Music Festival has become one of the premiere music festivals, whose only real competition in the US is Bonnaroo. Perhaps moreso than its Eastern counterpart, Coachella is known for producing magical moments each year. Beyond the consistently stellar lineup of electronic, indie, hip hop and pop acts that Coachella presents annually, the festival has also become known for providing a platform for highly anticipated (though not necessarily expected) reunions. [...]
Blerd Appreciation: Dick Clark
If heaven exists, there’s gotta be some quality music programming going on up there right now. Barely two months after Don Cornelius, creator and host of iconic syndicated music show “Soul Train” passed away, his network counterpart Dick Clark, who hosted “American Bandstand” for thirty years in addition to creating the American Music Awards and creating/hosting “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” for over three decades, died of a heart attack this morning. He was 82 years old. Billed as “America’s oldest [...]
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