Rolling Stone, that music magazine that felt it necessary to feature the ladies from MTV's The Hills on the cover of its May issue, just released its list of top 50 albums of 2008. Wouldn't you know it; they put Bob Dylan at number two. Why not number one, Rolling Stone? Maybe because they realize it's the year 2008 - and believe me, they do by putting Taylor Swift and The Jonas Brothers at numbers 39 and 40, respectively. At least they put those two right next to each other to get that crap o
By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocal
Either do just a touch of animal print or go fucking nutsAfter having a humongous 2008 -- and sure to be large 2009 -- Santogold has chosen to change her name to "Santigold." This comes as very little surprise; the original "Santo Gold" has been all over her ass, harassing her and threatening legal action if the singer didn't change her name. Santogold, Santigold -- whatever you want to call her -- obliged and will know be known as Santigold, which really isn't that bad since her real name is
Music Editor/Ambassador of the Funk Martin Cizmar got things kicking with his Friday picks for this year's edition of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, so I figured I should divulge my picks for Sunday's lineup. My sensibilities are different than most people's. Last year's Coachella lineup was my favorite out of my 3 years attending the festival, but this year has loads of potential and could outdo last year's triumph. Let me just say that I do not claim to be an expert at attendi
